From the course: Becoming a Manager Your Team Loves
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Do your research before making changes
From the course: Becoming a Manager Your Team Loves
Do your research before making changes
- I had a client once who was promoted to manage a lab he'd worked at for 15 years. One of the things that always frustrated him was having to generate a weekly report. It took significant amounts of time, and he never got any feedback on it. It seemed like wasted effort. So, pretty quickly after his promotion, he decided to have the team stop producing the weekly report. Well, it turns out that part of his job as lab manager was to assess these reports with an outside auditor at the end of the year. He had to go back and recreate four months of these reports. These types of mistakes are common amongst eager new managers. I want to make sure that you don't make this kind of mistake. Before you make a change, check with your team. If you're wanting to make a change in how your team functions or in their processes, then they're the ones you should be talking to. Ask them why they do what they do, or if they see ways to…
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