Welcome to Manager Tools. Teaching Decision Making, the Responsibility Ladder. Part 5. Here we go.

This cast answers these questions. How can I teach my directs how to make decisions on their own? How can I help

my directs make better decisions? How can I help my directs learn how to take responsibility

for projects? If you want answers these questions and more, keep listening.

If you enjoy our guidance about the Madadron Trinity,

getting to know your people, talking about performance,

asking for more, pushing work down,

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

and delegation.

The ideal way to learn about implementing them

is to come to one of our effective manager conferences.

One day, we cover all of the major topics.

You practice feedback, you practice coaching, you practice delegation.

I can't tell you the number of times people have said to us, wow, I thought I understood the tools.

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

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Last week we handled the tough one, the one that people are going to rebel against,

which is always keeping folks at a distress level.

So I'm feeling good now, I'm feeling like this,

you know, we won't get a bunch of hate mail here.

So we'll move on with our climb up the responsibility ladder. The next

thing on our list is asking for analysis. I think we've sort of assumed it

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