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Managing Others

Below are the articles in the Managing Others category. Each article title is followed by a short introduction of the content. You may click "Read excerpt" for a more comprehensive introduction or click the "Purchase" link to buy the article.

Bridging the Gap: Improving the Emotional Connection to Work
Overwork, anxiety and lack of challenge and recognition have colored the overall emotional connection of workers to their jobs. This article explores pointers on how to bridge the gap between how workers feel and how managers perceive them to feel—and how to help workers plug into a more positive emotional connection to their jobs.
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Disconnect: Exploring the Emotional Connection to Work
What do workers feel about their work? How can managers redirect their employees’ emotional energy from the negative to the positive side of the ledger.
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Giving an A: Possibility Not Measurement
Give them an A and encourage the best in one’s employees, co-workers, and family.
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How Well Do You Delegate?
Whether a person work with others, or alone, he or she may still suffer from the “Lone Ranger Syndrome”—that managerial malaise that causes folks to work excessively long, hard hours because only THEY know how to do something right. Whoa, Silver! There is a cure.
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How Well Do You Motivate Others?
As the quiz reveals, there is more to motivation than the three Ps.
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How Well Do You Recognize Those Who Work With You?
What’s wrong with employee-of-the-month, coffee mugs, and length-of-service awards? This quiz will show more effective ways to express a job well done.
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Parenting as a Management Tool
Parents and managers have many tasks and skills in common.
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Playing Around: The Role of Games in Creating World-Class Workplace Teams
Great teams don’t happen overnight, and working in teams is not always easy. That’s why businesses are turning to team building games to foster cohesion and understanding.
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Putting the Value Back in Performance Evaluations
Looks at the common problems with performance evaluations, explores the elements of a valuable appraisal and offers five recommendations for how to write one.
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Thinking Like an Entrepreneur within the Corporate Walls
Explore “intrapreneurship,” including the value and benefits of such an approach for both the individual and the organization.
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Top 10 Ways to Have Productive Business Meetings
Business meetings: stressful, a waste of time, nothing ever changes or gets done. They don’t have to be that way.
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Top 10 Ways to Set Clear Expectations
Too often, managers seem to lead through mental telepathy. Rather than set and communicate clear expectations, they assume their employees know what to do and how to do it. The results are hesitation, indecision, and uncertainty while teamwork, initiative and productivity go out the window.
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Top 10 Ways to Support Your Team
A leader’s job is to ensure that the highest level goals of the organization are realized. Here are ten ways to accomplish that.
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