Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

We should choose our words as wisely with people as we do with generative AI. In this article, the author offers six guidelines to consider when initiating discussions with stakeholders, whether they’re customers, partners, or employees: 1) Structure your prompts the right way. 2) Utilize reflective and thoughtful probing.

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APRIL 1, 2023

Yet, too often in the workplace, the conditions we create as managers make our employees unhappy, unmotivated, and ultimately crush morale. No matter where you are in the org chart, from first-level manager to CEO, your efforts and attitude impact your team. Other managers are very hands on. Management is not one size fits all.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

"Time management is an oxymoron. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have." - John C Maxwell , best-selling author, speaker, & consultant on Leadership. Time management vs. priority management. There is always more to be done as a manager. That's where priority management comes in.

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Forbes Leadership

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Asim Razzaq is the former head of platform engineering at Paypal and had personal experience with the challenge of managing cloud expenses. So he decided to leave his safe engineering career to build a cloud management platform called Yotascale to solve the problem.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Are you managing your own team? Wondering how to advance past your team of individual contributors to leading a group of managers? Fortunately, the steps to get there are similar to the key things to become a manager. Fortunately, the steps to get there are similar to the key things to become a manager.

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Peter Winick

AUGUST 4, 2023

An interview with Tim Creasey on using thought leadership to spread their methods for change management. To discuss how thought leadership can be beneficial in change management I’ve invited The Chief Innovation Officer at Prosci, Tim Creasey to join me. On a scale of 0 to 5, how well could you define change management?

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JULY 20, 2022

If your company has a group of new managers , then it's very likely many of them are thinking the above. Whether you were left to flounder when you started out as a manager or you had some great help, there's a lot you can do to help them succeed as a senior leader. One of the best ways is to gift them a great book (or a few).

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Liquid Planner Productivity

JUNE 22, 2022

How well do the people on your project team manage their time? The trick is to put effective time management systems in place to trick ourselves – to trick our brains – into staying on task when we need them to. By contrast, our relationship with time management is not necessarily unique and can be commonly held.

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15Five

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But too many leaders aren’t actually serving their people — they’re managing job descriptions. They’re thinking about how best to manage salespeople, engineers, and HR specialists, instead of considering Sandra, Bryan, and Mohinder, the individuals. That’s the core of managing people versus managing roles.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

In their "The State of the American Manager” study, Gallup found that half (50%) of all Americans have left a job to "get away from their manager at some point in their career.”. We've said it before, but it begs repeating: employees leave managers, not companies. And a bad manager can make employees leave in waves.

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AIHR

MARCH 29, 2024

Organizations will have to make trade-offs to ensure responsible adoption and effectively manage the risk of using AI as part of their recruitment practices. The system provides hiring managers with a dashboard that tracks talent pool demographics to determine trends.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Too often, managers take their people for granted. So what's a manager to do? Today, we answer the most common questions we've heard over and over as we've helped managers lay out career development plans for their team members using Lighthouse. What do I do for manager career development? Yet, she was giving notice.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Ever had a manager you knew you'd never forget? The type of manager that helps make coming to work a meaningful, satisfying, and productive experience? We've talked a lot about the styles of managing and the qualities of a good manager on the Lighthouse blog.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

JUNE 14, 2022

Effective time management skills are much more than the concept of improving productivity. To help you break free of striving to master time management skills that don’t deliver what they might promise, here’s a list. Myth #2: Making a to-do list is an effective time management technique. This is not necessarily so.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Being a new manager can be an exciting, and stressful, opportunity. It's important that you promote people looking to be a manager for the right reasons , and that they have the right skills and mindset. Without help, a new manager is set up to flounder and fail. How to Help a New Manager Succeed from Day 1.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

"I'm pretty confident in my ability to be a good manager, but a lot of it is instinct.I'm not sure I can teach that to others.". Many of the senior leaders I've spoken to find that they face a whole new set of challenges when they become a manager of managers. How to make other managers successful, too.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

The right training management systems and how they manage, monitor, and create accountability for employee training can directly influence the culture of personal development. To help you understand the ten best training management systems, we will answer the following questions: What are training management systems (TMS)?

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MAY 20, 2022

If you've ever had a frustrating boss, you know how true it is: People leave managers , not companies. … You play a part in managing the relationship between you and your manager. Put another way, this is what it means to manage up. That's why learning to manage up is such a vital skill.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

When you start managing a new team, there's a lot of uncertainty: What do they think of you? How was their last manager? As a manager, you need a strong relationship with your team, which starts with what you do on day 1. 2) What have your past managers done that you'd like me to also do or not do?

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Vantage Circle

MAY 6, 2024

Companies need effective tools to manage and deliver training content efficiently. Learning Management Systems (LMS) provide a solution to this challenge. It is a centralized hub for creating, delivering, tracking, and managing learning initiatives. What is LMS? In addition, we considered features that are unique to a platform.

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Peter Winick

MAY 27, 2024

Bill and Clemence explore her career transition from supply chain engineering to big data and social media, driven by her curiosity about the future impact of collective intelligence and connection data on human behavior and business. You know, growing up, having almost everybody in my family is an engineer. So interesting.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Almost everyone today, regardless of their industry, needs some level of project management skills. And nearly every kind of business would benefit from deploying built-for-purpose project management software. That’s where project management for skills and the power of software come into play. Prioritize tasks. Meet deadlines.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CEOs must integrate the multifaceted costs into their strategic vision, acknowledging nuances such as inference cost, fine-tuning cost, prompt engineering cost, cloud expenses, talent costs, and operation costs. CEOs must not overlook the intricacies of genAI costs.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

MAY 24, 2022

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Risk management requires effective communication, among all team members, throughout project delivery.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

"I manage one way; it either works for them or they probably won't be working for me very long.". "I On one end, a manager is being way too rigid in their approach, which causes you to have an non-diverse team that may be afraid to be creative around you if it doesn't fit "your way." Priority management. 3) Priority management.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

What can I do to avoid unwanted surprises with my manager? And: What are the best approaches to managing up well? Unfortunately, despite these being common challenges, there's not a lot written on the subject of managing up. Expert Advice for Managing Up at Work. How to start on the right foot managing up.

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Michael McKinney

APRIL 22, 2024

I once worked with a company that decided to collapse its engineering organization by turning Engineering Managers into Managing Engineers, and oh, what a difference the word order makes. Managing Engineers are expected to have their hands on a keyboard most of the time.

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15Five

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Enabling your managers with the tools and processes they need to be successful is one of the most effective ways to drive employee engagement, performance, and retention. And when you can also turn those managers into strategic HR champions, that’s when you’ll see true transformation in the organization.

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JULY 22, 2022

One on one meetings are a cornerstone to an effective manager <-> team member relationship, from small startups to giant companies. It's why Andy Grove , the legendary founder of Intel and author of High Output Management , said this about one on ones: Over the past several years, I've spoken to thousands of managers.

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Wendy Hirsch

JULY 29, 2022

Key Points Change management involves taking an intentional approach to transition an organization from where it is now to where it wants to be. There is a wide variety of change management approaches on the market, which tend to fall into three categories, each having strengths and weaknesses. What is Change Management?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At Porsche, efforts such as the development of the electric Taycan in 2019 have begun to disrupt a “petrol head” culture enamored with the Porsche’s traditional, distinctive flat-six engine. The authors outline how they did it using the behavioral science of nudge management.

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JULY 12, 2022

Do you feel confident in your remote management skills? The Benefits of Remote Work The Challenges of Managing Remote Teams Essential Tips for Managing Remote Employees Keys for Working from Home During Coronavirus Tips for Motivating Remote Teams How to Identify Good Remote Employees Additional Resources & Further Reading.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

"The difference between mere management and leadership is communication." - Winston Churchill. Table of Contents: Questions to Build Rapport Questions to Get Manager Feedback Questions to Get Team Feedback Questions to Give Praise Questions to Ask in a Crisis Questions to Ask Every Time. [

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Liquid Planner Productivity

JUNE 29, 2022

Many of us may not have a healthy relationship with time management. I don’t manage my time well enough. 1 Yet paradoxically, time management tactics and tools often increase the stress we face rather than reducing it. 2 This is because many time management techniques attempt to squeeze more tasks into our days.

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JULY 27, 2022

Today, we look at a set of those military leader quotes that we can all learn from and apply in any situation where we are leading or managing others. 41 Military Leadership Quotes Any Manager Can Learn From. How managers can become more effective listeners. General or the manager of a team of engineers.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 23, 2022

This piece features some loopholes shared by top-level management that can hamper employee productivity. Avoid these mistakes at any cost to make the most out of your employee management policies. Many key management people in the eCommerce business believe that performance management is about annual performance reviews.

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Forbes Leadership

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

About 10% of employees were ranked as underperforming by Meta managers. Bonuses may be cut, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to slow down hiring engineers by “at least 30%” in 2023. The low-performance ranking is considered within the tech community as a foreshadowing of upcoming layoffs.

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