Manage Yourself ; Manage Others ; Be a Leader
Here is a list of cheat sheets, podcasts, and blog posts related to Leading People. Please click on a topic to see more information.
Cheat Sheets:
- Introducing Yourself as a New Leader
- Onboarding Employees
- Delegate Effectively
- Understanding Distributed Leadership
- Is She ‘The One’? – Conducting a Job Interview
- Quick Interview Preparation: Don’t Waste Their Time…Or Yours
- Born to Lead?
- The Retention Interview
- Top 10 Stupid Things Smart Managers Do
- Organizational Change Resistance
- Team Motivation Activities
- Building Trust In Teams
- Conducting a Mid Year Performance Review
- How to Set Goals and Objectives
- Capturing Discretionary Effort
- Top 10 Work-Life Balance Tips
- Employee Discipline Procedures: Progressive Discipline
- Contingent Decision Making: The Vroom Yetton Model
- The Art of Asking Questions
- Delegating Responsibility: The Monkey on Your Back
- Managing Former Peers: What Happens After Your Promotion
- Generation X in the Workplace
- How to Mentor Someone
- Managing Baby Boomers in the Workforce
- Millennials in the Workplace: How to Lead and Motivate Generation Y
- Retention of Employees
- How to Manage Conflict
- Top 10 Manager Challenges (Part B – Managing Stress)
- Top 10 Manager Challenges (Part A – Managing Conflict)
- Effective Interpersonal Communication
- The Power of Persuasion: Selling Your Ideas
- Good Boss, Bad Boss: Be a Better Boss
- The von Manstein Matrix
- Office Design – Enclosed Offices vs. Cube Farm
- How to Manage Up Without Brown Nosing
- STARS – Matching Strategy to the Situation
- Help! I’m a Micro-Manager
- You’re Fired! How to Fire an Employee
- ABC’s of Performance Management
- High Impact Development
- Tools to Lead Change
- Giving Quality Feedback
- The Performance Pie
- Dealing with Difficult Behavior
- How to Build a Communication Plan
- Handling Emotional Behavior
- Difficult Conversations – You Smell and People Don’t Like You
- The Skip-Level Meeting
- How to Coach When You’re Not the Expert
Podcasts/Videos:
- How to Motivate People Using Attribution Theory
- Is She ‘The One’? – Conducting a Job Interview
- Preparing to Interview
- Born to Lead: Hardwired for Leadership
- Top 10 Stupid Things Smart Managers Do
- Dealing With Resistance to Change
- How Do I Motivate My Whole Team?
- Building Trust in Teams
- The Mid Year Performance Review
- Performance Management – How To Set Goals & Objectives
- Capturing Discretionary Effort
- Progressive Discipline
- Contingent Decision Making – The Vroom Yetton Model
- The Art of Asking Questions
- Who’s Got The Monkey? Delegating Responsibility
- Managing Former Peers
- Generation Gap: Managing Gen. X
- Now I’m a Mentor – Being Yoda
- Baby Boomers: Managing People Older Than You
- Generation Gap: Millennials In the Workplace
- Employee Retention Strategies for Individual Managers
- Help! I’m a Referee – How To Manage Conflict
- Top 10 Manager Challenges (Part A)
- So What If I’m an A$$hole?
- Good Boss, Bad Boss: Be a Better Boss
- The Power of Persuasion: Selling Your Ideas
- The Von Manstein Matrix
- Difficult Conversations – You Smell and People Don’t Like You
- How To Manage Up Without Brown Nosing
- Help! I’m a Micro-Manager
- You’re Fired! How To Fire Someone
- Giving Quality Feedback
- Handling Emotional Behavior
- Leading Change
- ABC’s of Performance Management
- Skip Level Meetings
- Diagnosing Performance Issues With the Performance Pie
- Dealing With Difficult Behavior
- 5-Step Coaching
- Tips for Building a Communication Plan
- Introducing Yourself as a New Leader
- Onboarding Employees
- One-on-One Meetings: The Most Important Meeting of Your Week
- Delegate Effectively
- Understanding Distributed Leadership
- Baby Boomers: Managing People Older Than You
- The Situational Leadership Model
- Communicating for Results
- Leadership Boot Camp
- STARS – Matching Strategy to the Situation
Blog Posts:
- Top 3 Excuses to NOT Have Regular One-on-Ones
- Introducing Yourself as a New Leader
- Onboarding Checklist – Check Your Zipper
- Delegate – Unless You’d Rather Be a Martyr
- 4 Secrets to Management Success
- Why Socrates Drank the Hemlock
- Decoding Interview Questions
- How to Hire Your Next Leader
- Tales of a Recovering Extrovert
- Working for Idiots
- Forget Your Superstars — Focus on Middle Performers
- Education versus Experience
- Resistance is Futile
- Firing People is Underrated as a Motivational Tool
- How to Destroy Trust and Alienate People
- 5 Reasons Performance Reviews Suck
- Laundry Lists and Diffused Focus
- How to Make Sure People Don’t Care
- Improve Morale — Discipline People
- When Command and Control Works
- Socrates, Lincoln and ADD
- When Your Buddy Becomes Your Boss
- Gen X is a lot Like Jan Brady
- Managing the Balding and Grey
- The Trophy Generation Invades the Workplace
- All Employees are NOT Created Equal
- I’m Not a Manager. I’m a Babysitter
- Dispelling Guru Myths
- First Day on the Job? Check Your Zipper
- Meeting Survival Guide
- Management Advice from Monty Python
- The Most Effective Interpersonal Communication? Don’t be an A$$hole
- Changing Corporate Culture — the show about nothing
- Bad Bosses? Not to criticize, but you’re stupid!
- Why Most Leadership Development Activities are a Waste of Time
- Solutions to Office Layout Disgruntlement
- Making Difficult Conversations Easier
- Time for an Effective Meeting Intervention
- How to Get Ahead — Don’t Be an Idiot
- Micro-Managing: A Great Way to Get Fired
- Politeness in the Workplace? Go #@$% Yourself!
- A Bad Boss Can Kill You
- Business is a Contact Sport — Wear a Cup
- It’s a Jungle Out There
- Is There Hope for Introverts?
- Chicken$hits Can’t Be Effective Leaders
- Number One Rule of Leadership: Everything is Your Fault
- Why Command and Control is Underrated
- High Potential Leadership – Accelerated Development Programs
- Book Review: ‘How the Mighty Fall’, by Jim Collins