Team Leader Cafe

Leadership Matters
Leadership Matters is a publication from ALD Inc. These publications explore the workplace issues today's managers and supervisors face.
March 1, 2008
We’ve all experienced the type of “management problem” described below. But we often haven’t done a truly effective job of handling the problem. Read about a creative approach to dealing with some of the management problems you encounter – it’s fresh, effective and long lasting! What a dream!!
A Visit to the Team Leader Cafe’
Joe has not been doing too well in making the transition into his new role as a team leader after 10 years as a key individual contributor as an engineer.  Rather than losing Joe, his manager decides to sponsor him in the Team Leader Cafe’.   The first Cafe’ experience Joe has is a bit unnerving.  He attends a teleclass where he learns about a process called 360-feedback.  He is told this will help him assess his current strengths and weaknesses as a team leader and prepare him to get the most out of the upcoming Cafe’ events he will attend.   Following the tele-class, Joe identifies people who are in a good position to give him feedback on his leadership skills - direct reports, peers, and his manager.  These folks are then invited into the feedback process and contribute their observations on a web-based assessment.  A few weeks later Joe joi

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