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TheManager searched high and low throughout the World Wide Web this week to bring you these great posts and articles covering Leadership Development. As requested by a couple of readers, beginning this week, TheManager will include articles and posts from AskTheManager.com among these. Good reading!
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How Does A Young Manager Gain Respect?

I am a young, newly promoted sales manager who stepped into what feels like a mine trap. I have been appointed to a brand new store filled with employees who lack professionalism and seem to be all out for themselves. I am the youngest associate to ever be promoted [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, management 101, Management Development, Management Training, sales management

Proper Business Email Etiquette – Part 2
If you’re in business, it’s time you learned how to properly send an email. Just because you can open Outlook and click “send” doesn’t mean you’re qualified to use email as a business tool.
This is the second part of a two part series covering the Twelve Worst Business [...]

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(Editors’ Note: This is a follow-up article to a post by TheManager on August 7, 2008 that detailed the most common mistakes in emails. To read that post, follow this link.)
Proper Business Email Etiquette
If you’re in business, it’s time you knew how to send an email. Just because you can open Outlook and click [...]

Tags: Business Books, Leadership Advice, Management Training

TheManager scoured the blogosphere to bring you these great and not so great posts and articles covering leadership development and management training from the past weekend:
Six Disciplines CEO and New York Times Best-Selling Author, Gary …
… continues to be a leading force in the state’s technology industry, and we’re excited to contribute to North [...]

Tags: leadership development, Leadership Weblog, Links to Leadership Resources

 
TheManager scoured the leadership development blogs on the World Wide Web to bring you these great and not so great posts and articles covering sales management from the past week:
Outlook as your CRM Tool
Unlike traditional CRM or sales management software, Prophet is built into Outlook, eliminating the need to manage multiple contact databases or [...]

Tags: Links to Leadership Resources, Online Management Training, sales management

Q. I’m a sales manager who manages three separate sales offices that are 40 miles apart. What are your thoughts about using a blog to communicate company news and events, and deliver sales training to my teams? Andy in Ohio

Great question, Andy, and great idea. There are literally thousands of companies who use blogging software, [...]

Tags: Leadership Blogs, sales management, sales training

Still a busy week for the Leadership Development blogs – must not be too many moms and dads getting their kids ready to go back to school – and TheManager was able to piece together the best of the Web for your reading enjoyment.
 
Here are today’s best Leadership Development and Management Training blog posts and [...]

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