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Proper Email Etiquette for Business Signatures
In response to numerous requests to a recent series of posts covering proper email etiquette, the editors of AskTheManager.com decided it was time to put to rest the question on what should be included in a business email signature.
For those of you not familiar enough with Outlook to create your [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, Links to Leadership Resources, management 101, Management Advice

Leadership Means Knowing When Not To Act
Remember that great little restaurant you frequented a few years ago? You know the one; they had that terrifically tasty dish that kept you coming back again and again. Remember when they changed ownership and the new proprietors altered the recipes?
The way I remember it, the new owners [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership news and views, leadership observations, management mistakes

 
Managing Up – Overcoming the Fear of Leading the Dullards Above You
Explaining to your boss or your boss’ boss that he/she is an idiot is never a good idea, though everyday in American business we are faced with substandard leadership and a mission at hand. How can we help move the business forward when we [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership development, Management Training, managers, typical manager

The Best of the Management Training Blogs – Week of October 14, 2008
The past week saw some decent, though not terrific posts, advice and articles for managers interested in growing their leadership skills. The editors of AskTheManager.com combed through the drivel to deliver you the Best of the Management Training Blogs, enjoy!
Being a Leader in [...]

Tags: Management Blogs, Management Training

 
Questions from Our Readers – Empowering Your Team to Make Decisions
In response to our recent post regarding empowering your team to make decisions (to read that post, follow this link), Olzhas writes:

How do managers make decisions? How might they make better decisions? How do job satisfaction and organizational commitment affect an individual’s behavior at work? [...]

Tags: improving management, leadership development, Management Development, Management Training, managers, typical manager

New Managers – Avoiding the Inevitable Traps
AC from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (that’s in Canada for the geographically challenged leaders out there) wrote us in August for some advice on how to gain respect as a new manager. To read her original concerns and our response, please follow this link.
We were anxious about her situation, because [...]

Tags: management 101, Management Blogs, Management Training, sales management

 
The Best of the Sales Management Blogosphere
As is our custom at AskTheManager.com, we’ve scoured the Sales Management Blogs to bring you the very best posts and articles from the past week.
For the past several months, we’ve paid close attention to the Leadership Development, Management Training, Time Management and Sales Management Blogs, and we have [...]

Tags: Leadership Weblog, sales management, sales training

Leadership and Impartiality
Of all the leadership development lessons we can learn from the 2008 Presidential Elections, there is probably none so clear as how the lack of impartiality equates to poor leadership.
Interestingly, these lessons are not learned so much from the candidates –Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin most certainly lost their ability to remain neutral [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership traits, management 101