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Growing Great Employees Interview with Erika Andersen - Part 2

This is the second part of my interview with Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People Into Extraordinary Performers.

We start talking about the Social Styles Model and how it supports Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence concepts. We spend some time talking about the importance of diversity as it relates to Social Styles. And that is the first 20 minutes.

You want to continue to listen for Erika's thoughts on delegation, firing, the four things that every employee needs to do and what mastery looks like.

This one is worth the all 50 minutes.

mp3, 50:09, 34.4 MB

Here is a map of the Social Styles Matrix we talked about in the interview (click through to see it full-size):

Growing Great Employees Interview with Erika Andersen - Part 1

In this interview, I talk with Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People Into Extraordinary Performers.

When I asked Erika what the movie pitch was for her book, she said Growing Great Employees is "Good To Great meets Marcus Buckingham in the form of a Boy Scouts Handbook". You'll have to listen to get her full explanation of that, along with our discussion of nature versus nuture, why she used a gardening analogy, and why there are good reasons to have job descriptions.

We went on so long that we had to do this in two parts. Come back next week for Part II.

mp3, 39:30, 27.1 MB

800ceoread Blogs Now Available Through Email

I got a request this week to make our blogs available to people through email. Since we use Feedburner to host our RSS feeds, adding Feedburner Email was a snap.

So, if you have friends and neighbors who might enjoy what we do and don't use RSS yet, let them know we now welcome everyone.