Padlet 6: Getting Great People on Board, pages 96 - 113 by Seyler

laurenmpendergast — 2023-11-09 01:58:48 UTC

Different ways to stretch the abilities of your team, like stretch assignments and giving tough, broad goals.

How to create and think through what your incentive philosophy will be.

How to define and great a culture while considering your full team’s abilities and goals.

laurenmpendergast — 2023-11-09 02:00:49 UTC

The actions some leaders took to model cultural behaviors they thought were important.

The different ways to give your team opportunities to grow.

laurenmpendergast — 2023-11-09 02:01:16 UTC

What do you think the best incentive philosophy is?

Interesting

memerrell80 — 2023-11-09 14:54:46 UTC

Goals: When individual goals conflict with team goals, this creates competition rather than collaboration. Really interesting to me and makes perfect sense.

Performance Feedback: The book mentions (page 111) that "brutal honesty" is critical in shifting cultures. Agree but this seems SO HARD. Would have loved to have more information in this section.

memerrell80 — 2023-11-09 14:55:33 UTC

What ways, besides a 360-degree evaluation, can harness honesty and feedback within a team?

Learnings

memerrell80 — 2023-11-09 15:06:18 UTC

Creating system for feedback fosters team growth.
Real life leadership experiences matter more than leadership training. (Enjoyed the read linked above.)
"Culture trumps strategy."

Learning

miltonstokes — 2023-11-09 18:32:33 UTC

I had not given much thought to the idea of managing culture and the relationship to achieving strategy. But it certainly makes sense.

The textbook says that culture is invisible, implicit, and hard to describe. I'm not sure I agree with this.

Interesting Points

miltonstokes — 2023-11-09 18:37:39 UTC

As I pointed out in the previous block (Learning), the book says it's hard to describe culture because it's invisible and implicit. My gut and my experience would disagree with this. I think it could be hard to capture a reliable definition of culture, hard to collapse it into a succinct idea; but certainly can be done. As the book said, go ask 10 employees about the culture, and I bet you will get themes and trends that emerge, many of them probably quickly and effortlessly.
I get that we want to have goals to work toward, but the book did not address how to deal with leaderships' overwhelming and near-constant urge to chase the next shiny object and try to make that part of their teams' goals. What's the best way to guard against this behavior? How can you perform against your stated goals without getting driven off course by leadership?

Question

miltonstokes — 2023-11-09 18:40:09 UTC

I previously asked what's the best way to prevent leadership from driving you off course, driving you away from achieving your stated (and agreed upon) goals for performance? Leaders tend to chase the next best thing (shiny objects) and constantly bring up requests that are not part of the strategy. It becomes tempting to indulge them because they might be right and because they are the ones giving out raises. This behavior has a cost.

Learnings

2023-11-10 22:30:41 UTC

Creating a culture is very challenging and I found it changes each time you get a new CEO.

Incentive packages historically are controlled by HR and not the manager. I remember trying to fit things into the goals that made no sense because HR had no idea what we did.

Interesting

2023-11-10 22:32:40 UTC

Goals: We would have individual and team goals but getting everyone in alignment on the team goals could be challenging.

In this day of #MeToo and other issues, not sure that brutal honesty flies very well.

Question for my peers

2023-11-10 22:33:52 UTC

How does your company create fairness in their incentive philosophy? Favoritism is a big problem in most companies.

Learnings

2023-11-13 14:16:52 UTC

Ways to give opportunity for growth which is difficult for talented and experienced employees
Culture is so important and gets more difficult to instill as a company grows and different generations come into the mix. I enjoyed all of the reading on this.

Question

2023-11-13 14:18:39 UTC

I do feel that culture is the base for success in an organization. If you have been with the same company for a long time, do you feel it is getting more difficult to instill that culture with new employees?