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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business Review

An important part of your job as a manager is making sure everyone on your team has the right amount of work. How do you make sure that work on your team is evenly distributed? Delegating work to your team may sound like a straightforward task of management, but, in fact, it’s complicated. What the Experts Say.

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What Knowledge Workers Stand to Gain from Automation

Harvard Business Review

Largely to blame is the approach their companies have taken in applying office technologies. For the technology to deliver value, knowledge workers must do pesky things like extract and move massive amounts of data from one system to another. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Employees and executives are rarely mentored on the people skills necessary to have a winning team. Team building must be part of the corporate Vision first, not as a series of exercises delegated to trainers. They embrace technology, rather than ideas and concepts. Training is rarely allowed to be extensive.

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How to Deal with a Chronically Indecisive Boss

Harvard Business Review

You’re left spinning your wheels, or abruptly switching directions, and your team’s credibility across the organization is likely to suffer. In these cases, “you need to help your boss sort through the information” and then offer “a clear rationale for your recommendation.” Do you have any ideas?”

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What to Do When an Online Community Starts to Fail

Harvard Business Review

As the HBS case study on Yelp details, the company’s early success was based in part on the creation of the “Elite Squad,” a user group in the “low thousands” whose active participation was rewarded by invitation to parties in their cities. Information & technology Internet'

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How to Get Feedback When You're the Boss

Harvard Business Review

You shouldn't assume your team members will be upfront the first time you ask. When someone tells you, "You run our team meetings really well," or "You don't delegate enough," follow up by asking for an example. It could be someone on your team, a peer, a mentor, or a coach. Case Study #1: Find a champion on your staff.

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How to Prepare for Maternity Leave

Harvard Business Review

Prepare a list of your core responsibilities, dividing them into the tasks that can be assumed by others and those that aren’t so easy to delegate, such as client relationships, expertise-related functions, and mentorship of direct reports. Be in regular, planned contact with your team. Develop a game plan.

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