Good Management Training Means Good Follow-up

Performance improves quickly when you have good content that leads to real conversations by effective managers committed to making behavioral change.   

When I said that in Management Training... , I didn't realize the reaction it would have, especially from the experienced members of the management and leadership community. In fact, I paused to write this in the midst of creating follow-up activities for the managers in the workshop referenced in that post.

Wally Bock jumped into the conversation with a nifty little resource titled How to Set Up a Roundtable. It describes one way to continue conversations about personal and organizational effectiveness, regardless of the specific training involved. And, it's a good model to use without having had a training event. It simply makes sense to create a relaxed structure in which to continually discuss things of importance to any group of managers.

Thanks, Wally!

Accuracy Matters: Another Good Reason to Have A Conversation

We'd like to think that how we experience work, leadership, or life is almost identical to the experience of the people around us.

Even though we know it isn't true.

The only way I know of to check the accuracy of my own perceptions is through an honest discussion of how things are going and what other people are experiencing. (Another good reason for the "Roundtable" idea).

If you need a spark of motivation to latch onto the potential innacuracies of sole interpretation, check out Mark and Shawn's article at Anecdote.

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Comments

[Roger Anderson]

I think that one of the biggest reasons that people do not do follow-up is that they have abdicated the responsibility to the designated person. Sort of a set it and forget it kind of thinking.

It would be great if we could just ask someone to do something and they do it. We don't do everything we are asked to do. Not even everything we say we are going to do. We forget, we change our minds, or whatever.

I agree that a leader who does not do follow-up needs training. Oh, and they need someone to follow-up and see that they did.