Manager Tools

This guidance describes how to be ready to talk with your boss about your team.

This cast continues our discussion on whom to coach and develop on your team with your marginal time.

This guidance describes whom to coach and develop on your team with your marginal time.

A short (8 min) extra cast where Mark introduces the Coaching Dilemma and solicits YOUR responses. What do you think is the correct answer to the dilemma?

This cast concludes our discussion on how to use your calendar more proactively.

This guidance describes how to use your calendar more proactively.

This cast concludes our guidance on the right way to conduct One on Ones with your contract employees.

This guidance describes the right way to conduct One on Ones with your contract employees.

This guidance concludes our discussion on how to learn about your skips and develop your direct report managers by discussing your skips on a regular basis.

This guidance describes how to learn about your skips and develop your direct report managers by discussing your skips on a regular basis.

This guidance describes how to prepare for the inevitable loss of gadgets and gadget power, most likely on while traveling.

This cast concludes our guidance on what a professional manager's role and limits are when it comes to being friends with our directs.

This guidance describes what a professional manager's role and limits are when it comes to being friends with our directs.

This cast concludes our guidance on what to do and why when directs want to describe why they did what they did when you have given them negative feedback.

This guidance describes what to do and why when directs want to describe why they did what they did when you have given them negative feedback.

This guidance recommends having any of your directs who present, and maybe even yourself, join and attend a Toastmasters Chapter.

This guidance explains how to BEGIN to measure YOUR success in rolling out the Manager Tools Trinity – One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching, and Delegation.

This cast concludes our guidance explaining the One-Third Planning Rule: when assessing and assigning work to your team, never take more than 1/3 of the available time to do so.

This guidance explains the One-Third Planning Rule: when assessing and assigning work to your team, never take more than 1/3 of the available time to do so.

This cast concludes our recommendations on developing your directs by always having them have more to do than they have time to do ... by assigning and delegating more work than they think they can do.

This cast continues our recommendations on developing your directs by always having them have more to do than they have time to do ... by assigning and delegating more work than they think they can do.

This guidance recommends developing your directs by always having them have more to do than they have time to do…by assigning and delegating more work than they think they can do.

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 met weekly, or regularly, with your peer managers.

This guidance recommends how to give a lot of feedback about a specific event all at once.