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Company Change With A Promotion Is Unlikely - For Managers - Part 2
Many professionals think that one way to keep their career moving upwards is to change companies. Unfortunately, this is a relatively rare occurrence.
Company Change With A Promotion Is Unlikely - For Managers - Part 1
Many professionals think that one way to keep their career moving upwards is to change companies. Unfortunately, this is a relatively rare occurrence.
Teaching Your Directs How To Interview - Chapter 1 - Basics - Part 2
The 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.
Teaching Your Directs How To Interview - Chapter 1 - Basics - Part 1
The 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.
Presenting Failures - Chapter 1 - Front Of The Room Behaviors
Too 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…
Top 10 Hiring Mistakes - #6 - The Warm Body Problem
There 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.
Job Requirements - Beware The Ratchet!
You 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…
Fill The Vacuum! - Communicate Your Vision - Chapter 1
If 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.
Network Building - The St. Jude Rule
Do 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…
Building Peer Relationships - Part 2
When 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…
Building Peer Relationships - Part 1
When 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…
Top Ten Hiring Mistakes - #7 - Being Swayed
One 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…
The Difference Between Line And Staff Leadership
Managers today are constantly besieged by requests and demands from above their level. But just because someone is "above" you in the org chart doesn't mean they can easily task you and your team.…
Three Current Modern Management Scams - Part 2
This cast serves as a compendium of the biggest management scams of the 21st century. We have covered these topics extensively. But we know there are close to 2,000 podcasts so they might be hard to…
Three Current Modern Management Scams - Part 1
This cast serves as a compendium of the biggest management scams of the 21st century. We have covered these topics extensively. But we know there are close to 2,000 podcasts so they might be hard to…
Why Does HR Make It So Hard To Fire People? - Part 2
For over half a century, managers have been complaining: "HR won't let me fire this guy." This myth - and yes it is a myth - is so common that experienced managers teach it to new managers, and it…
Why Does HR Make It So Hard To Fire People? - Part 1
For over half a century, managers have been complaining: "HR won't let me fire this guy." This myth - and yes it is a myth - is so common that experienced managers teach it to new managers, and it…
How To Be A Positive Interviewer - Part 2
Too many managers make the mistake of thinking they have to be a "tough" interviewer. They think that interviewing is adversarial. They think they need to apply pressure to see how candidates react.…
How To Be A Positive Interviewer - Part 1
Too many managers make the mistake of thinking they have to be a "tough" interviewer. They think that interviewing is adversarial. They think they need to apply pressure to see how candidates react.…
Top 10 Hiring Mistakes - #8 - Unprepared - Part 2
If you want managing to be easier, learn to hire better. We've been saying it for two decades now. We normally put out positive guidance, about what to DO. In this series of casts, though, we…
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