What's Your Favorite Employee Excuse?

 

Do you have expectations of what your employees should be doing and accomplishing? Do they ever live up to your expectations? Do you try to manage them to meet your expectations?

What type of "manager" are you?

1. The "get the results by doing it all yourself and dragging the others along with you" type?
2. Non-confrontational, mostly watch and get upset but very uncomfortable having those talks with employees?
3. Micro manager, watching every move, constant reminders, correcting during the heat of the battle?

Why have we all been taught to set expectations and manage people to those expectations?

I don't know but I am convinced it doesn't work.

After all a company is made up of people who are tasked to work as a team to get the desired results.

Some companies get it - they feel they are like a professional sports team and they have adopted the leadership techniques and philosophy of the great coaches. Their leadership teams coach and they left managing in the trash heap.

Watch this 25 minute presentation I developed to summarize the book The Weekly Coaching Conversation. It provides not only the logic behind the success of this concept but the framework to begin immediately implementing it into your business. It has worked for my clients who have been using it for only a short period of time. 

Rick Wallace

"Helping people exceed their expectations"