Posts Tagged ‘management skills’
Podcast – Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager
Be a More Effective Manager - stop answering those questions, seize your time, and it's your fault
Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager
Become a More Effective Manager - Three Counter-Intuitive Steps In the world of planning and strategy, there is a truism that too much planning, too much detail, too much analysis, leads to inaction, to a loss of opportunity. Along the same line of observation, in the world of learning to becoming a more effective manager, there can be too [...]
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Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information – Podcast
Seize time of your own by gaining control over Too Much Information. The podcast is 5 minutes 10 seconds long. This is a podcast based on an earlier blog entry of the same title.
Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information
I have written a number of other postings about time management. I always start off with the true, but worn, observation that time is the one element of business (life, too) that can not be purchased, borrowed, or inventoried. It is a requirement, before all else, that managers gain control over their time. In practice, I have found, this means [...]
It’s Always Your Fault – taking responsibility for personnel
Attracting, selecting, training and mentoring, and pruning human resources are among the most important tasks a manager confronts. Almost everyone agrees that, at the top level of organizations, managers need to be devoting a significant portion of their time addressing the people needs of the firm. Without the right people in the right positions, [...]
Seize Your Time: the breakthrough first step in time management
A breakthrough first step in time management to become a more effective manager. PODCAST The podcast is 6 minutes 14 seconds long. Transcript of the podcast (download PDF)
Managers – Don’t Answer That Question!
The miraculous practice of not answering subordinates’ questions. A counter-intuitive strategy for high performance, yours and theirs. The podcast is 6 minutes 34 seconds long.
Podcasts
Here is a list of all podcasts with links to them here on the Business Coach blog: - Delegation, Outsourcing, and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Strength - Outsourcing - not a strategy that is as simple as a make or buy decision - Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager - Getting Things Done by David Allen [...]
Building a Positive Culture – the no jerk zone
A very common question from managers is, "How do I build a positive, supportive, productive culture in my company?" This seems like a very abstract objective until you face up to some of the negative behaviors that can be found in many companies. When you identify these behaviors, and they are not hard to notice, you are then presented with an [...]
