NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: AMY SCHURR ON IT LEADERSHIP 11/30/04 Today's focus: Coaching the team
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * How to determnine if your management style is that of a ��referee or of a coach * Links related to IT Leadership * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored By BMC Software Linking IT Priorities to Business Objectives, an IDC whitepaper. Get insights from IDC on aligning business goals and IT priorities. IDC offers practical, actionable information on how Business Service Management can help you reduce operating costs, improve service levels, respond faster to business needs and protect delivery of business-critical. Click here to download this whitepaper now. http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88754 _______________________________________________________________ COMPREHENSIVE ENTERPRISE STORAGE INFORMATION Go to NW Fusion's Research Center for detailed information on enterprise storage. 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"While it is a lot easier to see a mistake and correct it, people learn more through success than through failure, so bosses should ensure that employees are experiencing as many successes as possible," says Jim Concelman, manager of leadership development for DDI. Are you a coach or a referee? Answer true or false to the following statements: * My employees learn more from navigating a task by themselves, ��so I stay out of the way. * There is no time to meet with people before every task, so I ��wait for them to come to me for help. * I always assign people tasks that I know they can handle ��without my assistance. * I meet with people once, tell them how they should handle the ��task and then let them handle it. They'll come see me if they ��need more information. * It's better to let people make a mistake - they'll never make ��the same one twice. If you answered true to any of these questions, you may be a referee boss or at risk becoming one. According to DDI, you can adapt more of a coaching role by observing staffers' strengths and weaknesses, identifying challenging new tasks, checking in regularly and apprising workers of their successes. _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Amy Schurr Amy Schurr is an editor for Network World's Management Strategies and Features sections. If you have any career topics you'd like her to cover or want to comment on this newsletter, you can reach her at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored By BMC Software Linking IT Priorities to Business Objectives, an IDC whitepaper. Get insights from IDC on aligning business goals and IT priorities. IDC offers practical, actionable information on how Business Service Management can help you reduce operating costs, improve service levels, respond faster to business needs and protect delivery of business-critical. 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