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Development Opportunity


The tactic of motivating someone to take on a task, project or assignment they might reasonably refuse, by pretending it is a development opportunity.

Good managers use delegation as an effective means of developing skills, experience and self-confidence in those whom they manage and lead. A genuine development opportunity provides a stretching and testing task from which new learning results. The employee is ...

 

More details and guidance on how to deal with someone playing this Dirty Trick can be found in "21 Dirty Tricks at Work" by Colin Gautrey and Mike Phipps and published by Capstone Wiley.




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