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Manager Tools

Tired of management theory? Want to learn specific skills to help improve your management performance? Then Manager Tools is the podcast for you! Manager Tools is a weekly business podcast focused on helping professionals become more effective managers and leaders. Each week, we discuss specific actions for professionals to take to achieve their desired management and career objectives. Manager Tools won Best Business Podcast Award in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2012 as well as the People"s Choice Award

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Internal Hiring Process - Chapter 1 - Development...

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2025/03/31

Interviewing internal candidates is different than interviewing external candidates. Internal interviews are not just efforts to fill positions, but also part of professional development for your organization.

Swimming Upstream - Chapter One - Your Boss's...

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2025/03/24

Part 2 of our guidance on Swimming Upstream introduces executive-level insights into our Manager Tools content to help managers become more effective by understanding organizational dynamics beyond their role, ultimately preparing them for greater leadership opportunities.

Swimming Upstream - Chapter One - Your Boss's...

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2025/03/17

Our guidance on Swimming Upstream introduces executive-level insights into our Manager Tools content to help managers become more effective by understanding organizational dynamics beyond their role, ultimately preparing them for greater leadership opportunities.

Why Scheduling Is The Most Important Component of One...

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2025/03/10

Scheduling your One On Ones is surprisingly the most important component of One On Ones. Too many managers mistakenly believe that they are “too busy” to do One On Ones becuase of their full calendars. But scheduling them is actually more important than having weekly One On Ones. Why is that? Our data show why. And directs tell us why when we ask them. And for those who are just getting started, what rules should I use in scheduling my One On Ones.

Why Scheduling Is The Most Important Component of One...

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2025/03/03

Why Is Negative Feedback So Hard? - Part 2

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2025/02/24

Why Is Negative Feedback So Hard? - Part 1

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2025/02/17

Lots of managers - hundreds of thousand, and perhaps millions by now - start doing Manager Tools One On Ones, and they love them. They love them because they work, and they’re not as hard as the manager thought they would be. And very few managers who do Manager Tools One On Ones never stop.But feedback is a different story. We would guess that around half of Manager Tools managers don’t ever fully implement feedback so that it’s second nature in a way that their directs know this is how their

The Simple Quarterly Performance Review

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2025/02/10

Most managers think that performance reviews are their most significant contribution to performance management and improvement. But that’s wrong. Frequent feedback is the greatest tool we managers have to improve performance. In fact, performance reviews aren’t even really part of the performance improvement efforts managers engage in. Performance reviews are an organizational system that is primarily designed to help the organization manage succession planning.

The Purpose of Feedback - Part 3

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2025/02/03

Almost every Non-Manager Tools manager thinks feedback is hard. And yet every year thousands of managers start giving feedback successfully. These managers have discovered that not only is it NOT that hard, but it’s well received, it works, and frankly, it’s easy to get addicted to giving it.

The Purpose of Feedback - Part 2

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2025/01/27

The Purpose of Feedback - Part 1

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2025/01/20

Almost every Non-Manager Tools manager thinks feedback is hard. And yet every year thousands of managers start giving feedback successfully. These managers have discovered that not only is it NOT that hard, but it's well received, it works, and frankly, it's easy to get addicted to giving it.

A Basic Team Culture Model For Managers - Part 2

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2025/01/13

In this guidance, we share what we think the base culture ought to be for all managers. You may wish to add more - that can be fine. Just be careful you don't have too many culture touch points - at some point they'll start conflicting with each other.

A Basic Team Culture Model For Managers - Part 1

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2025/01/06

Assumptive Goal Setting - HOF 2024

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2024/12/30

Our Hall of Fame guidance on how to think more creatively about annual planning goals.

How to Set Annual Goals - HOF 2024

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2024/12/23

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like "SMART" goals.

The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 2

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2024/12/16

The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 2

The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 1

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2024/12/09

The Tetris Workload Battle - Part 1

How To Get Subordinate Managers To Do One On Ones -...

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2024/12/02

How To Get Subordinate Managers To Do One On Ones

Delivering the Performance Review - HOF 2024

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2024/11/25

Our Hall of Fame guidance on delivering a performance review.

Preparing Performance Reviews - HOF 2024

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2024/11/18

This week, we're re-releasing one of our Hall of Fame casts on how to prepare performance reviews.

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