Manager Tools
Summary: Tired of management theory? Want to learn specific skills to help improve your management performance? Then Manager Tools is the podcast for you! Manager Tools is a weekly business podcast focused on helping professionals become more effective managers and leaders. Each week, we discuss specific actions for professionals to take to achieve their desired management and career objectives. Manager Tools won Best Business Podcast Award in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2012 as well as the People's Choice Award in 2008. Go to http://www.manager-tools.com/recommendations to read what others are saying about the impact Manager Tools has had on their careers and lives.
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- Artist: Mike Auzenne and Mark Horstman
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Just saying, "Thank you," is an enormously powerful form of feedback.
To better be able to delegate parts of your job, it's best to be transparent about your job.
To better be able to delegate parts of your job, it's best to be transparent about your job.
In this podcast, we answer the question, "How can HR improve Manager Tools' impression of them?"
The first thing an effective manager does when a disaster strikes is to check on the safety of your people. People trump all organizational and operational needs.
Our recommendations on what to do when you are feeling angry with your direct.
Don't schedule meetings on Monday mornings. Meetings slow people down. Part of the reason meetings annoy people is that everyone knows that they get less done themselves when they're in a meeting than they do working on their own. Meetings are necessary, and can be made quite efficient, with work. But they're still not as efficient as working individually. Combine this with people's interest in getting work done Monday morning and you come to the conclusion that the two don't mix.
How to respond if your boss tells you he/she doesn’t agree with you doing One on Ones.
Part 3 of Dani's best management story about how she used the Manager Tools Trinity to terminate a poor performer in an organization where "you can't fire anyone."
Part 2 of Dani's best management story about how she used the Manager Tools Trinity to terminate a poor performer in an organization where "you can't fire anyone."
Dani's best management story about how she used the Manager Tools Trinity to terminate a poor performer in an organization where "you can't fire anyone."
Doing "favors" for colleagues is an important part of the political/relationship culture in all organizations. It pays to give and to receive them.
Doing "favors" for colleagues is an important part of the political/relationship culture in all organizations. It pays to give and to receive them.
Learn to ask your directs, "What do YOU think?" when they come to you with problems. THAT is the simple way to develop their skills – have them learn new ones.
How many people the average manager can supervise, and what rules to apply when creating team sizes.
