by Shelley Row | Mar 20, 2020 | business, Business Skills, Decision-Making, Employee Engagement
Whether your technical expertise is in engineering (like mine), law, finance, technology or science, we technical folks don’t have good reputations as managers. When a technically accomplished person is promoted into management, suddenly the old skills that made us...
by Shelley Row | Jan 6, 2020 | Decision-Making
Hard-to-work-with, passive-aggressive, disagreeable, arrogant, unresponsive, unmotivated, angry. Know anyone like that? Rational, levelheaded, thoughtful, curious, respectful, friendly, easy-to-get-along-with, agreeable. You probably know people like this, too....
by Shelley Row | Nov 26, 2019 | Leadership, communication, Employee Engagement
We’re learning about the ten skills that technical professionals need when they become a manager. Today let’s discuss the importance of getting to know that special person who simply knows how to get things done in the office. And it’s not simple!...
by Shelley Row | Oct 21, 2019 | Business Skills, communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, success
Our new boss arrived with an agenda and he wasn’t timid about it. It seemed that he gathered input from everyone but us. Because he was influenced by an array of people unfamiliar to us, the work environment became challenging, to say the least. Through this...
by Shelley Row | Oct 8, 2019 | Business Skills, communication, Decision-Making, Employee Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership, success
Teresa wanted to see the big picture strategy before discussing specifics. Tom wanted general ideas with time to think before deciding. Paul wanted to give orders that were followed to the “T”. To be successful, each of these bosses required a unique...