In this episode, you’ll learn from Agent, and Producer and Performer, Jack Shannon. This is a lost recording of the Authentic Interview Events that I did before I started The Authentic Leader Show podcast. If you go back to the first podcast
Plotting Your Employee’s Skill and Motivation to Determine Your Style Approach
Four Employee Quadrants Each employee’s specific tasks can be plotted on the Skill / Will Matrix which results in a plot in one of four quadrants. Depending on the plot location in a quadrant can provide guidance for a manager
Knowing and Employee’s Skill and Motivation
Defining Skill and Will Let’s be clear about how we are defining Skill and Will. Skill: The natural talents or talents acquired through experience by someone to perform a certain task (or series of tasks). This is cognitive understanding of the
Caution when Assessing Employees
Assessing Caution The benefit of assessing others is dependent on a manager’s ability to accurately assess. It can be easy to let our personal bias or appearance of competence and motivation of an employee to interfere with our ability to
Adapting Your Management Style to your Employee’s Needs
Managing Employee Tasks Have you ever witnessed an assigned task fall short because: The employee was unwilling or unable to perform the task? The task a fully capable employee was performing was micro-managed by the manager? As managers, we all
Five Reasons to Delegate
Delegation is hard because it sometimes feels like it’s more work than it’s worth. I’ve heard leaders offer a variety of reasons to resist delegating work like: I can do the work better than anyone else can do it. It