Manager Tools

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

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

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.

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.

This cast concludes our conversation on a more effective way to set standards for getting one of your directs promoted.

This cast describes a more effective way to set standards for getting one of your directs promoted.

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

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

This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High D Managers: always putting results in front of relationships. People MATTER!

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

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

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

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

This cast addresses how to stop intra-office gossip.

This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High I Managers: starting well and ending poorly.

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

This cast provides guidance on giving feedback when coaching directs on their presentation skills, AND a detailed template managers can use when doing so.

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.

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.

This cast concludes our conversation on a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High C Managers: finding fault with recommendations and ideas.

This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High C Managers: finding fault with recommendations and ideas.

This cast describes how to refresh your One on Ones with your directs after you've been doing them for 1-2 years.

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").

This cast concludes our conversation on handling a direct who blames another direct for their failure to deliver a task on time.

This cast recommends how to handle a direct who blames another direct for their failure to deliver a task on time.

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

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

In this cast, we continue our conversation on the origins of the Management Trinity, focusing on One on Ones and Feedback.

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

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

This cast describes how to run timely meetings.

This cast describes how to start every One on One.

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

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

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

This cast describes a quick and dirty way to choose an interim replacement or number two for your role as manager.

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

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

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

Part 3 of our updated guidance on the Manager Tools Coaching Model.

Part 2 of our updated guidance on the Manager Tools Coaching Model.

Part 1 of our updated guidance on the Manager Tools Coaching Model.

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

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.

This cast describes how to delegate and manage projects more effectively based on the DiSC profiles of your team members.

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

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

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

This cast explains the basics of how to have One on Ones with project team members who do not report to you.

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.