Eric Jacobson

APRIL 16, 2011

High-functioning teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. And, they can challenge each other to think differently. Best-selling leadership book authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 21, 2011

If you're a parent of two children you already know that when the two are fighting and child #1 tells you what happened, you then ask child #2 what happened, and most often the truth is somewhere in the middle of what the two children have told you. Surprisingly, many managers, even when they are parents, don't use this parenting "discovery" skill in the workplace.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 17, 2011

Many Human Resource (HR) managers have moved away from questions like "What's your weakness?" and prefer behavior-based questions, which ask you to: describe how you handled specific situations at your former jobs If you about to interview for your next leadership position, be prepared for questions like these (from a recent article in Reader's Digest ): Tell me about a time when your integrity was challenged.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 17, 2011

Eric Harvey and Al Lucia wrote a booklet called, 144 Ways To Walk The Talk. In that, they provide the following great advice for how to give your employees constructive feedback: Make it timely -- give your feedback as soon as possible to the performance. Make it individualized -- tailor your feedback to the feedback receiver. Make it productive -- focus your feedback on the performance and not the performer.

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