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
- Copyright: Copyright 2005-2014 Manager Tools, LLC
Podcasts:
This guidance describes when we recommend a manager consider their directs’ resumes.
How to create a dead-simple Succession Planning Form.
This guidance completes our recommendations on how to do One on Ones while you are traveling.
Part 2 of our guidance on how to document the performance of your directs and your communications with them.
Our guidance for how to document the performance of your directs and your communications with them.
This guidance recommends how to address behaviors in meetings that reduce meeting effectiveness, based on a popular 2012 Wall Street Journal article. This Chapter deals with handling a multi-tasker and also reviews the Journal’s general meeting guidance.
How to improve your effectiveness by eliminating long open periods from of your calendar.
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This guidance recommends how to do One on Ones while you are traveling.
This guidance discusses how to manage those directs whom you didn’t hire and who have a history of poor performance.
This guidance discusses how to manage those directs whom you didn’t hire and who have a history of poor performance.
This guidance recommends how to address behaviors in meetings that reduce meeting effectiveness, based on a popular 2012 Wall Street Journal article. This Chapter deals with handling a Rambler – someone who talks and talks and talks ... and talks.
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This guidance recommends admitting your mistakes openly as a manager, to your team, to enhance candor and openness from your team members.
We recently published guidance recommending that managers ask directs for their efforts, rather than commanding. Can't they say "no"? Yes.
