Association Now Leadership

JUNE 4, 2023

One path to a solution: Treat middle management as an end in itself. At associations, particularly smaller ones, these challenges tend to fall to department heads, not conventional “middle managers”; the head of membership, or meetings, or communications are still expected to lead through a constantly shifting environment.

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Zenefits

JANUARY 11, 2023

As the buffer between upper management and lower-level employees, middle managers are oftentimes overlooked. Middle managers have become even more important as remote work increases and the physical distance between employers and employees widens. What is middle management and what is their role?

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Wendy Hirsch

JUNE 21, 2022

Key Points Middle managers do three things to effectively lead change: interpret, engage & explain, and coordinate & execute. Interpretation is a pivotal, but often overlooked, aspect of middle manager change leadership. Organizational change challenges middle managers to become masters of complexity.

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Wendy Hirsch

MARCH 24, 2022

They investigated four variations, two involving change initiation undertaken by top executives, and two involving change initiation undertaken by middle management. The more traditional practice, in which top-level managers initiate change, made up almost 75% of the sample studied and had no influence on employee support.

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Forbes Leadership

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Middle managers are the next target in corporate layoffs. In an earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pointed out the proliferation of managers within the organization, claiming it creates unnecessary bloat and spiraling costs.

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Forbes Leadership

APRIL 29, 2023

Middle managers play an essential role in the freelance revolution.

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Manager 65

Wendy Hirsch

AUGUST 21, 2020

Middle managers play an essential but often under-recognized role in leading organizational change. More often, middle managers are tasked with implementing changes that have been developed and sponsored by others. How do I know if I’m a middle manager? Middle Manager Change Activities.

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2022

But middle managers are often trapped between fears of getting punished for making a mistake and their executives' desires for bold thinking. Senior executives like bold innovations and audacious goals.

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Niagara Institute

MARCH 21, 2022

It can be tricky for middle managers , who are by nature quite removed from the day-to-day life of those on “the frontline,” to get a feel for what's happening and how everyone is really doing. For that reason, skip-level meetings exist.

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Manager 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2023

A conversation with McKinsey’s Emily Field on reimagining the roles to fit the times.

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Manager 76

Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Research suggests that recognising that individual workers have their own concerns and preferred ways of being treated can help their immediate bosses guide them through tough times.

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Manager 92

LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2020

Middle Management Needs to Be Deeply Engaged in Strategy Design and Planning. It also found that middle management plays a powerful role in getting strategically aligned. For strategic plans to succeed, companies need to align middle management with strategy. Middle managers should do the same.

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Vantage Circle

MAY 21, 2019

On the face of it, middle management looks like the ideal position to be in. You are free from responsibilities unlike that of the upper management , nor do you lack the flexibility of the entry-level employees. Middle management frustration is the new trend in town! Middle Management Fraustration Stats!

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Survival Tips for Middle Managers. Middle managers have important, unique, and inherent challenges – to meet the performance expectations of not only those with more power (their boss), but also of those with equal and less power (their peers and their team). Middle Managers Have Higher Levels of Disengagement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Leaders need to help them navigate two key tensions.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2024

Leaders make six common mistakes when communicating layoffs: 1) They’re not transparent about the state of the business; 2) They’re not clear on the path forward; 3) They don’t get the tone right; 4) They don’t offer remaining employees the opportunity to ask questions; 5) They don’t bring middle management on board; and 6) They don’t show appreciation (..)

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2024

They are the missing middle, the pool of talent between autistic individuals with few support needs and highly specialized technical skills and those unable to work. Accounting clerk, data management associate, inventory management clerk, and digital marketing specialist are all examples of roles suited to many of these people.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 1, 2018

The role of middle managers in strategy implementation is key to success. That means getting all key stakeholders (not just the executive team) on board with where you are headed, why your strategic direction makes sense and how you plan to get there – especially middle managers. Why Middle Managers Are So Important.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 17, 2023

The new book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.

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David Grossman

APRIL 16, 2024

There are a whole range of issues, including the lingering disruption brought on by a global pandemic, economic pressures, social and political unrest, uncertainty about the world economy, and violence in the Middle East, Russia, and Ukraine. There’s also confusion about the value of all the flexibility created since the pandemic.

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Association Now Leadership

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Association executives have a lot of teams to manage—boards, staffs, committees—all of which are prone to disruption. In a recent piece at the MIT Sloan Management Review , business scholars David Hollis and Alex Wright call this practice “ managerial ventriloquism.” Think “The CEO wants….”

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Alison Green

APRIL 25, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I have an application in with them now that she helped me a lot with, and I know she’s mentioned me to the hiring manager as well. And if it did, the hiring manager would be confused by why.) Here’s the rub: Carol and Jane are BFFs.

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Rhythm Systems Growth

MARCH 28, 2022

As the middle market strategy execution experts, we get asked a lot of questions about KPI scorecards for firms to manage the metrics that matter. Our comprehensive KPI Guide is one of the most valuable free resources that we offer to the middle market community free of charge.

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Niagara Institute

APRIL 17, 2024

There are many types of power that can be used in the workplace by managers, supervisors, or anyone in a position of responsibility. A leader can use a coercive management style where immediate compliance is necessary, such as in crisis management or when safety is at risk.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 5, 2023

The particularly large burden on middle managers stems, in large part, from the burden of implementing company policies on hybrid work and the return to office.

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BetterUp

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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Association Now Leadership

OCTOBER 9, 2022

In “ How to Fix a Toxic Culture ,” published last month in MIT Sloan Management Review , workplace-culture researchers Donald and Charles Sull analyzed past research to pinpoint five attributes of a toxic environment: disrespectful, noninclusive, unethical, cutthroat, and abusive. Autonomy leaves more scope to create a toxic subculture.

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Wendy Hirsch

APRIL 14, 2022

When it comes to change management communication, it's not just about what you say, but who is saying it. Executive leaders, not project managers, the change team, or middle management, are the most credible voices to articulate these high-level messages of " vision, passion, and care."

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Tanveer Nasser

JANUARY 25, 2023

Whether it was a middle-level manager or an executive from the C-suite, in each of these interactions I couldn’t help but note the sense of self-doubt these leaders expressed about their continued ability to lead. In particular, what was noteworthy was this common thread underlining each of these conversations.

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Manager 136

Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Not everyone is cut out for management, and it’s essential for senior leaders to ensure the middle managers they promote are the best fit for the job.

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Manager 74

Alison Green

MARCH 12, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Within the first year of the acquisition, our product managers (“Joey” and “Chandler”) were let go as a “business decision.” After nearly a year without a product manager, we were allocated 50% of “Rachel’s” time. I have made my concerns known to my managers.

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Forbes Leadership

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Executives and managers are worried about inflation, labour shortages, and supply chain issues. Social justice and COVID-19 are off their radar.

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Manager 52

UVA Darden

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

We should be teaching students how to build a middle class of business — companies that last long enough to give an entrepreneur a good life but also create jobs, foster robust communities and create value for multiple stakeholders.” That’s one reason we should foster the development of a middle class of business.” The question is how.

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Alison Green

APRIL 4, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. I’m struggling to figure out how we’re going to manage the next year with us all needing to pull back on the normally work-focused drive that we are used to. Account for that in your planning too.)

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Brett Koehler

JANUARY 31, 2023

We had the usual nine-to-five, Monday-through-Friday office structure, with an hour lunch in the middle of the day and two fifteen-minute breaks. Management (myself included) was worried that if we weren’t there making the employees do their jobs, they just wouldn’t do them. It was pretty standard.

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Manager 105

Association Now Leadership

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leadership expert Robin Sharma describes change as “hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” All too often, that’s because organizations get tangled up in the “messy” middle. Thanks to change management, you have the power to dictate how big of a mess has to exist in the first place.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Frontline employees, middle managers, executives and CEOs alike can learn to become perpetual innovators themselves by following the teachings found within the book, which covers the thirty-seven qualities that a large company needs, in both its leaders and its employees to become perpetually innovative.

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