Comments on: Do not Let Venting Turn into Groupthink http://midwestitsurvival.com/2009/10/do-not-let-venting-turn-into-groupthink/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=do-not-let-venting-turn-into-groupthink Discussion on IT roles in non-Silicon Valley yet tech savvy companies Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeff Petermann http://midwestitsurvival.com/2009/10/do-not-let-venting-turn-into-groupthink/#comment-36 Jeff Petermann Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:00:09 +0000 http://www.midwestitsurvival.com/?p=226#comment-36 I have personal experience with Franklin Covey's 5 Disciplines of Execution. My employees were for the most part on the lower end of the salary spectrum and prone to complaining about the lack of impact from their inputs prior. I felt that there was a major turn-around for most team members as a result and I highly recommend. It actually does a lot more than create better individual employees, it actually is a good strategy for managing a whole organization or at least a department. There is one trap to this (or any system!) though. Once you get people participating in the process and submitting their suggestions for improvements, if the number of "emergencies" you are facing limits their chances of actually working on their suggestions, it will lead to more discouragement and they will quickly write it off as another "stupid" management thing. It all must be prefaced well and implemented with discipline. I have personal experience with Franklin Covey's 5 Disciplines of Execution. My employees were for the most part on the lower end of the salary spectrum and prone to complaining about the lack of impact from their inputs prior. I felt that there was a major turn-around for most team members as a result and I highly recommend. It actually does a lot more than create better individual employees, it actually is a good strategy for managing a whole organization or at least a department.

There is one trap to this (or any system!) though. Once you get people participating in the process and submitting their suggestions for improvements, if the number of "emergencies" you are facing limits their chances of actually working on their suggestions, it will lead to more discouragement and they will quickly write it off as another "stupid" management thing. It all must be prefaced well and implemented with discipline.

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