Should/can I *AND* a direct report go to the conference?!?

Submitted by Jason Wyckoff
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I've been listening to the casts for over a year now, and would love to go to the next conference to improve my M-T skills. I *also* see huge value for my DRs to go to a conference as well. What are folks' thoughts about a boss & a DR going to the same conference? Too weird?
Submitted by Terry Dodson on Thursday May 3rd, 2007 9:00 pm

Would strongly encourage both of you to go. I went without any of mine and think it would have been great to have them there. There were several people at the first conference with direct reports there.

I hope you both can go!!

Submitted by William Pollak on Thursday May 3rd, 2007 9:06 pm

I went to the DC Conference with three of my direct reports. I confess to having some thoughts during the conference of "Now they will know all my tricks." I feared that knowledge of the feedback model, for example, would diminish its effectiveness when I practiced it on these folks.

But what I've found since we returned is that there is value in building critical mass in our organization for a relentless attitude toward performance. The changes I've been working to make now seem far more achievable with the help of three allies who are fully enlisted.