Archive for July, 2008

So You’re the New Sales Manager - How Are You Going To Get Their Attention?

Taking Over an Existing Team – Part 1 of 3
 
Rare is the manager who starts a team from scratch. More often than not, someone is promoted from within a team or promoted/hired from outside the group to take over an existing team.
 
When someone on a sales team is promoted from a salesperson role to [...]

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Leadership Development - Blogwatch July 30, 2008

It’s been a busy week on the Leadership Development blogs – possibly something to do with the rotten economy?
 
The editors of AskTheManager.com searched the resources on the World Wide Web to bring you the best blog posts covering Leadership Development and Management Training:
Manager Stress… A Big Problem
By admin
admin for The Sage Commander: Monster Productivity [...]

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Leadership Development - Blogwatch July 29, 2008

 
The editors of AskTheManager.com searched high and low throughout the World Wide Web to bring you the best blog posts covering Leadership Development and Management Training:
Leadership Development: Try Harder, Want it More
By Tudor
It took a very cynical view of leadership development experiences. It was also very funny. I showed it to someone. After she [...]

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Time Management is More Than Tips and Tricks

Time management is more than just employing a few tips and tricks to help manage your day. As anyone who has tried to use time management tricks in the past knows, it doesn’t take long for you to fall back into your old routine.
 
Proper time management requires both a paradigm shift and new focus on [...]

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Help! My Boss is a Jerk!

 

Q. Every time my coworkers or I ask my manager a question, he snaps at us and tries to make us feel stupid for not already knowing the answer. What should we do? Lisa in Raleigh, NC

 
Well, as my teachers always said: there are no stupid questions. Of course, it sounds like there are some [...]

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Leadership Development - Blogwatch July 22, 2008

 
The editors at AskTheManager.com scoured the World Wide Web to bring you these terrific news and views from the Leadership Development blogosphere:
The value stream of succession planning and leadership development
By Jamie Flinchbaugh(Jamie Flinchbaugh)
What’s the purpose of thinking about work as a value stream? Is it just a buzzword? It helps us identify how our [...]

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Management by Questioning: Training Sales Managers to Lead in Tough Economic Times

Management by Questioning…
 
Not the most electrifying title for a post, I know, but an important topic nonetheless.
 
A friend who owns a successful business recently lamented that his sales teams were ineffective selling into the “terrible economy” we’re faced with today. I was surprised, because this man has always done a great job driving revenue [...]

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Obama and McCain Share a Lack of Leadership Experience

 
What is the value of experience?
 
With the November election growing ever closer, a liberal colleague of mine asked what I thought about experience as it applies to the White House. (For the sake of full disclosure, TheManager is a fiscally-conservative independent… aren’t all capitalists?)
 
My friend knows that at virtually all levels of management I argue [...]

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