Category: <span>management techniques</span>

Last night, this tweet came across my timeline Are you responsible for a research team? How did YOU learn to lead it? — realscientists (@realscientists) January 6, 2016 (If you’re…

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The way most organizations promote people into management is, to put it bluntly, terrible. New managers are selected on technical skill and maybe some vague concept of “leadership potential,” given…

management techniques

management techniques

In the introduction to last month’s Management Monthly newsletter, I wrote about the fact that my philosophy for both management and personal productivity (which I view as a “managing myself”…

management techniques

You’ve probably heard about the need to “manage up”-  but what does that really mean? To me, it means interacting with your supervisor and other managers up the chain in…

management techniques

management techniques

I’m not sure which people complain about more: meetings or status reports. I think the complaints about both come from the same place. Both tools are often misused, or at…

management techniques

management techniques

The second (and final) installment of my Get More Done class was this morning. I had a lot of fun putting the class together, and was pleased with how it turned…

management techniques