Today’s post is a guest post from George Burton. George writes: I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that there will always be more work than there is time available. To cope with ever-increasing workload, I tried to get smarter and more efficient in my work, but every hour saved was filled with
For leaders
Performance Coaching and Career Coaching
In companies, I’d suggest that there are two forms of (real) coaching. Why do I add real in parentheses? Because there are so many things that people call coaching, which really are not coaching. Such as mentoring, which is about giving advice based on experience. Coaching is not advice. So what is it? It’s
Emotional Intelligence and the Integrated Adult
I’ve been thinking a lot about strokes lately (can you tell??) and there are a couple in particular that are on my mind at the moment. One was a positive piece of feedback from Bob (for those of you new to this blog, Bob is my boss); and one was a constructive piece of feedback
The Stroke Economy
Your role as a supervisor is to give strokes as you manage your people’s performance. (And when I talk about managing performance, I am not just talking about the once/twice a year performance appraisals – I’m talking about the daily interactions that increase performance). It’s about giving people attention, whether that’s through praise, recognition, thanks,
Integrated Adult
I’ve been reading through my notes from my Transactional Analysis 101 course, to develop my own understanding of how I can get the right balance between Parent, Adult and Child behaviors. Seems like it might be useful for me to share it with you guys too. So here goes, let me try to translate it
Being an adult
So I’ve shared the first draft of the conversation starters, and I mentioned yesterday that we are going to add a different layer to them that enables the supervisee to come to the conversation fully prepared, in adult mode. I’ve mentioned this adult thing a few times lately, so let me explain more.
Weekly reflection
I mentioned previously that I’ve been using some of the best practices laid out in the First 90 Days to help me with my transition. This morning, I sat down to reflect on my week, using the following questions. I thought I’d share it with you in case it’s useful to you – I think
When will you have that conversation?
Yesterday, I asked you what conversation you need to have with your boss that you’ve been avoiding. So now that you’ve identified that conversation, when are you going to have that conversation? We often expect our supervisors to read our minds, and they can’t – right, they work for “Company Future” and we are all brilliant, but
Sunbeam Alert
WOW. I am gob-smacked. Amazed. Shocked. Very pleasantly surprised. Here’s why……in the 30 day challenge, participants touched an average of 6 people each. And since there were 8650 people, that means they had an impact on 52,765 people. What sunbeams. But that’s not all. And here’s the piece that is truly inspiring.
