Managing today's highly skilled professionals takes special skills — and not the ones that you may think. Oftentimes, knowledge workers know more than you do about their jobs. So, how do you manage people who know more about what they do than you do?
In such instances, you have to look at leadership through the wants and needs of the worker as opposed to the skills of the leader. Here are some quick tips for effectively managing knowledge workers.
When Your Employees Know More Than You - Marshall Goldsmith - Harvard Business Review
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3921 days ago
My sister has a Bachelors degree and she recently took and lost a operations managing position at a gym. I think it had a lot to do with the disconnect between her and the employees she was managing/working with. My sister can be a very proud person and can find it difficult to take direction, especially from people she's over.
The methods and the tips that you outlined would have been very effective in assisting her in managing her employees better, especially since they had been there longer than her and did know more than she did.
Thanks for sharing your tips and insights with us. I'm glad to have found your piece on bizsugar.com.
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