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Scan: Adjust the three management levers
From the course: Coaching New Managers
Scan: Adjust the three management levers
- The second stage of the pivot method is scan. Once you've coached your new manager through the plant stage of uncovering their biggest strengths and setting a compelling vision. Now together, you can brainstorm three things, people, skills, and projects that will be most beneficial to reach their 90 day or six month onboarding plan. Similarly, in her book, "The Making of a Manager", author Julie Zhuo outlines three management levers, people, process, and purpose that will be helpful for the exploratory scan stage. For people, Sal poses, these questions. Can you coach others to do their best work? Can you help match this person's strengths to the biggest problems that the team needs? Can you hire and attract great talent? Can you help manage performance and see if someone's creating a toxic environment for others? And then manage that appropriately. I once had a manager that was brilliant at managing up setting…