Not all managers come straight from grad school with their MBA. All across the country workplaces promote line employees into supervisory and management positions.
And one of the many challenges a new manager can face is having to manage the very people who were previously coworkers and friends.
Here’s an audio that looks at an all-too-common scenario:
There are certainly a lot of credible reasons to hesitate to talk to a professional about problems and situations that have a personal, emotional piece.
It was never totally clear to me what the characteristics were of someone choosing to seek consultation. It wasn’t always an outright crisis, but sometimes
Being arbitrary and capricious generate their own problems, and are seldom part of any healthy workplace culture.
Contrary to some schools of thought, successful “people management” is not really a science – it’s more of an art. But it’s also a skill that can
