rahul_parab2006
Rahul Parab
A manager's most important, and most difficult, job is to manage people. You must lead, motivate, inspire, and encourage them. Sometimes you will have to hire, fire, discipline or evaluate employees. These articles and links will help you find the best ways to handle these people management issues.
How to Give Orders -
Instead of giving orders, a smart manager gives instructions. Learn how to give instruction instead of giving orders to become a better manager.
Hire, Inspire, Admire, Retire -
An employee life cycle is the steps the employees go through from the time they enter a company until they leave. Managers are in a key position reduce employee cost using the condensed employee life cycle of HIAR (pronounced hire) - Hire, Inspire, Admire, Retire.
Delegate, Don't Dump -
Most managers don't know how to delegate. They hold on to tasks that others should be doing for them or they just dump those tasks onto subordinates. Both are wrong. Learn these secrets to delegating and it will make your job easier and make your employees happier.
Manage Older Workers -
Gen X managers need to learn how to effectively manage older workers. An aging work force will require new skills of all managers and the older workers.
Lunch with the CEO -
Few CEOs do enough to maintain good relations with one important group of stakeholders, their employees. Lunch with the CEO is one way to correct that.
Alternatives to Layoffs -
Reducing the workforce has become an automatic response for companies who need to cut costs to look good for Wall Street. It's wrong. It's counter-productive. It should be a last resort, not a first choice.
Business Management In Time Of War -
This three part feature looks at the impact on businesses of their employees leaving for military service. How to prepare before war starts, how to manage the losses, and reemployment of returning employees are covered.
The Annual Performance Review-How to maximize the benefits -
Three key things to remember if you want to get the maximum benefit out of this annual exercise in wasting a manager's time.
Are Your Top People Ready To Leave You? -
How to tell whether your top people are ready to leave, and what you can do about it.
Do your employees trust you? -
A recent survey suggests they probably do not. Does that matter? And how do you find out?
Flatten The Pyramid -
Effective use of self-directed teams can limit the effect on a business of rising incompetence.
Giving Negative Feedback Properly -
"Jane, you ignorant slut.” No one who heard Dan Ackroyd say that on Saturday Night Live had any doubt that he was about to strongly disagree with whatever Jane Curtin had just said. That’s not the way to give negative feedback. Try this instead.
Giving Positive Feedback -
Don't ever underestimate the power of positive feedback. We are quick to point out to someone when they make a mistake. Sometimes we forget to acknowledge them when they do something right.
Inverse Promotions -
Employees in hierarchical organizations tend to rise to their level of incompetence. One novel way to deal with the resultant loss of productivity is by allowing employees to step back.
Larry Doesn't Work Here Anymore -
Why do some employees seem to 'retire in place'? What can you do about it? How can you help the employee and your company succeed?
The Lesson of the Red Horse -
The key to performance is employee motivation.
Napping at Work is OK? -
"Napping at work" is different than "sleeping on the job". That difference can help you.
Performance Management Instead of Layoffs -
It costs too much to leave an incompetent manager in place. If the employee won't request a return to a level at which they were competent, the company must take action.
Relax Your Office Dress Code? -
Why you need a written dress code, regardless of how casual or formal.
The Right People in the Wrong Jobs -
How you can make your people, and yourself, more productive and happier at the same time.
Project Management-People Management -
One of the four main elements in successful project management is managing the people resources. Here's what you need to know to do it right.
Team Building -
It is not enough to get your group together off site and have a few icebreaker games. If you want team building to work, you have to show the members of the team that it benefits them personally.
There Is No "I" In Team -
One of the hardest things about building teams in the workplace is the lack of good examples. Here is a way to overcome that.
What Good People Really Cost -
The why and how of Employee Retention can save you more money than you think.
What You Need To Know About Surviving Layoffs -
Surviving in an era of layoffs and RIFs means learning these coping and survival skills for managers, and for employees.
Meeting Management -
Meetings can be very productive. Or they can be a tremendous waste of time. These simple guidelines can help you make your meetings more effective.
How to Give Orders -
Instead of giving orders, a smart manager gives instructions. Learn how to give instruction instead of giving orders to become a better manager.
Hire, Inspire, Admire, Retire -
An employee life cycle is the steps the employees go through from the time they enter a company until they leave. Managers are in a key position reduce employee cost using the condensed employee life cycle of HIAR (pronounced hire) - Hire, Inspire, Admire, Retire.
Delegate, Don't Dump -
Most managers don't know how to delegate. They hold on to tasks that others should be doing for them or they just dump those tasks onto subordinates. Both are wrong. Learn these secrets to delegating and it will make your job easier and make your employees happier.
Manage Older Workers -
Gen X managers need to learn how to effectively manage older workers. An aging work force will require new skills of all managers and the older workers.
Lunch with the CEO -
Few CEOs do enough to maintain good relations with one important group of stakeholders, their employees. Lunch with the CEO is one way to correct that.
Alternatives to Layoffs -
Reducing the workforce has become an automatic response for companies who need to cut costs to look good for Wall Street. It's wrong. It's counter-productive. It should be a last resort, not a first choice.
Business Management In Time Of War -
This three part feature looks at the impact on businesses of their employees leaving for military service. How to prepare before war starts, how to manage the losses, and reemployment of returning employees are covered.
The Annual Performance Review-How to maximize the benefits -
Three key things to remember if you want to get the maximum benefit out of this annual exercise in wasting a manager's time.
Are Your Top People Ready To Leave You? -
How to tell whether your top people are ready to leave, and what you can do about it.
Do your employees trust you? -
A recent survey suggests they probably do not. Does that matter? And how do you find out?
Flatten The Pyramid -
Effective use of self-directed teams can limit the effect on a business of rising incompetence.
Giving Negative Feedback Properly -
"Jane, you ignorant slut.” No one who heard Dan Ackroyd say that on Saturday Night Live had any doubt that he was about to strongly disagree with whatever Jane Curtin had just said. That’s not the way to give negative feedback. Try this instead.
Giving Positive Feedback -
Don't ever underestimate the power of positive feedback. We are quick to point out to someone when they make a mistake. Sometimes we forget to acknowledge them when they do something right.
Inverse Promotions -
Employees in hierarchical organizations tend to rise to their level of incompetence. One novel way to deal with the resultant loss of productivity is by allowing employees to step back.
Larry Doesn't Work Here Anymore -
Why do some employees seem to 'retire in place'? What can you do about it? How can you help the employee and your company succeed?
The Lesson of the Red Horse -
The key to performance is employee motivation.
Napping at Work is OK? -
"Napping at work" is different than "sleeping on the job". That difference can help you.
Performance Management Instead of Layoffs -
It costs too much to leave an incompetent manager in place. If the employee won't request a return to a level at which they were competent, the company must take action.
Relax Your Office Dress Code? -
Why you need a written dress code, regardless of how casual or formal.
The Right People in the Wrong Jobs -
How you can make your people, and yourself, more productive and happier at the same time.
Project Management-People Management -
One of the four main elements in successful project management is managing the people resources. Here's what you need to know to do it right.
Team Building -
It is not enough to get your group together off site and have a few icebreaker games. If you want team building to work, you have to show the members of the team that it benefits them personally.
There Is No "I" In Team -
One of the hardest things about building teams in the workplace is the lack of good examples. Here is a way to overcome that.
What Good People Really Cost -
The why and how of Employee Retention can save you more money than you think.
What You Need To Know About Surviving Layoffs -
Surviving in an era of layoffs and RIFs means learning these coping and survival skills for managers, and for employees.
Meeting Management -
Meetings can be very productive. Or they can be a tremendous waste of time. These simple guidelines can help you make your meetings more effective.