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Mastering the Middle: Unlocking Your Company's Hidden Potential.

Rich Gee Group

This includes everything from setting a vision and motivating the team to creating a positive work environment and fostering a culture of trust and mutual respect. People Management: This encompasses a wide range of sub-skills, from delegation and conflict resolution to coaching and performance management.

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Why Aren't You Delegating?

Harvard Business Review

But there is: delegation. Delegation is a critical skill. Delegation benefits managers, direct reports, and organizations. A 2007 study on time management found that close to half of the 332 companies surveyed were concerned about their employees' delegation skills. Understand why you're not delegating.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

They tend to be impatient with or hypercritical of others and they're not good at delegating. "On Accept that they may not be good managers as they are likely to demand too much of their people (see "hypercritical" and "bad at delegating" above). Sometimes showing you care about someone is enough to motivate them," he says.

Kaplan 15
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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business Review

Delegating work to your team may sound like a straightforward task of management, but, in fact, it’s complicated. ” Morgenstern suggests setting aside one or two hours at the end of each week for “delegation strategy and review.” How do you make sure that work on your team is evenly distributed?

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Stop Procrastinating.Now

Harvard Business Review

Regina Conti, an associate professor of psychology at Colgate University and an expert in motivation, provides the example of doing your taxes. "A Others are a great source of extrinsic motivation," says Conti. Asking someone to review your work can spur you to get started knowing they will expect it. Case study #1: Know why.

Project 18
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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

Spreitzer and Wrzesniewski suggest using a job crafting exercise to redesign your job to better fit your motives, strengths, and passions. Some people make radical moves; others make small changes" in how they delegate or schedule their day, Wrzesniewski says. Case Study #1: Integrate your interests into the job.

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To Get Consumers to Trust AI, Show Them Its Benefits

Harvard Business Review

See More Videos > See More Videos > In order to understand how firms have systematically enhanced trust in applied AI, my colleagues Monika Hengstler and Selina Duelli and I conducted nine case studies in the transportation and medical device industries.