Managers, Ask Yourselves – Is It Me or Is It You?

Most managers, if asked to come up with an example of an employee who has an “unfixable” problem with performance, are usually able to name at least one person on their team. But managers should really be taking the time to ask themselves a much more important question: is this employee’s performance problem about them or is it about me?The vast majority of managers do their “managing” more or less on autopilot until something goes wrong – and something always does. Then communication becomes more heated and urgent, sometimes even more accurate and effective! Managers almost always get most thoroughly involved when there are problems to address – large, medium, or small.

In my work at RainmakerThinking, I’ve found that very few managers are acing it. Too many are failing. The vast majority go through the motions, but not very well. This is what I call the undermanagement epidemic.

If you, the manager, are not spending time engaging in ongoing, structured, one-on-one…