Management Skills

How to monitor a worker

July 27, 2017
Here are six points to help guide you when you tell an employee that you will be monitoring his work.

Google HR: Pay ‘unfairly,’ give freedom & meaning

July 27, 2017

Laszlo Bock, the former senior VP of people operations at Google and author of the book Work Rules!, helped grow Google’s workforce from 6,000 to 76,000 in the past decade. At the SHRM conference this summer, Bock offered these tips for HR.

3 must-do onboarding tips

July 26, 2017
When new employees join your team, they may already be feeling worried about fitting in or failing. Don’t make the transition harder on them. Instead, follow this advice.

Flextime is the future: How to make it work

July 14, 2017
How to give employees work/life balance and keep the workplace productive.

Don’t promote the wrong person

July 14, 2017
One of the worst things you can realize as a manager is that you have promoted someone you shouldn’t have. Here’s how to prevent promoting an employee to a position that he’s not ready for.

How to run meetings more effectively

July 3, 2017

The time-waster meeting is a common fixture in offices across America. The reason, says Reid Hastie, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, is that we’re not thinking about and valuing our time the right way.

Just do it … or just delegate it?

June 22, 2017
“If you want something done right, you’d better do it yourself.” Managers who successfully used this philosophy to work their way up the career ladder may find it counterintuitive to let go of the reins and start delegating tasks to subordinates.

Are you overloading your employees?

June 19, 2017

Perhaps you put in many long hours of work each week and expect your employees to do the same. But how much is too much?

Trust and train your people

June 18, 2017
How can ordinary people perform effectively in complex and dangerous situations?

6 rules defeat ‘scope creep’

June 18, 2017
One of the biggest project management pitfalls is “scope creep,” otherwise known as the tendency for a project to expand over time. Here are six rules to prevent the pain and problems of scope creep: