Sourcing And Your Bench

The vast majority of things that happen in your organization are good. Otherwise your company would go out of business. But most managers think their job (and it's a part they hate) is to give negative feedback. They have it backwards. The road to be able to give negative feedbac ...  Show more

There's an organizational tool, almost always used by Human Resources, called competencies. Even though it's a fairly popular model for thinking about professional development, it's a terrible system we don't recommend. But if you have to use competencies, here's how. 

Part 1 of our guidance on deciding whether your goal should be efficiency or effectiveness. 

Part 1 of our guidance about ways to think about improving relationships using the communication matrix. 

Part 1 of our guidance on giving multiple pieces of Feedback to your peer around one event. 

Part 1 of our guidance on the foundations of presentation mastery.