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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.
Small Company Systems – The Rule of 150, Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on the Rule of 150, how it affects the growth of small companies and organizations, and how to address it.
00:0017/05/2010
Small Company Systems – The Rule of 150, Part 1
This cast describes The Rule of 150, how it affects the growth of small companies and organizations, and how to address it.
00:0010/05/2010
How To Choose What To Delegate
This guidance describes how to choose what to delegate using a simple Venn Diagram – the intersection between the direct, the manager, and the organization.
00:0003/05/2010
Influence Through Verbal Commitments - Part 2
The conclusion of our recommendations on how to influence others by asking for verbal commitments.
00:0026/04/2010
Influence Through Verbal Commitments - Part 1
In this recommendation, Manager Tools describes how to influence others by asking for verbal commitments.
00:0018/04/2010
LinkedIn For Managers - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on LinkedIn and what it means for Managers.
00:0012/04/2010
LinkedIn For Managers - Part 1
This cast reviews our recent Career Tools guidance on LinkedIn, as well as highlights LinkedIn's recent Fortune magazine cover story, and recommends some basic LinkedIn behaviors for managers.
00:0005/04/2010
Rolling DOWN The Trinity
This cast describes one way to help your directs – when they are managers – to begin using the Manager Tools Management Trinity: One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching, and Delegation.
00:0029/03/2010
The Manager Tools Promotion Standard: 150% - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on a more effective way to set standards for getting one of your directs promoted.
00:0022/03/2010
The Manager Tools Promotion Standard: 150% - Part 1
This cast describes a more effective way to set standards for getting one of your directs promoted.
00:0014/03/2010
Delegate Your Reporting - Part 2
We conclude our conversation on how and why to delegate almost all of your routine reporting to your directs.
00:0008/03/2010
Delegate Your Reporting
This cast describes how and why to delegate almost all of your routine reporting to your directs.
00:0028/02/2010
High D Manager Simple Downfall
This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High D Managers: always putting results in front of relationships. People MATTER!
00:0021/02/2010
High S Manager Simple Downfall
This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High S Managers: overprotecting your team.
00:0014/02/2010
Intra-Company Training Network Building
This cast recommends building relationships internally at your organization when you attend training events.
00:0007/02/2010
Managing Cultural Diversity - The Wendii Curve
This cast describes Manager Tools' first principle about managing directs from different cultures, based on the Wendii curve.
00:0001/02/2010
How To Manage An Arrogant Producer
This cast addresses how to manage a high performer who is arrogant or dismissive of others.
00:0023/01/2010
How To Stop Gossip
This cast addresses how to stop intra-office gossip.
00:0018/01/2010
The High I Manager Simple Downfall
This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High I Managers: starting well and ending poorly.
00:0011/01/2010
Developing Subordinate Managers - Chapter 1
This cast describes the first principle of how to develop subordinate managers - Measure Basic Behaviors.
00:0004/01/2010
Coaching/Feedback Template For Presentations
This cast provides guidance on giving feedback when coaching directs on their presentation skills, AND a detailed template managers can use when doing so.
00:0028/12/2009
Favorite Candidate Interview Preparation - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to increase the chances that you will get to hire your favorite candidate when he or she has to interview elsewhere in the organization.
00:0021/12/2009
Favorite Candidate Interview Preparation - Part 1
This cast describes how to increase the chances that you will get to hire your favorite candidate when he or she has to interview elsewhere in the organization.
00:0014/12/2009
High C Manager Simple Downfall - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High C Managers: finding fault with recommendations and ideas.
00:0006/12/2009
High C Manager Simple Downfall - Part 1
This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High C Managers: finding fault with recommendations and ideas.
00:0030/11/2009
The One On One Refresh
This cast describes how to refresh your One on Ones with your directs after you've been doing them for 1-2 years.
00:0022/11/2009
My Boss Skips Me
This cast describes how to work with a boss who repeatedly skips over a manager and works directly with your directs (his or her "skips").
00:0016/11/2009
Owning The Inputs - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on handling a direct who blames another direct for their failure to deliver a task on time.
00:0009/11/2009
Owning The Inputs - Part 1
This cast recommends how to handle a direct who blames another direct for their failure to deliver a task on time.
00:0001/11/2009
Managers and Confidentiality
This cast recommends how managers handle requests for confidentiality from their directs.
00:0026/10/2009
The Management Trinity - Part 3
In this cast, we conclude our conversation on the origins of the Management Trinity, focusing on Coaching and Delegation.
00:0019/10/2009
The Management Trinity - Part 2
In this cast, we continue our conversation on the origins of the Management Trinity, focusing on One on Ones and Feedback.
00:0012/10/2009
The Management Trinity - Part 1
This cast describes the origins of the Management Trinity: why we preach it, and how it came to be.
00:0005/10/2009
Timely Meetings – Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to run timely meetings.
00:0028/09/2009
Timely Meetings – Part 1
This cast describes how to run timely meetings.
00:0020/09/2009
The First Question In Your One on One
This cast describes how to start every One on One.
00:0014/09/2009
Admin Trip Folders – Part 2
This cast concludes our discussion on a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.
00:0007/09/2009
Admin Trip Folders - Part 1
This cast describes a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.
00:0031/08/2009
Direct Relationships Acid Test
This cast prescribes asking your directs what their children's names are.
00:0024/08/2009
Quick and Dirty Choosing a Number Two
This cast describes a quick and dirty way to choose an interim replacement or number two for your role as manager.
00:0017/08/2009
Project Manager Feedback
This cast describes how give feedback to a project team member if you are a project manager.
00:0009/08/2009
Team Formation – How Big?
This cast describes how big to size a team when forming it.
00:0003/08/2009
What To Delegate
This cast recommends simple choices for what to delegate to our directs.
00:0025/07/2009
Fighting The Downturn Silence
This cast describes how to combat the normal tendency of directs to communicate LESS during a downturn.
00:0005/07/2009
Simple DiSC®, Delegation, And Project Management - Part 2
In this cast, we conclude our conversation on how to delegate and manage projects more effectively based on the DiSC profiles of your team members.
00:0029/06/2009
Simple DiSC, Delegation, And Project Management - Part 1
This cast describes how to delegate and manage projects more effectively based on the DiSC profiles of your team members.
00:0022/06/2009
Change Leadership, What's My Visual - Part 2
In this cast, we conclude our conversation about beginning change efforts in any organization
00:0014/06/2009
Change Leadership, What's My Visual - Part 1
This cast describes how to begin any effort to change an organization.
00:0007/06/2009
Project Manager One on Ones - Part 2
The conclusion of our discussion on Project Manager One on Ones.
00:0031/05/2009
Project Manager One on Ones - Part 1
This cast explains the basics of how to have One on Ones with project team members
who do not report to you.
00:0025/05/2009