The Importance of Emotional Intelligence for Managers
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence for Managers We know from people manager assessment center data that technical competence and strategic vision alone are not enough to ensure leadership success. Why? Because leaders must get their work done with and through...
3 Tips to Be a Better Manager
Remote Work Has Created the Need for all of Us to Be a Better Manager Our organizational culture assessment data tells us that relationships between employees and their bosses are getting worse. While an initial uptick in employee/manager relationships occurred at the...
Top Team Decision Making Biases to Overcome
Team Decision Making Biases We know from people manager assessment center data that managers play a critical role in team decision making biases. They need to help employees make the right decisions in the right way at the right speed. Team leaders need to make sure...
How To Replace a Bad Boss
Do You Need to Replace a Bad Boss? Though becoming the new leader of a team is exciting, it can be all too common to learn that the previous team leader was a “bad” boss. This could be for a variety of reasons. They could have been incompetent, highly political at...
How to Navigate Different Management Roles to Succeed
Different Management Roles Our new manager training programs typically teach managers the basics that were introduced decades ago: how to plan, organize, coordinate, and control as a manager. But our people manager assessment center finds that managers tend to spend...
The Middle Manager Mismatch that Needs to Be Fixed
Why the Focus on the Middle Manager Mismatch? You should care a great deal about your middle managers and the middle manager mismatch that they feel day in and day out. Why? Because middle managers provide the critical link between the corporate vision executives...
Managers Communicate When It Matters Most
When Communication Matters Question: when does your communication with your direct reports matter? Answer: always. Can your managers communicate when it matters most? Remember, every interaction with your team gives them more information about who you are, what you...
