The Manager's Dashboard

Seth Grodin wrote a blog today on Dashboards and got me thinking...

What if every employee could click a button to let you know when you had:

1. Made a deposit in their goodwill bank account.

2. Made a withdrawal from their goodwill bank account.

3. Did something that improved their skills

4. Robbed 'em of the chance to develop a skill by taking over, doing it for them, overwhelming them with feelings of fear or humiliation.

5. Helped 'em understand what they were there for, what they needed to produce or do and why it matters (how it links in to the bigger picture, how it makes a difference)

6. Made 'em feel like they were wasting their time, shouldn't bother.

7. Helped them gain an Aha!! - helped them see into something they hadn't known, realised or understood before.

8. Helped them find a way forward, clear or overcome an obstacle or resource a shared goal.

9. Achieved something important yourself.

10 Wasted your time.

Would you use it? Would it make a difference to how you manage?

Would it make a difference to the way you talked, walked and interacted???

If not... what would?

And since you probably don't have such a dashboard... how DO you tell how you're doing, when and how you need to change...?