Manager Tools

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Manager Tools is a weekly podcast focused on helping you become a more effective manager and leader. Each week we'll be talking about new tools and easy techniques you can use to help achieve your management and career objectives. If you're tired of a lot of management theory and would rather learn SPECIFIC actions you can take TODAY to improve your management performance, you'll enjoy the manager tools podcast. (Author: Michael Auzenne and Mark Horstman)
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Recent episodes from Manager Tools

  • Rolling Out The Manager Tools Trinity - Part 4
    Published: Sep 7, 08
    This cast includes Part 4 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools’ Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching).
     
  • Atlanta Effective Manager Conference Overview
    Published: Sep 4, 08
    November 11 - 12 , 2008 - Renaissance Concourse Hotel, Atlanta“I have attended Dale Carnegie, American Management Association, etc conferences and the MT conference blew them away!”- Jeff Vose, 2007 Conference AttendeeMark and I are pleased to announce our Effective Manager Conference, November 11 - 12, at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.We guarantee it [...]
     
  • Rolling Out The Manager Tools Trinity - Part 3
    Published: Aug 31, 08
    This cast includes Part 3 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools’ Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching).
     
  • Rolling Out The Manager Tools Trinity - Part 2
    Published: Aug 23, 08
    This cast includes Part 2 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools’ Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching - and Delegation!).
     
  • Rolling Out The Manager Tools Trinity - Part 1
    Published: Aug 17, 08
    This cast describes how to gradually implement Manager Tools’ Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching - and Delegation!).We’ve been asked a thousand questions about what to do and when to do it when it comes to the Management Trinity, and we’ve finally gotten frustrated enough to do something about it. We assumed that [...]
     
  • The Meeting Introduction For Large Groups
    Published: Aug 10, 08
    This cast describes how to use the Manager Tools Meeting Introduction Tool For Large Groups - up to 100 Attendees!We get asked all the time, “how big a group have you ever used the Meeting Introduction Tool with?” The answer is 110. It is Mark’s favorite Manager Tool because everyone can use it, it [...]
     
  • Business Travel - Packing
    Published: Aug 3, 08
    For years pundits have been predicting that technology (videoconferencing, etc.) will lead to the decline and death of business travel. We here at Manager Tools don’t agree. We’re human, and humans do better with face to face connections to ensure a complex project does well. Technology has led to the globalization of [...]
     
  • Boomerangs! (repost)
    Published: Jul 28, 08
    [Note: This is a repost of a previous corrupt podcast file.]This cast describes how to increase your chances of re-hiring someone who has left your organization. They’re called Boomerangs!There really IS a war for talent going on today. Demographics are in many ways working against us, reducing the labor pool, as well as changing [...]
     
  • Boomerangs!
    Published: Jul 27, 08
    This cast describes how to increase your chances of re-hiring someone who has left your organization. They’re called Boomerangs!There really IS a war for talent going on today. Demographics are in many ways working against us, reducing the labor pool, as well as changing the nature of work and the relationships “employees” have with [...]
     
  • The Myspace Cast - Part 2 Of 2
    Published: Jul 19, 08
    In today’s cast, we conclude our conversation on Myspace and social networks. As always, if you’re new to Manager Tools and haven’t listened to the first part, you may wish to go back and listen to that first.
     
  • The Myspace Cast - Part 1 Of 2
    Published: Jul 14, 08
    This cast gives guidance for managers’ use of Social Networking Sites like MySpace and FaceBook.If you’re one of our younger listeners, members, or premium subscribers, with less than 5 years in the workforce, chances are you have a MySpace or a FaceBook page. You stay in touch with friends, let people know what you’re [...]
     
  • Sharing Your References
    Published: Jul 6, 08
    This cast tells you how to handle requests for your references when engaged in a job search.Even though “References Available Upon Request” is no longer a good idea, reference CHECKING is on the rise and will only increase in the coming years. It seems like since resumes don’t include the age-old line — the why [...]
     
  • How To Coach Directs On Interpersonal Skills - Part 2
    Published: Jun 29, 08
    On today’s cast, we complete our discussion on coaching directs on interpersonal skills.Of course, if you haven’t listened to last week’s cast, you may want to start there.
     
  • How To Coach Directs On Interpersonal Skills - Part 1
    Published: Jun 22, 08
    This cast tells you how to begin a process of coaching a direct on interpersonal skills.Soft Skills!How many times have you heard, “hired for technical skills, fired for (lack of) people skills”? It may be common wisdom (an oxymoron if there ever was one), but it’s still true. The path to greater success [...]
     
  • San Francisco Effective Manager Conference Overview
    Published: Jun 20, 08
    We’ve been asked a number of times recently for more information about the Effective Manager Conference we’re holding in San Francisco, July 22 - 23. Although we used to put out a special cast each time we hosted a conference, we haven’t done that of late.So, for those who asked, here you go. [...]