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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.
Peer One on Ones - Part 1
This guidance recommends why and how to met weekly, or regularly, with your peer managers.
00:0002/05/2011
Event Based Feedback
This guidance recommends how to give a lot of feedback about a specific event all at once.
00:0024/04/2011
How To Manage A Disgruntled Non-Promoted Direct - Part 3
This cast concludes our guidance on how to manage one of your directs who wanted the job you’re in now, and you may have reason to believe that they will hold it against you.
00:0017/04/2011
How To Manage A Disgruntled Non-Promoted Direct - Part 2
This cast continues our guidance on how to manage one of your directs who wanted the job you’re in now, and you may have reason to believe that they will hold it against you.
00:0010/04/2011
How To Manage A Disgruntled Non-Promoted Direct - Part 1
This guidance recommends how to manage one of your directs who wanted the job you’re in now, and you may have reason to believe that they will hold it against you.
00:0003/04/2011
Internal Team Pre-Wires
This guidance describes why and how effective managers insist on their directs pre-wiring information they brief to you.
00:0027/03/2011
How To Run A SPOT Project Kickoff Meeting
This guidance describes how to run the first meeting you have with your team about a new project your team will be doing.
00:0020/03/2011
How To Assign Work Tasks - Part 2
This cast concludes our discussion on how to assign tasks to your directs.
00:0013/03/2011
How To Assign Work Tasks - Part 1
This guidance describes how to assign tasks to your directs.
00:0007/03/2011
How To Manage A Massive Workload Increase - Part 4
This cast concludes (Part 4 of 4) our guidance on how to respond when, through any number of factors, you and your team are OVERWHELMED with lots of new work. Perhaps it's a layoff, perhaps it's a re-organization, perhaps it's because you're GOOD. Regardless, what do you DO??
00:0027/02/2011
How To Manage A Massive Workload Increase - Part 3
This cast continues (Part 3 of 4) our guidance on how to respond when, through any number of factors, you and your team are OVERWHELMED with lots of new work. Perhaps it's a layoff, perhaps it's a re-organization, perhaps it's because you're GOOD. Regardless, what do you DO??
00:0020/02/2011
How To Manage A Massive Workload Increase - Part 2
This cast continues our guidance on how to respond when, through any number of factors, you and your team are OVERWHELMED with lots of new work.
00:0013/02/2011
How To Manage A Massive Workload Increase - Part 1
This guidance describes how to respond when, through any number of factors, you and your team are OVERWHELMED with lots of new work.
00:0007/02/2011
Boss Meeting Prep - No Surprises
This guidance describes how to prepare your boss for attending any meeting you are running.
00:0031/01/2011
Conduct Multiple Interviews, Chapter 1 - Part 3
In this cast, we conclude our conversation on how to interview candidates by conducting multiple interviews.
00:0023/01/2011
Conduct Multiple Interviews, Chapter 1 - Part 2
In this cast, we continue our conversation on how to interview candidates by conducting multiple interviews.
00:0017/01/2011
Conduct Multiple Interviews, Chapter 1 - Part 1
This guidance describes how to interview candidates by conducting multiple interviews.
00:0010/01/2011
Assumptive Goal Setting
This guidance describes a technique for how to think more creatively about annual planning goals.
00:0003/01/2011
Managers Are Communicated THROUGH
This guidance describes how managers ought to communicate organizational information to their team members.
00:0026/12/2010
Professional Subordination - Part 2
This show concludes our recommendations on the professional approach to supporting choices you didn't champion.
00:0020/12/2010
Professional Subordination - Part 1
This guidance recommends the professional approach to supporting choices you didn't champion.
00:0013/12/2010
Managing A High I: Dangers Part 2
This cast concludes our discussion on how to manage a High I direct based on some natural tendencies and weaknesses.
00:0006/12/2010
Managing A High I: Dangers Part 1
This guidance describes how to manage a High I direct based on some natural tendencies and weaknesses.
00:0028/11/2010
Not Too Picky Feedback
This guidance recommends giving negative feedback only after a second instance, and only ON the second instance.
00:0021/11/2010
Mentoring With Political Smarts
This guidance describes whom to choose to mentor internally based on political considerations.
00:0014/11/2010
Calendar Changes And Your Admin
This guidance describes some simple things your admin can do to help you manage your calendar.
00:0007/11/2010
Simple Project Reporting Guidance
This guidance describes how to assign a project to a direct and set up some simple reporting that will greatly increase early (and overall) success.
00:0001/11/2010
Distant Manager Basics - Part 2
This cast concludes our guidance on some simple things managers can do to improve the accountability and productivity of distant team members.
00:0025/10/2010
Distant Manager Basics - Part 1
This guidance recommends some simple things managers can do to improve the accountability and productivity of distant team members.
00:0017/10/2010
Introducing Managerial Change
This guidance recommends how to introduce changes in how you manage your team.
00:0009/10/2010
Resistant Directs In One on Ones
This guidance recommends how to have effective One on Ones with directs who are initially resistant.
00:0004/10/2010
Managers and Governmental Politics – Part 2
This cast concludes our discussion on how effective managers address governmental politics at work.
00:0027/09/2010
Managers and Governmental Politics – Part 1
This guidance recommends how effective managers address governmental politics at work.
00:0019/09/2010
Succession Planning - Extending Your Network
This guidance recommends how to further your succession planning efforts by extending your network to your directs.
00:0012/09/2010
Effective Meetings Starter Model - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on an even more basic model for effective meetings than in our original guidance.
00:0007/09/2010
Effective Meetings Starter Model - Part 1
This cast describes an even more basic model for effective meetings than in our original guidance.
00:0030/08/2010
One on Ones – Work or Personal?
This guidance addresses how personal One on Ones ought to be – should they be all about family and personal stuff, or just about work?
00:0022/08/2010
One On Ones Are Business Meetings
This guidance addresses questions about the purpose and value of One on Ones, particularly for those directs who challenge the need for them.
00:0015/08/2010
How To Handle Public Disagreement - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to respond when someone disagrees publicly in an unprofessional way.
00:0009/08/2010
How To Handle Public Disagreement - Part 1
This cast describes how to respond when someone disagrees publicly in an unprofessional way.
00:0002/08/2010
Third Party Negative Feedback – How To Decide
This cast describes how to decide whether or not to give feedback to one of your directs based on someone else's input.
00:0026/07/2010
Skip Level Feedback
This cast describes how to deliver feedback to skip level associates.
00:0019/07/2010
Calendar Control #1 – Say No
This cast describes a simple technique for controlling one's calendar, thereby keeping more time available for primary objectives.
00:0012/07/2010
Assign Work AND Reporting
This guidance recommends assigning both the reporting of work and the work itself when delegating.
00:0005/07/2010
Praise In Public, Criticize In Private Is WRONG
This guidance disagrees with the old notion of praise in public, criticize in private, and recommends more effective behaviors.
00:0027/06/2010
Yes, Please Praise, Thank You
This guidance recommends how to deliver both praise and feedback (though not together), and why they are both valuable – and completely different.
00:0020/06/2010
Feedback – Public Or Private?
This guidance describes whether or not to give feedback in public, or in private . . . or neither.
00:0014/06/2010
Feedback Immediacy
This cast describes WHEN to give feedback. How fast is too fast? How slow is too slow?
00:0007/06/2010
When NOT To Give Feedback - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on some situations where feedback isn't appropriate, because the error/mistake/infraction is so egregious, encouragement of effective future behavior isn't enough.
00:0031/05/2010
When NOT To Give Feedback - Part 1
This cast describes some situations where feedback isn't appropriate, because the error/mistake/infraction is so egregious, encouragement of effective future behavior isn't enough.
00:0023/05/2010