All Entries in the "Management Training" Category
How To Make Great Presentations
The ability to make good presentations is a key ingredient for career advancement. When you present well, you gain the respect and support of others. You’re seen as being more authoritative. People seek you out and enjoy being around you when you’re at ease in front of an audience. And upper management sees you as [...]
Interviewing a New Applicant
In order to obtain the best results from an interview, the interviewer must put the applicant at ease. To do this takes a little time, but even in a brief interview is well worth it. Your goal is to establish rapport immediately. To make the applicant feel at ease, the interviewer must also be at [...]
3 Types of Rewards & Incentives for Employees
There are three types of rewards and incentives that are effective. Informal rewards: These include anything from saying “thank you” to taking a successful team to lunch at a favorite restaurant. Be spontaneous when handling informal rewards and do it as soon as possible. Rewards for specific achievements: When employees meet and exceed some standard, [...]
How Keeping Knowledge from Your Subordinates May Be Hurting the Company
Have you ever worked in a highly secretive environment? I’m referring to the don’t-let-your-people-know-any-thing secretive kind of environment – created by managers who, for any number of reasons, don’t seem to want anyone else to know anything of consequence about what is going on. It’s little wonder that people in these organizations tell you. Certainly [...]
5 Tips to Reduce Confusion & Complexity for Your People
In order to decrease the complexity and confusion in your department or group, try the following tips: 1. Do a “productive work vs. non-productive” work survey. In addition to doing this yourself, ask each person on your staff to record the following data for two weeks. List tasks that truly contribute to the products they’re [...]
Getting the Proper Management Training
In response to the question: “How do you create a supervisor?” a key executive in a high-tech organization once replied, “It’s easy, you just change the color of his or her badge.” He was being facetious, of course, because becoming a supervisor is not so easy. The job of a supervisor is one that should [...]