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In This Issue:
♦The Loneliness of the New Supervisor
♦Fill This Prescription!
♦Coffee Anyone?
♦Leaves under the
Ontario Employment
Standards Act
♦Information on some free resources on important issues
♦A quick guide to what
JM Box Consulting
Services can offer
you
You Should Just Know
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THE LONELINESS OF THE NEW SUPERVISOR
The loneliest people in any organization have got to be new supervisors, particularly the ones promoted from within the organization. No one trusts them initially, they may not have the skills necessary to be successful, and their previous support group, their peers, are now on ‘the other side’. This situation can often be traced back to why that new supervisor was put into that situation, and to what extent they were ready for it.
The new internally promoted supervisor often has achieved this new distinction because someone in the organization feels that he or she ‘has what it takes’ to supervise an employee group that the new supervisor just recently (yesterday?) was part of. In many situations, the promotion was based not on the ability to lead or motivate people, which is what a supervisor is supposed to do, but because of an achieved level of technical or professional expertise. Before, Bill was the best lathe operator in
the history of the organization, so why wouldn’t he make a great foreperson,
leading other lathe operators. Jenny has always excelled at the completion of her documentation, an area our organization has been criticized over on our last accreditation review, so let’s make her a team leader. It isn’t always that simple.
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Thanks again and welcome! John Box JM Box Consulting Services.
Update!
John Box’s commentary on dealing with the departing employee now appears on the Financial Post’s HR website. Click here for the article.
John Box’s comments on the interest
arbitration process.Click here for the article.
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