If you’ve ever read anything about giving feedback at work, you know that we all should be giving more of it. In particular, we should all be giving more positive feedback. And we should be giving more concrete feedback, to help people really understand what they’re good at and know exactly what they can do [...]
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Specific feedback
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged feedback, leadership, Managing Expectations on December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Efficiency at what cost?
Posted in Managing Talent on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning, I was making lunch, putting dinner in the slow cooker, feeding the monkeys and making a grocery list. I was doing it all at once because I needed to get us out of the house quickly because we were out of coffee. The combination of trying to do too many things and not [...]
Getting out of whine country: how to engineer a change in behavior
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged discipline, leading, management, parenting on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week we were living in Whine Country. All week the monkeys were super whiny, and they’d freak out over basic issues.
One day they came home from school bawling. I sat with them on the couch and tried to talk to them about what happened. “Daddy ripped my fig bar,” was all I could [...]
Individualization
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged discipline, fairness, strenghtsfinder, twins on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve read First, Break All the Rules. I’ve taken the Strengthsfinder test twice, and the only strength I had in common each time was individualization. There are a lot of places where I don’t shine as a manager and a leader, but one thing that I naturally do well is get to know the people I’m [...]
Management vs. leadership
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged great quotes, leadership, management on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Management is “DOING THINGS RIGHT” while leadership is “DOING THE RIGHT THING” from The Six Domains of Leadershipby Sim B. Sitkin and E. Allan Lind.
Old enough to learn how to eat an ice cream cone
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, learning, managing, parenting on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We went to Ikea for dinner tonight. (This time, we didn’t go just to get the monkeys to behave, but knowing that I wanted to go check some stuff out gave me a great way to keep those guys in line all day. A nice byproduct.)
After dinner, we went downstairs to get ice cream. We [...]
The Ikea incentive
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged Ikea, incentives, negotiation, parenting on June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m in a sophisticated phase of parenting called bargaining, negotiating and bribery.
I’m not proud, but I’ll do what it takes to ensure that the monkeys not only know that they shouldn’t pull their teacher’s hair in school but that they don’t actually do it.
A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of misbehaving at school. In [...]
A good reminder: your attitude impacts their ability to do good work
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged empowerment, managing, parenting on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sue Shellenbarger wrote a nice post about how women indirectly influence how their spouses parent a few days ago on The Juggle, the WSJ’s blog on juggling work and parenting. A study written up in Journal of Family Psychology found that the way a new mom reacts to her spouse’s parenting efforts has a huge impact on whether he [...]
Being a good manager/mom: be empathetic
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged leadership, management, Parenting Wisdom, sick kids on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Brazen Careerist, is one of my favorite blogs, and I especially liked Penelope’s recent post on how to be a good manager. Her mantra: be generous. Which I love, of course, because it’s not only something that applies to being a good manager, it applies to being a good person in general. Life is not [...]
Getting to the dinner table: motivation in the moment
Posted in Managing Talent, tagged leadership, analysis paralysis on March 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Tonight, I was playing in the basement with the monkeys before dinner. Urban Super Dad called down to let us know that dinner was ready. “OK, Monkeys,” I said, “time to go upstairs for dinner.” It was 6:30 and I was hungry. “We’re playing,” was the response, accompanied by a complete lack of movement towards [...]
