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You Cannot Be Friends with Your Directs.
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84 |
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With both of these ideas – social obligation and implied secrecy – friendships run afoul of a manager’s professional obligations.
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87 |
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You cannot be friends with your directs, but yes you can be friendly with them.
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88 |
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As long as there is no appearance of favoritism, drinking with your directs is fine.
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90 |
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Something else we’ve learned about drinking alcohol with directs: have only one drink with them.
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91 |
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The average manager hasn’t been trained, tutored, mentored, taught or coached with… the skills necessary for becoming a successful manager.
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104 |
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It’s an important managerial rule to never ask a question of your directs if you don’t intend to honor their answer.
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110 |
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Whenever possible, it’s best for managers to give feedback immediately after they see, hear, or notice the behavior.
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…we recommend that you give in when a direct argues or gets defensive.
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Great managers will tell you that they give out far more positive than negative performance communications.
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