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5 Tips for Working Without Direct Supervision

Eat Your Career

Based on the questions I’m receiving and complaints I’m hearing, quite a few are struggling as they attempt to work without direct supervision. Leaders are extremely busy right now; they’re dealing with the immediate problems of the pandemic. How can you still provide value without supervision? Here are 5 tips to help you.

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Creating a not-so-formal leadership development program

Insperity

An employee with a diverse skill set has a greater ability to solve problems, build teams and improve productivity – all benefits to your company. Do a few of your in-house customer service reps need to learn the art of outside sales and contract negotiations? Training vs. development. Who gets developed?

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How Should Leaders Address Challenge Of Low Performers?

Tanveer Naseer

So much work today is accomplished through a team, and the really tough problems are the ones that require a creative approach, critical thinking, or a team who has the desire and motivation to work harder and smarter.” Great sales people rarely make great sales managers for instance; the skillsets required are different.”

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Top 6 Employee Behaviors That Are Worthy Of Recognition

Vantage Circle

Reaching sales targets, closing a significant deal, lowering the time of solving the complaints- all these are examples of when employees deserve to be recognized and understandably so. Problem-solving ability. Dependable workers need less supervision and can be put in charge of confidential or sensitive issues.

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employees violated the spirit of office gift exchange, sales team won’t tell us their schedules, and more

Ask a Manager

Sales team won’t tell us their schedules. Our sales team is supposed to take requests for new accounts and pricing questions. Our sales team is supposed to take requests for new accounts and pricing questions. Is this a normal set-up between customer support and sales?

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how can I help an employee who has no attention to detail?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am an attorney and have recently been promoted to the point where I am supervising junior attorneys’ work. An recent example is when a client said that they used all the funds from a sale to pay off a mortgage. But she says that she’s tried paying more attention and it hasn’t solved the problem.

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we start meetings with “words of essence,” leaving right after a bonus, and more

Ask a Manager

Ultimately, I guess I could’ve given him the sales rep’s phone number (sales reps are the ones who ask us to call in dig tickets) to see if the rep could help. Would that have been passing the buck since the sales rep doesn’t supervise the locate request employees?

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