Although most employees will be sincere about personal problems that require time off from work, you may run into a deadbeat or two who is taking advantage of your flexibility to miss work for reasons unrelated to any valid personal problem.
Before you begin your day in your new role as Manager, think about the image you want to project.
You are responsible for a productive work climate.
It’s a well-known fact that when a high-ranking manager takes a younger employee under his or her wing, becomes that person’s mentor.
The role of the manager in developing employees is to help employees figure out exactly where they want to go, and then to provide the support and organizational resources for employees to get there.
Can you rely on personality tests when hiring employees?
How to communicate effectively?
How to communicate effectively?
Performance reviews aren’t limited to you assessing your staff. Your boss also evaluates your own performance.
Employees who have earned high levels of trust simply don’t need the kind of day-to-day attention that less experienced employees do.
7 ways you can improve communication with your subordinates.
Team leaders are needed in all spheres of organizational life.
You have really arrived if you have your own secretary.
Over the past decade or two, there has been a major change in the way that managers do their jobs.
Persons with abrasive personalities who are also poor workers do not present a problem since the choice to dismiss is more easily taken.
It takes the work of a team of people whom are all working toward common goals for an organization to achieve great things.
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.
While all managers have a philosophy, many probably don’t know it and can’t explain it to you.
The problem of discrimination in the work place is extremely complex. There is no simple solution and no perfect solution for one of the most sensitive situations in the working world today.
People working in other positions in your company may fit your needs so look there first.
Make certain that each staff member has the information needed to get the job done.
In most organizations, first-level supervisors tend to be promoted with little or no leadership training.
In order to reduce the complexity and confusion in your department or group, try the following tips:
There are three types of rewards and incentives that are effective.
In order to obtain the best results from an interview, the interviewer must put the applicant at ease.
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.
People want to be asked to think, not just told what to do.