Manager Tools Hall Of Fame Casts

This week, we finish (finally!) our series on working effectively with administrative assistants.

This week, we continue our series on working effectively with administrative assistants. Given that this is part 2 of 3 parts, we've obviously had a lot to discuss on the subject.

One of the lost arts of the corporate world in the past 20 years is how to work with an administrative assistant. While we won't argue that a great deal of the "leaning out" of corporations has been a good thing, working with admins effectively is one of the painful legacies of the cutbacks.

This cast concludes our discussion on how to assign tasks to your directs.

This guidance describes how to assign tasks to your directs.

In today's cast, we conclude our conversation on Myspace and social networks. As always, if you're new to Manager Tools and haven't listened to the first part, you may wish to go back and listen to that first.

This cast gives guidance for managers' use of Social Networking Sites like MySpace and FaceBook.

This cast concludes our guidance on what a professional manager's role and limits are when it comes to being friends with our directs.

This guidance describes what a professional manager's role and limits are when it comes to being friends with our directs.

This guidance describes what to say when you don't have an answer to a question, even when it's urgent.

This cast recommends how managers handle requests for confidentiality from their directs.

Assume positive intent when analyzing the actions of others, especially directs.

Not everyone on your team wants to go along with every change you want to create.  Luckily, you don't have to win over everyone.

Explaining your 

Explaining your

This guidance describes how managers ought to communicate organizational information to their team members.

When decisions are made you may disagree with, you must communicate the decision supportively both in public and in private.

When decisions are made you may disagree with, you must communicate the decision supportively both in public and in private.

Power is necessary for organizational change and success, even if some of us would rather call it influence. But what is it? And how can I get some? And some more? It's not as hard as it sounds.