John's Management Blog January 2007 Archive

Management is a skill that can be learned. You can improve as a manager by working every day to get better. If one of your resolutions for the new year ... Read More

As we start this year, many companies are reporting results for last year that are below plan. This always gets employees wondering whether their job is secure. If one of ... Read More

Our conversations are full of TLAs like these. If you know them all, good for you. If not, you can look them up in the Glossary of Management Terms or ... Read More

Are you trying to move up to your first management job? Do you know someone who is trying to get into management? Like most other jobs, though, no one wants ... Read More

You can't manage what you don't measure. It is an old management adage that is still accurate today. Unless you measure something you don't know if it is getting better ... Read More

Have you ever wanted to tell someone to "shut up and listen"? Has anyone ever said that to you? All of us talk too much from time to time, but ... Read More

One challenge you may have to face early this year is how to retain, or replace, some of your best employees. Have you been taking advantage of your employees recently? ... Read More

One person on our team came to work sick. He infected those around him. As a result, we haven't had a full staff since the first week of December as ... Read More

The fourth and final part of the series is the most important. Part 4 of A Manager's Annual Plan looks into the role of the manager as leader. Now that you ... Read More

One thing that keeps managers awake nights is trying to figure out how to cover the group's responsibilities with the resources available. You ask, "Do I have the right people ... Read More

Here is the second of four articles to help you plan successfully for the coming year. Part 2 of A Manager's Annual Plan covers how to reach the goals you ... Read More

Here is the first of four articles to help you be a success at developing your management plan for this year. Part 1 of A Manager's Annual Plan is about ... Read More

I like to start the New Year with a four-part, chronological series on how to analyze and improve your organization, titled A Manager's Annual Plan. The topics include: Does the organization have ... Read More

2007 gives you a new chance to overcome any previous limitations to your success. One way to succeed is to get more done each day. A planning tool I find ... Read More

One simple thing that can help you advance your career is the ability to communicate well. Nowhere is that as important as in what you write. Everything you write tells ... Read More

As we start this first week of business of the new year you should be hard at work making things better - for yourself and for the people in your ... Read More