Tag Archives: management coaching

Reapplying the Platinum Rule: How to Coach Your Boss

“How about if Part III gives advice for those with managers who fit these descriptions?” A discerning reader posed that question after reading my last two blogs, A New Element of Management, Part I: Three Scenarios of Employee Disengagement, and Part II: The Platinum Rule. Both blogs focused on executives Silvia, Ophelia, and Felix, each [...]

A New Element of Management, Part II: The Platinum Rule

Remember Silvia, Ophelia, and Felix, from last week’s blog — the senior execs who were turning off members of their staffs? This post will show how we adjusted these execs’ behavior to match the realities of their staffs’ experiences. See if your view of the underlying through-line matches what really happened; to refresh your memory [...]

A New Element of Management, Part I: Three Scenarios of Employee Disengagement

All in the same week, I had the opportunity to deal with three very different senior managers. Each was responsible for a different organizational function, and each had a different leadership style. And yet all three senior managers — we’ll call them Silvia, Ophelia, and Felix — behaved in characteristic ways that unintentionally undermined employee [...]