I have written several posts on the importance for setting clear expectations, making sure your team understands your goals and directions. But for your team to succeed they also need to have the knowledge and skills required. And this cannot be done without training. Every manager’s priority should be to train their teams, for aContinue reading “Setting expectations then training, training and training.”
Author Archives: Christophe Ferrandou
Efficient and productive meetings
Meetings cost a fortune to companies. Direct costs (salaries of everyone attending the meetings) but the highest, most painful, cost is the cost of opportunity! When people attend meetings, they are not working on their top priorities. So meetings should be taken very seriously. There are very basic rules for a meeting to be productive:Continue reading “Efficient and productive meetings”
How to destroy a team
Most of us expect to learn and grow and our managers and peers are part of this positive process that we all cherish. Most of us expect to be treated fairly. This includes getting the same reward for the same investment, effort and value we create. (Yes value creation is important!). Most of us wantContinue reading “How to destroy a team”
Hierarchy of needs
We all have the same basic needs in our job: 1 – proper equipment!Starting with a decent computer! Why to spend so much time trying to find a great candidate and then to welcome her with a poor equipment. This is a motivation killer. 2 – to know very clearly what is expected from usContinue reading “Hierarchy of needs”
Be ridiculously selective in hiring people
The title of this post comes from the book Essentialism from Greg McKeown. I have never found a better way to express how important, how critical it is to only hire great candidates. The biggest mistake is to hire a second choice candidate, someone we have doubts on, someone we know is not going toContinue reading “Be ridiculously selective in hiring people”
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