What Do Managers Have To Know About Working From Home?
Managers who find themselves working from home need to change the ways that they do work in order to remain productive
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How Can A Manager Build A Happy Team?
Ok manager, so you are in charge of a team. What would you like to do with that team? If you are like most of us, you’d like to be able to use your manager skills to create a happy, very productive team. The studies have shown us that happy teams score higher on productivity, … Read more How Can A Manager Build A Happy Team?
How Can Managers Get Workers To Stop Looking At Their Phones?
So here’s a quick quiz for you. How many times each day do the members of your team take out their phone and look at them? It turns out that the answer is 2,617 times per day that we all tap, poke, pinch, or swipe our phones. From a manager point-of-view, just exactly how much … Read more How Can Managers Get Workers To Stop Looking At Their Phones?
How Managers Can Achieve A Sense Of Calm
Let’s face it: being a manager can be a very stressful job. People are always asking us for things and we are trying to do our best to use our manager skills to manage our team. If we are not careful, the stress associated with the job can become so much that it starts to … Read more How Managers Can Achieve A Sense Of Calm
How Should Managers Deal With Workplace Suicides?
So let’s face it. Talking about someone ending their own life is never a pleasant discussion. However, as a manager you need to be prepared to deal with this kind of event if someone on your team decides to take their own life. If we can step away from the hard and cold fact that … Read more How Should Managers Deal With Workplace Suicides?
Managers Need To Start Dealing With The Problem Of Bullies In The Workplace
Can anyone remember going to kindergarten? Way back then life was a lot simpler. We all had a set of rules that were given to us on how to behave (say “thank you”, be kind to others, listen to what the teacher has to say, etc.). Now perhaps not everyone followed each of these rules … Read more Managers Need To Start Dealing With The Problem Of Bullies In The Workplace
Do Your Team Members Need “Me Days”?
As an IT manager, you need to always be searching for ways to use your IT manager skills to get the most out of the team that you are managing. Your team is made up of highly trained IT professionals and with a little luck, they come in each day and really apply themselves to … Read more Do Your Team Members Need “Me Days”?
What Should IT Managers Be Doing On Sundays?
The job of being an IT manager is a tough job indeed. We spend our weeks using out IT manager skills to manage our team, planning for the future, and attempting to put out fires when they show up. All of this can easily become a bit overwhelming if we are not careful. What most … Read more What Should IT Managers Be Doing On Sundays?
How IT Managers Can Stop Their Team From Wasting Time Online
Ok, so I’m willing to confess to this crime. I really like the website Reddit and, if left to my own devices, there is a good chance that I could spend way too much time during a day exploring the various nooks and subreddits on this site. As an IT manager, you are probably facing … Read more How IT Managers Can Stop Their Team From Wasting Time Online
Should IT Managers Help Their Teams To Become More Resilient?
Resiliency is a word that I’m pretty sure that most of us have heard before, but I’m not quite sure if we all know just exactly what it means. I mean, we know it’s a good thing, but what is it? It turns out that resiliency is having the ability to adjust to change or … Read more Should IT Managers Help Their Teams To Become More Resilient?