Chapter Nine

Concept and Brief Description: This chapter deals mainly with getting the most out of yourself, as well as your employees. Assessing one's self to see where you are at and what is needed to improve, then setting goals and putting forth the efforts to reach those goals. Sometimes goals can be achieved with little to no help, but for most of us it is a little more difficult than that. This chapter gives ideas, or hints, to how you can get help and what to do with it once you've gotten it. Helps are things like: Mentors, coaches, different kinds of job opportunities and experiences to make you stretch and grow. It also gives a kind of cheat-sheet on how to assess yourself to get you started.

Emotional Hook: With dysfunctional leaders, sometimes its tough to do your best, but I feel that if you have goals to keep you going and doing your best you can make it.

Key Points: 1. How important it is to make assessments of all employees, and yourself, to be able to fully understand where you are. 2. What is and how does the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator work? 3. What huge opportunities the whole job experiences stuff brings. For example: Job enlargement, Job rotation,transfers, externships, etc. 4. Dysfunctional managers. I think we have all dealt with one at one point or another, but it really brings things down and effects the whole business.

Facilitative Question: What do you do with a dysfunctional manager and how do you avoid becoming one yourself?