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Manager Tools
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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. Find more at http://www.manager-tools.com/
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Teaching Your Directs How To Interview - Chapter 1 - Basics - Part 2
3d agoSummary readyThe Manager Tools Interview Process recommends having your direct reports interview candidates who would become their peers. Here's how to teach your directs to be Effective Interviewers.
SummaryTeaching Your Directs How To Interview - Chapter 1 - Basics - Part 1
1w agoSummary readyThe Manager Tools Interview Process recommends having your direct reports interview candidates who would become their peers. Here's how to teach your directs to be Effective Interviewers.
SummaryPresenting Failures - Chapter 1 - Front Of The Room Behaviors
2w agoSummary readyToo many managers, and the majority of execs, too, are TERRIBLE at presenting. But getting good at presenting is just like getting good at managing. Since everyone else is so terrible, all you have to do not be terrible. And that means doing a lot of small, simple things the right way.
SummaryTop 10 Hiring Mistakes - #6 - The Warm Body Problem
3w agoSummary readyThere is a 3-Body Problem in Classical Mechanics. That one cannot be solved. But hiring managers are also afflicted with *The Warm Body Problem.* But this one is easily solved.
SummaryJob Requirements - Beware The Ratchet!
Apr 27Summary readyYou may not realize it, but your company makes it increasingly harder to find qualified candidates without intending to. How does it do that? With The Hiring Requirements Ratchet. Why does it do that? Because it can, and it has a short memory.
SummaryFill The Vacuum! - Communicate Your Vision - Chapter 1
Apr 20Summary readyIf your people say they don't know what's going on strategically, or operationally, **it's your fault.** You can fill that void with your own vision and communications.
SummaryNetwork Building - The St. Jude Rule
Apr 13Summary readyDo you know what it's like to lose a job? Get fired? Get laid off? If you don't, that's good. But more people who go through it wish more people who haven't did a better job of helping. When it happens to you, it's easy to feel lonely and afraid. St. Jude - the Patron Saint of Lost Causes - tells us what to do for those going through those hard times.
SummaryBuilding Peer Relationships - Part 2
Apr 6Summary readyWhen you're a manager, you're thinking of your team all the time. But remember you're a part of a team, too: your boss's team. You need to work on having good relationships with your peers so your boss can achieve her goals.
SummaryBuilding Peer Relationships - Part 1
Mar 30Summary readyWhen you're a manager, you're thinking of your team all the time. But remember you're a part of a team, too: your boss's team. You need to work on having good relationships with your peers so your boss can achieve her goals.
SummaryTop Ten Hiring Mistakes - #7 - Being Swayed
Mar 23Summary readyOne of the most common mistakes of managers when hiring - it made our Top 10 list! - is being swayed by their directs into hiring someone that they weren't that impressed by. They always regret, they often write to us. Here's how to not fall prey to one of the most common hiring mistakes.
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