Traction Coaching

Managers, if that team member is still making the same mistakes and underperforming, you may be making this mistake yourself.

When you get promoted to manager and feeling out of your depth, it’s easy to make this simple thinking mistake.

New manager and wondering what your leadership style should be? The best managers focus on this instead.

Managers, don’t want your team to take more accountability? We’ll make sure you are not the reason they aren’t.

Managers how to land your message.Part of building a solid reputation is making sure that when you do speak, your point actually lands. Whether you are pitching an idea to a counterpart or giving feedback to your own team, you have to read the room. If you want your point to stick, ask yourself: What makes this specific person tick?

Think about a football manager. They work with an entire team of coaches, doctors, analysts, and scouts. They know the gaps in their own knowledge, and they realize they simply cannot do everything. They hire experts, set the direction, and then trust them to get on with delivering it. Your team is there to do a job. Use their skills, empower them, and let them get on with it. If you don’t have time to delegate, you need to completely reevaluate what you are doing. Your number one job is to develop people.

Are you a manager and struggle with or avoid making decisions. Here’s a 4 point checklist that can help.

Managers, focus on what you can control. When you are trying to make a good impression, you have to focus ruthlessly on what you can actually control. You cannot control whether people “like” you. You cannot control how they interpret your work. So, do not judge the success of an interaction by whether the other person smiled and agreed with you. If you prepared well, if you are happy with how you approached the problem, and you are proud of what you said and how you said it, that has to be good enough.

Managers are you taking on a new team and want to start the right way? Try this.

Great managers build strong relationships with people and departments their teams work with. Here are three steps to help you do that.

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