Excerpted from the Executive Report: 6 Dumb Ways to Kill Morale - and What You Can Do to Fix It
It's human nature to look at other people through our own prism. When people are very different from us, we have a much more difficult time understanding where they're coming from. Two people facing identical problems or sets of circumstances often choose very different actions.
Does that mean one is smart and the other is dumb? As managers, we may see it that way, but the different actions most likely have very little to do with smarts or lack thereof. People do things more because of their own intrinsic nature than because of any real or perceived lack of expertise or intelligence.
Managers who play to people's strengths do a better job
of making new hires work. The easy part is to identify skill sets. It's much
harder to identify the behavioral nature that fits the job - that's where most
mistakes in people management are made.
Managing people is the hardest thing we do. Motivating
them and keeping morale up is never ending. For help, read the Executive
Report: 6 Dumb Ways to Kill Morale - and What You Can Do to Fix It
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