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We have noticed increased downloads of these free relationship job descriptions. Maybe these can help you.

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Managers continue to misjudge the distinction between the needs of the organization (requiring managership) and the desires of the people they supervise (requiring leadership). Moreover, managers are made to feel inadequate for not being more attentive to people; that is, not exercising enough leadership. Magazine articles and books that evangelize leadership are more likely to be describing managership. Thus, much of the “leadership development” industry is on the wrong side of the divide, and the word “leadership” is in danger of becoming meaningless.

[Listen to Podcast of article by Roger Plachy at http://www.astd.org/TD/ December 2009]

The management philosophy in Computing Services is based on a quality orientation, team training, and results-oriented job descriptions.

Every six months, individuals in Computing Services create job descriptions based on expected outcomes, including allocating percents of their time to each of those outcomes. The latter are based on objectives and tasks identified as part of their unit’s annual “action plans.” This approach truly empowers the individual to be responsible for attaining the objectives, and allows the needed flexibility to undertake new activities as needed, even at the management level.

One of McKenzie Management’s dental practice improvement teaching points is: You will learn how to design results-oriented job descriptions for all business and clinical staff.