The Effective Manager Book

The definition of an Effective Manager is to achieve results while retaining your team members.

This guidance describes what a professional manager's role and limits are when it comes to being friends with our directs.

This cast concludes our guidance on what a professional manager's role and limits are when it comes to being friends with our directs.

Part 1 of our guidance on Managerial Economics.

Part 2 of our guidance on Managerial Economics.

A lot of managers implement MTO3's and quickly swear by them. But lots of managers mistakenly talk themselves out of giving feedback. Here's one way to look at it.

This guidance disagrees with the old notion of praise in public, criticize in private, and recommends more effective behaviors.>

Our guidance on how long to wait before giving negative feedback to a direct.

This guidance recommends how to deliver both praise and feedback (though not together), and why they are both valuable – and completely different.>

Part 1 of our guidance on project management, using the Manager Tools Work Management Spreadsheet.

Part 2 of our guidance on project management, using the Manager Tools Work Management Spreadsheet.

Part 3 of our guidance on project management, using the Manager Tools Work Management Spreadsheet.

This week, we're re-releasing one of our Hall of Fame casts on how to prepare performance reviews.

This cast prescribes asking your directs what their children's names are.

This guidance describes how to interact with a direct who resists or refuses more, new, or different work because they're "comfortable where they are" or "not interested in promotion."