Comments on: The Top Challenge Facing Managers Today: Placing as much value on people as we do technology http://growaprosperousenterprise.com/blog/top-management-challenge/ Organization Development for High-Tech & Biotechnology Companies Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:58:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Rod Anaforian http://growaprosperousenterprise.com/blog/top-management-challenge/#comment-7 Rod Anaforian Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:23:17 +0000 http://growaprosperousenterprise.com/blog/?p=10#comment-7 To all points addressed, agreed. The reciprocal to this piece is the need for employees / workers / team members to endeavor to develop their personal professional skills. For too long we have indulged a deterioration in personal professional skills. The ability to self-manage, properly allocate time, dress and generally groom appropriately, develop platform skills, drastically improve writing skills, etc. These are all skills that employees are obliged to develop on their own because these are THEIR skills which they can market, if not with their current employer then with the next. To all points addressed, agreed. The reciprocal to this piece is the need for employees / workers / team members to endeavor to develop their personal professional skills. For too long we have indulged a deterioration in personal professional skills. The ability to self-manage, properly allocate time, dress and generally groom appropriately, develop platform skills, drastically improve writing skills, etc. These are all skills that employees are obliged to develop on their own because these are THEIR skills which they can market, if not with their current employer then with the next.

]]> By: Robert Merrill http://growaprosperousenterprise.com/blog/top-management-challenge/#comment-6 Robert Merrill Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:28:06 +0000 http://growaprosperousenterprise.com/blog/?p=10#comment-6 I'm re-reading Steven M. R. Covey's "The Speed of Trust" and he says a lot of the same things. But he starts with the manager him/herself (four cores of trust) and works out from there. Slapping a fresh coat of "people skills" on the same old motivations and attitudes isn't going to cut it. The only thing worse than only caring about yourself and the bottom line is only caring about yourself and the bottom line and PRETENDING to care about your resources (oops, people) in order to advance yourself and the bottom line. I’m re-reading Steven M. R. Covey’s “The Speed of Trust” and he says a lot of the same things. But he starts with the manager him/herself (four cores of trust) and works out from there. Slapping a fresh coat of “people skills” on the same old motivations and attitudes isn’t going to cut it.

The only thing worse than only caring about yourself and the bottom line is only caring about yourself and the bottom line and PRETENDING to care about your resources (oops, people) in order to advance yourself and the bottom line.

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