Manager Tools

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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 in 2008. Go to http://www.manager-tools.com/recommendations to read what others are saying about the impact Manager Tools has had on their careers and lives.

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How To Lay Off A Direct - P...

03.20.2023

Part 4 of our guidance on how to prepare for and communicate a layoff effectively and compassionately.

Manager Tools episodes:

03.20.2023 How To Lay Off A Direct - Part 4 Part 4 of our guidance on how to prepare for and communicate a layoff effectively and compassionately.
03.13.2023 How To Lay Off A Direct - Part 3 Part 3 of our guidance on how to prepare for and communicate a layoff effectively and compassionately.
03.06.2023 How To Lay Off A Direct - Part 2 Part 2 of our guidance on how to prepare for and communicate a layoff effectively and compassionately.
02.27.2023 How To Lay Off A Direct - Part 1 Part 1 of our guidance on how to prepare for and communicate a layoff effectively and compassionately.
02.20.2023 Culture Chapter 1 - Culture Is Behavior Culture is an often discussed topic in management and leadership circles. But culture is not what most managers and leaders think.
02.13.2023 The Big 4 of Performance Communications - Part 3 Part 3 of our guidance on the big 4 of performance communications.
02.06.2023 The Big 4 of Performance Communications - Part 2 Part 2 of our guidance on the big 4 of performance communications.
01.30.2023 The Big 4 of Performance Communications - Part 1 Part 1 of our guidance on the big 4 of performance communications.
01.23.2023 Never Believe The First Report From The Front You're going to get a lot of input as a manager. There are all kinds of reasons for this, but the answer is almost always the same: the first thing to do is nothing.
01.16.2023 Hiring Is Not An HR Process - Chapter 2 - Part 3 Part 3 of our chapter two guidance on hiring is not an HR process.
01.09.2023 Hiring Is Not An HR Process - Chapter 2 - Part 2 Part 2 of our chapter two guidance on hiring is not an HR process.
01.02.2023 Hiring Is Not An HR Process - Chapter 2 - Part 1 Part 1 of our chapter two guidance on hiring is not an HR process.
12.26.2022 Assumptive Goal Setting - HOF 2022 Our Hall of Fame guidance on how to think more creatively about annual planning goals.
12.19.2022 How to Set Annual Goals - HOF 2022 Our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like "SMART" goals.
12.12.2022 The Manager Tools Interview Creation Tool The Manager Tools Interview Creation Tool will make you a better interviewer, and teach your team how to interview.
12.05.2022 The Effective Manager Has a Playbook - Part 3 Part 3 of our guidance on the manager playbook.
11.28.2022 Delivering The Performance Review - HOF 2022 Our Hall of Fame guidance on delivering a performance review.
11.21.2022 Preparing Performance Reviews - HOF 2022 This week, we're re-releasing one of our Hall of Fame casts on how to prepare performance reviews.
11.14.2022 The Effective Manager Has a Playbook - Part 2 Part 2 of our guidance on the manager playbook.
11.07.2022 The Effective Manager Has a Playbook - Part 1 Part 1 of our guidance on the manager playbook.
10.31.2022 Good Lieutenants Make Good Captains - Chapter 2 - The Trinity Our chapter two guidance on improving your chances of being promoted by being a good lieutenant.
10.24.2022 Good Lieutenants Make Good Captains - Chapter 1 - Part 2 Part 2 of our chapter one guidance on improving your chances of being promoted by being a good lieutenant.
10.17.2022 Good Lieutenants Make Good Captains - Chapter 1 - Part 1 Part 1 of our chapter one guidance on improving your chances of being promoted by being a good lieutenant.
10.10.2022 Project Management - Reporting - Chapter One - Part 2 Part 2 of our chapter one guidance on project management reporting.
10.03.2022 Project Management - Reporting - Chapter One - Part 1 Part 1 of our chapter one guidance on project management reporting.
09.26.2022 Winning The Feedback "Argument" Too many managers give negative feedback by trying to win an argument about what happened. It never works.
09.19.2022 My Directs Aren't Addressing My Agenda in One On Ones Managers and Directs often have different agendas in our One On Ones. Here's what to do about it.
09.12.2022 The Three Levels of Presentation Mastery Everybody thinks content knowledge is what makes for a good presenter. They're wrong, and that's why most of them stink as presenters. Especially trainers: ugh.
09.05.2022 The Kernel of Strategy - Part 2 (MT) Part 2 of our interview with Richard Rumelt, strategy professor at UCLA Anderson and author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.
08.29.2022 The Kernel of Strategy - Part 1 (MT) Part 1 of our interview with Richard Rumelt, strategy professor at UCLA Anderson and author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.
08.22.2022 Behavior is What Matters (MT) This cast describes how and why behavior is the primary focus of an effective professional and/or manager.
08.15.2022 DISC Overview (MT) Our overview of DISC.
08.08.2022 2022 Recruitment Update - Part 2 (MT) Part 2 of our guidance for the 2022 employment market.
08.01.2022 2022 Recruitment Update - Part 1 (MT) Part 1 of our guidance for the 2022 employment market.
07.25.2022 Special Cast - Succession Planning In this cast, Mark and Mike talk about their plans for the future of Manager Tools.
07.18.2022 How to Prewire a Meeting - HOF 2022 Our Hall of Fame guidance on preparing for meetings or presentations where you need to persuade.
07.11.2022 The Horstman Curve If you're trying to change things - and you should be - you're going to experience the Horstman Curve. So you ought to know what it is.
07.04.2022 The Juggling Koan - HOF 2022 Our Hall of Fame guidance on our first ever management koan.
06.27.2022 Giving Feedback To Remote Directs - Part 3 Part 3 of our guidance on giving feedback to remote directs.
06.20.2022 Giving Feedback To Remote Directs - Part 2 Part 2 of our guidance on giving feedback to remote directs.
06.13.2022 Giving Feedback To Remote Directs - Part 1 Part 1 of our guidance on giving feedback to remote directs.
06.06.2022 Performance Reviews Are Not Feedback - Part 2 Part 2 of our response to a recent WSJ article that said annual reviews are a terrible way to evaluate employees.
05.30.2022 Performance Reviews Are Not Feedback - Part 1 Part 1 of our response to a recent WSJ article that said annual reviews are a terrible way to evaluate employees.
05.23.2022 Interview With a Talent Manager Our interview with a member of the Manager Tools community to help you understand as a manager, or potentially as an executive, about the kind of relationship you need to have with some of the people who make a difference ...
05.16.2022 MTDISC Behavior Change Template - Part 2 Part 2 of our guidance on using MTDISC to change your behavior.
05.09.2022 MTDISC Behavior Change Template - Part 1 Part 1 of our guidance on using MTDISC to change your behavior.
05.02.2022 How To Roll Out MTDISC To Your Team - Part 2 Part 2 of our guidance on how to roll out the MTDISC Behavioral Instrument to your team.
04.25.2022 How To Roll Out MTDISC To Your Team - Part 1 This guidance describes how to roll out the MTDISC Behavioral Instrument to your team.
04.18.2022 Maggie Tucker Interview Our interview with Maggie Tucker, marketing executive and co-host of the friends on FIRE podcast.
04.11.2022 Rules For Directors - Chapter 1 - Earning Trust (MT Version) Our chapter one guidance on Rules For Directors: Earning Trust.

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Manager Tools episodes:

How To Lay Off A Direct - Part 4

How To Lay Off A Direct - Part 3

How To Lay Off A Direct - Part 2

How To Lay Off A Direct - Part 1

Culture Chapter 1 - Culture Is Behavior

The Big 4 of Performance Communications - Part 3

The Big 4 of Performance Communications - Part 2

The Big 4 of Performance Communications - Part 1

Never Believe The First Report From The Front

Hiring Is Not An HR Process - Chapter 2 - Part 3

Hiring Is Not An HR Process - Chapter 2 - Part 2

Hiring Is Not An HR Process - Chapter 2 - Part 1

Assumptive Goal Setting - HOF 2022

How to Set Annual Goals - HOF 2022

The Manager Tools Interview Creation Tool

The Effective Manager Has a Playbook - Part 3

Delivering The Performance Review - HOF 2022

Preparing Performance Reviews - HOF 2022

The Effective Manager Has a Playbook - Part 2

The Effective Manager Has a Playbook - Part 1

Good Lieutenants Make Good Captains - Chapter 2 - The Trinity

Good Lieutenants Make Good Captains - Chapter 1 - Part 2

Good Lieutenants Make Good Captains - Chapter 1 - Part 1

Project Management - Reporting - Chapter One - Part 2

Project Management - Reporting - Chapter One - Part 1

Winning The Feedback "Argument"

My Directs Aren't Addressing My Agenda in One On Ones

The Three Levels of Presentation Mastery

The Kernel of Strategy - Part 2 (MT)

The Kernel of Strategy - Part 1 (MT)

Behavior is What Matters (MT)

DISC Overview (MT)

2022 Recruitment Update - Part 2 (MT)

2022 Recruitment Update - Part 1 (MT)

Special Cast - Succession Planning

How to Prewire a Meeting - HOF 2022

The Horstman Curve

The Juggling Koan - HOF 2022

Giving Feedback To Remote Directs - Part 3

Giving Feedback To Remote Directs - Part 2

Giving Feedback To Remote Directs - Part 1

Performance Reviews Are Not Feedback - Part 2

Performance Reviews Are Not Feedback - Part 1

Interview With a Talent Manager

MTDISC Behavior Change Template - Part 2

MTDISC Behavior Change Template - Part 1

How To Roll Out MTDISC To Your Team - Part 2

How To Roll Out MTDISC To Your Team - Part 1

Maggie Tucker Interview

Rules For Directors - Chapter 1 - Earning Trust (MT Version)