http://www.blingblingbooks.com.au Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.blingblingbooks.com.au/better-business-recruit-for-that-can-doattitude/comment-page-1#comment-9 Peter Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:31:44 +0000 http://blingblingbooks.com.au/better-business-recruit-for-that-can-doattitude#comment-9 Hi Brett, The situation you speak of can be quite difficult. But I believe too that people shouldn't feel that they can't approach their managers to discuss issues such as this. Communication is an integral part of any type of partnership, including business. Even as a 'normal' employee, staff should see themselves as part of this business partnership. And if one person leads, this might help foster better relatioships with others, including your managers. If you haven't tried already, try disscusing your issues with your management, but in a way that they will appreciate and not be threatened by. Tactfully bring up the smothering effect their style has and the impact on staff. Micro managers can be difficult and of course what I've suggested doesn't always work, but is certainly worth trying... Hi Brett,
The situation you speak of can be quite difficult. But I believe too that people shouldn’t feel that they can’t approach their managers to discuss issues such as this.
Communication is an integral part of any type of partnership, including business. Even as a ‘normal’ employee, staff should see themselves as part of this business partnership. And if one person leads, this might help foster better relatioships with others, including your managers.
If you haven’t tried already, try disscusing your issues with your management, but in a way that they will appreciate and not be threatened by. Tactfully bring up the smothering effect their style has and the impact on staff.
Micro managers can be difficult and of course what I’ve suggested doesn’t always work, but is certainly worth trying…

]]> http://www.blingblingbooks.com.au/better-business-recruit-for-that-can-doattitude/comment-page-1#comment-8 Brett Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:44:57 +0000 http://blingblingbooks.com.au/better-business-recruit-for-that-can-doattitude#comment-8 My bosses are knowledgeable guys who really know their business but their people skills are terrible. The entire management group are control freaks and don't let people "be free", they dictate how they want every job done. After a while you feel like you just don't have any influence over your job. The end result is that we have about half our staff leave every year. This is really disruptive to everyone who is left behind. Even more so when staff are made redundant as they were last month, the first time people were made redundant. My bosses are knowledgeable guys who really know their business but their people skills are terrible. The entire management group are control freaks and don’t let people “be free”, they dictate how they want every job done. After a while you feel like you just don’t have any influence over your job. The end result is that we have about half our staff leave every year. This is really disruptive to everyone who is left behind. Even more so when staff are made redundant as they were last month, the first time people were made redundant.

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