Manager Tools

Our Hall of Fame guidance on how to think more creatively about annual planning goals.

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like "SMART" goals.

The Manager Tools Interview Creation Tool will make you a better interviewer, and teach your team how to interview.

Part 3 of our guidance on the manager playbook.

Our Hall of Fame guidance on delivering a performance review.

This week, we're re-releasing one of our Hall of Fame casts on how to prepare performance reviews.

Part 2 of our guidance on the manager playbook.

Part 1 of our guidance on the manager playbook.

Our chapter two guidance on improving your chances of being promoted by being a good lieutenant.

Part 2 of our chapter one guidance on improving your chances of being promoted by being a good lieutenant.

Part 1 of our chapter one guidance on improving your chances of being promoted by being a good lieutenant.

Part 2 of our chapter one guidance on project management reporting.

Part 1 of our chapter one guidance on project management reporting.

Too many managers give negative feedback by trying to win an argument about what happened. It never works.

Managers and Directs often have different agendas in our One On Ones. Here's what to do about it.

Everybody thinks content knowledge is what makes for a good presenter. They're wrong, and that's why most of them stink as presenters. Especially trainers: ugh.

Part 2 of our interview with Richard Rumelt, strategy professor at UCLA Anderson and author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.

Part 1 of our interview with Richard Rumelt, strategy professor at UCLA Anderson and author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.

This cast describes how and why behavior is the primary focus of an effective professional and/or manager.

Our overview of DISC.