102: Seven Things to Ask the People You’re Managing, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

Are you taking on a role as a new manager? Do you know what to say in your first conversations with members of the team? Many new managers recognize the importance of early conversation with the people they will manage, but they don’t always know how to start those conversations. In this episode, I welcome back Bonni to review the seven questions to ask the people you’ll be managing.

How did you come to work here?
Tell me what you do for the team?
What’s working on the team? What isn’t?
How does this job fit (or not) into your career objectives?
What keeps you busy outside of work? (And ask it exactly that way).
What advice do you have for me on how to best work with you?
If I ever have an issue with something you’re doing, what’s the best way to tell you?

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0:00.0	Are you taking on a new management role?
0:03.0	Do you know what to say in your first conversations with members of the team?
0:07.0	In today's episode, you'll discover seven things to ask the people you'll be managing.
0:12.0	This is coaching for Leaders, episode 102.
0:15.7	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:28.8	Greetings from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly coaching show to help people be better leaders through improved communications,
0:37.0	human relations, and personal productivity.
0:40.0	And today we're going to look at how we can be better communicators, better managers, and ultimately
0:46.4	better leaders by starting off on the right foot.
0:50.0	received a question a few weeks ago from a community member about how people development is being done in their
0:57.3	organization through not the most ideal way and it got me thinking about what's the what's the way to actually start off on the right
1:05.3	foot when you're taking over management of a new team and so I invited Bonnie in today to have a dialogue about that so So I'm going to go to that conversation
1:15.0	here in just a moment. Before I do though, I do have an important announcement at
1:18.4	the end of the show about your subscription to the podcast here and continuing to get it because we have changed some things
1:25.9	on the technology and feeds and directories as far as downloading the podcast.
1:29.9	It's already affected some of you in this last week and I apologize for that.
1:33.4	I didn't anticipate that.
1:34.6	So I have a couple of announcements so be sure to stick around for the last few minutes of the show
1:39.6	so that you get that announcement and you know how to keep getting the show if you've
1:43.7	had any difficulty with that in the last week and most importantly so you get it
1:47.9	going forward and with that let's jump right into the conversation with Bonnie.
1:53.0	Okay, someone said on show number 100 that they were always happy when Bonnie was on the show she's back baby and speaking
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