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Difficult Employees
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (July 2011)
Coach’s Corner – Responding to the most Frequently Asked Questions posed by our A-CHIEVE! publication readership…
QUESTION: What is the best way to deal with a difficult employee?
RESPONSE: Oftentimes the leader asking the question is hoping for a simple “terminate the person” reply. The reality is that termination is not necessarily the right solution at that particular point in time for several reasons. As we probe further, we oftentimes discover one or more of the following conditions:
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Positive Influencer or Bulldozer?
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (July 2011)
Do you use your power of positive persuasion or negative persuasion when selling your ideas and influencing your co-workers?
Check out our side-by-side comparison and evaluate yourself, or better yet, ask one or more co-workers, who will be candid and open with you, to objectively assess you!
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Ready for Hyperspecialization?
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Excerpt from A-CHIEVE! (July 2011)
When we first read Harvard Business Review’s “The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization”, the graphic that came to mind was a knowledge worker assembly line – very similar to a manufacturing industry’s production assembly line, but with workers contributing a very narrow slice of intellectual capital (or narrowly defined skill set) based on each person’s area of expertise. For those of you who may not be familiar with the term ‘hyperspecialization’, it is defined as extreme specialization. What exactly does that mean?
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