The Career Accelerator

If you value teamwork, and I invite you to do so, look at both subject-matter expertise and team playing skills when making hiring (and firing) decisions. When you factor in these two attributes, you will be able to deliver better results through your team members. Useful links:Episode transcript:http://cannon.consulting/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/SCRIPT-FOR-PODCAST-8-Final.pdfQuestions? Suggestio...

Do you want to become the manager whom your boss and senior management seek, and perhaps even fight for, to strengthen their respective teams? In today’s episode you will hear about the importance of understanding how your boss and senior executives make promotion and staffing decisions in your company. Useful links:Episode transcript:http://cannon.consulting/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/SCRIPT-FOR-...

Have you ever wondered why it is easier to work with certain people and so hard to work with others? For those peers you don’t easily work with, could it be that without really noticing it, you are treating them the way YOU  want to be treated and not the way THEY want to be treated? Would it help to take the time to find out how THEY would like to be treated? In today’s episode you will learn to...

In today’s episode you will learn how to add value to your Direct Reports by understanding what each one of them needs from you. I invite you to become a manager-coach. It’s one of the key choices you can make, whether you have recently moved from an Individual Contributor role to a corporate manager, or if you’ve been a manager for a few years. Seek to understand what your Direct Reports want fro...

In today’s episode you will learn two resourceful tips you can use to deliver results through your boss, a crucially important audience. Seek to constantly clarify and update what your boss expects from you. Never assume that the performance objectives you received at the beginning of the year will remain fixed throughout the following twelve months. Things change, priorities get reshuffled and yo...

Is it hard for you to trust some of your peers, especially those with whom you often interact at work? Throughout the close to four decades that I’ve been working in the corporate world, first as a manager and now as an executive coach, I continue to see a huge opportunity for people from different teams to learn how to achieve results through others. The few managers who learn to work with and th...

In our last episode, you learned about the importance of letting go of the mindset of an individual contributor, where you had to rely mostly on yourself to deliver your goals. I invited you to instead achieve results through others by adopting a mindset of service. But what happens if the service mindset doesn’t come naturally to you? Can you learn to adopt it? The good news is yes, you can learn...

Are you a corporate manager whose Direct Reports are not capable of achieving their performance goals without your frequent involvement? Is it hard for you to trust some of the people you interact with at work? And, have you been able to enlist your boss to help you achieve your work priorities? In this and future episodes, I will help you solve these and other challenges faced by corporate manage...