Vital Insight Into Management Training Success

Whether it’s dealing with miscommunication, lack of time or conflicts in the workplace, you face challenges daily that decrease your productivity. Ultimately, you want your team to run like a well-oiled machine, but so many challenges often get in the way.

Fortunately, a smooth-running business is easy to achieve when you master a few key management training skills.

Communication is the key to building strong, productive relationships between managers and employees. But often, communication breakdowns are difficult to identify and repair. If your organization is lacking the kind of communication effectiveness that bolsters retention and promotes employee satisfaction, your first step is to identify the issue.

Bingo! You have an exciting new idea that you want to share with your colleague. But as you begin communicating and start to present the idea to them, they interrupt you with the following statement:

"We shouldn't go through with it. We've tried it before and it didn't work."

Your colleague is not purposefully being difficult; rather they are an evaluative listener. They tend to jump to conclusions before hearing the full idea and without giving it much thought.

As a team leader, you may have experienced the following scenario...

Your team member asks if he/she could have Friday and Monday off to go on a ski weekend. (With the many feet of snow that has blanketed the country this year, who wouldn't want to have a long ski weekend!) You, as the team leader, refuse to authorize this leave because of pressing work deadlines. Your team member takes those two days off to go skiing anyway.