Teams Work – does yours?

Everyone seems to have a horror story about managers they’ve suffered under in times gone by, and many of those horrors are being relived in offices all over the country today. Things like bullying, intimidation, humiliation and power games are very much alive and kicking in the workplace.

However, if we insist on promoting people to a management role, because they were good at the job they did before, or, even worse, because they are “time served” – in other words, they’ve sat in one seat long enough, it must be time to move them on – what can we expect?  Very few emerging managers have anything resembling training or preparation for their new role in understanding and getting the best out of their team.

Lacking the skills and confidence to manage their teams well, they resort to all the old (bad) lessons they learned from their old (bad) managers and the cycle continues.

It would be nice to think that one day, we’d have more stories about amazing, inspiring managers than the horror stories, and I certainly live in hope.