Leading people

Capturing Discretionary Effort

Organizations with highly engaged people outperform merely ordinary organizations on every axis: production, cost, & safety. So how can individual managers who may not have the authority to hire a concierge for every employee capture their people’s discretionary effort? Join Jed & Bob to find out.

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Progressive Discipline

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss why and how progressive discipline should be undertaken in an organization.

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Contingent Decision Making – The Vroom Yetton Model

Join Jed & Bob as they discuss what the Vroom Yetton model of decision making is, and how you can apply it in your workplace.

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The Art of Asking Questions

Join Jed & Bob as they discuss the power of asking great questions for individual leaders. They also talk about how managers can ask better questions, and use “empowering questions” to their advantage.

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Who’s Got The Monkey? Delegating Responsibility

In 1974 Bill Oncken asked the question of “Who’s got the Monkey” to lament the fact that managers seem to buy more and more problems back from their people, when really they should challenge and develop their people to solve their own problems. Join Jed and Bob as they discuss how managers can put Oncken’s advice to work. Listen to the ‘Who’s Got the Monkey? Delegating Responsibility’ Podcast (13 mins 34 sec):

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Managing Former Peers

Learn the five critical things that all managers of their former peers need to learn to be successful in their new leadership role. Also figure out how to strike the balance between being an overbearing micromanager, and being a pushover when managing former peers.

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Generation Gap: Managing Gen. X

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss how this generation has been shaped, the expectations of Gen X at work, and most importantly, how to effectively lead this group.

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Now I’m a Mentor – Being Yoda

Join Jed & Bob as they discuss why you would want to be a mentor, and what the roles of mentor and mentee entail. Also learn about the Mentoring Agreement.

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