employees

Managers Want To Know Why Their Team Members Will Leave

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Managers need to understand the things that make team members leave

As though you didn’t have enough else to worry about as a manager, it turns out that using your manager skills to keep your team together is an important part of what the company has hired you to do. We all understand that the people who make up your team are always getting calls from … Read more

How To Keep Your Best Team Members

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Employees are your most valuable asset. Here's how to hold on to them

During the course of a normal day, a manager has a lot of different things that we need to spend time worrying about. However, using our manager skills to keep the team that we have onboard is often not one of the things that we worry about on an average day. However, perhaps we should … Read more

Managers Struggle To Recruit The Right Workers

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In order to build the best team, you need to recruit the best workers

In order to manage the best team, you have to have the best team. What this means is that one of your responsibilities as a manager is to use your manager skills to recruit the best team possible. During times when the job market is tight, this can be a real challenge. Challenges In Recruiting … Read more

How Can Managers Get People To Work Together?

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Collaboration by employees across departments is needed but difficult

More and more companies are starting to realize that if they want to get the most out of their employees, they are going to have to get employees from different departments to work together. It turns out that this can be difficult to do. How is a manager going to use their manager skills to … Read more

2 Rules For Being A Better IT Manager Boss

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When I’m working with new IT Managers I often run into the buddy / boss problem. It’s perfectly understandable that any person newly placed into an IT Manager position would like to establish a positive relationship with the people that they are managing. This is all well and good, but it’s all too easy for … Read more

The IT Manager’s Dilemma: Smart People Or Good Ideas?

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When an IT manager is given an assignment to complete a project, who should he/she want to have on their team? Within the world of IT, there are many different types of people that you can choose from, but all too often it comes down choosing people who are as smart as (or less) that … Read more

5 Characteristics Of Hard Core Gamers That IT Managers Need

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As yet another generation comes to work in the IT department, IT mangers are being confronted with another management challenge. More and more of the new wave of workers are coming from the world of multi-player online games. These games consist of large, complex, social systems that are constantly evolving. Games like World of Warcraft … Read more