Tag: Managers

How To Become A Great Manager

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership
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‘You must turn your vision into their reality.’- Gary P. Latham

‘Appeal to the heart to make the vision a reality.’- Gary P. Latham

‘Actively encourage dissent to prevent groupthink.’- Gary P. Latham

‘A goal that is too high is a warning sign that the person who set it is not truly committed to attaining it.’- Gary P. Latham

‘The absence of complaints is one of the surest signs of a failing relationship.’- Gary P. Latham

‘You need to sell your organization’s values to your people.‘- Gary P. Latham

‘Emphasize that errors lead to learning successes, not performance failures.’- Gary P. Latham

‘Give people the training and resources they need and then turn them loose.’- Gary P. Latham

‘Teach your team to believe they can succeed.’- Gary P. Latham

‘The behaviors you appraise should be critical to strategy execution.’- Gary P. Latham

‘Don’t seek input from subordinates unless you intend to take feedback seriously.’- Gary P. Latham

How To Build A Strong Positive Workplace Culture

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership
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‘The objective of a high-performance culture is to maximize adaptability.‘- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘Adaptive oraganizations require adaptive individuals– people with high levels of creativity, problem-solving, and persistence, and citizenships.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘Culture can’t be managed by chance.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘People must share a common view of the problem and a common perspective on the solution.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘People must emotionally feel the difference between their current state and their desired future state.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘People must have the ability to interact with one another to enable collective action.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘At each rung of the ladder, people should have more opportunities to expand their expertise.‘- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘A managerial promotion should not be a reward given to the top performer. It should be a path pursued by those who find play in learning how to manage and coach.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

‘Your people can either fight each other to survive of fight their competitors to win; your culture drives the choice.’- Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor