Do you have days when you feel like you’re getting nowhere or sense a project will never end? Worked on initiatives where you were only part of the solution and would never see the finished product? Wonder what happened to that suggestion that received such a positive reception and now seems to have disappeared? Join the crowd. So many of us are not privy to or given access to much of the work and decisions that are made in our workplace. What we also lack is any kind of regular feedback that would motivate, inform, and engage us to carry on. [Read more…]
Organization Team Culture — an Executive Coach’s Perspective
In another career (as you know I’ve had a few) I joined a large, brand named, organization as a senior leader of a newly forming division. The concept, while not new, was different from the core business. When I interviewed for the job, my future boss gave me the challenge, “You‘ll be in charge of creating the culture of this group.” I accepted not knowing exactly what that meant or how I was going to do it. I knew many groups evolved into what they became, somewhat haphazardly, with only a select few working from a defined vision. I also knew we had to be the latter because 598 of the 600 people who worked for me were not in Headquarters but working at 60+ locations and haphazard could easily turn into chaos. [Read more…]
Take Me to a Leader
The news of the day appears to confirm what we already know. There is a serious lack of leadership in the world. Corporate World (my phrase for what many call Corporate America) is no exception. Whether it is people in high profile positions preying on adolescent interns, nation heads thinking power is measured in mega tons or boards compromising their company and personal values to protect corporate secrets, it would seem challenging to find examples of leaders whom people would want to follow no less aspire to become. [Read more…]
Getting Great Employees for Less Money
It’s just a fact of work life — not everyone has the same amount of dollars to invest in opportunities or challenges. In today’s economic environment the numbers with less is accelerating and even those with resources appear to be hesitant to spend. This is true especially when it comes to the hiring, promoting, and rewarding of employees. [Read more…]
Become a Better Boss
Each of us, at some time in our career, dreamed of “designing” the perfect boss. You know what I mean. Type in the specifications and out would come exactly who you needed to get your job done with none of the flaws we’ve all tolerated in mere mortals. The question is “what would you want in a boss?”
Google laid down this challenge, after years of a low interference management style where highly intelligent people with significant expertise reported to equally intelligent people with even greater expertise. The “people operations,” aka HR heads, decided it was time to re-evaluate the strategy as well as address a need to enhance and improve the quality of the leaders at the Googleplex. Project Oxygen was born. [Read more…]
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