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Teaching Decision Making - The Responsibility Ladder - Part 4

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Part 4 of our guidance on using The Responsibility Ladder to teach directs how to go from handling individual tasks to managing their own work independently.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools.

0:02.0

Teaching Decision Making, the Responsibility Ladder. Part 4. Here we go.

0:08.0

This cast answers these questions.

0:10.0

How can I teach my directs how to make decisions on their own?

0:13.0

How can I help my directs make better decisions?

0:15.0

How can I help my directs learn how to take responsibility for projects?

0:18.0

Well, if you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.

0:27.0

If you enjoy our guidance about the Madhagen Trinity, getting to know your people, talking about performance,

0:30.0

asking for more, pushing work down,

0:32.0

and our tools are helpful, one-on-one's feedback

0:34.5

coaching and delegation. The ideal way to learn about implementing them is to come to

0:38.7

one of our effective manager conferences. One day we cover all of the major topics. You practice feedback, you practice

0:46.3

coaching, you practice delegation. I can't tell you the number of times people have said to

0:50.9

us, wow, I thought I understood the tools.

0:54.0

And then when I had to practice, I realized I've taken it to another level.

0:59.0

Come to the website, check out our conference schedule, see us all over the US and in Europe and in Asia and in Australia.

1:06.0

See you there.

1:07.0

Here we go, another rung of the responsibility ladder and this one we foreshadowed this a little bit last

1:13.7

last show is we're going to talk about your guidance our guidance I should I

1:18.8

should own up to it believing in it you almost always want to keep your directs at distress levels.

1:24.8

Yeah. And I'm going to let you completely take all the slings and arrows on this one

1:29.7

because folks will just go crazy. But when we walk it through, people will understand.

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