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Managing The Relationship With Your Peers

Your employees watch closely how you manage them, your boss and your peers and they will emulate your behavior. How you manage your relationships with other managers will affect the relationship you have with your direct reports. You lead by example! Becoming a strong manager means you will ...

What To Look For In A Coach

Have you considered the possibility of including a Coach into your support system. Top performers know it’s important to find and utilize many venues in developing their careers. The right one-on-one coaching relationship can move your career and your life forward faster and ...

How to Deal With an Employee With an "Attitude"

It doesn’t take long for a manager to bump into an employee with an “attitude.” Evaluating an employee as having an “attitude” also depends on what bothers a manager, as the same behavior may be just fine with another manager. Yet, there are certain behaviors that ...

Retaining Employees After The First Year

Most employees start out as a new employee, develop competency in their roles, and then move forward to the expert stage. As you work with employees on development, it can be helpful to look at the stage they are in to appropriately plan with them their career development. Why is employee ...

Retaining The New Employee

Keeping your talent is one of your main responsibilities as a manager…you are measured by your ability to handle this important function within the company. Losing people doesn’t have to be inevitable even for positions that traditionally have large turnover. This is such a broad subject ...

How To Build Trust With Your Employees

To be successful in managing employees you have to build a repertoire of skills to motivate employees. Creating a strong working relationship with each of your team members occurs when you increase trust with each member of your team. A team is a group of people, each one influencing the ...

Managing Your Recruiter

You're a manager and don't have the time to do the all of the recruiting for your open position, so you rely on other people to help you in your talent search. Whether you depend on your Human Resources Department or outside recruiters to find the right candidates, it's important to know what ...

What Can You Learn From Your ‘To Do” List?

In this hectic, sometimes chaotic life, we push ourselves to do more without the satisfaction of ever completing our ‘to do’ list. Do you subscribe to the thought that more is better? I Can! Yet, I also know this is trouble for me because there is never enough. So…I made a decision! I've ...

Recruiting – Asking The Right Questions

Someone has weeded through hundreds of resumes to come up with a short list of candidates that potentially meet the requirements of the position. Now it’s time to interview the candidates. The interviewing process entails several internal and external components, yet there is one aspect of ...

Can I Make Mistakes With Employees?

What's one question that all managers face in managing employees:nn…can I make mistakes with my employees and still be effective in managing them? Note: Some mistakes are illegal…become familiar with the federal and state employment laws. The mistakes I’m talking about are human in ...

9 Basic Steps in the Recruiting Process

You are responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department and are knowledgeable around the business functions. What about the people tasks? Managing people starts with recruiting…finding the right talent. I’ve created a simple step-by-step guide to help you through ...

Do You Know How To Communicate Change In Your Department?

Do you ever find yourself confused on how to best communicate changes to your employees? Here is where you need to do some serious brainstorming. Why? Because it takes a lot of communication to make a change successful. As soon as you know that you will be creating change in your ...