Managing in a Balanced Workplace
The landscape is changing for American corporations. More and more employees – parents trying to balance their work and home responsibilities and Generation Y's who see work life balance as a given - are demanding flexibility. This includes flex-time, the ability to work from home, and utilizing more contractors, both domestic and abroad. This can wreak havoc in a workplace where old-school management techniques are applied to this new environment. They just don't work.
When Julie Lenzer Kirk set out to build her software company, she was also raising two small children. She was determined to prove that running a profitable business does not preclude you, or those who work for you, from having a life. As she began to build her management team along with her business she learned several hard lessons about balance in the workplace and the difference in the specific management skills required to succeed in this new environment. She was able to draw on the parallels she was seeing in raising her kids to train her new managers to be more effective in navigating the balanced workplace through topics such as:
Delegation
Communication
Measuring Results
Setting Boundaries
Employees don't quit a company, they quit their manager. Julie's stories are easy to relate to and entail just the right amount of humor that the lessons will be remembered and embraced, helping you to increase employee satisfaction and decrease your turnover , which will translate into a better bottom line .
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