Articles Index

Level 3 Management Skills

Level 3 is where the developing manager must master personal development. It is the next level of the management skills pyramid which shows the skills a manager must master to be successful and shows how these management skills build on each other toward success.

Worker Depression Can Cost You Money

Worker depression can cost you money - what you can do about worker depression and costs

Level 2 Management Skills

Level 2 is the team building skills any developing manager must master. It is the next level of the management skills pyramid which shows the skills a manager must master to be successful and shows how these management skills build on each other toward success.

Employee Coaching: When To Step In

Employees can't learn if their manager does their work. You have to let people make mistakes if they are to learn. You can't just let them flounder on their own. Employee Coaching: When To Step In helps you decide when to step in and when to hang back and let them learn.

Management Skills Pyramid

The management skills pyramid shows the skills a manager must master to be successful and shows how these management skills build on each other toward success.

Bowling As A Team Building Exercise

Team building exercises and icebreakers can help build a sense of team in your people, helping them find the team in teamwork. Bowling works well, even with non-bowlers.

Office Romance

Office romance is fairly common these days as the office is where we spend so much of our time. Handled well it can lead to a relationship. Handled badly it can lead to a lawsuit for harassment.

Is Management For Me?

Is Management For Me? examines the pros and cons of taking a management path in your career.

Customer Satisfaction Survey

The best way to find out whether your customers are satisfied is to ask them. What you ask and how you ask are important. The most important thing is what you do with their answers.

Some (US) tax implications of being an Independent Consultant

Some (US) tax implications of being an Independent Consultant, from your About.com Guide

Alternatives to Layoffs

Reducing the workforce has become an automatic response for companies who need to cut costs to look good for Wall Street. It's wrong. It's counter-productive. It should be a last resort, not a first choice for a skilled executive.

Buzzword Bingo

Buzzword Bingo - a look at the latest business game and how to use it to improve your skill as a manager, from your About.com Guide to Management

Team Building

Team building, more than team exercises and icebreakers it means building a sense of team in your people, helping them find the team in teamwork

Business Email Is Not A Teenage Chat Room

Businesses waste too much time and money due to confusing emails. Treat business email as you would any other business communication. Make it clear and to the point. Don't let it sound like a teenage chat room.

Business Planning For A Swine Flu Epidemic

The article Business Planning For A Swine Flu Epidemic guides you through the steps of planning for the risks to your business from a possible swineflu epidemic or a swine flu pandemic from the H1N1 virus.

Business Planning For A Bird Flu Epidemic

The article Business Planning For A Bird Flu Epidemic guides you through the steps of planning for the risks to your business from a possible bird flu epidemic or a bird flu pandemic if the H5N1 virus spreads from humans to humans.

Why Men Earn More

Warren Farrell's book Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap-and What Women Can Do About It demonstrates that women's choice for balance between work and life is a greater factor in the pay gap than discrimination. Here are specific things women can choose to do if they want to make equal or greater pay than their male counterparts and things men can do if they want a better balance in their lives.

Napping at Work is OK

Napping at Work is OK reviews the changing attitudes toward sleeping at work, from John Reh, your About.com Guide to Management.

Level 1 Management Skills

Level 1 is the basic skills any beginning manager must master. It is the foundation of the management skills pyramid which shows the skills a manager must master to be successful and shows how these management skills build on each other toward success.

Management Pros Share Their Secrets

Seasoned Managers offer their tips for new managers.

Listen To What They Are Not Saying

It's not enough to hear what employees say, you have to Listen To What They Are Not Saying if you want to be successful. Here are tips on why it's important and how to do it well.

Where are you going?

Where are you going? - finding and setting your goals will make you a better manager.

Best Companies to Work For

Many organizations publish "best companies" lists. This article links to many of the "best companies to work for" lists

The Latest Management Trend - Brightsizing

The Latest Management Trend and Why it is Dangerous to Your Organization - looks at what brightsizing is and what you can do to protect your organization from it

Mentors and Mentoring: Being a Mentor

There is little that can give you the satisfaction of being a mentor. Mentoring: what is a mentor, finding a mentor, how to be a mentor.