Management Training Notes
We have a management coach helping our team be more effective. I have had training from management coaches before and not been impressed but this is really different. Why? Because the coach is engaged, engaging and provides tangible and practical advice on dealing with real world problems. It’s laptops down, phones off and focus which is brilliant. He is actually making a difference to the way we work now and not just teaching us that we have room to improve. He does a lot of work with teams at Microsoft and I thoroughly recommend him (if you are at Microsoft or not). His name is Neil McCarthy and his company is McCarthyConsulting.net.
The way it works is that we have a series of half day team sessions over a 6 month period and then bi-weekly individual 1:1′s to discuss specific things and get feedback. You have to be thick-skinned to deal with some feedback but once you are over the initial shock of admitting your inadequacies it’s quite enlightening!
I made some notes from the last group session we did;
This poem was introduced in the context of trusting your work colleagues and trusting yourself to try new things;
“When we walk to the edge of
All the light we have and take
The step into the darkness of
The unknown, we must believe
That one of two things will
Happen- there will be something
Solid for us to stand on, or
We will be taught to fly.”
– Patrick Overton
This was my quote of the day’
We are all professional communicators and meeting goers. If we were a baseball players we would be having constant coaching on batting, feet positioning and running style. How come this is a novelty?
Other quotes of note;
The conversations you have, determines your fate
Stress changes your reactions
The path to better self management;
- Self awareness
- Self management
- Social awareness
- Relationship management
80% of many teams dysfunctional is due to lack of active listening
We know and judge ourselves by our intentions, while we know and judge others by our interpretation of their actions.
Don’t Assume as you make an Ass out of U + Me
August 29, 2008 at 8:23 pm
If only you were quite so interested in MY feedback, coz I’ve got a lot I’d like to share with you
August 30, 2008 at 3:51 am
I’ll have to check him out. Thanks for the tip. Of course I’m coming from the old military management training. “Quite crying, at least no one has a gun to your head…yet” For some reason this doesn’t always fly with the helicopter generation.
September 26, 2008 at 4:13 pm
You yanks – getting more and more flaky – this is scary. Why are you so stressed in the first place mate?
November 3, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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