I caught up with my friend the other day, the one who told me of the new team leader who had got off to a shaky start with her team (See my previous blogs post: A New Manager). Well, it transpires that this new team leader is also not that understanding when it comes to Performance Management either. It seems that she still has some way to go in her development as a manager!

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Now, in my experience, all leaders and managers, but especially senior ones should ‘be’ what they expect their staff to ‘be’. In other words they should be role models of the behaviour and skills that they want their staff to demonstrate and use. Now, presumably the performance of your staff and company are interlinked (they have been in all the organisations that I have worked in) and thus there is an intrinsic need to achieve the best performance that you can from your team. It follows therefore that if you want your managers to support and improve their staff performance, you should be using and demonstrating that same behaviour when you work with them.

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