498: Creating Management Structure, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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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 is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*. Listener Questions Rajat asked us about the best ways to create management structures in his organization. Cathy wondered how we let things go in moments of personal frustration. Janet asked advice for forming and sustaining business partnership and alliances. Resources Mentioned Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box* by The Arbinger Institute Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't* by Verne Harnish Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business* by Gino Wickman Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself* by Mike Michalowicz Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't* by Jim Collins Related Episodes Three Keys to Effective Business Alliances, with Aaron Kent (episode 162) How to Create Team Guidelines, with Susan Gerke (episode 192) The Truth and Lies of Performance Management, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 361) Performance Measurement That Gets Results, with Stacey Barr (episode 419) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	It's the first Monday of the month and we're responding to your questions.
0:03.6	This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 498.
0:07.6	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. Thanks to you from Orange County, California.
0:17.0	This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac.
0:25.0	Leaders aren't born, their mate, and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom
0:30.0	through insightful conversations.
0:32.5	The first Monday of every month,
0:34.2	we open up the episode to you, your questions.
0:37.8	And if you have a question you'd like us to consider
0:40.0	for a future episode here, the first Monday of every month go over to coaching for
0:44.1	leaders dot com slash feedback that is the very best way to get it to us for
0:48.4	consideration I am glad to welcome Bonnie back to the show who is here almost every month to help me and respond to questions.
0:55.6	Hello Bonnie good to see you. Hello Dave. So we have a bunch of questions as always.
1:00.8	Let's just dive in right away with our first question from
1:04.4	Breshat says I'm a startup founder and CTO that's chief technical officer and
1:10.3	it has become clear to me that I should have some structure in place for my department in terms of areas of responsibility, processes, metrics, performance reviews, etc.
1:21.0	The problem is I have no idea how to start. This is not something I've learned or experienced before.
1:27.0	Do you know of a framework or something similar I can use as a guideline to make sure I'm asking the right questions to get the foundations
1:35.1	for this down.
1:36.7	Rajat, thank you for asking this question.
1:39.4	I do know a bunch of frameworks.
1:41.4	Some of them we've talked about on the show over the years. Some of them,
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