Dealing With Vague Feedback - Part 1
This guidance explains how to respond to vague feedback from your boss or others.
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Politics 101 - Chapter 2 - Meeting Prep: Who Wants What
This guidance tells you how to prepare for meetings where politics are going to play a role (which is to say, ALL of them).
Thank You For The Bad News
This guidance tells you what to do when directs bring you bad news.
Negative Feedback Before Its Time
This guidance recommends what to do when a direct would get negative feedback but it’s not yet time for it in the Trinity Rollout Process.
Positive Feedback Before Its Time
This guidance recommends what to do when a direct would get positive feedback but it’s not yet time for it in the Trinity Rollout Process.
Overcoming Trinity Pushback - Chapter 1 - "One on Ones Are Micromanaging"
This guidance tells you what to do when directs resist One on Ones because they are a form of "micromanaging."
How To Do Succession Planning - Chapter 4 - The Delivery Meeting
This guidance tells you how to structure your briefing to your team around Simple Succession Planning.
Rules of Politics – Chapter One – Count Your Votes
This guidance recommends knowing where decision makers and influencers stand on proposals and decisions that matter to you and your team.
Calendar Management Details – Chapter 2 Priorities In The Morning
This guidance recommends proactively scheduling time for your key responsibilities in the morning, versus afternoon or early evening, "when everyone’s gone."
Your Directs' Resumes
This guidance describes when we recommend a manager consider their directs’ resumes.
How To Do Succession Planning Chapter 3 – The Simple Form
How to create a dead-simple Succession Planning Form.
One on Ones While Traveling - Part 2
This guidance completes our recommendations on how to do One on Ones while you are traveling.
Effective Documentation - Part 2
Part 2 of our guidance on how to document the performance of your directs and your communications with them.
Effective Documentation - Part 1
Our guidance for how to document the performance of your directs and your communications with them.
How To Handle Meeting Killers – Chapter 6 Multitasking
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.
Calendar Management Details Chapter 1 – Shorten Free Time
How to improve your effectiveness by eliminating long open periods from of your calendar.
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One on Ones While Traveling - Part 1
This guidance recommends how to do One on Ones while you are traveling.
Inheriting A Poor Performer - Part 2
This guidance discusses how to manage those directs whom you didn’t hire and who have a history of poor performance.
Inheriting A Poor Performer - Part 1
This guidance discusses how to manage those directs whom you didn’t hire and who have a history of poor performance.
How To Handle Meeting Killers - The Rambler
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.
Admit Your Mistakes
This guidance recommends admitting your mistakes openly as a manager, to your team, to enhance candor and openness from your team members.
Never Ask A Question Of A Direct (Whose Answer You Don’t Intend to Honor)
We recently published guidance recommending that managers ask directs for their efforts, rather than commanding. Can't they say "no"? Yes.
Executive Career Management - If Not You Who?
This guidance describes a simple way executive succession planning is often done, and the key to mastering it.
How To Handle Meeting Killers - The Silent Plotter
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 Silent Plotter – someone who tries to kill every idea, even after everyone’s agreed.
Work Family Balance - Chapter 1 - Go Home
This guidance describes the fundamental error in trying to achieve “Work-Family Balance” and how to solve it forever.
The Part After Feedback - Chapter One - Part 2
The conclusion of our guidance on how to respond initially to a direct who pushes back in various ways to an instance of feedback.
The Part After Feedback - Chapter One - Part 1
This guidance describes how to respond initially to a direct who pushes back in various ways to an instance of feedback.
Ask For What You Want
This guidance recommends asking your directs for work to be done - meaning requesting things in the form of a question – rather than stating your desire for something to occur.
How To Deliver A Shot Across The Bow Review
This guidance describes how to deliver an unofficial performance evaluation when your direct is failing and may either not realize it or is resisting changing.