Book Titles

The Effective Manager

By Mark Horstman

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1119244608
Categories: Leadership, Management, Success

97 Quotes Found

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The Effective Manager:

It will make it much easier for them [your directs] to receive feedback if they know what’s coming and why it’s coming.

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The Effective Manager:

Tell your directs that negative feedback isn’t about punishment; it’s about doing things better. It is about the future.

143

The Effective Manager:

Great managers will tell you that they give out far more positive than negative performance communications.

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The Effective Manager:

Positive feedback is a much more powerful tool than negative feedback.

145

The Effective Manager:

…we’re obligated as managers to get the most out of our directs as we can.

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The Effective Manager:

Coaching is most effective when it is collaborative.

149

The Effective Manager:

We have to define what the measure of success is for the behavior we’re expecting to change.

150

The Effective Manager:

…to avoid doing anything that might be wrong, what most of us do is nothing at all.

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The Effective Manager:

We all seem to want silver bullets – quick and easy… Stop looking for those (there aren’t any). Start thinking about things that might work.

152

The Effective Manager:

The idea with all brainstorming is simply to go for volume, not accuracy.

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