How to Manage Better in Just 20 Minutes
09/01/2009 21:09
Do you know what your employees value and what motivates them? If not, you’re missing an opportunity to optimize your relationship with your staff.
Frode Heimen recently suggested a 20-minute exercise to gain insight into your employees, and I think it’s a great way to both help you manage and help them thrive.
The premise is simple: Ask an employee to write down the names of four people who have had a huge positive impact on his life — peoples he respects, admires, or looks up to. The people can be famous (Barack Obama) or mundane (Mom), real or fictional, dead or alive.