M2: Managing Managers

How do you best grow your subordinates? One approach is with a Player Lineup.This is a short and simple document where you track the learning and growth needs of your subordinates, for use in your 1-1 coaching conversations AND when planning holistically for the growth of your team.The TXL training toolbox contains many useful tools -- but we only include tools that repay you 10-to-1 in time and energy saved and performance improved.Here we examine which managers should use the Player Lineup, when, and why -- and help you decide if it's right for you.Key point - if you're taking over a new team, this tool can be incredibly valuable.

There's a science to managing managers. In fact, without that science, you will struggle needlessly to fully support your subordinate managers in becoming excellent leaders. Jim Prinzing and Thomas Cox share their breakthrough understanding of what followers need in order to follow at their best, which paints a clear target for exactly what each leader needs to do, and learn, in order to lead with excellence. We further develop the idea that true lean and learning organizations need this model as their prerequisite to the work of collaborative problem solving needed to create excellence at all levels of an organization.

Ultimate PIP: Up to Par or Out the Door in 90 Days with Zero Drama Thomas "the PIP Guy" Cox shows you why the typical PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) process is broken and harmful, what to do instead, and why you should embrace the PIP as a tool that will improve your own leadership and help your whole team perform better. Learn more at https://thepipguy.com. Recorded 09-Jun-2023