How do you react to bad news? Assess your management skills
Have a few minutes? Want to quickly assess your ability to react to bad news? Try this short exercise.
Context
Working for a large multi-national organization, you are the head of a 40 people software development team. Your team’s ability to deliver on their commitment continues to decrease despite implementing new measures to help boost productivity.
During a recent lunch meeting, you were informed that things on the floor are really bad by one of your external partner. In an attempt to help you, the partner offers to present some key findings about your team – their processes, their tools, their skills, their environment, etc.
In order to share the suggestions of your external partner with your team, you invite your direct reports (managers) to the presentation. It’s a sunny day outside and despite some technical glitches, the consultants begin the presentation by stating the objective of the meeting and inform you they intend to be very candid. After a few introductory slides, the real content of the presentation begins…
Slide 6
Lack of Team work
Consequences
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Slide 7
Lack of Technical Skills
Consequences
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Slide 8
Difficult Work Environment
Consequences
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How would you react?
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Great post! I want to see the result! I am convinced that management style at the top of an organization will reflect below…
I agree with Anne-Laure. I look foward to see the results. It would have been possible to answer with more than one choice.
oh my oh my it’s like if someone picked inside of my workplace 🙂 … I kind a hoped it doesn’t exist elsewhere 😦
I feel first frustrated but then may be will ask myself that there should be something wrong in the way I work. I would take note of same and move forward.