People Management: What Every Manager Needs to Know

People Management: What Every Manager Needs to Know

By Donald Ford, PhDBusinessManagement
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People Management: What Every Manager Needs to Know episodes

  • People Management: A Manager’s Guide to Helping Employees Set Effective Work Goals

    Welcome to People Management, my latest podcast that covers

    the essentials of what every manager needs to know to effectively manage the people
    who work for you.  People are the key to
    success in the modern knowledge economy and yet they are also often a manager’s
    biggest headache.  Why?  Because people are unpredictable, capable of
    both stunning success and tragic failure. 
    We have learned that human beings are literally capable of anything,
    both for good and for evil.

    Hello, I’m Dr. Don Ford, a Human Resource management

    consultant who has seen the good, the bad and yes, the ugly when it comes to
    human relations in the workplace.  In
    this podcast series, I will share insights from a lifetime of study and working
    with people of all backgrounds and dispositions.  While I can’t guarantee success in every
    human interaction, I can assure you that some strategies and skills clearly
    work better than others.  The more
    prepared managers are to deal with the full range of human emotions and behaviors,
    the better you will be able to successfully navigate the challenges that
    leading others presents to every manager, no matter their level in the organizations
    they serve.

    First up, I will discuss the all important issue of helping

    employees set effective work goals. 
    Later podcasts will address feedback, teambuilding, hiring, evaluating
    performance, strategic planning and other people-centric issues that managers
    confront every day.

    Enjoy the learning journey and never stop improving!

     

    8 min
  • Learning to Learn: Perfecting Practice

    A truism about learning new skills is that the more we do it, the better we should become at that skill. While it is true that practice yields positive results, it turns out that all practice is not equally effective.

    To get the most out of practice time, I will present three strategies that have proven to be effective in accelerating skill and competency development. They are:

    1. Use Blocked Practice techniques to hone micro-skills

    2. Use feedback to improve

    3. Develop your inner coach to direct your practice

    19 min
  • Learning to Learn: Research and Knowledge Creation

    No greater thrill excites the super learner than discovering new knowledge. Research is the main way this is accomplished today.  Knowing how to conduct research, how to locate and curate research material and how to distinguish fact from opinion are critical skills in the digital world we inhabit. The internet is a vast treasure trove of human experience, but it is filled with equal parts  fiction and fact. Super learners know how to evaluate sources of information and how to create new knowledge through research.

    10 min
  • Making Webinars Work: Best Practices for Online Learning

    Webinars have become popular now that the Coronavirus Pandemic has forced cancellation of live classes and seminars.  Learn seven best practices for designing and delivering effective webinars as part of Training Education Management's Learning to Learn podcast series.  Dr. Don Ford guides you through the best practices for webinars.

    12 min
  • Becoming a Superlearner: How to Improve Your Memory

    In this podcast on memory, I explore effective techniques to help us remember when we need to.  I will describe the most common memory techniques in detail in this podcast, but in general, memory is enhanced when we can associate something known with something unknown or something simple with something complex.  This podcast describes memory techniques like mnemonics, assocation, repetition and chunking.

    19 min
  • Learning to Learn: Memory – Part I: Remembering

    We have all experienced the frustration of learning something new but being unable to remember it when we need it.  Memory is clearly a key ingredient in learning, since it is our ability to remember that allows us to apply new learning.  

    In this two-part podcast, I will first address how memory, recall and recognition work.  In Part II, I’ll share proven techniques that help people develop a better memory.

    14 min

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Welcome to People Management: What Every Manager Needs to Know. Enjoy the learning journey!