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Casual Articles - Managing Your Team (Part 10) - Why Assumptions Are Dangerous
In today’s employment environment, HR managers are faced with the monumental duty of hiring and maintaining, as well as the ongoing development, of employees. But the single most difficult task lies first in hiring the right people.Not only are prospective employers faced with the largest available potential workforce since the Second World War, but, as things have become more sophisticated, so have the deception techniques of those who would shaft you and your company. Negligent hiring, sexual harassment, and frivolous employee lawsuits have increas
The harsh reality is that this behaviour, assuming that w
You might be wondering if you could write your own resume. After all you’ve got a computer, you know everything about yourself there is to know, and you might have even found a sample online to help you.But, there is more to resume writing to meets the eye. For one you are actually to close to yourself to write a brilliant resume. A resume must so all of your achievements often the person for whom the resume is being written would leave these very important facts out.Here are four things to consider:1. You must understand the right proce
These values drive our belief system which, in turn, influence our behaviours and actions.
Having a set of values is great. What's not so great is when we cannot accept a differing set of values belonging to someone else.
Take a moment, think of your team members or others with whom you are in regular contact. Have there been occasions when you haven't quite understood or totally disagreed with their views or their behaviour?
what was your immediate reaction?
Did you seek clarification, did you try to understand, or did you assume, based on your values and beliefs, that their behaviour was due to................?
The danger with this assumption, any assumption, is that it can lead to bad feeling, resentment, even hostility when we start to voice these assumptions, these attributes that we have decided to give someone.
Listen, we can all be guilty of this from time to time. Think about it. Isn't a lot easier and more comfortable to rationalise someone's actions and bring some sort of meaning to their behaviours.
The twist is that it is also human nature to get our backs up when somebody does exactly the same to us...
The harsh reality is that this behaviour, assuming that w
You have been working on a product for over a year now, and are finally ready to unleash your product on the world. However you do not know the best way to try to sell this product to your consumer. You have a feature set, but you just can not put the rest of the words together in a way that will lure prospective customers to purchase your product. Here are a few tips to writing a sales copy that sells.1. Create an Attention-Grabbing Headline – If you do not write an attention-grabbing headline in your sales copy, then you have almost no chance to
Having a set of values is great. What's not so great is when we cannot accept a differing set of values belonging to someone else.
Take a moment, think of your team members or others with whom you are in regular contact. Have there been occasions when you haven't quite understood or totally disagreed with their views or their behaviour?
what was your immediate reaction?
Did you seek clarification, did you try to understand, or did you assume, based on your values and beliefs, that their behaviour was due to................?
The danger with this assumption, any assumption, is that it can lead to bad feeling, resentment, even hostility when we start to voice these assumptions, these attributes that we have decided to give someone.
Listen, we can all be guilty of this from time to time. Think about it. Isn't a lot easier and more comfortable to rationalise someone's actions and bring some sort of meaning to their behaviours.
The twist is that it is also human nature to get our backs up when somebody does exactly the same to us...
The harsh reality is that this behaviour, assuming that w
Sales management is an integral sub-system of marketing management. It translates the marketing plan into marketing performance. Sales management is hence described as the muscle behind marketing management. The sales manager in a modern organization holds a multitude of responsibilities. He has to plan, direct and control the personal selling effort of the firm. His task does not stop with the achievement of sales quotas. He is also responsible for bringing in the required profits. In addition, he is also responsible for creating the desired image for the c
what was your immediate reaction?
Did you seek clarification, did you try to understand, or did you assume, based on your values and beliefs, that their behaviour was due to................?
The danger with this assumption, any assumption, is that it can lead to bad feeling, resentment, even hostility when we start to voice these assumptions, these attributes that we have decided to give someone.
Listen, we can all be guilty of this from time to time. Think about it. Isn't a lot easier and more comfortable to rationalise someone's actions and bring some sort of meaning to their behaviours.
The twist is that it is also human nature to get our backs up when somebody does exactly the same to us...
The harsh reality is that this behaviour, assuming that w
When you own a small business and have never owned a business before then it would be understandable if you needed some bankruptcy help. There is nothing to be ashamed of, you may not know which section of bankruptcy to file for and we can help you. One of the first questions to be answered is your business a partnership or a sole proprietorship? If you own a corporation there are limited liabilities for companies and partnerships that are legal entities that are separate from their partners. In cases like these then, you can file Chapter 7 or Chapter 11.n we start to voice these assumptions, these attributes that we have decided to give someone.
Listen, we can all be guilty of this from time to time. Think about it. Isn't a lot easier and more comfortable to rationalise someone's actions and bring some sort of meaning to their behaviours.
The twist is that it is also human nature to get our backs up when somebody does exactly the same to us...
The harsh reality is that this behaviour, assuming that w
More and more students, both in undergraduate and graduate institutions, are deciding to launch their own ventures upon graduation rather than taking the traditional route of working for another firm. Likewise, more and more individuals are leaving their jobs to fulfill their entrepreneurial dreams.While these ventures may ultimately be very successful (e.g., Google and Microsoft were both launched by students), they face certain challenges in their business plans and capital raising processes. The foremost challenge is overcoming the lack of experien
The harsh reality is that this behaviour, assuming that which is not true, is an excuse for not making the effort, for not working at understanding, for not seeking the real explanation.
Now, this is bad enough if left unchecked within the team. Unfortunately, there can also be a tendency to make assumptions about individuals, even groups outside the team.
Why is this a problem? Bottom line? It will almost definitely lead to the wrong decisions being made, reaching conclusions and developing actions which are certain to deliver less than favourable results.
What's a team leader to do?
Well, by now, you'll know that I am going to reiterate the need for well established ground rules, for following a systematic approach, for ensuring statements are based on facts and are well supported. Post the ground rules on the wall in the team sessions. Remind all participants that these were agreed.
If a comment is made by one team member to another, you can rest assured that the recipient and the rest of the team will be waiting with bated breath to see what your reaction is going to be. Ignoring it is not the right behaviour - think of the messages you send to the team - the agreed ground rules mean n
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