Posted by Goody on 09/1/08 in Business
At what point do the expectations that others have for you become ‘too much?’ Who gets to schedule your energy anyway? Can you draw the line between too much and enough? A Master Certified Coach gives you some tips for the ‘how’ of it.
Could you picture your partner spending his/her day focusing all of his personal energy on you? He’d be continuously looking for feedback. He’d have set enormously high expectations for caring for you, sacrificing his own needs to care for you. does this sound exciting to you? It might work for a while, but in the long run, you’d fet bored and he’d crash from exhaustion.
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Posted by Goody on 05/30/08 in Uncategorized
Yelling and intimidation are the most dysfunctional behaviors that a leader can exhibit. Of all of the ineffective things a manager can do, these are the most damaging to morale and performance. The Crass Captain, the anti-leader, uses yelling as the final and most effective way to demoralize his employees.
An informal survey of whether empowerment works better than intimidation showed 79% of the respondents favored empowerment. This is no surprise; professionals respond best to cordial and controlled interpersonal relationships in the workplace. It makes for an agreeable work environment. Remarkably, empowerment even in the face of failure can be a powerful positive motivator. Attrition can be cut in half as a minimum, and you keep your talent in place instead of losing it to the competition.
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Management by Yelling: Intimidation doesn’t work - Try Empowerment
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