How To Deliver An Unofficial Review
This guidance describes how to deliver an unofficial performance evaluation when you need to communicate something that can’t go on an official eval.
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Episodes
How To Do Succession Planning - Chapter 2
This guidance tells you how to use performance evaluations to improve your basic succession planning.
How To Handle Meeting Killers - The Naysayer
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 Naysayer – someone who tries to kill every idea, even after everyone’s agreed.
Self Development Informal 360 Degree
This guidance tells you how to potentially get some informal self development guidance from your manager by asking three simple questions.
Common One On One Mistakes - Chapter One - Agenda Fascism
This guidance tells you how to avoid the mistake of “Agenda Fascism” in One on Ones.
How To Handle Meeting Killers - The Dominator
This guidance recommends how to address behaviors in meetings that reduce meeting effectiveness.
How To Do One On Ones With Shift Workers
This guidance tells you how to do One on Ones with your directs who work a different shift than you do.
How To Do Succession Planning Chapter 1 – Ready Now, Ready Next
This guidance recommends the 'Ready Now/Ready Next' Approach to Succession Planning.
The Morning Greeting
This guidance recommends greeting all of your directs when you first interact with them each morning, and how to do it.
How To Handle Meeting Killers - The Jokester
This guidance recommends how to address behaviors in meetings that reduce meeting effectiveness.
Big To Small Meeting Agendas
This guidance tells you how to structure meeting agendas around the biggest, most important items.
How To Address Social Media Abuse
This guidance tells you what to do when one of your directs spends too much time on social media.
"But I LIKE Doing That Part Of My Job!"
This guidance recommends how to address a direct who likes part of his/her job and won’t stop doing it, or won’t focus on other areas that are more valuable.
Aggregated Behaviors Are Performance - Part 2
This cast concludes our recommendations on focusing on behaviors because behaviors are measurable and aggregated behaviors ARE performance.
Aggregated Behaviors Are Performance - Part 1
This guidance recommends focusing on behaviors because behaviors are measurable and aggregated behaviors ARE performance.
Feedback From Your Directs - What To Say - Part 2
This cast concludes our guidance on what to say when your directs say, “Can I give YOU some feedback?”
Feedback From Your Directs - What To Say - Part 1
This guidance tells you what to say when your directs say, "Can I give YOU some feedback?"
And Not But Meeting Ground Rule
This guidance recommends a standing ground rule at all meetings: No “buts,” only “and”.
How To Use A RACI Matrix
This guidance describes how to use a RACI [Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform] Matrix when determining project responsibilities.
Ethics - Part 2
The conclusion of our guidance on ethical behavior.
How To Avoid Reverse Delegation
This guidance describes how to avoid having your directs give you work that you’ve already assigned to them.
Ethics - Part 1
Our guidance on ethical behavior. Although this show was originally recorded as a Career Tools cast, we've included it for free for our Manager Tools listeners and Licensees given the underlying assumption of ethical behavior in all our recommendations.
Bench Evaluation Chapter 1: Probing
This guidance describes how to interview those colleagues on your bench…without interviewing them.
Delegating To The Floor
This guidance describes how to help individual contributors handle an overload in work.
The Fruit Bowl At Meetings
This guidance describes how to use a “Fruit Bowl” to eliminate cell phone distractions at meetings.
Internal Support Roles And Responsibilities - Part 2
The conclusion of our guidance on how to obtain the requirements you need when working as an internal support provider.
Do NOT Give Feedback To Your Boss
This guidance describes how and why NOT to give feedback to your boss.
Internal Support Roles And Responsibilities - Part 1
We believe this podcast, while a Career Tools cast, is of particular interest to our Manager Tools listeners as well. So, we're providing this as an additional cast for our Manager Tools listeners and Individual Licensees – Our guidance how to obtain the requirements you need when working as an internal support provider.
Measuring Feedback Chapter 1 - Part 2
This cast concludes our guidance on how to measure the amount of feedback you’re delivering to your directs.
Measuring Feedback Chapter 1 - Part 1
This guidance describes how to measure the amount of feedback you’re delivering to your directs.