The Management Trinity - Part 3
In this cast, we conclude our conversation on the origins of the Management Trinity, focusing on Coaching and Delegation.
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Episodes
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.
The Management Trinity - Part 1
This cast describes the origins of the Management Trinity: why we preach it, and how it came to be.
Timely Meetings – Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on how to run timely meetings.
Timely Meetings – Part 1
This cast describes how to run timely meetings.
The First Question In Your One on One
This cast describes how to start every One on One.
Admin Trip Folders – Part 2
This cast concludes our discussion on a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.
Admin Trip Folders - Part 1
This cast describes a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.
Direct Relationships Acid Test
This cast prescribes asking your directs what their children's names are.
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.
Project Manager Feedback
This cast describes how give feedback to a project team member if you are a project manager.
Team Formation – How Big?
This cast describes how big to size a team when forming it.
What To Delegate
This cast recommends simple choices for what to delegate to our directs.
The Coaching Model - Part 2
In this cast, we complete our discussion of the Revised Manager Tools Coaching Model.
The Coaching Model - Part 1
This cast describes the Manager Tools Revised Coaching Model.
Fighting The Downturn Silence
This cast describes how to combat the normal tendency of directs to communicate LESS during a downturn.
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.
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.
Change Leadership, What's My Visual - Part 2
In this cast, we conclude our conversation about beginning change efforts in any organization
Change Leadership, What's My Visual - Part 1
This cast describes how to begin any effort to change an organization.
Project Manager One on Ones - Part 2
The conclusion of our discussion on Project Manager One on Ones.
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.
Phone One on Ones
We've said it a hundred times, but we've never covered the basics of HOW to conduct a One on One on the phone. Clearly it works - Mark has shared that over half of the O3s he's done have been over the phone. Here's how.
Coaching the Meeting Delegation- Part 2
This cast concludes our discussion on how to coach one of our directs on how to run our staff meeting which we have delegated to them.
Coaching the Meeting Delegation- Part 1
This cast describes how to coach one of our directs on how to run our staff meeting which we have delegated to them.
Staff Meeting Delegation and Succession Planning
This cast describes how to delegate running your staff meeting as part of succession planning.
One Less Thing - Free Up Your Calendar
This cast describes an executive priority management technique - One Less Thing - to free up your calendar.
The Feedback Continuum
This cast describes how to give negative feedback in an escalating way, over time, to improve performance.
Systemic Feedback
What do we do when we've tried giving negative feedback but it doesn't seem to be working? We've given repeated instances of feedback, and yet we don't see a change in a direct's behavior? We give systemic feedback. And it's easy to give - it's just the four step standard feedback model with a change in focus. If you already know how to give standard feedback, systemic feedback is simple to implement...yet its simplicity belies its power. Really well delivered systemic feedback is exceptionally ...
Layoff Communications Part 1: Openly Confidential
This cast how to talk about layoffs when they are being considered. Many managers are torn when it comes to layoffs. Most of us know that when they happen, they're probably inevitable. We understand that layoffs are often a painful necessity (even though they're an admission of failure). We also know that the thought, rumor, or knowledge of layoffs is likely to create questions from our team. Just a rumor of a rumor will induce fear. So what are the rules about communicating about layoffs? What ...