Management Tips

7h 50mIntermediate2018-06-20

Authors

Todd Dewett

Authenticity Expert, Educator, Author, Speaker

Course details

In this series, Todd Dewett, PhD, shares the tips respected and motivated managers use to improve rapport, navigate tricky situations, build better relationships, and drive the business forward. Each installment, is two tips ranging from avoiding the dreaded micromanagement, to managing a multigenerational workforce, cultivating better listening skills, and developing an understanding of your organization's politics.

Skills covered

Serial (Weekly)Management SkillsLeadership and Management

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction to the weekly series

1. Communication and Influence

02 - Creating a lasting first impression
03 - Reading body language
04 - Becoming a better listener
05 - Communicating with candor
06 - Storytelling at work
07 - Using persuasion at work
08 - 5 Phrases to Avoid
09 - The keys to great conversation
10 - Selling your ideas
11 - Leading with ideas over numbers
12 - Developing executive presence
13 - Speaking to be heard
14 - Using positive power and politics
15 - Structuring an effective presentation
16 - How to deliver an effective presentation
17 - Dealing with inappropriate comments
18 - How to improve communication immediately
19 - How to show respect
20 - Avoiding the seven toxic words

2. Creativity, Innovation, and Change

21 - Becoming a change agent
22 - Finding targets for innovation
23 - Assessing your organization's change readiness
24 - Embracing failure
25 - Developing your creativity
26 - Breaking through with brainstorming
27 - Embracing the devil's advocate
28 - Managing creative talent
29 - Fighting bureaucracy
30 - Not all best practices are best
31 - Diversity s real power
32 - Initiating change conversations
33 - Creating needed debate
34 - Knowing when to engage positive conflict
35 - Myth of creative genius
36 - Changing routines to build new thought
37 - Making risk feel like learning
38 - The difference between creativity and innovation
39 - People don't hate change
40 - Advocating for the unpopular
41 - The upside of limited resources
42 - Understanding change capacity
43 - Picking a successful fight at work
44 - Start, stop, change

3. Decision Making

45 - Making better decisions at work
46 - Creating solutions, not policies
47 - The danger of short-term thinking
48 - Navigating common ethical dilemmas
49 - Making tough decisions
50 - Understanding averages and exceptions
51 - A simple approach to personal ethics
52 - Overcoming unconscious bias
53 - Reinforcing ethics
54 - When it s time to be autocratic

4. Difficult Skills

55 - Managing your manager
56 - Working with people you don't like
57 - Surviving a bad boss
58 - Working with difficult bosses
59 - Dealing with a public insult from your boss
60 - The three strikes rule
61 - Leading someone with a low EQ (emotional quotient)
62 - Disagreeing successfully with the boss
63 - Telling someone how they are viewed by others

5. Finding and Developing Talent

64 - Cultivating future leaders
65 - Hiring to fill gaps in your team
66 - Retaining top performers
67 - Engaging your high potentials
68 - Building a destination workplace
69 - Giving a realistic job preview
70 - Rethinking the job description
71 - Thinking about hiring in a new way
72 - Creative onboarding
73 - Hiring a few originals
74 - Avoiding the Peter Principle
75 - When you hire the wrong person
76 - How to spot leadership potential

6. Management Tactics

77 - Being a leader, not a micromanager
78 - Restarting a stalled project
79 - Building consensus
80 - Predicting challenges
81 - Dealing with a new boss off to a bad start
82 - Making yourself approachable
83 - Leading with questions
84 - Using the trial balloon
85 - The personal thank you
86 - Surviving as an introvert
87 - Effective ways to grab input
88 - Psychology tips for managers
89 - Dewett s Rules

7. Managing a Team

90 - Getting your team unstuck
91 - Coaching your team
92 - Motivating team members
93 - Keeping a virtual team connected
94 - Motivating by getting your hands dirty
95 - Planning your team-building retreat
96 - Facilitating your team-building retreat
97 - Discovering the problem with teams
98 - Understanding personality types at work
99 - Signs of team dysfunction
100 - When to use team decision-making
101 - Know your team's reputation
102 - When there is a bully on your team
103 - Clarifying norms
104 - Stimulating group learning

8. Managing Performance

105 - Managing millennials
106 - Managing a multigenerational workforce
107 - Managing poor performance
108 - Delivering employee feedback
109 - Making work fun
110 - Building trust
111 - Empowering through BHAGs
112 - Building transparency into your work culture
113 - Getting serious about autonomy
114 - Managing technical talent
115 - Building a better meeting
116 - Questioning competency models
117 - Rethinking productivity
118 - How to make meetings more effective
119 - Schedule time in the trenches
120 - Progress not perfection
121 - When to walk away from a project
122 - Signs of a toxic workplace
123 - Classic opportunities for fun

9. Managing Your Career

124 - Networking within your organization
125 - Understanding organizational politics
126 - Earning your next promotion
127 - Planning for your next raise
128 - Developing work and life balance
129 - Leading as an introvert
130 - So you want to be a leader
131 - Using phone etiquette
132 - The successful contrarian
133 - How to quit your job successfully
134 - Developing a personal board of directors
135 - Providing purpose
136 - Why liking is overrated
137 - The challenge of middle management
138 - From a technical role to a management role
139 - The leadership oath
140 - How to produce value for your network
141 - The three kinds of resumes
142 - All behaviors have consequences

10. Personal Growth and Development

143 - Avoiding burnout at work
144 - Learning how to say no
145 - Offering a needed apology
146 - Fixing mistakes
147 - Finding purpose in your work
148 - Avoiding blame
149 - Surviving the loneliness of leadership
150 - Knowing the difference between quitting and refocusing
151 - Making and recovering from mistakes
152 - Three dangerous leadership assumptions
153 - Are leaders born or bred
154 - Maximizing personal potential
155 - Pushing your limits
156 - Understanding strengths and weaknesses
157 - Earning respect
158 - Embracing personal evolution
159 - The art of delayed gratification
160 - Inspiration is a choice
161 - Managing emotions at work
162 - Building self-awareness as a manager
163 - Why it's smart to share your uncertainties
164 - Let them teach you
165 - How to solicit feedback from the team
166 - Using a work diary
167 - Tips for dealing with pressure at work
168 - How to admit you re wrong