Manager Tools

Rules of Small Project Management - Chapter 1 - Deliverables Basics - Part 1 03.02.2020 ↓

Part 1 of our guidance on small project management deliverables basics.

Authenticity And The Manager Tools Trinity - Part 2 27.01.2020 ↓

Part 2 of our guidance for managers and directs expressing concern that Manager Tools' Trinity guidance is formulaic, and not authentic. Here's how to think through those concerns, and/or address them from a colleague.

Authenticity And The Manager Tools Trinity - Part 1 20.01.2020 ↓

Part 1 of our guidance for managers and directs expressing concern that Manager Tools' Trinity guidance is formulaic, and not authentic. Here's how to think through those concerns, and/or address them from a colleague.

Manager Tools and Race and Gender 13.01.2020 ↓

The data on how race and gender affect behaviors and outcomes for the Manager Tools trinity.

The Effective Hiring Manager Missing Chapters - Reducing Interviewee Stress - Part 2 06.01.2020 ↓

Part 2 of our guidance on reducing interviewee stress. Adding more stress to a candidate reduces the effectiveness of your interview process. Don't do it.

Assumptive Goal Setting - HOF 2019 30.12.2019 ↓

Our Hall of Fame guidance on how to think more creatively about annual planning goals.

How to Set Annual Goals - HOF 2019 23.12.2019 ↓

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like "SMART" goals.

The Effective Hiring Manager Missing Chapters - Reducing Interviewee Stress - Part 1 16.12.2019 ↓

Part 1 of our guidance on reducing interviewee stress. Adding more stress to a candidate reduces the effectiveness of your interview process. Don't do it.

Simple Interviewer Training - Part 2 - HOF 2019 09.12.2019 ↓

Part 2 of our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to teach directs how to interview candidates for hiring.

Simple Interviewer Training - Part 1 - HOF 2019 02.12.2019 ↓

Part 1 of our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to teach directs how to interview candidates for hiring.

Delivering The Performance Review - HOF 2019 25.11.2019 ↓

Our Hall of Fame guidance on delivering a performance review.

Preparing Performance Reviews - HOF 2019 18.11.2019 ↓

This week, we're re-releasing one of our Hall of Fame casts on how to prepare performance reviews.

Solution to a Stalled Technical Career - HOF 2019 11.11.2019 ↓

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on the secret to reinvigorating a stalled technical career.

The Effective Hiring Manager Missing Chapters - Reasons To Say No #1 - Unprepared 04.11.2019 ↓

There are some rarely forgivable interviewing mistakes that justify ruling a candidate out even when there are good reasons to hire them. Lack of preparation is one of them.

M Conference Learnings and Highlights 28.10.2019 ↓

Mark and Mike talk about what happened at the Manager Tools 2019 inaugural M Conference.

Negative Feedback Pushback Examples - Part 2 21.10.2019 ↓

Part 2 of our examples of how to respond to different kinds of pushback to feedback.

How To Turn Down a Job Candidate - HOF 2019 14.10.2019 ↓

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on effective and ineffective ways to notify a candidate you’ve interviewed that you won’t be offering them.

Negative Feedback Pushback Examples - Part 1 07.10.2019 ↓

Part 1 of our examples of how to respond to different kinds of pushback to feedback.

Introducing The Effective Hiring Manager Book 30.09.2019 ↓

An interview with Mark Horstman about his new book, The Effective Hiring Manager.

Don't Use Consensus 23.09.2019 ↓

Using consensus as a decision making tool is a bad idea for managers.

Feedback Is Not A Personal Attack 16.09.2019 ↓

Feedback is about behavior. It's not a personal attack.

First Meeting New Direct Series: Support The Team 09.09.2019 ↓

New team members need guidance about your key issues early on. This is a continuation of our series about messages that shouldn't wait.

Meeting Leadership - 6 Rules - Part 3 02.09.2019 ↓

Part 3 of our guidance on what leaders do to take their meetings to the next level.

Meeting Leadership - 6 Rules - Part 2 26.08.2019 ↓

Part 2 of our guidance on what leaders do to take their meetings to the next level.

Meeting Leadership - 6 Rules - Part 1 19.08.2019 ↓

Part 1 of our guidance on what leaders do to take their meetings to the next level.