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Unwrapping and Managing Difficult Employees

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A serial entrepreneur and executive coach as well as a former Vistage Chair of 13 years, Beth is featured in numerous industry blogs and publications including Entrepreneur, Leadercast, and TalentCulture.com. Her book, “ Are You Talent Obsessed? ,” compiles her best practices for business leaders.

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17 Ways to Teach Managers how to Coach

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For this month’s Carnival, I asked our community of leadership development experts the following question: “ Wouldn''t it be great if we could teach managers how to coach? What one book, website, or other resource would you recommend to a busy yet motivated manager who wants to learn how to be a better coach?”

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About.com has a new Management expert!

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I''ve recently started writing for About.com as their new Management "Guide" or expert. I''ll also use this blog and my Twitter account to promote my new articles on About. Here''s a new article that I just posted at About that you may like: The Top 10 Performance Appraisal Blunders a Manager can Make.

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25 Tips for New Managers

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Managing your first direct reports is one of the most challenging transitions a leader will ever have to navigate. There are lots of things an aspiring leader can do to get ready to be a manager, including on the job experiences, reading, taking courses, and learning from others. SL is a must-have leadership framework for any manager.

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Questions to Teach Leadership and Management

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Teaching and learning about leadership and management isn’t like teaching or learning math or science. That’s what makes leadership and management development so much fun. Another thing that’s unique about teaching leadership and management is that it usually involves adult learners. Why do you want to be a leader/manager?

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Why Middle Managers Need to “Fire” Themselves as Supervisors

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Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. Managing managers is way different that managing individual contributors. Select and hire capable first-line managers.

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Managing Remote Employees: Lessons Ancient Rome and Today

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Social Media Manager. Telework Manager or Coordinator. Online Advertising Manager. Answer: They are staffed by employees that can do their work while their managers are in a different location. And if you’re a manager or aspiring manager, chances are at least one of them is going to work for you.