All Posts Tagged With: "expectations"

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Another Great List

It’s amazing, when you begin looking for them, just how many lists you can find. Here’s one that I found through Twitter: a blog entry on Great Leadership by Dan McCarthy. Here’s the link. This blog entry takes the Aretha Franklin song R-E-S-P-E-C-T, and uses it to show how leaders can show respect for their [...]

3Feb2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Tie Expectations to Goals

In the “People Skills” portion of her book, A Dog’s Advice to Leaders, Miss Brown’s third common sense principle is “Make your expectations clear.” She chose to put this principal at the top of her list because so often, employees are NOT clear on what is expected of them, or the expectations are not grounded [...]

1Aug2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Leaders Can Frustrate Employees

Expectations at work inevitably come from the top.  Now, if the very top doesn’t make its expectations clear — which Miss Brown and I think happens all too often — then the next layer of leadership can’t possibly make its expectations clear to the people who will do the work.  This happened to me recently.  [...]

12Feb2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 1 comment | Continued