I completely agree with this assessment of how we’ve defined “management” in the past:
“Historically, corporate America’s approach to management has been:
Push management as the only track for career growth
Promote top individual contributors to manage
Provide little to no training
This is true. If you’re struggling to find new hires, you need to grow the people you have to take on more, and you don’t grow them without a plan on how to do that.
It would help if you had a talent development plan. Without it, you’ll find increasingly essential roles in your organization with no one to do the work.
That doesn’t seem like a good situation.
I was part of a conversation at work recently about giving good presentations, and the art of telling a story was a big part of the discussion. Stories matter. Whether giving a presentation, pitching a new idea, making a sale, or training customers, the story brings people along to what we’re trying to tell them. The story puts everything in context. When I’m training, it’s the stories about how we used that technology to make things easier or what happened when we failed to properly use the technology that helps people understand the “why.”.
Ultimately this is what will define your culture and your employee engagement. Do your actions match your words? It’s not enough to say you care about mental health, diversity, or developing the people who work for you. You had better put something behind that. If you’ve had layoffs recently, don’t expect anyone to believe that you care about these things on your words alone. Those layoffs told everyone in the organization that they were expendable. They could be next, and the only thing that truly matters is how much they make for you. If you care about their growth, wellbeing and being a diverse company, you had better show up with something other than words.
Rather Than Making The Internet Safe For Kids, Make Your Kids Safe For The Real World– as a child abuse survivor, I’ve long advocated for the reality that if you don’t educate your kids so they can “stay innocent” someone else will, and you won’t like the results.
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4 ways HR can support and develop managers– It beats what we’ve done for years, promoting each team’s best member to management with no training at all.
Increasing supervisor savvy around culture, race, and identity
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When you want to help ease stress in the workplace: 3 main areas of focus– Training your people is number 1. Just saying. 😉
Why did we think anything on the public internet was a place to let kids roam with no training?