Marketing Your Team: Moving from Helpless to Helpful (2)
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One of the biggest reasons I’ve been a successful manager is because I have successfully marketed my team to the rest of the organization as a helpful team full of professionals who excel at what they do. As a manager, I take my responsibility of marketing my team VERY seriously, and do it every chance I get. If folks don’t know what your team does, you stand a chance of getting your staffing levels cut, ...
Make Your Employees’ Lives Easier Using Knowledge Management (3)
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This is a guest post from Aaron Stannard, who is the editor of Working Smarter, a productivity blog for managers and presenters. The best thing a manager can do for his employees, in my opinion, is to make their lives easier by eliminating or simplifying tedious tasks that are not directly related to their employees’ job descriptions. Here’s a list of some of those extraneous tasks that make employees frustrated: Being unable to determine who ...
Free Training Advice for Managers From Olympic Athletes (1)
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Free Training Advice for Managers from Olympians by David Zinger Tomorrow the Olympics will start in China. Do you want to get a “head” start? The Official site of the Olympics is offering 22 short videos by winning Olympians on how to enhance performance. If you go to the official Olympic site the section is called the Olympic Personal Trainer. I believe that these winning Olympic athletes have much to teach managers get the most ...
5 Reasons Why Great Employees Leave (5)
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The 35th edition of the World at Work’s annual budget survey found that the 2008 actual average increase in salary budgets was 3.9%, and the survey projects a 3.9% increase again in 2009. After sharing these numbers, Kris Dunn, the HR Capitalist asked “Is a 5% raise enough to protect your superstars?” I emphatically agree with Kris when she said “NO!” though not because I think 5% is a bad annual raise. To me, whether ...
5 Reasons Why Great Employees Leave (1)
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The 35th edition of the World at Work’s annual budget survey found that the 2008 actual average increase in salary budgets was 3.9%, and the survey projects a 3.9% increase again in 2009. After sharing these numbers, Kris Dunn, the HR Capitalist asked “Is a 5% raise enough to protect your superstars?” I emphatically agree with Kris when she said “NO!” though not because I think 5% is a bad annual raise. To me, whether ...
13 Steps to Read a Blog Post: Zingers Revisited #2 (1)
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A Guide to Reading Blog Posts by David Zinger This post is from August of 2007. I will highlight about one from each month of the last year. I think we often consume blog posts and have no idea was we just took in. I encourage you to scan many posts but when you latch on to a good post to follow the steps below. Have you had the experience of “reading” 10 or 20 ...
Hiring Rockstars and Camping Buddies (1)
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Sam Decker shared a fantastically helpful articled about the 5 stars of a Rockstar Employee. Initiative Integrity Execution Strategic Agility Communication Here’s a bit of background on why Sam is qualified to write this list: In my career I’ve worked with hundreds of people, interviewed a few hundred, and hired over 100 people. A minority of these folks (say 10%) were rockstars, a minority I’d never hire or want to work with (another 10%), and ...
Revisiting A Year of Slacker Manager: Zingers Revisited #1 (1)
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Retire Now (Again) by David Zinger I started to co-write Slacker Managerwith Phil Gerbyshak in July 2007. I have written 3 post a week every week for a year. During the next month I will highlight a few of my favorite posts. Here is the first post I wrote for Slacker Manager. - - - - - - - In about 10 years the number of young people getting into the workplace will no longer ...
8 Lessons in Leadership From Nelson Mandela (3)
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Leadership lessons for creating really good trouble. by David Zinger Miki Saxon wrote a post on Richard Stengel’s article on Mandela’s 8 Lessons of Leadership. Miki stated: if you don’t take time to click and read the entire text you’ll be doing yourself and those around you a major disservice. I believe in service so I was challenged to read the detailed article and very happy that I did. Stengel concluded the article with the ...
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Here are the first 7 lessons: 1. Courage is not the absence of fear—it’s inspiring others to move beyond it 2. Lead from the front—but don’t leave your base behind 3. Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front 4. Know your enemy—and learn about his favorite sport 5. Keep your friends close—and your rivals even closer 6. Appearances matter—and remember to smile 7. Nothing is black or white
Keeping it Real, even when it sucks (1)
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On a recent post about 5 skills for hiring, frequent reader and commenter Chain Smoking Blue Monkey had the following comment that really challenged my thinking: In defense of “Mopey Murphy”: That very well might be the result of a bad manager that someone has had to toil underneath for years. Additionally, a realistic point of view (mind you, not necessarily a pessimistic one) can often come across like this as well. Yes, ideally we ...
8 Tips on How to Work From Home: 28 Years of Experience (24)
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There is no place like home. by David Zinger Stephen Smith posed a question about tips for working at home. I have worked at home for about 28 years and this includes a period of having 3 children under 2 years of age. I now have an 18 year old and two 16 year olds at home. Working at home has been instrumental in being able to put family first! Here are a few of ...
5 Must Have Skills - Mopey Murphys Need Not Apply (1)
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I’ve been doing a LOT of hiring lately, and folks have asked me what I look for when I hire folks for my IT Help Desk. I find that the best folks have these 5 qualities in abundance, with number 0 being non-negotiables. 0) Attitude and communication skills - If you can’t talk or write very well, with a positive attitude all the time, I really don’t want you on my team. Mopey Murphys need ...
People Love Change (No Really, They Do!) (1)
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Occasional Slacker Manager guest author Mike Kanazawa recently published a Change This manifesto called People Don’t Hate Change, They Hate How You’re Trying to Change Them. In the manifesto, Mike dispels some of the more common corporate myths around change. It’s a quick read at only 13 pages, and if you’ve read Mike’s great book Big Ideas to Big Results (or if you want to catch a quick whiff of it before you buy your ...
