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As a manager, your goal at work is to get ahead. You want to be seen as a star performer who gets things done. You want your work to be viewed as being of the highest quality and you want your management to come looking for you when they have a slot open up for … Read moreCan You Become A Better Manager By Doing Less?
As a manager you are in charge of a team of people who have to do what you tell them to do. However, at the same time you work for a boss who can tell you what to do. What this means for you (and your career) is that you’d like to be able to … Read moreGetting Along With The Boss: How To
What’s your plan for getting promoted from the manager position that you currently have? You’d like to get kicked upstairs, but just exactly how are you going to go about making that happen? A lot of us hope that the quality of the work that we do will speak for us and our bosses will … Read moreManagers Need To Know How To Mange Up
So has your office gone to one of those “open office” floor plans? According to the really smart people, there are a lot of advantages of this kind of open office design. However, one of the downsides to it is that it can be all too easy for someone to show up unannounced at your … Read moreHow To Stop Interruptions In The Office
How much do you talk? Do you talk enough? Or perhaps, do you talk too much? A key part of the job of being a manager is using your manager skills to deliver good communication. There are a lot of different ways for us to communicate;and talking is one of the most important. However, it … Read moreManagers Need To Ask Themselves If They Talk Too Much
When we start a new manager job, things can be quite frustrating. Where we were previously allowed to occupy leadership a role, we now find ourselves in a powerless position at the bottom of the organization ladder. No matter what manager skills we have, it can be all too easy to start to think about … Read moreHow Managers Can Gain Power At Work
So what’s the worst thing that could happen to you as a manager? The list of things could be quite long, but I think that we could all agree that finding yourself trapped in a job that you don’t like would have to be close to the top of the list. We can probably make … Read moreWhat Managers Need To Do Before They Quit
As a manager, we meet a lot of people. What this means for us is that we are responsible for a lot of first impressions. Although we may not spend a lot of time thinking about it, it turns out that those first impressions often shape how people choose to interact with us. We’d like … Read moreManagers Have To Deal With The Challenge Of First Impressions
How’s that manager job going for you? Are you finding that you can use your manager skills to have enough time to get all of the things that you need to get done, done? If you are like most of us, the answer is no. You go into the office each day with a well … Read moreHow Managers Can Get More Done By Doing Less
As a manager, you are responsible for using your manager skills to manage a team of professionals. This means that you have to spend time with each member of your team in order to make sure that they have a good understanding of where they want their career to go and how they are going … Read moreManagers Need To Learn How To Humblebrag