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Linked – You don’t have a culture problem, you have a management problem
ByMike McBride June 16, 2023June 15, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

What I appreciate about the newsletter that I’ve linked below is that they go out of their way to point out how often we use language about a workplace culture that makes it seem like something we have no control over. It reminds me of the weather this time of year in South Louisiana. Everything we plan in the Summer is subject to the weather. An outdoor activity might get canceled because of storms, heat, hurricanes, etc. Weather events happen to us. We get no say.

That’s not what is happening in your workplace.

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Do You Wait to Offer Leadership Training to People in Leadership Positions?
ByMike McBride June 12, 2023June 14, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

In the first case, most organizations I’ve seen only offer some leadership or management training after someone becomes a manager. This is wrong. This is gatekeeping for no reason. There are people on your teams right now who are not managers, but would like to be, and you’re doing nothing to prepare them for that. Someone gets promoted and then you start them on a training program on how to be a manager. That doesn’t make sense. What are they supposed to do on day one with the team that now reports to them?

There are also people on your team with fantastic leadership qualities who might not want to be a manager, or where there’s no opportunity to become a manager. Why wouldn’t we want to support them in becoming better leaders even if their title doesn’t immediately make us think they are one?

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In Change Management, do you Skip the Unlearning Phase?
ByMike McBride June 8, 2023June 8, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Change is hard. It is also neverending. Things change. The new technology provides new opportunities. Leaders should take responsibility to explain that to their people and highlight the opportunities that change can provide. Show them how it will benefit the business.

Then send them to training ready to learn.

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Linked – To Stay Competitive, You Must Overhaul Your Workplace Training
ByMike McBride May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

You can invest in your people, keeping their skills up-to-date for the constant change they will be faced with in the workplace, or you can view all of them as a simple cost to be cut down to the bare minimum.

If you do, at least consider the cost of hiring a bunch of new folks year after year.

Because you will be.

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Charter Research Suggests Mentorship Matters No Matter Where Your Team is Located
ByMike McBride May 29, 2023May 29, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

In other words, it’s successful when the organization puts together and supports an intentional mentorship program. When they don’t they become reliant on chance interactions in the office. That’s the difference. It’s not that hybrid and remote employees just can’t be trained and mentored. It’s that quality mentoring requires intention.

If you want to provide quality mentorship for your junior employees create and support a program to do that. Period. End of discussion. Where they are located is not relevant.

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Once More For Those in the Back – Training is a Skill!
ByMike McBride May 24, 2023September 3, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve lost count of the number of conversations I’ve had about this over the years. Trust me, there have been a lot. I’ve watched some really brilliant people who do great work and are highly knowledgeable have terrible experiences trying to train others because they were not adept at the skills necessary to run a training class. A great many people have, through no fault of their own, not learned how to facilitate, the finer points of public speaking, or how to read students’ body language.

To be a great trainer you need to learn those things.

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Linked – You don’t have a culture problem, you have a management problem

Do You Wait to Offer Leadership Training to People in Leadership Positions?

In Change Management, do you Skip the Unlearning Phase?

Linked – To Stay Competitive, You Must Overhaul Your Workplace Training

Charter Research Suggests Mentorship Matters No Matter Where Your Team is Located

Once More For Those in the Back – Training is a Skill!

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