Synopsis
Tired of management theory? Want to learn specific skills to help improve your management performance? Then Manager Tools is the podcast for you! Manager Tools is a weekly business podcast focused on helping professionals become more effective managers and leaders. Each week, we discuss specific actions for professionals to take to achieve their desired management and career objectives. Manager Tools won Best Business Podcast Award in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2012 as well as the People's Choice Award in 2008. Go to http://www.manager-tools.com/recommendations to read what others are saying about the impact Manager Tools has had on their careers and lives.
Episodes
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The Management Trinity - Part 1
04/10/2009This cast describes the origins of the Management Trinity: why we preach it, and how it came to be.
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Timely Meetings – Part 2
27/09/2009This cast concludes our conversation on how to run timely meetings.
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Admin Trip Folders – Part 2
07/09/2009This cast concludes our discussion on a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.
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Admin Trip Folders - Part 1
31/08/2009This cast describes a standard practice of administrative assistants helping managers prepare for business travel.
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Direct Relationships Acid Test
24/08/2009This cast prescribes asking your directs what their children's names are.
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Quick and Dirty Choosing a Number Two
16/08/2009This cast describes a quick and dirty way to choose an interim replacement or number two for your role as manager.
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Project Manager Feedback
09/08/2009This cast describes how give feedback to a project team member if you are a project manager.
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What To Delegate
25/07/2009This cast recommends simple choices for what to delegate to our directs.
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Fighting The Downturn Silence
05/07/2009This cast describes how to combat the normal tendency of directs to communicate LESS during a downturn.
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Simple DiSC®, Delegation, And Project Management - Part 2
28/06/2009In this cast, we conclude our conversation on how to delegate and manage projects more effectively based on the DiSC profiles of your team members.
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Simple DiSC, Delegation, And Project Management - Part 1
22/06/2009This cast describes how to delegate and manage projects more effectively based on the DiSC profiles of your team members.
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Change Leadership, What's My Visual - Part 2
14/06/2009In this cast, we conclude our conversation about beginning change efforts in any organization
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Change Leadership, What's My Visual - Part 1
07/06/2009This cast describes how to begin any effort to change an organization.
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Project Manager One on Ones - Part 2
31/05/2009The conclusion of our discussion on Project Manager One on Ones.
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Project Manager One on Ones - Part 1
25/05/2009This cast explains the basics of how to have One on Ones with project team members who do not report to you.
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Phone One on Ones
17/05/2009We've said it a hundred times, but we've never covered the basics of HOW to conduct a One on One on the phone. Clearly it works - Mark has shared that over half of the O3s he's done have been over the phone. Here's how.
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Coaching the Meeting Delegation- Part 2
11/05/2009This cast concludes our discussion on how to coach one of our directs on how to run our staff meeting which we have delegated to them.

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