A List to Help with Your Better Conversations
Over the last month, one of my more popular postings here has been Learn to Finish Conversations Well Redux. Therefore, I thought you might be interested in checking in with Managing with Aloha Coaching today for an article I think of as a good companion to it:
If you put these two articles together, learning to practice the coaching within them, you will have better, more effective, powerful conversations in your role as a manager.
Here is how the article starts:
If I am hard pressed to recommend one and only one tool as THE most essential one in every manager’s tool kit, there is no question for me what it will be.
It is the very first tool I teach new supervisors (and any struggling manager) to use;
No matter the industry they are in.
No matter the country they are in.
Whether they are new to their positions or seasoned pros.
Whether they have just one employee or thousands.
Whenever it is calm, and they are caught up.
Whenever it is frenetic and crazy, and they can’t see that light at the end of the tunnel.
Pretty much no matter what the circumstances are.
And get this – even more than my beloved Daily 5 Minutes®.
The One Tool that every manager must work with, and work with daily, is this:
A simple list kept easily and best with pencil and an 8x10 sheet of paper folded into three columns.
This is not just any list, but a very special one.
Photo found on Flickr: the pilot p-500 by Mr. Wright.
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