Employee development

Managing Those with Less Experience: Strategy For an Inexperienced Workforce

This week Jed and Bob talk about how you manage when your entire workforce is seemingly without any experience. In the old days we used to give people five or ten years to get up to speed. Now we might only have five or ten months. This entirely changes the way we need to lead people and manage our businesses.

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How to Motivate People Using Attribution Theory

Join the Wily Managers guys this week, when they talk about how to use Attribution Theory to help improve the performance of your people.

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Born to Lead: Hardwired for Leadership

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss the natural traits of born leaders. Also learn how you can display these qualities in yourself, and determine whether they are present in others.

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10 Things They Won’t Teach You in Business School

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss the 10 important Business Lessons you won’t learn at business school. Many of the Business School professors may not like this list, but it useful for the rest of us.

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Offsite Meetings – Advancing the Retreat

Getting out of the building might be a good way to encourage creative thinking, but it can also be a huge waste of time and money. Join Jed & Bob as they discuss how you might structure an offsite meeting to maximize the benefit.

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The Mid Year Performance Review

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss why you’d bother with a Mid-Year review, and how it’s different than a regular Performance Review. Also learn how to manage the mid-year performance review discussion to ensure it’s effective.

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Capturing Discretionary Effort

Organizations with highly engaged people outperform merely ordinary organizations on every axis: production, cost, & safety. So how can individual managers who may not have the authority to hire a concierge for every employee capture their people’s discretionary effort? Join Jed & Bob to find out.

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Who’s Got The Monkey? Delegating Responsibility

In 1974 Bill Oncken asked the question of “Who’s got the Monkey” to lament the fact that managers seem to buy more and more problems back from their people, when really they should challenge and develop their people to solve their own problems. Join Jed and Bob as they discuss how managers can put Oncken’s advice to work. Listen to the ‘Who’s Got the Monkey? Delegating Responsibility’ Podcast (13 mins 34 sec):

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Now I’m a Mentor – Being Yoda

Join Jed & Bob as they discuss why you would want to be a mentor, and what the roles of mentor and mentee entail. Also learn about the Mentoring Agreement.

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