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Managing
your boss
- Why
do you want to manage your boss?
- For
the same reason you want to manage your customers.
- Your
success is linked to your boss's - you succeed or fail together.
- You
will best meet your needs if you help your boss meet his/hers.
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- Most organizations
reward individual success/accountability, making real teamwork
extremely difficult.
- Avoid
'groupthink' by rewarding openness - thank people for bad news
and for disagreeing with you. Frowning, scowling and defending
your own views will turn teamwork into conformity.
- Excessive
use of authority, however subtle, creates 'yes men' (women).
- This is
not to say that you need to accept endless discussion.
- It is
HOW you resolve disputes not whether you do.
- Increasing
complexity = more specialists, = more pooling of ideas = more
teamwork.
- The days
are long gone when one person can call all the shots.
- Genuine
teamwork reduces isolation and makes change less frightening.
- Effective
teams use a process to review regularly how they are doing.
- Team members
contribute specialist knowledge, but they should be encouraged
to be generalists in the way they behave in the team - at different
times leading, enhancing harmony, generating new ideas.
- Good leaders
understand how team members differ in terms of their personalities
and hidden agendas.
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All
pages written by Mitch
McCrimmon, Ph.D. and copyright © Self Renewal Group 1996-2008
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