Jack Welch on Management Style

Are you being fair to your employee? How would your employee rate you?
Tough questions that every manager needs to ask themselves.

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14 Management Do's and Don'ts to Motivate Employees

David Shedd published these 14 Managements Do's and Don'ts that every manager should know and practice everyday. Beware, they are difficult to put into practice in the moment but when you do your team will follow and respect you for it. The 14 Do's and Don'ts are as follows:

1. Don't get angry
2. Don't be cold, distant, rude or unfriendly
3. Don't send mixed messages to your employees so that they never know where you stand
4. Don't BS your team
5. Don't act more concerned about your own welfare than anything else
6. Don't avoid taking responsibility for your actions
7. Don't jump to conclusions without checking your facts first
8. Do what you say you are going to do when you are going to do it
9. Do be responsive (return phone calls, emails)
10. Do publicly support your people
11. Do admit your mistakes
12. Do recognize your team
13. Do ask and listen
14. Do smile and laugh

Which Don't are you doing? Which Do are you NOT doing? What are you going to do today and this week to make you a better leader? The only person responsible for your leadership is you. What are you going to do about it?

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A Simple Game Plan to Cultural Shift!

Does your company need to make a cultural shift? The game plan is simple but the execution is challenging. Do you have what it takes?

Step 1: Identify your problems.

Be open minded and honest with yourself and identify all the major problems within your company. In order for you to shift your culture, you need to know what to fix. Are your problems any of the following: People, Hiring, Management, Supervisors, or worst case scenario YOU (Be Honest)!

Step 2: Reward change at the top.

Senior level buy-in is crucial for a long-term cultural shift. Likewise, employee buy-in is also essential to shift culture. Buy-in is hardest part of the process because the idea sounds great but execution is difficult. Even with the best reward programs, the decisions that need to be made are still difficult. What do I mean? Hear are a few what if scenarios: changing your managements or your personal habits, keeping the program at the focus while in the trenches, or termination of top performers due to no buy-in (my toughest, who wants to fire the best performer?).

Step 3: Pick a program.

There is no secret sauce that you can buy to fix your cultural problems. There are only programs and game plans that will help guide you to find your secret sauce which will shift your culture. The object from any training program is to give your team the tools it needs to implement your companies secret sauce (its culture). Which program should you buy? I recommend that you choose a program that senior level management is excited about and willing to put a 110% effort into it. Their involve will dramatically increase your success to shift the core culture.

The game plan is simple, but the execution is difficult. All great leaders need to go through great adversity to become a great leader. There is no other way to become a great leader.

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7 Tips to Managing Millennials in Manufacturing

Pat Dean is the Director of Recruiting at Advanced Technology Services and he gives 7 tips on how to manage Millennials in manufacturing. According to the his article, the 7 Best Ways To manage Millennials In Manufacturing are as follow:

1. Let Millennials collaborate
2. Let them work while on the go 
3. Offer training and development opportunities
4. Set clear career paths
5. Be open to integrating new technology
6. Create a mentoring program
7. Give Millennials a purpose

The most important thing to do as a manager of a Millennial is to get to know them. They are well studied and eager to learn when the manager or mentor takes an interest in them. Use Pat Dean's 7 tips to help you adapt your managing style to fit the Millennial's work style.

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7 Essential Leadership Traits!

What essential leadership traits should every leader possess?

According to the 7 Essential Leadership Traits for 2016, by Don Trone, Mary Lou Wattman and Steve Branham, the traits are as follows:

1. Courage
2. Purpose
3. Passion
4. Alignment
5. Adaptability
6. Accountability
7. Resilience

As 2016 begins, leaders have already seen many changes within their organizations and industry and need to apply each one of these traits in order to deal with their challenges. Please share your challenges that you have faced and what traits or solutions you used to overcome those challenges. The best kind of learning are actual challenges and solutions that your peers faced, just like the articles uses the Apollo 13 CO2 scrubber challenge.

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