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Coaching for Leaders

622: The Way to Manage an Over-Confident Team Member, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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. Listener Questions Susan asked about assessing the difference between an employee who has addressable gaps in their skills and knowledge versus when they are in over their head. Elizabeth asked our advice on managing a team member who appears over-confident in their abilities…and how to hold them accountable. Steve wondered how we handle household tasks between the two of us in the midst of our busy schedules. Resources Mentioned Analyzing Performance Problems* by Robert Mager and Peter Pipe The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian Wonder Tools by Jeremy Kaplan The Home Edit by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin Related Episodes The Way to Stop Rescuing People From Their Problems, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 284) How to Challenge Directly and Care Personally, with Kim Scott (episode 302) Five Steps to Hold People Accountable, with Jonathan Raymond (episode 306) Finding Joy Through Intentional Choices, with Bonni Stachowiak (episode 417) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

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Bonnie is back with me and we're responding to your questions. This is Coaching for

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Leaders Episode 622.

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Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

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Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahofiak.

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Leaders are born, they're made, and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom

0:29.0

through insightful conversations. A few times a year we set aside our typical conversations

0:36.0

and respond to questions that have come in here from our listening community.

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And if you have a question for us that you'd like us to consider for a future episode,

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I hope you'll go over to Coaching for Leaders dot com slash feedback.

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That is the very best way to get it to us. And Bonnie Stahofiak is with me

0:53.0

and it's been a while since we've done a Q&A episode, Bonnie. Hello.

0:57.0

Hi, I was cracking up as you were saying this because I remember how long it took me to realize

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that we had gone from a once a month frequency to a few times a year.

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You had to sort of like gently reveal that to me. I also do feel like I need to be very transparent

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right now. It's going to come up in a later question. I sit here before you now, Dave,

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wearing a wearable blanket. And both of our children are in the other room wearing a wearable blanket.

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You are the only person in this house not wearing a wearable blanket.

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And I feel like we may need to get you one so that you could join us in the fund.

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Coziness that it is on this rainy Southern California day.

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I also notice that you are still wearing your pajamas. And it may appear that I am not,

1:43.0

I am not wearing my pajamas because I have a sweatshirt on. But if you look closely,

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the bottom half of me is covered in pajamas as well.

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