Need to set performance expectations with staff?
Have you told yourself how you think they are doing?
Want some good options to discuss performance gaps?
red10‘s Paul Gaskell shares some gems – and even a flowchart – of guidance he’d have found invaluable back when he was managing staff.
As a manager […]
Colleagues had flown in from all over the globe for this conference.
We were just about to get the part of the day dedicated to Influencing Skills started, when a senior leader stood up and said,
“We can’t be seen to be Influencing in our field, in […]
Do you consider yourself flexible?
Can you adapt to any situation?
Then you are likely the person to control the system.
Read-on or watch the video, as red10 ‘s Piers Carter reveals how his own limited flexibility meant he learned “the Law of Requisite Variety” the hard way.
They were a new team, with a leader new to the organization. They desperately needed to agree on the priorities for their organization. red10 ‘s Gavin Simpson shares a way of rapidly aligning on strategic priorities for a team.
I like to keep fit and keep the weight off and I also like to do well in business, earn money and achieve adventurous challenges but, despite setting lofty goals, I frequently don’t achieve what I originally set out to do.
Are you aware of the equation of organizational survival? “For an organisation to survive, its rate of learning must be at least equal to the rate of change in its external environment”.
How often do we ask someone – very clearly – to perform a task for us and they don’t do it as we wanted? It may be the result we are disappointed with or the method they undertook.
Remember The Emperor’s New Clothes story? No-one daring to call-out the obvious.
Ellen was desperate to challenge the proposals, but how could she?
Here, red10 ‘s Hazel Howard suggests how the psychology of ‘social proof’ can work for us, even when it appears to be working against us.
Has your team aligned on a vision and a set of priorities to achieve it? Are the priorities divided out, reporting back to keep on track? Then your team’s ready to reach 3rd loop learning with red10’s Gavin Simpson – external scanning to stay strategically agile.
As part of our coaching series on ‘mindset’, 9D Coach Piers Carter here shares the red10 core belief: “Respect for the other person’s model of the world”.