How Managers Should Handle Criticism

We will all receive criticism, it how we handle it that matters

So I’ve got a quick question for you: are you perfect? No? Well good news – I’m not perfect either. What this means is that both of us will, at times, make mistakes no matter how good our manager skills are. When we do that, others are going to see what we’ve done and they … Read more

How Managers Can Keep Their Teams Happy

Happy teams are productive teams

As a manager you have a number of different tasks that you are responsible for using your manager skills to accomplish. You have to attract the right talent to join your team. This is easy because we have manager training that shows us how to do it. Once you do this, you have to find … Read more

Rules For Managers When They Are Interviewing Candidates

Managers want to make sure that they don't show poor behavior

I’m pretty sure that most of us have spent some time learning how to interview candidates to join our team. However, there is one area that our manager skills may not have covered: how to follow up after an interview well. In fact, very few of us probably have any manager skills when it comes … Read more

How Managers Can Make One-On-One Meetings More Valuable

Our goal has to be to make each meeting more meaningful

As a manager, one of your most important manager skills is meeting with the members of your team. These meetings take place for a wide number of different reasons. We may be handing out new assignments, we may want an update on an ongoing project, or we may be having problems with a team member’s … Read more

Should Managers Be Using Emojis At Work?

It turns out that Emojis are the key to clear and concise communication

So can we talk about email? It’s a key part of our life and it seems like we spend a great deal of time each day using our manager skills to read emails that have been sent to us and composing emails to send to others. However, email has always had a problem. It turns … Read more

How Managers Can Get Over Their Addiction To Email

Managers need to learn how to not allow their email to control how they spend their time

As managers, a great deal of each day is taken up with dealing with email. No matter if it is sorting through all of the new email that has arrived since we last took a look at it or it is crafting the perfect response to that email that we just got, all of this … Read more