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.
Episodes
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Episodes
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.
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.
Influence Through Verbal Commitments - Part 2
The conclusion of our recommendations on how to influence others by asking for verbal commitments.
Influence Through Verbal Commitments - Part 1
In this recommendation, Manager Tools describes how to influence others by asking for verbal commitments.
LinkedIn For Managers - Part 2
This cast concludes our conversation on LinkedIn and what it means for Managers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Delegate Your Reporting - Part 2
We conclude our conversation on how and why to delegate almost all of your routine reporting to your directs.
Delegate Your Reporting
This cast describes how and why to delegate almost all of your routine reporting to your directs.
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!
High S Manager Simple Downfall
This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High S Managers: overprotecting your team.
Intra-Company Training Network Building
This cast recommends building relationships internally at your organization when you attend training events.
Managing Cultural Diversity - The Wendii Curve
This cast describes Manager Tools' first principle about managing directs from different cultures, based on the Wendii curve.
How To Manage An Arrogant Producer
This cast addresses how to manage a high performer who is arrogant or dismissive of others.
How To Stop Gossip
This cast addresses how to stop intra-office gossip.
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.
Developing Subordinate Managers - Chapter 1
This cast describes the first principle of how to develop subordinate managers - Measure Basic Behaviors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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").
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.
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.
Managers and Confidentiality
This cast recommends how managers handle requests for confidentiality from their directs.