How Much Does Career Development Matter
How Much Does Career Development Matter? If you want to attract, engage, and retain top talent, career development must be more than a box for managers to check on a performance review. To ensure that they spend their time wisely, busy managers often ask: “How much...
Are You Ready to Manage People?
Managers as People Leaders The best managers attract, develop, engage, and retain the best talent (the people side of things) and deliver consistent performance results (the results side of things). To do both, managers need high levels of emotional intelligence and...
How to Assess Your New Team
How to Assess Your New Team Because new managers are often put in charge of an already existing team, they must forego the luxury of building a team from scratch according to their own preferences and needs. We know from people manager assessment data that dealing...
How to Better Manage Workload as a New Manager
New Manager Overwhelm - Better Manage Workload as a New Manager New managers often report being unprepared and overwhelmed by their workload. They struggle to keep up with all their new and unfamiliar responsibilities. It’s daunting. They feel stressed about...
Three Mistakes to Avoid When You Transition to a New People Manager
The Leap from Contributor to People Manager If you’ve been given the opportunity to transition to a new people manager position from your previous role as an individual contributor, there are some things you should know. No longer will you be measured simply by your...
Top Confidence Traps for New Managers to Avoid
What Is Confidence? Confidence is not a management personality trait. Rather, management confidence is the prevailing expectation of a positive result. You will want to avoid the confidence traps for new managers. With confidence, managers approach goals with the...
Tips to Communicate Better as a New Manager
The Best Managers Are Effective Communicators Just about every skill a new manager needs to acquire in order to manage effectively requires good communication. You need to learn to communicate better as a new manager. To delegate tasks, to give helpful feedback, to...
