Manager Tools Hall of Fame Casts

Time management is a fallacy, we like to say. Time doesn't need you to "manage" it - it's been getting along just fine without you for billions of years. We can't manage time. But what we CAN manag...

This cast describes the first of our recommendations about calendar management....

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-...

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. Perhaps it's a layoff, perhaps it's a re-organization, ...

The conclusion of our guidance on what to do instead of multi-tasking....

If you're a manager, don't think for a moment that someone else is managing your career. Those days are long gone. YOU are managing your career. What you do - not only in job skills, but also in wh...

This casts lays out our recommendations for an Effective Teleconference Meeting, or Conference Call....

In today's fast and flat world, ideas are becoming critical competitive advantages. Managers - and many others - need to be good at getting the most and best ideas from themselves and their teams....

This week, we finish (finally!) our series on working effectively with administrative assistants. ...

One of the lost arts of the corporate world in the past 20 years is how to work with an administrative assistant. While we won't argue that a great deal of the "leaning out" of corporations has been a...

This guidance describes what to say when you don't have an answer to a question, even when it's urgent....

Not everyone on your team wants to go along with every change you want to create.  Luckily, you don't have to win over everyone....

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

This cast describes the role of Coaching in the Management Trinity, and makes a KEY recommendation regarding development of directs and performance management....

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? ...

This cast begins our series on the Management Trinity, and our reasons for each of its three (four) components: One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching and Delegation....

The definition of an Effective Manager is to achieve results while retaining your team members....