by djyarwood | Delegation
I don’t deny, it’s frustrating. You delegate a piece of work to one of your team and they manage to transform it into an almighty mess. It takes so long to fix it, you might as well have done it yourself. How do you delegate when you think your team...
by djyarwood | Delegation, Team Mgmt
You know, as a manager, you should delegate. Maybe you need to because your to do list is no longer something you can conquer alone. Or perhaps you want to develop your team members, give them more challenging work to do. But you look across the office and see how...
by djyarwood | Confidence
I first watched this several years ago. I was on a train on my way to a customer meeting that was filling me with dread. I was there to deliver bad news and it wasn’t going to be pretty. I was new in my role and I knew I wouldn’t have good answers to the...
by djyarwood | Confidence
For many new managers, having to speak up in meetings feels like torture. Suddenly you’re invited to meetings at the ‘next level’. The invitation list also includes your peers (who are more experienced than you) and a layer of ‘senior...