402: How to Stop Micro-Managing and More Questions, with Bonni Stachowiak
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She joins me monthly to respond to listener questions.
Listener Questions
- Peter asked about how to support a team member going through a difficult situation.
- Mike wondered what strategies he could use to avoid being a micro-manager.
- Roger asked about advice on next steps after an executive role didn’t work out.
- Ali asked for input on assessments for executive presence.
- Thomas wanted input on how to better design surveys.
Resources Mentioned
- Hope for the Flowers* by Trina Paulus
- Double Loop Learning
- The Look & Sound of Leadership podcast by Tom Henschel
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- Get Smart About Assessments, with Ken Nowack (episode 371)
- Unconscious Mistakes Women Make, with Lois Frankel (episode 386)
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| 0:00.0 | It's the first Monday of the month and we're responding to your questions. This is Coaching for Leaders episode 402. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:19.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made, |
| 0:26.4 | and this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that will empower you to become |
| 0:31.9 | a better leader. |
| 0:33.8 | Once a month, just about once a month, we open up the show to respond to your questions. |
| 0:40.2 | You can send in questions you'd like us to consider for a future Q&A show |
| 0:45.0 | by going over to coaching for leaders.com slash feedback. |
| 0:49.0 | I am joined this month as I am often by Bonnie Stovac to help us respond to questions. |
| 0:55.3 | Hello, Bonnie. |
| 0:56.3 | Hello Dave and thanks to everyone who submitted questions. |
| 0:59.0 | Once again you have made me wrestle about ideas in my mind and I'm looking forward to our conversation. |
| 1:04.3 | Indeed, we have more questions than we can respond to so hopefully if we didn't get a chance to |
| 1:09.1 | respond to your question in this episode we will have a chance to do so in a future episode and let's jump |
| 1:13.8 | right in and tackle our first question here from Peter. Peter wrote in and said I have a |
| 1:18.0 | member of my team that is currently going through a very difficult personal |
| 1:21.9 | time bereavement and a difficult divorce and split up, which has negatively affected his mental health. |
| 1:28.0 | My question is around how much of myself and my time should I give outside of a work environment and the best way to deal |
| 1:35.1 | with a team member who needs exponentially more time and love than other members of the team, |
| 1:40.6 | without affecting the dynamics at play. |
| 1:42.7 | Any advice is gladly taken. |
| 1:45.0 | Bonnie? |
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