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)
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