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Is Your Employee Ready to be a Supervisor?

Onboarding New Project Managers

Before an employee is promoted to a supervisory role; consider, first if the individual is ready to be a supervisor. Let’s explore a story from one of my clients I coach. My client recently asked me how to tell if one of his employees is ready to be a supervisor. In particular, he was afraid […]

Reengaging a Disengaged Employee

Employees Engagement

An employee who has become disengaged in the workplace must be reengaged as soon as possible. To start, leaders must understand why the employee is disengaged. For example, has there been significant change in the workplace that has impacted the employee? Has the employee’s job role or responsibilities changed? Is new direct management impacting the […]

Finding Peace and Quiet in an Open Office Environment

Teamwork

It is necessary to find some peace and quiet – “private space” – in open office environments in order get problem solved, decisions made, work through conflicts and have a meeting. This isn’t easy, however, in organizations where a decision has been made to keep everyone in one open area with limited, or no, office […]

Helping an Employee Achieve Goals

In an earlier post, we shared how to use the GROW Model to coach employees. In this post, let’s look at a mini case study of a manager who utilized the GROW model to help an employee work toward achieving his goal of becoming a supervisor in the organization.

A mini case study

Jane is […]

Reporting on Project Status

Project Status

To reduce questions and challenges on the project

As a project manager, you want to report effectively on the project status by providing sufficient information to stakeholders while also reducing the amount of back and forth communications necessary. This entails providing complete, detailed information in ways that works for the stakeholders but also works for […]