You may be thinking, “he sure has wondered off the topic of corrective discipline which is why I started reading this in the first place. I want to know what to do with my problematic employee.�? You are right, I did wander off but intentionally. Recognize that many negative discipline problems […]
The disciplined manager provides a good step in the right direction to creating a disciplined team. First by modeling discipline in goal setting, planning, etc. he/she sets the pace for the group. Second by teaching and expecting these skills to be learned and used, he/she creates a set of standards and expectations in […]
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From my experience, the lack of training is one factor in poor disciplinary skills but even the most highly trained managers still seem to have this problem in many cases. The best way to learn this skill is to practice it, reflect on your own behavior, talk with others more experienced, then practice some […]
Discipline is a perennial topic of discussion and a problem all managers face. There are plenty of resources on discipline in the literature and there is no lack of technique or advice among experts. Yet, I constantly encounter managers who have discipline problems with employees but have not used even the most rudimentary […]
Managers are often frustrated when people seem to want to solve everyone else’s problem but their own. I call this boundary jumping. Simply put, people can see the problems of others much better than their own. This leads them to want to solve other people’s problems while ignoring their own.
Blindness to one’s […]
We all put a lot of stock in measurement of business results for good reason. The better the measurement, the more sure you can be that results are a product of specific, planned efforts. In the psychology of management development, this concept is equally valid though it is not used very often. […]