The Lowest Hanging Fruit in Managerial Leadership – Effective Task Assignment

By Michelle Malay Carter on August 25, 2008 

With all the curriculum out there -?from supervisory training to MBAs to leadership courses, you would think that?effective task assignment?techniques would be at the top of the list.? My experience is that it is not.? Managers I’ve met have usually had?more Myers Briggs training than they have effective task assignment training. What does an effective […]

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Big Picture Thinker Miscommunication – A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on August 22, 2008 

We’ve been talking about how to “language” messages in order to make them satisfying to employees.? In my last post, I suggested that the language that individuals find satisfying and actionable might be tied to work levels and corresponding cognitive capacity. As you move up the work levels hierarchy, the use of language moves from […]

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Improving Communication with a Work Levels, Attractive Leadership Framework

By Michelle Malay Carter on August 20, 2008 

In my last post I talked about the elusive holy grail of leadership – effective communication.??I plan to throw a new iron into the fire on this one by discussing how an understanding of work levels can improve communication within organization. Employee’s Want RELEVANT Communication Since each work level of an organization contributes a specific […]

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