by Art Petty | May 19, 2017 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leading Change
IBM is the latest firm to announce an end to remote working arrangements—a practice it popularized and enabled through its products and advertising. It seems there’s a trend, particularly in struggling companies ranging from Best Buy a few years ago, to Yahoo, and...
by Art Petty | May 11, 2017 | Art of Managing
The names change, but the behaviors are the same. Any person who has managed for any length of time has likely encountered the toxic employee who makes everyone he/she meets miserable, particularly the manager. Most managers are unprepared and frequently...
by Art Petty | May 10, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, First Time Manager Series
There are few transitions in a person’s career more challenging than moving from contributor or maker to manager. It’s clumsy, awkward, a little frightening and filled with both opportunities to grow and ways to misstep. And the burnout rate of first-time managers is...
by Art Petty | May 2, 2017 | Art of Managing, First Time Manager Series
You can set your watch by it. The meeting introducing you as the new manager is barely over and you’re just trying out your new chair at a desk that doesn’t feel like yours yet, when someone pokes their head in and asks, “Do you have a minute?” And so it begins. The...
by Art Petty | Apr 25, 2017 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, High Performance Management Teams
Learning to master feedback is every first-time manager’s bogeyman. It’s an issue for many experienced managers. Experienced doesn’t mean good. We avoid it, dilute it, or (metaphorically) beat people over the head with it. We think that people don’t want to be...
by Art Petty | Apr 11, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
Some jobs are harder than others. Navigating the waters of your first-time manager position ranks high on the list. The initial few weeks (years) are what I term the early-awkward phase. Mastery isn’t an issue. Survival is. Mastery comes next decade. Maybe. Most...
