We just started a new weekly training and workshops program for the managers in the my company. As part of it, we had everyone come up with a few topics they’d be interested in discussing in future meetings. Here are the topics we’ll be discussing using the Gestalt Psychology experience sharing methodology:

• Constructive criticism
• Effective coaching to maximize strengths
• Rivalries and motivation
• Policy and procedure changes
• Big rocks and prioritization
• Dealing with underperforming team members
• Effective delegation
• New team member training
• Determining employee effectiveness and effort
• Frequency of communication
• Best practices for departmental meetings
• Dealing with inconsistent department workloads
• Visibility into development cycles
• Friend vs manager balance
• Balance between micro-management and being hands-off
• Dealing with missed timelines
• Working with problem employees
• Decision making without concensus
• Delegating undesireable work
• Strategies for minimizing overlapping work
• Managing employees with inter-departmental responsibilities
• Improving attitudes towards problem customers
• Manaing people with skillsets you don’t have (e.g. programmers)