Management Mastery

The leader’s role is to build and maintain a high-performing team that outperforms the competition.  In this episode of Management Mastery, we discuss Emotional Quotient or E.Q., one of the core skills and abilities needed to be a successful leader.  In future episodes we’ll discuss additional core skills and abilities important in being a successful leader. 

As the manager, the information you receive can be slanted toward a point of view, suspect, or compromised.  Taking steps to improve the information you receive can make a huge difference in your success.

Having done your preparation to ask for a promotion as we covered in our previous episode,  you’ll then need to schedule a meeting with your boss to discuss your career progress and to ask for a promotion.  It’s important that you prepare carefully for that meeting. How to prepare to meet with your boss to ask for a promotion is the topic of this episode.

Before you can consider asking for a promotion a number of things must happen.  You need to stand out in your current position, and you must build your case for a promotion.  

If you feel you’ve selected the wrong career field, don’t be upset.  Many people, young and old, at some point in their careers realize that another choice would provide a better alignment with their values, interests, and skills. Discussing making a career change is the focus of this week’s episode.

In assessing your career progress, achieving your business objectives will be one of your most important goals.  In this episode we’ll focus on those things that you should be doing to successfully achieve those objectives, and provide some suggestions about what you can do if you’re not achieving them.

If you already know your career goals consider yourself lucky.  Many of us don’t really know our career goals and passions and it becomes a matter of investigating and questioning before we identify a direction.  The purpose of this episode is to help you think through that process.

Every manager, at some time, has to fire an employee.  It is one of the most difficult tasks a manager has, but it must be done caringly and professionally.  Layoffs are a special subset of termination. We’ll discuss the process for both in this Encore episode.

There are a number of honest mistakes new managers often make.  In this Encore episode, we discuss three of the most common and often some of the hardest to totally avoid making. 

There are a number of ways you can stand out as a performer in your company or department.  All of them require you to have mastered all aspects of your current role first, and then to have your head up so that you’re listening, observing, and understanding the goals of your department and company.  In this way you’ll be able to be productive for your department and yourself.  We’ll talk about that in this week's Management Mastery episode.