Manage Yourself ; Manage Others ; Be a Leader
Here is a list of cheat sheets, podcasts, and blog posts related to ‘Business Focus’. Please click on a topic to see more information.
Cheat Sheets:
- Setting Expectations
- Great Customer Service
- RACI Analysis
- Good Decision Making: Avoid 7 ‘Quick Decision Pitfalls’
- Time Management Skills and Techniques
- Project Management 101
- Get More Done by Focusing on Your Circle of Control
- Conducting Effective Meetings
- Scatterplot Graph: A Simple Decision-Making Tool for Managers
- How to Take Meeting Notes: Save Time With These 2 Unconventional Methods
- Overload at Work
- Business Alignment Strategies
- Describing Your Business: The Elevator Speech
- How to do a Cost Benefit Analysis
- How to Set Goals and Objectives
- 7 Steps to Writing a Business Case
- Strategy Mapping
- Cause and Effect Map: Creating and Using a Fishbone Chart
- Aligning Mission, Vision & Goals
- The Balanced Scorecard Approach
- HR as a Strategic Partner: Why HR Often Sucks
- SMART Goals and HARD Goals
- Project Post Mortems
- The von Manstein Matrix
- How to Manage Up Without Brown Nosing
- The Vision Statement
- Mission Statements
- Create a Team Charter
- The Business Review Meeting
- How to Build a Communication Plan
- Time and Priority Management
Podcasts/Videos:
- Making Quick Decisions
- Project Management 101
- Circles of Focus
- Conducting Effective Meetings
- Scatter Diagrams : Learning a Lot From a Little Bit of Stats
- “I’m Overwhelmed”: Dealing With Work Overload
- Top 10 Stupid Things Smart Managers Do
- The Multitasking Myth
- Business Alignment Strategies
- Describing Your Business – The Elevator Speech
- How To Do a Cost Benefit Analysis
- Performance Management – How To Set Goals & Objectives
- Writing a Business Case
- Strategy Maps For The Individual Manager
- Cause and Effect Mapping
- Aligning Mission, Vision & Goals
- The Balanced Scorecard Approach
- Why HR Often Sucks
- SMART Goals Are Dumb
- Project Post Mortems
- The Von Manstein Matrix
- How To Manage Up Without Brown Nosing
- What’s a Business Review Meeting?
- Leading Change
- Create a Team Charter
- The Vision Statement
- Mission Statements
- Tips for Building a Communication Plan
- Setting Expectations
- Great Customer Service
- RACI Analysis – Responsibility Charting
- Why HR Often Sucks
- Leadership Boot Camp
- Time and Priority Management
Blog Posts:
- Time and Priority Management
- “I Told That Guy That!”
- Weekend at Bernie’s
- My Two Brains
- Deciding What Sucks The Least
- The Ugly Truth About Your Time
- The Bureaucratic Decoder — Unveiled
- Don’t Fear Your Numbers
- Note to Self: Take More Notes
- Fast Track to Alignment: Ignore Head Office
- Changing the Paradigm of BS
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Laundry Lists and Diffused Focus
- Bias for Action, Absence of Thinking
- Optimizing Your Business Process Can Be a Really Bad Idea
- Blacksmiths and Wordsmiths
- What Gets Measured, Gets Mismanaged
- If HR Sucks, it’s Your Fault
- The SMART Goals Acronym, BHAGs, and Other Silliness
- The 80/20 Rule and the Office Martyr
- It’s a Jungle Out There
- Summer and Pretending to Work
- Why the FIFA World Cup Doesn’t Matter
- Airport Security Screening and Employee Performance
- High Potential Leadership – Accelerated Development Programs
- What Toyota can learn from OJ and Barack Obama
- Management Lessons from NBC Late Night Programming
- Book Review: ‘How the Mighty Fall’, by Jim Collins