From the course: Adapting Leadership to Behavioral Styles
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Improving motivation and delegation
From the course: Adapting Leadership to Behavioral Styles
Improving motivation and delegation
- I once worked the software development team manager from a large tech company. Their entire backend team were really quiet, heads down thinkers. They were your stereotypical computer programmers. The manager I was working with, knew coding but was not a programmer by training and had a much more motivator type style. When he started he put in place several recognition programs to try to increase employee engagement. Once a week, he would bring one member of his team up and stand them up on a desk and say what he thought he or she had done well. And at the monthly all hands meeting he would ask one of them to stand up and say a few words to the rest of the company about what they were doing. He shared with me that his attempts were backfiring. You likely see the issue here. He wasn't using things that motivated his team. He was using techniques that would have motivated him. Paying attention to differences in…
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