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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 business professionals become more effective managers and leaders. Each week, the hosts discuss new tools and easy techniques to help business professionals achieve their desired management and career objectives. Manager Tools won the Best Business Podcast Award in both 2006 and 2007.

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269) Aggregated Behaviors Are Performance - Part 1

This guidance recommends focusing on behaviors because behaviors are measurable and aggregated behaviors ARE performance.

Datum: 23.04.2012 03:37 • Größe: 19 MB

268) 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??

Datum: 15.04.2012 14:54 • Größe: 11.8 MB

267) 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?"

Datum: 08.04.2012 17:47 • Größe: 16.8 MB

266) And Not But Meeting Ground Rule

This guidance recommends a standing ground rule at all meetings: No ?buts,? only ?and?.

Datum: 01.04.2012 21:19 • Größe: 22.3 MB

265) How To Use A RACI Matrix

This guidance describes how to use a RACI [Responsible, Accountable, Consult, Inform] Matrix when determining project responsibilities.

Datum: 26.03.2012 03:55 • Größe: 28.1 MB

264) Ethics - Part 2

The conclusion of our guidance on ethical behavior.

Datum: 22.03.2012 20:42 • Größe: 21.1 MB

263) How To Avoid Reverse Delegation

This guidance describes how to avoid having your directs give you work that you?ve already assigned to them.

Datum: 19.03.2012 04:17 • Größe: 17.4 MB

262) 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.

Datum: 15.03.2012 17:03 • Größe: 24.6 MB

261) Bench Evaluation Chapter 1: Probing

This guidance describes how to interview those colleagues on your bench?without interviewing them.

Datum: 12.03.2012 04:28 • Größe: 18.4 MB

260) Delegating To The Floor

This guidance describes how to help individual contributors handle an overload in work.

Datum: 05.03.2012 02:20 • Größe: 28.5 MB

259) The Fruit Bowl At Meetings

This guidance describes how to use a ?Fruit Bowl? to eliminate cell phone distractions at meetings.

Datum: 27.02.2012 04:12 • Größe: 15.8 MB

258) 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.

Datum: 24.02.2012 03:09 • Größe: 21.8 MB

257) Do NOT Give Feedback To Your Boss

This guidance describes how and why NOT to give feedback to your boss.

Datum: 19.02.2012 00:35 • Größe: 29 MB

256) 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 int...

Datum: 17.02.2012 21:47 • Größe: 23.2 MB

255) 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.

Datum: 13.02.2012 03:02 • Größe: 14.5 MB

254) Measuring Feedback Chapter 1 - Part 1

This guidance describes how to measure the amount of feedback you?re delivering to your directs.

Datum: 06.02.2012 06:23 • Größe: 21.9 MB

253) The 45 Minute Meeting

This guidance describes how to schedule hour-long meetings, which are often back-to-back-to-back, in only 45 minutes.

Datum: 29.01.2012 14:14 • Größe: 28.8 MB

252) The First Rule Of Probing In An Interview

This guidance describes the most important to ask further questions about during an interview.

Datum: 22.01.2012 14:08 • Größe: 25 MB

251) Routine Town Hall Meetings - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance on how to run a Routine Town Hall Meeting for your organization.

Datum: 15.01.2012 22:05 • Größe: 22.3 MB

250) Routine Town Hall Meetings - Part 1

This guidance describes how to run a Routine Town Hall Meeting for your organization.

Datum: 08.01.2012 22:53 • Größe: 23.3 MB

249) New Direct - First Day Meeting (500th Cast)

This guidance describes the first meeting a manager ought to have with a new team member.

Datum: 02.01.2012 07:35 • Größe: 40.3 MB

248) Ending A Bad Interview - Part 2

This guidance concludes our discussion on when and how to end an interview with a candidate you won't hire.

Datum: 25.12.2011 16:53 • Größe: 14.7 MB

247) Ending A Bad Interview - Part 1

This guidance describes when and how to end an interview with a candidate you won't hire.

Datum: 19.12.2011 19:50 • Größe: 20.5 MB

246) 500th Podcast Special Message

On January 1, 2012, Manager Tools LLC is proud to release our 500th cast (Manager Tools and Career Tools). We're privileged to have been able to share our learnings with you, and humbled by your letters and emails which tell us how we've made a difference to you, your directs and your careers.

Datum: 15.12.2011 06:14 • Größe: 2.5 MB

245) The Steel Cage Death Match Meetings - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance on how to prepare for Steel Cage Death Match Meetings.

Datum: 12.12.2011 01:47 • Größe: 17.8 MB

244) The Steel Cage Death Match Meetings - Part 1

This guidance describes how to prepare for Steel Cage Death Match Meetings.

Datum: 05.12.2011 03:45 • Größe: 20.1 MB

243) Project Status Reporting Simple Feedback - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance on how to give feedback on how you want projects reported on.

Datum: 28.11.2011 03:00 • Größe: 20.5 MB

242) Project Status Reporting Simple Feedback - Part 1

This guidance describes how to give feedback on how you want projects reported on.

Datum: 20.11.2011 23:26 • Größe: 18.5 MB

241) The Project Management Drumbeat Meeting - Part 2

This guidance describes how to manage work and decisions being done on a project.

Datum: 14.11.2011 04:13 • Größe: 32.4 MB

240) The Project Management Drumbeat Meeting - Part 1

This guidance describes how to manage work and decisions being done on a project.

Datum: 06.11.2011 13:35 • Größe: 27.7 MB

239) Taking Notes In Interviews - Chapter 1

This guidance recommends the best way to take notes during interviews.

Datum: 31.10.2011 01:51 • Größe: 17.5 MB

238) Interview with Jim Collins, Author of Great by Choice

Mark recently had a chance to sit down and talk with Jim Collins about his most recent book, Great by Choice. You won't want to miss it.

Datum: 26.10.2011 16:19 • Größe: 41.6 MB

237) Project Meeting Reporting - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance on how to have project statuses reported and discussed.

Datum: 24.10.2011 03:44 • Größe: 16.8 MB

236) Project Meeting Reporting - Part 1

This guidance describes how to have project statuses reported and discussed.

Datum: 17.10.2011 01:58 • Größe: 17.3 MB

235) One On One Note-Taking Recommendations

This guidance describes some simple improvements most managers can make to help them take better notes during their One on Ones.

Datum: 10.10.2011 04:30 • Größe: 19 MB

234) Top And Bottom Performer Reporting

This guidance describes how to be ready to talk with your boss about your team.

Datum: 03.10.2011 05:27 • Größe: 18.2 MB

233) The Coaching Dilemma - Part 2

This cast continues our discussion on whom to coach and develop on your team with your marginal time.

Datum: 26.09.2011 01:06 • Größe: 25.2 MB

232) The Coaching Dilemma - Part 1

This guidance describes whom to coach and develop on your team with your marginal time.

Datum: 19.09.2011 01:56 • Größe: 25.2 MB

231) The Coaching Dilemma Introduction

A short (8 min) extra cast where Mark introduces the Coaching Dilemma and solicits YOUR responses. What do you think is the correct answer to the dilemma?

Datum: 16.09.2011 00:11 • Größe: 7.9 MB

230) Right Of First Refusal - Part 2

This cast concludes our discussion on how to use your calendar more proactively.

Datum: 12.09.2011 14:18 • Größe: 29.4 MB

229) Right Of First Refusal - Part 1

This guidance describes how to use your calendar more proactively.

Datum: 05.09.2011 15:17 • Größe: 22.3 MB

228) Contract Employee One On Ones - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance on the right way to conduct One on Ones with your contract employees.

Datum: 29.08.2011 03:47 • Größe: 20.5 MB

227) Contract Employee One On Ones - Part 1

This guidance describes the right way to conduct One on Ones with your contract employees.

Datum: 22.08.2011 02:07 • Größe: 20.6 MB

226) Bi-Monthly Skip Level Reviews - Part 2

This guidance concludes our discussion on how to learn about your skips and develop your direct report managers by discussing your skips on a regular basis.

Datum: 15.08.2011 05:57 • Größe: 16.4 MB

225) Bi-Monthly Skip Level Reviews - Part 1

This guidance describes how to learn about your skips and develop your direct report managers by discussing your skips on a regular basis.

Datum: 08.08.2011 03:20 • Größe: 15.8 MB

224) Travel EMP

This guidance describes how to prepare for the inevitable loss of gadgets and gadget power, most likely on while traveling.

Datum: 01.08.2011 03:05 • Größe: 18.3 MB

223) Special Announcement

Not our typical show for sure. An exciting announcement about upcoming changes at Manager Tools.

Datum: 28.07.2011 22:53 • Größe: 17.4 MB

222) Can I Be Friends With My Directs? - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance on what a professional manager's role and limits are when it comes to being friends with our directs.

Datum: 25.07.2011 02:10 • Größe: 17 MB

221) Can I Be Friends With My Directs? - Part 1

This guidance describes what a professional manager's role and limits are when it comes to being friends with our directs.

Datum: 18.07.2011 13:54 • Größe: 20.3 MB

220) There Is No Why In Feedback - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance on what to do and why when directs want to describe why they did what they did when you have given them negative feedback.

Datum: 11.07.2011 12:42 • Größe: 19.6 MB

219) There Is No Why In Feedback - Part 1

This guidance describes what to do and why when directs want to describe why they did what they did when you have given them negative feedback.

Datum: 04.07.2011 02:05 • Größe: 26 MB

218) Coaching Presenting Skills With Toastmasters

This guidance recommends having any of your directs who present, and maybe even yourself, join and attend a Toastmasters Chapter.

Datum: 27.06.2011 02:55 • Größe: 24.7 MB

217) Measuring The Trinity - Chapter 1

This guidance explains how to BEGIN to measure YOUR success in rolling out the Manager Tools Trinity ? One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching, and Delegation.

Datum: 20.06.2011 03:16 • Größe: 25 MB

216) The One Third-Planning Rule - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance explaining the One-Third Planning Rule: when assessing and assigning work to your team, never take more than 1/3 of the available time to do so.

Datum: 13.06.2011 03:27 • Größe: 21.5 MB

215) The One Third-Planning Rule - Part 1

This guidance explains the One-Third Planning Rule: when assessing and assigning work to your team, never take more than 1/3 of the available time to do so.

Datum: 06.06.2011 12:47 • Größe: 17.6 MB

214) Over Assigning And Delegating Work - Part 3

This cast concludes our recommendations on developing your directs by always having them have more to do than they have time to do ... by assigning and delegating more work than they think they can do.

Datum: 30.05.2011 16:44 • Größe: 19.1 MB

213) Over Assigning And Delegating Work - Part 2

This cast continues our recommendations on developing your directs by always having them have more to do than they have time to do ... by assigning and delegating more work than they think they can do.

Datum: 23.05.2011 02:24 • Größe: 21.9 MB

212) Over Assigning And Delegating Work - Part 1

This guidance recommends developing your directs by always having them have more to do than they have time to do?by assigning and delegating more work than they think they can do.

Datum: 16.05.2011 03:51 • Größe: 21.1 MB

211) Peer One on Ones - Part 2

This cast concludes our recommendations on why and how to meet weekly, or regularly, with your peer managers.

Datum: 09.05.2011 03:05 • Größe: 19.7 MB

210) Peer One on Ones - Part 1

This guidance recommends why and how to met weekly, or regularly, with your peer managers.

Datum: 02.05.2011 03:31 • Größe: 24.8 MB

209) Event Based Feedback

This guidance recommends how to give a lot of feedback about a specific event all at once.

Datum: 24.04.2011 15:27 • Größe: 27.3 MB

208) How To Manage A Disgruntled Non-Promoted Direct - Part 3

This cast concludes our guidance on how to manage one of your directs who wanted the job you?re in now, and you may have reason to believe that they will hold it against you.

Datum: 17.04.2011 21:11 • Größe: 23.1 MB

207) How To Manage A Disgruntled Non-Promoted Direct - Part 2

This cast continues our guidance on how to manage one of your directs who wanted the job you?re in now, and you may have reason to believe that they will hold it against you.

Datum: 10.04.2011 22:34 • Größe: 19.8 MB

206) How To Manage A Disgruntled Non-Promoted Direct - Part 1

This guidance recommends how to manage one of your directs who wanted the job you?re in now, and you may have reason to believe that they will hold it against you.

Datum: 03.04.2011 23:16 • Größe: 18.4 MB

205) Internal Team Pre-Wires

This guidance describes why and how effective managers insist on their directs pre-wiring information they brief to you.

Datum: 27.03.2011 18:54 • Größe: 26 MB

204) How To Run A SPOT Project Kickoff Meeting

This guidance describes how to run the first meeting you have with your team about a new project your team will be doing.

Datum: 20.03.2011 16:47 • Größe: 30.5 MB

203) How To Assign Work Tasks - Part 2

This cast concludes our discussion on how to assign tasks to your directs.

Datum: 13.03.2011 15:13 • Größe: 23.4 MB

202) How To Assign Work Tasks - Part 1

This guidance describes how to assign tasks to your directs.

Datum: 07.03.2011 04:32 • Größe: 20.9 MB

201) How To Manage A Massive Workload Increase - Part 4

This cast concludes (Part 4 of 4) our guidance on how to respond when, through any number of factors, you and your team are OVERWHELMED with lots of new work. Perhaps it's a layoff, perhaps it's a re-organization, perhaps it's because you're GOOD. Regardless, what do you DO??

Datum: 27.02.2011 16:04 • Größe: 24.1 MB

200) How To Manage A Massive Workload Increase - Part 3

This cast continues (Part 3 of 4) our guidance on how to respond when, through any number of factors, you and your team are OVERWHELMED with lots of new work. Perhaps it's a layoff, perhaps it's a re-organization, perhaps it's because you're GOOD. Regardless, what do you DO??

Datum: 20.02.2011 20:33 • Größe: 21.7 MB

199) How To Manage A Massive Workload Increase - Part 2

This cast continues our guidance on how to respond when, through any number of factors, you and your team are OVERWHELMED with lots of new work.

Datum: 13.02.2011 15:56 • Größe: 27.7 MB

198) How To Manage A Massive Workload Increase - Part 1

This guidance describes how to respond when, through any number of factors, you and your team are OVERWHELMED with lots of new work.

Datum: 07.02.2011 05:13 • Größe: 19.2 MB

197) Boss Meeting Prep - No Surprises

This guidance describes how to prepare your boss for attending any meeting you are running.

Datum: 31.01.2011 02:34 • Größe: 20.4 MB

196) Conduct Multiple Interviews, Chapter 1 - Part 3

In this cast, we conclude our conversation on how to interview candidates by conducting multiple interviews.

Datum: 23.01.2011 20:08 • Größe: 20.8 MB

195) Conduct Multiple Interviews, Chapter 1 - Part 2

In this cast, we continue our conversation on how to interview candidates by conducting multiple interviews.

Datum: 17.01.2011 17:57 • Größe: 16.1 MB

194) Conduct Multiple Interviews, Chapter 1 - Part 1

This guidance describes how to interview candidates by conducting multiple interviews.

Datum: 10.01.2011 02:42 • Größe: 26.8 MB

193) Assumptive Goal Setting

This guidance describes a technique for how to think more creatively about annual planning goals.

Datum: 03.01.2011 03:42 • Größe: 29.2 MB

192) Managers Are Communicated THROUGH

This guidance describes how managers ought to communicate organizational information to their team members.

Datum: 26.12.2010 23:15 • Größe: 25.7 MB

191) Professional Subordination - Part 2

This show concludes our recommendations on the professional approach to supporting choices you didn't champion.

Datum: 20.12.2010 02:04 • Größe: 16.9 MB

190) Professional Subordination - Part 1

This guidance recommends the professional approach to supporting choices you didn't champion.

Datum: 13.12.2010 01:27 • Größe: 14.3 MB

189) Managing A High I: Dangers Part 2

This cast concludes our discussion on how to manage a High I direct based on some natural tendencies and weaknesses.

Datum: 06.12.2010 03:44 • Größe: 19.1 MB

188) Managing A High I: Dangers Part 1

This guidance describes how to manage a High I direct based on some natural tendencies and weaknesses.

Datum: 28.11.2010 16:16 • Größe: 22.4 MB

187) Not Too Picky Feedback

This guidance recommends giving negative feedback only after a second instance, and only ON the second instance.

Datum: 21.11.2010 23:43 • Größe: 14.6 MB

186) Mentoring With Political Smarts

This guidance describes whom to choose to mentor internally based on political considerations.

Datum: 14.11.2010 23:42 • Größe: 24.4 MB

185) Calendar Changes And Your Admin

This guidance describes some simple things your admin can do to help you manage your calendar.

Datum: 07.11.2010 17:42 • Größe: 19 MB

184) Simple Project Reporting Guidance

This guidance describes how to assign a project to a direct and set up some simple reporting that will greatly increase early (and overall) success.

Datum: 01.11.2010 05:00 • Größe: 29.2 MB

183) Distant Manager Basics - Part 2

This cast concludes our guidance on some simple things managers can do to improve the accountability and productivity of distant team members.

Datum: 25.10.2010 00:59 • Größe: 24.2 MB

182) Distant Manager Basics - Part 1

This guidance recommends some simple things managers can do to improve the accountability and productivity of distant team members.

Datum: 17.10.2010 23:18 • Größe: 15.8 MB

181) Introducing Managerial Change

This guidance recommends how to introduce changes in how you manage your team.

Datum: 09.10.2010 15:23 • Größe: 25.3 MB

180) Resistant Directs In One on Ones

This guidance recommends how to have effective One on Ones with directs who are initially resistant.

Datum: 04.10.2010 00:16 • Größe: 23.7 MB

179) Managers and Governmental Politics ? Part 2

This cast concludes our discussion on how effective managers address governmental politics at work.

Datum: 27.09.2010 04:25 • Größe: 24.4 MB

178) Managers and Governmental Politics ? Part 1

This guidance recommends how effective managers address governmental politics at work.

Datum: 19.09.2010 16:15 • Größe: 21.7 MB

177) Succession Planning - Extending Your Network

This guidance recommends how to further your succession planning efforts by extending your network to your directs.

Datum: 12.09.2010 19:16 • Größe: 23.1 MB

176) Effective Meetings Starter Model - Part 2

This cast concludes our conversation on an even more basic model for effective meetings than in our original guidance.

Datum: 07.09.2010 12:35 • Größe: 20.7 MB

175) Effective Meetings Starter Model - Part 1

This cast describes an even more basic model for effective meetings than in our original guidance.

Datum: 30.08.2010 05:51 • Größe: 21.5 MB

174) One on Ones ? Work or Personal?

This guidance addresses how personal One on Ones ought to be ? should they be all about family and personal stuff, or just about work?

Datum: 22.08.2010 15:16 • Größe: 21.5 MB

173) One On Ones Are Business Meetings

This guidance addresses questions about the purpose and value of One on Ones, particularly for those directs who challenge the need for them.

Datum: 15.08.2010 16:12 • Größe: 24.3 MB

172) How To Handle Public Disagreement - Part 2

This cast concludes our conversation on how to respond when someone disagrees publicly in an unprofessional way.

Datum: 09.08.2010 03:06 • Größe: 16 MB

171) How To Handle Public Disagreement - Part 1

This cast describes how to respond when someone disagrees publicly in an unprofessional way.

Datum: 02.08.2010 02:34 • Größe: 27.7 MB

170) Third Party Negative Feedback ? How To Decide

This cast describes how to decide whether or not to give feedback to one of your directs based on someone else's input.

Datum: 26.07.2010 02:01 • Größe: 24.1 MB

169) Skip Level Feedback

This cast describes how to deliver feedback to skip level associates.

Datum: 19.07.2010 01:56 • Größe: 16.8 MB

168) Calendar Control #1 ? Say No

This cast describes a simple technique for controlling one's calendar, thereby keeping more time available for primary objectives.

Datum: 12.07.2010 04:07 • Größe: 25 MB

167) Assign Work AND Reporting

This guidance recommends assigning both the reporting of work and the work itself when delegating.

Datum: 05.07.2010 01:26 • Größe: 23.2 MB

166) Praise In Public, Criticize In Private Is WRONG

This guidance disagrees with the old notion of praise in public, criticize in private, and recommends more effective behaviors.

Datum: 27.06.2010 20:58 • Größe: 26.3 MB

165) Yes, Please Praise, Thank You

This guidance recommends how to deliver both praise and feedback (though not together), and why they are both valuable ? and completely different.

Datum: 20.06.2010 13:11 • Größe: 28.1 MB

164) Feedback ? Public Or Private?

This guidance describes whether or not to give feedback in public, or in private . . . or neither.

Datum: 14.06.2010 04:14 • Größe: 25.6 MB

163) Feedback Immediacy

This cast describes WHEN to give feedback. How fast is too fast? How slow is too slow?

Datum: 07.06.2010 05:11 • Größe: 17.6 MB

162) When NOT To Give Feedback - Part 2

This cast concludes our conversation on some situations where feedback isn't appropriate, because the error/mistake/infraction is so egregious, encouragement of effective future behavior isn't enough.

Datum: 31.05.2010 01:45 • Größe: 20 MB

161) When NOT To Give Feedback - Part 1

This cast describes some situations where feedback isn't appropriate, because the error/mistake/infraction is so egregious, encouragement of effective future behavior isn't enough.

Datum: 23.05.2010 21:37 • Größe: 22.9 MB

160) 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.

Datum: 17.05.2010 11:56 • Größe: 16.7 MB

159) 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.

Datum: 10.05.2010 12:44 • Größe: 24 MB

158) 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.

Datum: 03.05.2010 23:19 • Größe: 20.3 MB

157) Influence Through Verbal Commitments - Part 2

The conclusion of our recommendations on how to influence others by asking for verbal commitments.

Datum: 26.04.2010 06:04 • Größe: 30.2 MB

156) Influence Through Verbal Commitments - Part 1

In this recommendation, Manager Tools describes how to influence others by asking for verbal commitments.

Datum: 18.04.2010 23:49 • Größe: 24.4 MB

155) LinkedIn For Managers - Part 2

This cast concludes our conversation on LinkedIn and what it means for Managers.

Datum: 12.04.2010 00:52 • Größe: 22.5 MB

154) 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.

Datum: 05.04.2010 02:51 • Größe: 25.5 MB

153) 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.

Datum: 29.03.2010 01:26 • Größe: 33.3 MB

152) 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.

Datum: 22.03.2010 01:10 • Größe: 32.2 MB

151) 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.

Datum: 14.03.2010 21:22 • Größe: 21.2 MB

150) Delegate Your Reporting - Part 2

We conclude our conversation on how and why to delegate almost all of your routine reporting to your directs.

Datum: 08.03.2010 03:10 • Größe: 33.4 MB

149) Delegate Your Reporting

This cast describes how and why to delegate almost all of your routine reporting to your directs.

Datum: 28.02.2010 19:46 • Größe: 22.5 MB

148) 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!

Datum: 21.02.2010 23:17 • Größe: 39.8 MB

147) High S Manager Simple Downfall

This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High S Managers: overprotecting your team.

Datum: 14.02.2010 21:45 • Größe: 36.6 MB

146) Intra-Company Training Network Building

This cast recommends building relationships internally at your organization when you attend training events.

Datum: 07.02.2010 18:51 • Größe: 20.2 MB

145) Managing Cultural Diversity - The Wendii Curve

This cast describes Manager Tools' first principle about managing directs from different cultures, based on the Wendii curve.

Datum: 01.02.2010 21:19 • Größe: 40.9 MB

144) How To Manage An Arrogant Producer

This cast addresses how to manage a high performer who is arrogant or dismissive of others.

Datum: 23.01.2010 23:37 • Größe: 36.3 MB

143) How To Stop Gossip

This cast addresses how to stop intra-office gossip.

Datum: 18.01.2010 16:27 • Größe: 40.6 MB

142) 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.

Datum: 11.01.2010 03:00 • Größe: 30.2 MB

141) Developing Subordinate Managers - Chapter 1

This cast describes the first principle of how to develop subordinate managers - Measure Basic Behaviors.

Datum: 04.01.2010 02:26 • Größe: 33.9 MB

140) 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.

Datum: 28.12.2009 15:48 • Größe: 32.8 MB

139) 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.

Datum: 21.12.2009 01:30 • Größe: 19.9 MB

138) 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.

Datum: 14.12.2009 00:05 • Größe: 27.9 MB

137) 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.

Datum: 06.12.2009 20:54 • Größe: 27.7 MB

136) 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.

Datum: 30.11.2009 05:55 • Größe: 33.9 MB

135) 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.

Datum: 22.11.2009 20:14 • Größe: 33.6 MB

134) 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").

Datum: 16.11.2009 07:13 • Größe: 35.3 MB

133) 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.

Datum: 09.11.2009 08:04 • Größe: 26.3 MB

132) 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.

Datum: 01.11.2009 21:31 • Größe: 18.5 MB

131) Managers and Confidentiality

This cast recommends how managers handle requests for confidentiality from their directs.

Datum: 26.10.2009 01:09 • Größe: 28.6 MB

130) The Management Trinity - Part 3

In this cast, we conclude our conversation on the origins of the Management Trinity, focusing on Coaching and Delegation.

Datum: 19.10.2009 00:05 • Größe: 25.4 MB

129) 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.

Datum: 12.10.2009 05:51 • Größe: 28.3 MB

128) The Management Trinity - Part 1

This cast describes the origins of the Management Trinity: why we preach it, and how it came to be.

Datum: 05.10.2009 00:50 • Größe: 31.1 MB

127) Timely Meetings ? Part 2

This cast concludes our conversation on how to run timely meetings.

Datum: 28.09.2009 02:17 • Größe: 31.2 MB

126) Timely Meetings ? Part 1

This cast describes how to run timely meetings.

Datum: 20.09.2009 17:20 • Größe: 25.9 MB

125) The First Question In Your One on One

This cast describes how to start every One on One.

Datum: 14.09.2009 04:36 • Größe: 22.5 MB

124) Admin Trip Folders ? Part 2

This cast concludes our discussion on a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.

Datum: 07.09.2009 03:31 • Größe: 19.9 MB

123) Admin Trip Folders - Part 1

This cast describes a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.

Datum: 31.08.2009 03:25 • Größe: 26.1 MB

122) Direct Relationships Acid Test

This cast prescribes asking your directs what their children's names are.

Datum: 24.08.2009 04:54 • Größe: 27.4 MB

121) 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.

Datum: 17.08.2009 00:37 • Größe: 27.6 MB

120) Project Manager Feedback

This cast describes how give feedback to a project team member if you are a project manager.

Datum: 09.08.2009 17:11 • Größe: 36.5 MB

119) Team Formation ? How Big?

This cast describes how big to size a team when forming it.

Datum: 03.08.2009 04:04 • Größe: 37 MB

118) What To Delegate

This cast recommends simple choices for what to delegate to our directs.

Datum: 25.07.2009 21:33 • Größe: 30.9 MB

117) The Coaching Model Revised - Part 2

In this cast, we complete our discussion of the Revised Manager Tools Coaching Model.

Datum: 19.07.2009 14:58 • Größe: 33.8 MB

116) The Coaching Model Revised - Part 1

This cast describes the Manager Tools Revised Coaching Model.

Datum: 12.07.2009 17:09 • Größe: 31 MB

115) Fighting The Downturn Silence

This cast describes how to combat the normal tendency of directs to communicate LESS during a downturn.

Datum: 05.07.2009 19:51 • Größe: 29.5 MB

114) 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.

Datum: 29.06.2009 02:35 • Größe: 39 MB

113) 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.

Datum: 22.06.2009 04:04 • Größe: 42.4 MB

112) Change Leadership, What's My Visual - Part 2

In this cast, we conclude our conversation about beginning change efforts in any organization

Datum: 14.06.2009 15:44 • Größe: 24 MB

111) Change Leadership, What's My Visual - Part 1

This cast describes how to begin any effort to change an organization.

Datum: 07.06.2009 19:12 • Größe: 22.4 MB

110) Project Manager One on Ones - Part 2

The conclusion of our discussion on Project Manager One on Ones.

Datum: 31.05.2009 23:18 • Größe: 19.2 MB

109) 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.

Datum: 25.05.2009 06:18 • Größe: 28.1 MB

108) 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.

Datum: 18.05.2009 01:08 • Größe: 34.1 MB

107) 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.

Datum: 11.05.2009 03:12 • Größe: 27 MB

106) 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.

Datum: 03.05.2009 20:54 • Größe: 25.1 MB

105) Staff Meeting Delegation and Succession Planning

This cast describes how to delegate running your staff meeting as part of succession planning.

Datum: 26.04.2009 19:52 • Größe: 22.2 MB

104) One Less Thing - Free Up Your Calendar

This cast describes an executive priority management technique - One Less Thing - to free up your calendar.

Datum: 19.04.2009 17:24 • Größe: 21.2 MB

103) The Feedback Continuum

This cast describes how to give negative feedback in an escalating way, over time, to improve performance.

Datum: 13.04.2009 02:52 • Größe: 28.1 MB

102) 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 ch...

Datum: 05.04.2009 17:46 • Größe: 25.3 MB

101) 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 ...

Datum: 29.03.2009 22:11 • Größe: 26.4 MB

100) Bad Boss #1 - When You Have Directs

Most of us, when we have an angry and demeaning boss, tend to worry about ourselves first. We have to deal with most of the yelling, and most of the abuse. But if we have directs, we've got an additional responsibility. And our directs may be somewhat sheltered, but our boss can be REALLY threatenin...

Datum: 22.03.2009 16:17 • Größe: 28.8 MB

99) Deciding Between Two Good Candidates

This cast describes how to decide between two good candidates in a hiring situation.

Datum: 16.03.2009 00:41 • Größe: 25.1 MB

98) The Heart of Feedback

This cast describes behaviors for managers to engage in to ensure that they deliver feedback ethically and professionally.

Datum: 08.03.2009 16:23 • Größe: 21.4 MB

97) Effective Meetings - No Laptops

This cast describes why and how to run your meetings without laptops. For our original cast on the Effective Meetings Protocol, check out "Effective Meetings - Get Out of Jail!" (http://www.manager-tools.com/2005/08/effective-meetings-get-out-of-jail)

Datum: 02.03.2009 00:49 • Größe: 20.9 MB

96) The Starter Feedback Model - Part 2

In this cast, we complete our 2-part series on the Starter Feedback Model, an EVEN SIMPLER method for delivering feedback.

Datum: 22.02.2009 22:09 • Größe: 16.9 MB

95) The Starter Feedback Model - Part 1

This cast describes an EVEN SIMPLER method for delivering feedback to help those managers who are struggling to implement it.

Datum: 15.02.2009 22:46 • Größe: 17.8 MB

94) How To Handle Two Viable Job Candidates

This cast describes what to do when a manager has two candidates for a job that meet the standard, but you can only offer one candidate.

Datum: 08.02.2009 23:22 • Größe: 24.2 MB

93) Manager Tools ONE DAY Effective Manager Conference Washington DC Area

March 24, 2009 — Embassy Suites Dulles — North/Loudon We?re pleased to offer you the first ever opportunity to attend a ONE DAY Effective Manager Conference (EMC) on March 24th in the Washington DC area. For more details on the conference, please visit our Washington DC Effective Ma...

Datum: 05.02.2009 22:17 • Größe: 9.3 MB

92) Bench Development in a Downturn

This cast discusses a way to build your recruiting "bench" during market downturns.

Datum: 01.02.2009 14:48 • Größe: 21 MB

91) Horstman's Law of Project Management - Part 4

Part 4 of our series on Horstman's Law of Project Management.

Datum: 25.01.2009 19:21 • Größe: 14.2 MB

90) Horstman's Law of Project Management - Part 3

Part 3 of our series on Horstman's Law of Project Management.

Datum: 18.01.2009 17:39 • Größe: 19 MB

89) Horstman's Law of Project Management - Part 2

Part 2 of our series on Horstman's Law of Project Management.

Datum: 11.01.2009 19:16 • Größe: 20 MB

88) Horstman's Law of Project Management - Part 1

In this cast we describe Horstman's Law of Project Management: Who Does What By When.

Datum: 04.01.2009 21:10 • Größe: 21.6 MB

87) Career Tools Cast #3: What Do You Want To Do?

This cast explains an important career search question, and how to answer it: "What do you want to do, and where do you want to do it?" You're going to be asked this question, and you have to know how to answer it, without limiting yourself. It's one of those fleeting career moments whose outcome ...

Datum: 29.12.2008 23:21 • Größe: 23.7 MB

86) Change Briefings Preparation Rule #1: Individuals, Not Arguments

In this cast we debunk the myth that change briefings are about logic, and suggest a different path: persuading individual team members. You're going to be asked to lead, or at least brief on, change efforts that your organization is engaged in. Regardless of whether it's your idea or someone else...

Datum: 29.12.2008 01:49 • Größe: 26.7 MB

85) Harvesting Annual Reviews

This cast discusses a way to harvest our work on annual reviews for use during layoff discussions. Nobody likes preparing annual reviews. Even those of us who are good at it know that far too often they sit on someone’s desk, unused. But during a downturn, Annual reviews are an important pie...

Datum: 22.12.2008 02:11 • Größe: 23.3 MB

84) Career Tools Cast #2: The First Rule of Higher Education - Get Good Grades

This cast makes the case for the most important thing you do at the beginning of your professional life: get good grades in College/University. This is the first in a series of what surely will be many Career Tools casts about college and university as preparation for one?s professional adult li...

Datum: 19.12.2008 01:33 • Größe: 21.4 MB

83) Smart Interviewing In A Downturn

This cast describes how to interview effectively during a downturn, particularly for difficult to fill positions. When you get to fill a position during a down market, it usually means it’s a critical position, and/or one that’s been open a long time. Because you’re in a buyerR...

Datum: 15.12.2008 07:14 • Größe: 28.4 MB

82) Career Tools Cast #1: How to Handle Location in an Interview

This cast describes a simple way to handle the interviewing question, “What’s your location preference?” Many people lose great job opportunities because they don’t know how to talk about WHERE they want to work without scaring the recruiter. There’s a right way to...

Datum: 11.12.2008 02:23 • Größe: 32.2 MB

81) How to Provide a Reference

This cast describes effective ways to provide references when asked. Your directs and former directs are going to ask you to provide them references. Yet you’ve probably heard that providing references is generally frowned upon. More and more, HR says you can’t. But you can.

Datum: 08.12.2008 04:37 • Größe: 19.7 MB

80) Simple Stakeholder Decision Analysis Tool

This cast explains a simple technique to consider the impact of decisions on multiple stakeholders. Decision-making (which is more than choosing!) is a core part of our jobs as managers. But yet again, there?s not a lot of training or development spent on it. Everyone hates learning it on their ow...

Datum: 30.11.2008 22:24 • Größe: 22.1 MB

79) Facilitating Ground Rules to Start a Meeting

This cast shows how to facilitate the capture of Ground Rules when starting a meeting. Finally we return to discussing presentations! Both Mark and Mike have recently been in the audience for professional presentations, and it was an eye opening experience for both of us. We think every ...

Datum: 23.11.2008 22:22 • Größe: 28.5 MB

78) Making Decisions Effective, Part 2 - One Action!

This cast describes how to make a decision effective by NOT working on other actions or plans after you?ve decided. Too many of us feel good about a ?decision? we?ve made (when actually it was a choice, and not a decision), and then we mess up the ?decision? by failing to act aggressively on it. A...

Datum: 17.11.2008 01:55 • Größe: 20.7 MB

77) Boss One-on-Ones - Professional Updates

This cast describes a way to approximate One on Ones (O3s) with your boss. We?ve been asked this question so many times, it?s really amazing that we?ve waited this long to publicize widely the same answer we?ve given so many listeners and members. We know, we know: you want to have One on Ones wi...

Datum: 09.11.2008 13:45 • Größe: 25 MB

76) Race, Don?t Chase - Part 2

During this show, we conclude our conversation on “Race, Don’t Chase”.

Datum: 03.11.2008 00:18 • Größe: 22.7 MB

75) Audio Blog: Twitter, I Don?t Like It

I’m sure there are going to be a few people very upset with me. I frankly don’t care. I do not like Twitter. I’ve used it, and I don’t like it, and I’ll tell you why. Because if you’re a manager, and as we like to say, if you’re an executive, which is not a...

Datum: 30.10.2008 03:58 • Größe: 1.1 MB

74) Race, Don?t Chase

Most any manager can manage well, or at least look good managing, when times are good. Retention is as easy as it will ever be, budgets tend to grow to hide lack of controls, and others want to join your team, so hiring is easy too. But during tough economic times, the professional manager has to ma...

Datum: 26.10.2008 22:27 • Größe: 21.3 MB

73) Audio Blog: Stories At Work

At some point, we are going to do a couple of podcasts, perhaps 10, 20, 30, I don’t know, regarding culture in the workplace. A big part of culture at the workplace is stories we tell one another. I read a “Harvard Business Review article” a while ago, it may have been over a year ...

Datum: 22.10.2008 21:38 • Größe: 2.5 MB

72) Making Decisions Effective

Mark has been re-reading Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive for the billionth time lately. Every time he reads it, something different strikes him. This time he was looking to get some validation that Drucker believed that consensus is overrated (it is), and he stumbled across this gem. ...

Datum: 19.10.2008 22:25 • Größe: 18.7 MB

71) Audio Blog: Toast

Some of you have probably heard me talk about this before. Email is a scourge on all of us, most days. I see all kinds of email behavior, all the time - at clients, everywhere I go. And the one thing that surprises me the most, and this goes back to some comments I made in the last couple of years a...

Datum: 16.10.2008 15:54 • Größe: 1.2 MB

70) 5 Ways to Master Horstman?s 3rd Law of Interviewing (Part 2)

In today’s cast, we conclude our conversation on Horstman’s 3rd Law of Interviewing. As always, if you’re new to Manager Tools and haven’t listened to the first part, you may wish to go back and listen to that first.

Datum: 12.10.2008 18:11 • Größe: 20.7 MB

69) Audio Blog: Three Way Economic Systems

And the answer really is folks: they don’t work. When you think about almost any economic system that exists today, there is a buyer and a seller. The seller has something the buyer wants and the buyer expects the seller to give him or her a fair price. There is an inherent negotiation that h...

Datum: 10.10.2008 15:59 • Größe: 1.8 MB

68) Career Crisis Email

This cast describes your initial communications with a friend or associate whose career is at risk, for whatever reason. We read in the Wall Street Journal this week about a bank failure in the US due to the mortgage/debt crisis the markets are facing. As it turns out, we have several Manager Tools...

Datum: 06.10.2008 02:28 • Größe: 26.8 MB

67) FREE Career Crisis Skills Conference - NYC, 18 October

Manager Tools will present a FREE, one day Career Crisis Skills Conference, on 18 October, to help those affected by the financial and credit market troubles. We will conduct the training/seminar at the Marriott East Side in Manhattan (map, sw corner 49th and Lex), from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will b...

Datum: 04.10.2008 05:45 • Größe: 2.1 MB

66) Our New Audio Blog, and ?Transitions Lenses?

The Audio Blog is going to be a regular installment of Manager Tools. Our intent is to provide you information on about a weekly basis about things that interest us that we find different or amusing or surprising about management that perhaps don’t make a strong enough case to be a podcast, or...

Datum: 01.10.2008 17:00 • Größe: 1.9 MB

65) 5 Ways to Master Horstman?s 3rd Law of Interviewing (Part 1)

Lately, we’ve gotten lots of questions from our 28,000+ members about our interviewing series. Because of the uncertainties many are facing today, we thought it might be helpful to return to our guidance on interviewing. Horstman’s 3rd Law of Interviewing: We’ll Take 90% Less Abili...

Datum: 28.09.2008 18:28 • Größe: 24.5 MB

64) I Hate My New Job

This cast describes steps to take when you realize early in a job that you don’t like it. One of the things that has changed as individuals have had to take over their own career management is more mistakes made by younger professionals. Years ago, larger organizations had a more complete HR a...

Datum: 22.09.2008 02:16 • Größe: 34.4 MB

63) Feel, Felt, Found

This cast describes a simple verbal tool for addressing tension, conflict or other ineffective emotions in the workplace. Mark has finally gotten around to writing this cast down! Every time Mark teaches this technique to an executive or manager, he turns to Mike and says, “we gotta make this ...

Datum: 14.09.2008 21:32 • Größe: 21.5 MB

62) Rolling Out the Manager Tools? Trinity - Part 4

This cast includes Part 4 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools’ Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching).

Datum: 07.09.2008 21:26 • Größe: 18.5 MB

61) Atlanta Effective Manager Conference Overview

November 11 - 12 , 2008 - Renaissance Concourse Hotel, Atlanta “I have attended Dale Carnegie, American Management Association, etc conferences and the MT conference blew them away!” - Jeff Vose, 2007 Conference Attendee Mark and I are pleased to announce our Effective Manager Conferen...

Datum: 04.09.2008 04:10 • Größe: 14.2 MB

60) Rolling Out the Manager Tools? Trinity - Part 3

This cast includes Part 3 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools’ Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching).

Datum: 31.08.2008 21:00 • Größe: 18.4 MB

59) Rolling Out the Manager Tools? Trinity - Part 2

This cast includes Part 2 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools’ Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching - and Delegation!).

Datum: 24.08.2008 00:08 • Größe: 17.1 MB

58) Rolling Out the Manager Tools? Trinity - Part 1

This cast describes how to gradually implement Manager Tools’ Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching - and Delegation!). We’ve been asked a thousand questions about what to do and when to do it when it comes to the Management Trinity, and we’ve finally gotten frustrate...

Datum: 18.08.2008 01:46 • Größe: 18.5 MB

57) The Meeting Introduction for Large Groups

This cast describes how to use the Manager Tools Meeting Introduction Tool For Large Groups - up to 100 Attendees! We get asked all the time, “how big a group have you ever used the Meeting Introduction Tool with?” The answer is 110. It is Mark’s favorite Manager Tool because eve...

Datum: 10.08.2008 20:41 • Größe: 23.9 MB

56) Business Travel - Packing

For years pundits have been predicting that technology (videoconferencing, etc.) will lead to the decline and death of business travel. We here at Manager Tools don?t agree. We’re human, and humans do better with face to face connections to ensure a complex project does well. Technology has...

Datum: 03.08.2008 21:00 • Größe: 25.2 MB

55) Boomerangs! (repost)

[Note: This is a repost of a previous corrupt podcast file.] This cast describes how to increase your chances of re-hiring someone who has left your organization. They’re called Boomerangs! There really IS a war for talent going on today. Demographics are in many ways working against us, redu...

Datum: 28.07.2008 04:04 • Größe: 16.9 MB

54) Boomerangs!

This cast describes how to increase your chances of re-hiring someone who has left your organization. They’re called Boomerangs! There really IS a war for talent going on today. Demographics are in many ways working against us, reducing the labor pool, as well as changing the nature of work a...

Datum: 27.07.2008 21:00 • Größe: 16.9 MB

53) Boomerangs! (repost)

[Note: This is a repost of a previous corrupt podcast file.] This cast describes how to increase your chances of re-hiring someone who has left your organization. They're called Boomerangs! There really IS a war for talent going on today. Demographics are in many ways working against us, reducing t...

Datum: 27.07.2008 13:04 • Größe: 19.5 MB

52) The MySpace Cast - Part 2 of 2

In today’s cast, we conclude our conversation on Myspace and social networks. As always, if you’re new to Manager Tools and haven’t listened to the first part, you may wish to go back and listen to that first.

Datum: 19.07.2008 17:45 • Größe: 21.3 MB

51) The MySpace Cast - Part 1 of 2

This cast gives guidance for managers’ use of Social Networking Sites like MySpace and FaceBook. If you’re one of our younger listeners, members, or premium subscribers, with less than 5 years in the workforce, chances are you have a MySpace or a FaceBook page. You stay in touch with fr...

Datum: 14.07.2008 06:13 • Größe: 24.7 MB

50) Sharing Your References

This cast tells you how to handle requests for your references when engaged in a job search. Even though “References Available Upon Request” is no longer a good idea, reference CHECKING is on the rise and will only increase in the coming years. It seems like since resumes don’t inc...

Datum: 06.07.2008 22:39 • Größe: 34.3 MB

49) How to Coach Directs on Interpersonal Skills - Part 2

On today’s cast, we complete our discussion on coaching directs on interpersonal skills. Of course, if you haven’t listened to last week’s cast, you may want to start there.

Datum: 29.06.2008 21:00 • Größe: 14.7 MB

48) How to Coach Directs on Interpersonal Skills - Part 1

This cast tells you how to begin a process of coaching a direct on interpersonal skills. Soft Skills! How many times have you heard, “hired for technical skills, fired for (lack of) people skills”? It may be common wisdom (an oxymoron if there ever was one), but it’s still true. ...

Datum: 22.06.2008 21:00 • Größe: 20.8 MB

47) San Francisco Effective Manager Conference Overview

We’ve been asked a number of times recently for more information about the Effective Manager Conference we’re holding in San Francisco, July 22 - 23. Although we used to put out a special cast each time we hosted a conference, we haven’t done that of late. So, for those who asked,...

Datum: 20.06.2008 22:01 • Größe: 13.9 MB

46) Managing in a Matrix Organization - Part 2

In this cast, we finish our conversation on how to manage effectively in a Matrix Organization. By now, you know why matrix organizations exist (and why we don’t like them). In today’s cast, we talk about what you DO to be effective in matrix organizations.

Datum: 16.06.2008 02:55 • Größe: 26.5 MB

45) The Manager Tools Effective Communications Conference

September 9-10, 2008 ? Hilton Palacio Del Rio Hotel, San Antonio, TX “Communication is What The Listener Does” - Peter Drucker We are pleased to announced our first ever Effective Communications Conference! Communication is so critical to every manager, and yet so few seem to do it well...

Datum: 13.06.2008 04:34 • Größe: 19.7 MB

44) Managing in a Matrix Organization - Part 1

This cast describes how to manage effectively in a Matrix Organization. (Not that we recommend it ) We’ve finally succumbed to the steady drumbeat of requests for “The Manager Tools Way” of dealing with how to survive and thrive in a matrix organization. A couple of years ago, ...

Datum: 08.06.2008 21:48 • Größe: 24.7 MB

43) How To Create A Simple Behavioral Interview Question

This cast describes how to create a simple behavioral interview question. We believe that behavioral interviewing is the best systemic form of interviewing evaluation a manager can use. There’s nothing that even comes CLOSE. Sure, there are those who think testing is important, and we don...

Datum: 02.06.2008 07:50 • Größe: 13.3 MB

42) Effective Meetings Behavior Part 5 - Posture

We’re all in meetings all the time, right? So how come there’s not an instruction manual? We all complain about them. But no one seems able or willing to do something about it. We will. We shared - 3 years ago - our recommendations on how to RUN an Effective Meeting. What about our ...

Datum: 26.05.2008 22:29 • Größe: 19.4 MB

41) One Kind Thing

This cast shares a simple technique for managers to be kind to their directs. Many of our casts address specific problems that managers face. It’s easy to forget that management is an inherently human endeavor. And when it comes to our humanity, all the technology in our modern world doesn&#...

Datum: 19.05.2008 03:26 • Größe: 30.4 MB

40) How to Remember Names

This show describes a couple of simple techniques to help you remember people’s names. Whether we like it or not, other people are part of our professional lives. And, as Dale Carnegie sagely noted, “A person’s name, to that person, is the sweetest and most important sound in an...

Datum: 12.05.2008 05:00 • Größe: 27.1 MB

39) Meal Interviews (Part 2 of 2)

This podcast is the second of two on the subtleties associated with being interviewed during a meal.

Datum: 04.05.2008 22:59 • Größe: 28.1 MB

38) Meal Interviews (Part 1 of 2)

This podcast details all the subtleties associated with being interviewed during a meal. We have NO EXCUSE for why we didn’t do this podcast 2 years ago. We get this question all the time, so much so that we’re making it part of the standard weekly show rather than restricting it to the...

Datum: 27.04.2008 22:31 • Größe: 16.2 MB

37) Meal Interviews (Part 1 of 2)

This podcast details all the subtleties associated with being interviewed during a meal. We have NO EXCUSE for why we didn't do this podcast 2 years ago. We get this question all the time, so much so that we're making it part of the standard weekly show rather than restricting it to the interview t...

Datum: 27.04.2008 07:31 • Größe: 20.5 MB

36) Resume Update 2008

This cast updates one of our most popular casts Your Resume Stinks [October 31, 2005] with learnings from our community and some timely recommendations regarding recent trends. And, in this cast, we make a very exciting New Product Announcement! The Link: Manager Tools Resume Service Description

Datum: 21.04.2008 01:57 • Größe: 36.8 MB

35) The Manager Tools Talent Scouting Averages

This cast describes a technique for measuring your team and/or organization’s ability to recognize talent. Many managers mistakenly fail to connect the process of hiring with the later successes and failures of the organization. When someone doesn’t work out, particularly if it’s ...

Datum: 13.04.2008 21:00 • Größe: 24.6 MB

34) The Manager Tools Talent Scouting Averages

This cast describes a technique for measuring your team and/or organization's ability to recognize talent. Many managers mistakenly fail to connect the process of hiring with the later successes and failures of the organization. When someone doesn't work out, particularly if it's 3-5 years after th...

Datum: 13.04.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

33) The Interview Results Capture Meeting

This cast explains how to capture interview results in a fast and simple meeting. One of the things we have learned over the years is that bad hiring is easy, and good hiring is hard. It’s easy to hire someone who isn’t going to work out ? just do one interview, don’t dig for deta...

Datum: 06.04.2008 23:02 • Größe: 28.2 MB

32) How to Give Feedback About Attire

This cast describes how to give feedback about your employees’ attire. Mark once was asked to adjudicate a discussion between two managers (one new, one experienced). The issue? “Should a manager give feedback about the clothes an employee is wearing?” Mark sided with the manager...

Datum: 30.03.2008 21:00 • Größe: 24.7 MB

31) The First Rule for New Managers

In this cast, we share the First Rule For New Managers: the most important recommendation for someone taking over a team. We have been asked hundreds of times for guidance on what to do as a new manager, and we’re finally ready to start rolling out this series of casts. This first cast will p...

Datum: 23.03.2008 15:17 • Größe: 25.7 MB

30) The Management Trinity - Delegation

This cast explains our rationale for why Delegation is the 4th Member of our Management Trinity. Ah, the FOURTH member of the Trinity. We did this for two reasons ? one, to make it easier to remember. Two, because you simply cannot grow an organization profitably without Delegation. You can grow t...

Datum: 16.03.2008 21:00 • Größe: 18.2 MB

29) The Management Trinity - Coaching

This cast describes the role of Coaching in the Management Trinity, and makes a KEY recommendation regarding development of directs and performance management. This week, we cover the Coaching Model’s inclusion in the Management Trinity. It?s BY FAR the least used of the Trinity. That’...

Datum: 10.03.2008 04:38 • Größe: 20.3 MB

28) The Management Trinity - Feedback

This show describes the The Feedback Model’s inclusion in the Management Trinity. We continue here our recent theme of revisiting the high level rationale and actions involved in the Management Trinity. In our discussion of feedback, we talk about the basics, of course: What the Feedback Mode...

Datum: 02.03.2008 21:00 • Größe: 16.9 MB

27) The Management Trinity - Feedback

This show describes the The Feedback Model's inclusion in the Management Trinity. We continue here our recent theme of revisiting the high level rationale and actions involved in the Management Trinity. In our discussion of feedback, we talk about the basics, of course: What the Feedback Model give...

Datum: 02.03.2008 06:00 • Größe: 11.2 MB

26) The Management Trinity - One on Ones

This cast begins our series on the the Management Trinity, and our reasons for each of its three (four) components: One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching and Delegation. We?ve talked about the Management Trinity for nearly three years, but we?ve never really laid out specifically how and why it works. T...

Datum: 25.02.2008 02:22 • Größe: 14.5 MB

25) One on Ones for the DIRECT

How can you have a great One on One with your boss? How can you get the the most out of the most valuable recurring communication investment you make? This is an important question … and it seems that a lot of managers DO NOT ask it. Some of the managers who are quite good at running their...

Datum: 17.02.2008 22:00 • Größe: 16.1 MB

24) How to Introduce People

This cast explains how to introduce one person to another in social and business settings. We surprised some of our members a couple of years ago when we included podcasts on how to attend a party, and how to introduce oneself to someone else. Some saw this as “etiquette”, which the mod...

Datum: 11.02.2008 00:57 • Größe: 13.1 MB

23) MT Goals Examples

This cast gives numerous simple examples of Manager Tools’ ‘MT Goals’: Goals that are Measurable and Time-Based. Our MT Goals 3-part cast generated a great deal of enthusiasm. A lot of managers are thinking right now about what their goals are or will be for this calendar year. A...

Datum: 03.02.2008 22:34 • Größe: 16.2 MB

22) The Annual Layoff Immunization (Part 2 of 2)

This week, we conclude our conversation on the Manager Tools Annual Layoff Immunization Guidelines.

Datum: 27.01.2008 21:00 • Größe: 13.6 MB

21) The Annual Layoff Immunization (Part 1 of 2)

We received lots of comments and email regarding our show regarding the first rule of layoffs. While our recommendation struck some folks the wrong way - “finances rule??” - those who HAD been laid off told us we were dead solid perfect. The fact is, we did not expect three years ago t...

Datum: 20.01.2008 21:00 • Größe: 10.6 MB

20) How to Set Annual Goals (Part 3 of 3)

In this cast, we complete our series on setting annual goals with Mark’s story of John and the Gate Guards. Although “merely” a story, don’t fool yourself … there are valuable lessons in there!

Datum: 14.01.2008 04:29 • Größe: 10.4 MB

19) How to Set Annual Goals (Part 2 of 3)

In this cast, we continue our conversation on setting annual goals. Last week we discussed our general thoughts on Goals, and particularly our thinly-veiled disdain for SMART goals. Today, we continue our conversation and discuss our core rules for setting goals. Next week, we’ll conclude the...

Datum: 07.01.2008 00:06 • Größe: 18.2 MB

18) How to Set Annual Goals (Part 1 of 3)

In this cast, we recommend how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like “SMART” goals. Many managers are going through goal setting efforts right now, for 2008. We get lots of questions about goals, and goal setting, this time of year. Sometimes, they’re dispiriting....

Datum: 31.12.2007 07:38 • Größe: 16.1 MB

17) How to Set Annual Goals (Part 1 of 3)

In this cast, we recommend how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like "SMART" goals. Many managers are going through goal setting efforts right now, for 2008. We get lots of questions about goals, and goal setting, this time of year. Sometimes, they're dispiriting. Managers seem to...

Datum: 30.12.2007 16:38 • Größe: unbekannt

16) One on One Scheduling Guidance (Part 2 of 2)

Today, we finish our discussion on the fine art of Scheduling One-on-Ones.

Datum: 24.12.2007 00:07 • Größe: 10 MB

15) One on One Scheduling Guidance (Part 1 of 2)

This cast describes how to schedule your One on Ones. We get lots of questions on One on Ones (O3s). And, we?re happy that we do, because O3s are the heart of the Management Trinity. We find a lot of managers struggle with when to have their one on ones, whose calendar takes precedence, what days ...

Datum: 17.12.2007 00:48 • Größe: 10.4 MB

14) How to Handle a Group Interview

This cast describes a simple way to handle a group interview. Interviewing is one of the real tragedies in most companies. It?s so easy to do it well (once you get over the Horstman Curve), but so few are willing to take the time. Oh, sure, everyone wants to complain about lousy output (low retent...

Datum: 10.12.2007 05:45 • Größe: 10 MB

13) The Basics of Calendar Management (Part 2 of 2)

This is the second of our casts that describe our recommendations about calendar management. Last week, we covered some basics of calendar management the most important of which was that effective managers think about managing their priorities a WEEK at a time - thinking in terms of weeks is the mos...

Datum: 03.12.2007 04:12 • Größe: 9.1 MB

12) The Basics of Calendar Management (Part 1 of 2)

This cast describes the first of our recommendations about calendar management. We spend a lot of time talking to executive clients about how they spend their time, and how they manage their priorities through their calendars. Several times over the past couple of years we?ve talked about how when ...

Datum: 26.11.2007 07:16 • Größe: 11.2 MB

11) Getting Laid Off - Finances Rule

This cast reveals the most important concept a laid off manager must know: Finances Rule. it is the first in a series designed to help both prepare for and navigate through a layoff. Most of us fear being laid off. It?s a good fear to have, frankly - being laid off is a difficult passage for anyon...

Datum: 19.11.2007 07:50 • Größe: 10.5 MB

10) How to be Persuasive in a Presentation (Part 2 of 2)

This cast describes the second part in our series how to think about being persuasive in a presentation.

Datum: 12.11.2007 04:01 • Größe: 12 MB

9) European Effective Manager Conference Podcast

As many of you know, we recently announced our first European Effective Manager Conference, January 29-30 at the Sheraton Amsterdam Schiphol. Typically, we do a brief podcast with a brief review of the conference when we announce the conference … and this time is no different, although a bit ...

Datum: 06.11.2007 09:37 • Größe: 12.4 MB

8) How to be Persuasive in a Presentation (Part 1 of 2)

This cast describes how to think about being persuasive in a presentation. One of the most maligned arts in professional life today is persuasion. The classic case of persuasion falling out of favor is how often professional sales people are viewed as golfers with big expense accounts. Or, perhaps...

Datum: 05.11.2007 06:25 • Größe: 12.2 MB

7) Annual Reviews and Compensation (Part 2 of 2)

In this cast, we finish up our conversation on approaching compensation decisions during annual reviews. Listening to last week’s show first will help!

Datum: 29.10.2007 06:26 • Größe: 14.2 MB

6) Annual Reviews and Compensation (Part 1 of 2)

This cast describes a way to approach compensation decisions during annual reviews. We?re in the last quarter of the calendar year, so effective managers are already thinking about performance reviews for their directs. (We don?t agree with delivering all reviews at the end of the calendar year, bu...

Datum: 22.10.2007 06:46 • Größe: 13 MB

5) How to Leave a Voicemail

This cast describes how to leave an effective voicemail. If you?ve ever gotten a voicemail which sounded like, “[your name], this is [their name], call me,” you know why we?re doing this cast. Phone manners have been steadily decreasing for decades. When boys used to call for Mark?s dau...

Datum: 15.10.2007 07:17 • Größe: 23.5 MB

4) Feedback and the Shot Across the Bow

In this cast, we share what do effective managers do when a direct disagrees with the feedback you give them. As much as many of the managers in our community love how much more effective our tools (particularly the Trinity) make them, it does seem that every once in a while, something goes awry in ...

Datum: 08.10.2007 06:46 • Größe: 20.4 MB

3) How to be Effective in Everyday Conversations

In this cast, we describe how to be effective in everyday conversations. We?ve spent a great deal of time on managerial communications, and for good reason. Managers rely on communication to achieve the very basic requirement of their role: aligning and inspiring others to achieve more than they co...

Datum: 01.10.2007 13:02 • Größe: 17.3 MB

2) Horstman?s Wager (Part 2 of 2)

Today, we cover the 2nd in a two-part series on Horstman’s Wager. Last week we covered the basics as to why “Playing the Game” doesn’t work … today we get into the details of the dreaded Horstman’s Wager MATRIX. During the show, we refer to the printed matrix ...

Datum: 24.09.2007 06:42 • Größe: 11.2 MB

1) Horstman?s Wager (Part 1 of 2)

This cast is about interview preparation, and the need for ethics and candor during the process. We’ve been pleased by the demand for our interviewing product - close to 1,000 purchases so far, and the early feedback has been quite powerful. If you would like to read what folks are saying, yo...

Datum: 17.09.2007 04:01 • Größe: 12.5 MB