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The Agile Manager Skills That You Need To Have! Jim Anderson
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Managing a team is not just a job, it’s a science. Nobody knows more about the science of managing teams than Dr. Jim Anderson.
“I don’t embrace excuses for why teams aren’t being successful, I embrace solutions.”
Over the last 25 years, Dr. Anderson has transformed failing teams worldwide. Dr. Anderson will turn these lost teams into department champions.
Dr. Jim Anderson understands what it is like to both work in a department as an employee as well as a manager.
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Mangers Need To Deal With Younger Team Members Who Feel Lonely
The goal of every manager is to find a way to get the most out of each of their team members.
What this means is that we need use our manager skills to stay on top of them and always be monitoring what their current status is. What we need to be looking for are team members who are feeling remote or disconnected. They won’t be able to function well with the rest of the team and their work performance may start to slack off.
One thing that managers need to keep their eyes open for is when the younger members of their team start to show signs of feeling lonely – this is when a manager needs to step in.
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Managers Deal With The Problem Of Too Much Videoconferencing
As the world has changed and we are all working remotely, video conferencing has arrived as a way for everyone to stay in contact.
In the beginning it was an amusing novelty and gave us a chance to see where everyone lives. However, the initial novelty has now worn off. Just about everyone has become tired of video conferencing and sorta wishes that it would go away. As a manager, you need your team to stay connected and video conferencing is an important tool.
What can you do to use your manager skills to prevent video conferencing burn out?
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Should Managers Be Using Emojis At Work?
So can we talk about email?
It’s a key part of our life and it seems like we spend a great deal of time each day using our manager skills to read emails that have been sent to us and composing emails to send to others. However, email has always had a problem. It turns out that the written word does a very poor job of conveying how the sender is feeling when they are sending it. When we talk to people we can read their body language and facial expressions – not so when we are reading their emails.
It turns out that there is a way around this problem – emojis.
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Just Exactly How Should Managers Go About Delegating Tasks?
As a manager, there never seems to be enough time in the day to get everything done.
I’m pretty sure that we all wish that we could clone ourselves so that we would have more hands to help with all of the work that needs to be done.
It turns out that cloning does not yet exist; however, if you can learn how to delegate effectively then you just might be able to find the help that you need in order to get all of your work done.
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How Managers Can Get Over Their Addiction To Email
As managers, a great deal of each day is taken up with dealing with email.
No matter if it is sorting through all of the new email that has arrived since we last took a look at it or it is crafting the perfect response to that email that we just got, all of this stuff takes time. A lot of time.
How can a manager use our manager skills to get over our addiction to email?
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Managers Deal With Employees Who Aren’t Coming Back
Let’s face it: being a manager is a tough job.
We’ve got to find ways to motivate our team to work together in order to accomplish shared goals that will allow the company to meet its objectives. This is not an easy thing to do. Then the pandemic hit and everybody went home for a year. As the pandemic wanes, many firms are deciding that it’s time for their staff to come back to the office. They want the interaction that can only happen there – the exchange of ideas, the realization of things that need to be accomplished. Just one problem: not all of your team members want to come back into the office.
What’s a manager to do?
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