How does your company select its' supervisors, team leaders or managers? More often than not, the "best" technical person in the department is selected to both aid their retention and to solve a "gap" in the organization. This is fine in theory - but in practice will fail more than it succeeds.The skills and attitudes required to be an effective team leaders or manager are very different from being technically competent. Indeed one may argue that know HOW to do the job may be a disadvantage … [Read more...] about A high performing individual does not make a good manager/ team leader
Team Leader Mentoring (Management Mentoring)
Using Mentoring to Effectively Develop Team Leaders Team leader and middle management mentoring is rapidly becoming the “must have” in replacing conventional and costly internal training programmes.With the changing economic climate presenting new challenges every day, many middle managers lack the skills and experience to make informed decisions. Worse – much of the management development over the past 10 years has focused on systems and growth, not survival and sustainability, certainly … [Read more...] about Team Leader Mentoring (Management Mentoring)