Manager Tools
Manager Tools is a weekly podcast focused on helping you become a more effective manager and leader. Each week we'll be talking about new tools and easy techniques you can use to help achieve your management and career objectives. If you're tired of a lot of management theory and would rather learn SPECIFIC actions you can take TODAY to improve your management performance, you'll enjoy the manager tools podcast.
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Horstman's Law of Project Management - Part 1
In this cast we describe Horstman's Law of Project Management: Who Does What By When. We've talked and joked about it many times, and this cast will put to rest the details of Horstman's Law of Project Management (HLPM). Mark came up with it several years ago, to help a group of young managers ge …
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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 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 is defined …
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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 …
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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 …
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Race, Don't Chase - Part 2
During this show, we conclude our conversation on "Race, Don't Chase".
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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 as exclusive a territory as it used to be, …
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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 …
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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.
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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 in ma …
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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 Ability for 10% More A …
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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).
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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).
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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!).
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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 frustrated enough to do so …
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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 ones professional adult life …
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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 its a critical position, and/or one thats been open a long time. Because youre in a buyers market, its usually pre …
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Career Tools Cast #1: How to Handle Location in an Interview
This cast describes a simple way to handle the interviewing question, Whats your location preference? Many people lose great job opportunities because they dont know how to talk about WHERE they want to work without scaring the recruiter. Theres a right way to do it. Its okay to prefer a cer …
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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 youve probably heard that providing references is generally frowned upon. More and more, HR says you cant. But you can.
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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, theres not a lot of training or development spent on it. Everyone hates learning it on their ow …
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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 mana …
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