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Hi,
I want to start a dialogue on practical actions that boost managerial performance. Let me clarify with an example: "There's a technical whiz who got promoted to a manager's job. They promoted him because that's the only way that they could reward him. He had reached the top of his band and his boss couldn't give him money without making him a manager. Minus the money, the whiz would have walked. Everyone who's been around him knows that he really despises what he calls "that management nonsense". He has been a disaster on the job. He screwed up the schedule and the budget. His team of seven people hate him." Now HR genius, you've been called in to scoop the poop. What will you do?
Let me state the obvious. You cannot make or save money as a business if your managers can't or won't perform. Data, great visions, missions, cultures, goals, frameworks, approaches, strategies, processes and action plans aren't worth a shit if managers can't or won't perform. When managers can't bring themselves to act, the shareholder gets screwed. It is never too late to take remedial action, but it costs hellva lot of effort, time and money to get an estranged shareholder back to bed.
I recommend three dialogue rules in addition to the community rules.
1. We speak from the heart, the gut, the head, and any other part of the anatomy and experience base we want, but in plain English and cough up experiential specifics rather than theoretical master pieces. This dialogue is about the world as it IS, not what it OUGHT TO, SHOULD or COULD BE. So, let's be real and stick to "this was the problem - this was the solution we tried - this worked/did not work - why" mode of thinking.
2. We recognize that there are days when our coffee isn't strong enough and we post a message which makes us out to be the slowest hare in the forest. Big deal. Bring on half baked, ill formed, comatose ideas and let's work on them till they reach the state where we can accept or discard them.
3. We are honest enough to say that we disagree and why. And we allwow each other the luxury to say "we disagree because it don't feel right." We are all experts in our own realities but sometimes we may not be able to get the words to describe what we feel or mean. What do you guys say?
Murali |
