Manager Tools

This cast provides guidance on giving feedback when coaching directs on their presentation skills, AND a detailed template managers can use when doing so.

This cast concludes our conversation on how to increase the chances that you will get to hire your favorite candidate when he or she has to interview elsewhere in the organization.

This cast describes how to increase the chances that you will get to hire your favorite candidate when he or she has to interview elsewhere in the organization.

This cast concludes our conversation on a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High C Managers: finding fault with recommendations and ideas.

This cast addresses a behavioral change for an insidious practice of High C Managers: finding fault with recommendations and ideas.

This cast describes how to refresh your One on Ones with your directs after you've been doing them for 1-2 years.

This cast describes how to work with a boss who repeatedly skips over a manager and works directly with your directs (his or her "skips").

This cast concludes our conversation on handling a direct who blames another direct for their failure to deliver a task on time.

This cast recommends how to handle a direct who blames another direct for their failure to deliver a task on time.

This cast recommends how managers handle requests for confidentiality from their directs.

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 cast concludes our conversation on how to run timely meetings.

This cast describes how to run timely meetings.

This cast describes how to start every One on One.

This cast concludes our discussion on a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.

This cast describes a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.

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

This cast describes a quick and dirty way to choose an interim replacement or number two for your role as manager.