Tag: Tips for New Managers
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Top 10 Ways to Be Happy at Work
Working at Google sounds very cool. I’d be the first to tout Google as a motivating employer: free food,Fortune magazine top 100 companies, employers provide the best workplaces. At the same time, perks that enable employees to spend all of their time at work exploit people and destroy work – life balance. So, even the best employer […]
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Why Do Employees Quit Their Jobs?
The costs to your organization when good employees quit are hard to quantify, but trust me, they are more serious than you are adding up. Retaining good employees, with the means that an employer can control, is critical during a time when skilled employees are becoming more difficult to find. It’s unfortunate, but good employees […]
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10 Reasons Why Your Employees Hate You
In the world of employees, a good boss is differentiated from a bad boss by the way the boss makes the employees feel. They also assess the boss based on his or her contribution – or lack thereof – to their ability to get their jobs done successfully. Employees tolerate a lot of bad boss […]
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The 10 Essential Roles of a Manager
What exactly does a manager do? Or, perhaps a better question would be, what should a manager do? What are the uniquely essential roles of a manager? Written in 1954, Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management was the first book written about management as a profession and being a unique role in organizations. Drucker’s book remains an must-read book […]
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Here’s The Schedule Very Successful People Follow Every Day but not Me
All too often, productivity tips are a dime a dozen. Some even conflict with each other. What we need is a system. What schedule do the pros use? What system does science say allows us to be most productive? What’s key is feeling in control and making sure your energy levels are matched to the […]
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The Lesson of the Red Horse
At a recent family gathering, my nine-year old niece used her new colored pens to draw animals on scraps of paper she found. The first horse she drew was a very nice blending of blues and yellows and greens and was kneeling in a field of tall grass. What does this have to do with […]
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The Secret to Becoming a Better Leader
There’s a scene in the Movie “City Slickers” where the lead character, Mitch, played by Billy Crystal, is debating with his ornery trail boss Curly, about the meaning of life. It goes like this: Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?[holds up one finger] Curly: This.Mitch: Your finger?Curly: One thing. Just one thing. […]
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70 Awesome Coaching Questions Using the GROW Model
The GROW Model is the most common coaching framework used by executive coaches. Given its relative simplicity, many managers have taught themselves the GROW model as a way to structure coaching and mentoring sessions with their employees. GROW is an acronym that stands for: Goal Current Reality Options Will (or Way Forward) Managers can use the […]
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10 Things Your Employees May Not be Telling You
When you’re a manager, the old saying “no news is good news” doesn’t always apply. While it may be tempting to bury your head in the sand (or keep your door closed) and assume that all is well with your employees because no one is complaining, that’s a bad assumption. They may be another reason […]
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Top 10 New Manager Mistakes
Managing can be a little difficult at first. A recent poll found that more than 50% of managers received NO training before starting the job. Here is a list of the most common mistakes new managers make so you can avoid making them too. (If you think I missed one, use the “Readers Respond” link […]
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The Secret to Becoming a Better Leader
There’s a scene in the Movie “City Slickers” where the lead character, Mitch, played by Billy Crystal, is debating with his ornery trail boss Curly, about the meaning of life. It goes like this: Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?[holds up one finger] Curly: This.Mitch: Your finger?Curly: One thing. Just one thing. […]
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How to Help Your Manager Get Promoted
When you search “How to get promoted”, you will find millions of articles with all kinds of great tips for climbing the ladder. However, here’s a fact of organizational work life that isn’t often mentioned: your success is heavily tied to the success of your manager. In most cases, when your manager wins, so do you. If […]
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Thinking Strategically First Makes Strategic Planning Work
Strategic planning for organizations is not considered fun. Strategic planning is often done under duress because it is required. Strategic planning is important yet many such plans are found on bookcases, not on the desktops being used. Done well, a strategic plan provides a useful focus that energizes and moves the organization toward its mission […]
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Why Every Manager Should Create their own Succession Plan
Why should a manager care about their own replacement? Isn’t that HR’s job? Perhaps, but there are at least four compelling reasons for a manager to be proactive when it comes to their own succession planning: 1. So that you are not seen as “irreplaceable”. On the surface, being so important that no one else […]
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Tips for New Managers: Part 2
Being promoted to a manager for the first time is one of the most challenging transitions a manager will ever have to navigate. You’ve come to the right place! Here’s the advice I would give to any new manager, over a series of two meetings. Tips #16-30: 16. Learn and practice a coaching model. Coaching […]