The Effective Manager Book

Part 1 of our guidance on what to do if your direct keeps saying no when you ask if they're open to feedback.

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

We've gotten a great many questions, comments, and kudos for our show in July on the Feedback Model. Many listeners are discovering the power of feedback, of taking it out of the realm of the rare and into the stream of the every day. Not to sound repetitive, but most managers see feedback as akin to holding their breath - waiting as long as possible, and then creating a lot of sound and often fur...

In this show we continue our conversation on One-on-Ones. In addition to a brief review (very brief -- not a substitute for listening to the previous two shows!), we review a number of questions and finer points.

This guidance tells you how to avoid the mistake of "Agenda Fascism" in One on Ones.

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

The conclusion of our conversation on Skip Levels. Have you scheduled YOUR first Skip Level yet?

Our guidance about a rarely used but powerful Manager Tool, The Skip Level.

Our guidance on having a notebook and pen with you at all times, and what to do with it.

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

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

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

This cast describes how to run timely meetings.

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

Today, we cover the second in a two-part series of podcasts on Time Management. If you're new to the show or you didn't listen to last week's podcast, it's probably worth while going back and listening to the previous show first. Otherwise, you'll be joining the conversation half-way through and we all know how comfortable that feels. :-(

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 manage is what we do with that time. And yet, the overwhelming evidence is that managers do NOT "manage what they do with that time." There's a shocking CHASM between our behavior in this area and our knowled...

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

This show describes The Feedback Model's inclusion in the Management Trinity.

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.

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 guidance describes how to interact with a direct who resists or refuses more, new, or different work because they're "comfortable where they are" or "not interested in promotion."

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

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