Manager Tools
Educational
Tired of management theory? Want to learn specific skills to help improve your management performance? Then Manager Tools is the podcast for you! Manager Tools is a weekly business podcast focused on helping professionals become more effective managers and leaders. Each week, we discuss specific actions for professionals to take to achieve their desired management and career objectives. Manager Tools won Best Business Podcast Award in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2012 as well as the People's Choice Award in 2008. Find more at http://www.manager-tools.com/
Location:
United States
Description:
Tired of management theory? Want to learn specific skills to help improve your management performance? Then Manager Tools is the podcast for you! Manager Tools is a weekly business podcast focused on helping professionals become more effective managers and leaders. Each week, we discuss specific actions for professionals to take to achieve their desired management and career objectives. Manager Tools won Best Business Podcast Award in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2012 as well as the People's Choice Award in 2008. Find more at http://www.manager-tools.com/
Language:
English
Website:
http://manager-tools.com
Episodes
The Hidden Purpose Of Interviewing - External Validation - Part 1
4/28/2025
Interviewing must not only select the right candidate, but also build organizational trust through a fair, known, challenging, and respectful process.
Working Hard - Chapter One - The Myth And The Basics - Part 2
4/21/2025
It takes hard work to get ahead in your professional life. As you progress into more demanding roles, more is expected of you. To climb to the top, if that is what you aspire to do, takes an incredible amount of work. But it is a MYTH that “working hard” simply means working more hours. In fact, working more hours, in the long run, is NOT the way to think about “working hard.” In this series of guidance, we will lay out how to get the most out of yourself without constantly sacrificing your personal and family life.
Working Hard - Chapter One - The Myth And The Basics - Part 1
4/14/2025
It takes hard work to get ahead in your professional life. As you progress into more demanding roles, more is expected of you. To climb to the top, if that is what you aspire to do, takes an incredible amount of work. But it is a MYTH that “working hard” simply means working more hours. In fact, working more hours, in the long run, is NOT the way to think about “working hard.” In this series of guidance, we will lay out how to get the most out of yourself without constantly sacrificing your personal and family life.
Introducing The Effective Senior Manager Conference
4/7/2025
Learn about our Effective Senior Manager Conference: its purpose, its agenda, its topics. If you’re a manager and are thinking about your career as a Senior Manager and even Executive, you need to learn why the job is different, and how to succeed.
Internal Hiring Process - Chapter 1 - Development Feedback
3/31/2025
Interviewing internal candidates is different than interviewing external candidates. Internal interviews are not just efforts to fill positions, but also part of professional development for your organization.
Swimming Upstream - Chapter One - Your Boss's Calendar - Part 2
3/24/2025
Part 2 of our guidance on Swimming Upstream introduces executive-level insights into our Manager Tools content to help managers become more effective by understanding organizational dynamics beyond their role, ultimately preparing them for greater leadership opportunities.
Swimming Upstream - Chapter One - Your Boss's Calendar - Part 1
3/17/2025
Our guidance on Swimming Upstream introduces executive-level insights into our Manager Tools content to help managers become more effective by understanding organizational dynamics beyond their role, ultimately preparing them for greater leadership opportunities.
Why Scheduling Is The Most Important Component of One On Ones - Part 2
3/10/2025
Scheduling your One On Ones is surprisingly the most important component of One On Ones. Too many managers mistakenly believe that they are “too busy” to do One On Ones becuase of their full calendars. But scheduling them is actually more important than having weekly One On Ones. Why is that? Our data show why. And directs tell us why when we ask them. And for those who are just getting started, what rules should I use in scheduling my One On Ones.
Duration:00:35:08
Why Scheduling Is The Most Important Component of One On Ones - Part 1
3/3/2025
Scheduling your One On Ones is surprisingly the most important component of One On Ones. Too many managers mistakenly believe that they are “too busy” to do One On Ones becuase of their full calendars. But scheduling them is actually more important than having weekly One On Ones. Why is that? Our data show why. And directs tell us why when we ask them. And for those who are just getting started, what rules should I use in scheduling my One On Ones.
Duration:00:32:03
Why Is Negative Feedback So Hard? - Part 2
2/24/2025
Lots of managers - hundreds of thousand, and perhaps millions by now - start doing Manager Tools One On Ones, and they love them. They love them because they work, and they’re not as hard as the manager thought they would be. And very few managers who do Manager Tools One On Ones never stop.
Duration:00:35:40
Why Is Negative Feedback So Hard? - Part 1
2/17/2025
Lots of managers - hundreds of thousand, and perhaps millions by now - start doing Manager Tools One On Ones, and they love them. They love them because they work, and they’re not as hard as the manager thought they would be. And very few managers who do Manager Tools One On Ones never stop. But feedback is a different story. We would guess that around half of Manager Tools managers don’t ever fully implement feedback so that it’s second nature in a way that their directs know this is how their boss will talk to them about their performance. Why is it so hard?
Duration:00:31:52
The Simple Quarterly Performance Review
2/10/2025
Most managers think that performance reviews are their most significant contribution to performance management and improvement. But that’s wrong. Frequent feedback is the greatest tool we managers have to improve performance. In fact, performance reviews aren’t even really part of the performance improvement efforts managers engage in. Performance reviews are an organizational system that is primarily designed to help the organization manage succession planning.
Duration:00:40:33
The Purpose of Feedback - Part 3
2/3/2025
Almost every Non-Manager Tools manager thinks feedback is hard. And yet every year thousands of managers start giving feedback successfully. These managers have discovered that not only is it NOT that hard, but it’s well received, it works, and frankly, it’s easy to get addicted to giving it.
Duration:00:25:26
The Purpose of Feedback - Part 2
1/27/2025
Almost every Non-Manager Tools manager thinks feedback is hard. And yet every year thousands of managers start giving feedback successfully. These managers have discovered that not only is it NOT that hard, but it’s well received, it works, and frankly, it’s easy to get addicted to giving it.
Duration:00:30:17
The Purpose of Feedback - Part 1
1/20/2025
Almost every Non-Manager Tools manager thinks feedback is hard. And yet every year thousands of managers start giving feedback successfully. These managers have discovered that not only is it NOT that hard, but it's well received, it works, and frankly, it's easy to get addicted to giving it.
Duration:00:36:15
A Basic Team Culture Model For Managers - Part 2
1/13/2025
In this guidance, we share what we think the base culture ought to be for all managers. You may wish to add more - that can be fine. Just be careful you don't have too many culture touch points - at some point they'll start conflicting with each other.
Duration:00:29:34
A Basic Team Culture Model For Managers - Part 1
1/6/2025
In this guidance, we share what we think the base culture ought to be for all managers. You may wish to add more - that can be fine. Just be careful you don't have too many culture touch points - at some point they'll start conflicting with each other.
Duration:00:31:14
Assumptive Goal Setting - HOF 2024
12/30/2024
Our Hall of Fame guidance on how to think more creatively about annual planning goals.
Duration:00:43:50
How to Set Annual Goals - HOF 2024
12/23/2024
Our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like "SMART" goals.
Duration:01:38:35
The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 2
12/16/2024
The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 2
Duration:00:22:33