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Managing Difficult People
One of the biggest challenges candidates face on The Apprentice is managing difficult teammates. Even the most talented of project managers often struggles when he or she has to lead individuals who are disliked or disruptive. It drains energy from the rest of the group and it can make the work environment a divisive one.

Young Boss, Older Worker
In today’s multi-generational workplace, it’s not unusual for an older worker to have a younger boss. In order for that relationship to survive, both partners have to capitalize on each other’s experiences and strengths.

Leadership Techniques: Seven Secrets to Being the Leader Everyone Wants to Follow
In this changing, challenging, and competitive workplace, we can’t overestimate the importance of good management. Good managers will consistently motivate you to perform at higher levels of productivity. The following are seven secrets to being the “perfect” leader everyone wants to work for.

Sales Management for C-Level Selling - 6 Steps to Make Your Sales People Better
Are your sales people as good as you think they should be? If not, here is an easy, no-costs process to make them better.

Workplace Communication And Management Communication Benefit From Writing Skills In Internal Newsletters
Newsletters directed at employee well-being, morale, cohesion and even an electronic flea market can be a very effective form of workplace communication and management communication. They can also be a forum for employees to show off their writing skills while they keep their colleagues informed about family news, recipes, social events and the business climate and official matters at work. You could announce business writing training or presentation skills training for employees who want to be more productive and position themselves for advancement.

Franchise development in 2009
Franchise business can grow in recession. Nick Strong looks at some of the ways franchising can grow in 2009.

MANAGERS MANAGE
Managers need to develop a specific skill set in order to manage and not resort to doing the work themselves.

Should A Manager be Loved or Feared?
The best managers know how to make work fun.

Hiring Ineffective Salespeople Costs Real Estate Industry Millions
If ever there was an industry that lives or dies by the performance of it’s salespeople, it is real estate. But real estate sales, like insurance sales, suffers from a cripplingly high failure rate when hiring new salespeople, and the reason is that these industries employ highly ineffective processes for identifying and hiring fresh sales talent. In most real estate companies the 80/20 rule (or something akin to it) applies. For example in one major national agency 15% of agents deliver 78% of revenues. What this means is that hiring effective agents is a purely random event - No more effective than tossing a coin.

Roadsigns and Retention
Retaining the talent we work so hard to recruit and train is important and deserves attention. Good managers know this. Unfortunately, these same good managers often get so sidetracked putting out fires that so-called ‘maintenance’ activities get pushed to the bottom of the priority list. Read on for more...

Values: The Importance of Walking the Talk
In the last few years most companies have recognized the importance of documenting their values. Some have gone to great lengths in detailing what would be ideal behavior but it is still the rare company who has leaders who actually walk the talk. Many organizations seem to forget the connection between customers, employees, and financial results.

What Every Manager Can Learn From Barack Obama
First of all, let me start out by saying that this article is NOT in any way an endorsement for Barack Obama. It is merely my observation and opinion, nothing more. In my opinion, one of the most important qualities of a good manager is the ability to organize.

Nurturing Creativity at Work
Good managers know that creativity is essential for the health and prosperity of the companies they work for. And therefore, good managers also know that their single most important job is to nurture creativity in those who report to them.

Managers Helping Themselves
Many people end up in leadership positions without the skills of knowing how to work with others, or how to improve themselves so the job is at least somewhat easier. This article addresses some of those issues, as well as gives recommendations for moving forward.

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Being Accountable for Accountability.
Everywhere I go in my consulting practice, performance "accountability" is among the top two or three concerns of senior executives. Accountability has various definitions, but the word is usually used to denote personal responsibility for getting desired results. It's an admirable idea, and all good managers and leaders want their people to be "accountable." Of course accountability doesn't apply only to rank and file employees. Managers and leaders should be accountable for holding others accountable. After all, isn't getting good results with and through other people the very reason we have managers and leaders?

Nurturing Creativity at Work
Good managers know that creativity is essential for the health and prosperity of the companies they work for. And therefore, good managers also know that their single most important job is to nurture creativity in those who report to them.

Roadsigns and Retention
Retaining the talent we work so hard to recruit and train is important and deserves attention. Good managers know this. Unfortunately, these same good managers often get so sidetracked putting out fires that so-called ‘maintenance’ activities get pushed to the bottom of the priority list. Read on for more...

The 5 Biggest Sales Management Coaching Blunders
Transforming your sales managers from good to great coaches can have a dramatic impact on sales. In fact, sales coaching is the management No. 1 activity that drives sales performance. The only problem is that managers have not been taught how to effectively coach. Coaching is a skill that takes time to perfect and unless effectively coached or trained managers make all types of mistakes.

Top Producer, Top Salesperson or Good Account Manager?
When top management is unable or unwilling to recognize the difference between top producers and their good account managers, mistakenly believing that their good account managers are also good salespeople, the company is probably not experiencing very strong growth.

How a Top Sales Manager Gets Their Salespeople to Sell More Stuff!
When do you do your best work? When you feel bad or when you feel good? The obvious answer is when you feel good. No one feels like doing much of anything when they feel bad. When people don't feel so good, they end up doing very little....not a good situation for you. So it begs the question: does the salesperson brimming with confidence sell more than the salesperson who lacks confidence? The answer may seem obvious, but why do so few average sales managers spend the majority of their time building their people's confidence up instead of ripping it down? It could be that many sales managers are former sales salespeople themselves and "seagull sales management" (swoop in, dump on the rep, then fly away), is all they know. In this case, unfortunately, ignorance begets more ignorance...

So what is the Definition of a Manager?
A classic definition of what managers are about is that ‘Leaders do the right thing and managers do things right’. A more standard definition is that managers would work towards the organisation’s goals using the resources at their disposal. It of course also depends on the size of the organisation. Larger companies might require managers to oversee the efforts and achievements of a further level of managers. A General Manager might have several other managers reporting to him or even several levels of management reporting to each other.

Shall we create leaders in all positions?
There are many management and leadership styles and personalities described in writing and even more practiced every day around the world. To find our own management style is important since people will only follow and trust a person leading from his true personality. Managers pretending to be something they are not, end up pushing their employees instead of being followed. The word leadership is today confused and is commonly used to describe all levels of managerial duties. A company can successfully train staff to become good company managers. From these good managers some will develop into and become great company leaders. This last step cannot be trained - only facilitated.

Managers Can Kill Employee Motivation
Are you working in an organization where managers know how to motivate employees? Do employees at your workplace believe they will be justly compensated for a good performance appraisal? I coach a number of managers who don't make the effort to know their employees and discover what motivates them to do their best work. Emotionally intelligent managers listen to their employees, and elicit feedback that will improve work place performance.

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