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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss - Dealing with Your New Boss

How Do You Deal With a New Boss?
One of our regular readers – and someone who asked our advice very early on in the legacy that has become AskTheManager.com – AngelCakes from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan recently provided us with both an update on her management career and a new dilemma.
When we first heard from AC, [...]

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Young Owner, Old Manager: Who Wins in the End?

 
Questions… we get Questions
One of our readers, Anant, posted the following after reading our article from August 2008 titled The First Time Manager Dilemma, How Do You Gain Respect?:

hi, i am facing a similar problem as mentioned above with one of my older employees, the only difference is that i am the owner of my [...]

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Management Decision Making - How Do Managers Make Decisions?

 
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? [...]

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Management Training - Blogwatch August 16, 2008

It was a slow week for great posts on the Management Training blogs, through TheManager scoured the World Wide Web this week to bring you the best posts and articles covering Management Training:
Management Training - Now You Can Motivate
By gyahner
It is nevertheless a difficult problem to face if you think that management training is [...]

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The First Time Manager Dilemma, How Do You Gain Respect?

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 [...]

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So You’re the New Sales Manager - How Are You Going To Get Up To Speed Quickly?

 
Taking Over an Existing Team – Part 3 of 3
 
This is the third of three posts detailing a few quick tips I used when I was hired to take over an underperforming sales team ranked last in their region. Within six months, this team became the number one sales team in both volume and volume [...]

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So You’re the New Sales Manager - How Are You Going To Set The Right Expectations?

Taking Over an Existing Team – Part 2 of 3
 
This is the second of three posts detailing a few quick tips I used when I was hired to take over a sales team that was ranked last in their region. In six short months, this team became the number one sales team in volume and [...]

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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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