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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Effective Manager:
We have to define what the measure of success is for the behavior we’re expecting to change.
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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.
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The Effective Manager:
The idea with all brainstorming is simply to go for volume, not accuracy.
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