Leaders & Managers
From the nitty gritty of daily management to addressing your aspirations of leadership, this section for leaders & managers tells you how to make strong leadership decisions, build effective teams, delegate and stay above the everyday management muddle.
Get tips, strategies, tool and advice on: performance reviews, preventing workplace violence, best-practices leadership, team building, leadership skills, people management and management training.
With all the mystery that surrounds getting ahead, there really are
only five ingredients you need to accelerate onto the fast track, says
Susan Marshall, a leadership development consultant based in West Bend,
Wis.
Establish a system of discipline and stick to it.
Much of the conventional wisdom regarding leadership development is wrong, says Morgan W. McCall Jr., author of High Flyers: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders.
Most employees think their companies do not take full advantage of their biggest asset: the intelligence of their people.
One of the most common mistakes that new managers make involves how they coach their staff.
It’s always great to tell one of my managers that I’m giving him a
promotion. We talk pay, office size, staffing—all that fun stuff.
Sometimes bosses are seen as power-hungry monsters.
You think office politics are tough? Imagine battling the real thing.
The biggest problem with having bullies in your workplace isn’t their
unlikable personalities or their unrelenting nastiness. The real harm
is the distraction and disruption caused by their very presence.
Ask job candidates to define five technical terms related to the position that they can’t possibly be expected to know.
