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Think of managing a team as a set of deliverables

In my prior article, I describe the dynamic of promoting a top individual contributor to management as a form of reward, only for it to turn into punishment.  Yet this is not inevitable.  You can find...

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Teams should have a team strategy document. Here’s an example.

In my prior post, I discussed the need for team managers to produce deliverables that contribute to adding up to managing.  Individual contributors are used to delivering specific items, but when they...

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How to create a team strategy document—use the team

In my previous post, I discussed the expectations that any team manager should have some sort of team strategy document.  This is a key deliverable of any manager.  OK, so how do you create one? The...

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How to use your team strategy document externally

In my previous article, I describe a practical way to create a team strategy document using the input of the team.  I recommend the team strategy document (example here) have the following elements:...

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How to use the team strategy document to help you manage your team

In my previous article, I provided four uses for how a manager can use a team strategy document (example here).  Today, I provide four more!  Today, I focus on the internal uses – within your team — of...

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Here’s a goal for managers: Create a system that doesn’t rely on finding top...

It seems that many organizations are on the quest for finding top performers.  People who have the ability to get the job done, to do what no one else can do, and really “exceed expectations.”  This...

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Do your all-team meetings make your team cringe?

I was talking to an independent consultant the other day, and she told me that, while tempting, she didn’t want to go full-time at the business she was consulting with.  The reason she didn’t want to...

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Reasons many employees dread all-team meetings

In my previous article, I mentioned that all-team meetings (big meetings with 30+ people) create a risk of degrading employee’s experience as an employee.  When managers a) try to entertain or b)...

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Quick tips for making all-hands meetings tolerable and useful

My recent articles discuss how all-team meetings (or “group meetings” or “all-hands meetings”) are essentially risky endeavors for group leaders (here and here).  So here are some tips on how to...

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Managers: Know your change events and track these

When you are a manager, one of the things that you are responsible is the ongoing improvement of your team and how it operates. Now, with that expectation set, are you tracking the “change events” that...

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Putting out fires: Managers who “want it now” or “want it yesterday” are...

Have you ever had a manager who has a last minute request, “I need this now!”  The more extreme version of this is, “I need this yesterday.”  Usually, this is a new last-minute request, and this can...

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