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Training Middle Managers On People Management Basics

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Training Middle Managers On People Management Basics Here is a simple idea: Whenever you have a new manager (project manager/departmental leader) joining in your organization, put him/her through a simple training program on how to manage people.

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Best of the Web Leadership Articles

Michael Lee Stallard

Managers Can Change That. Art Petty suggests Respectfully Speaking, Let’s Cure Respect Deficit Disorder at Management Excellence. I love Joe and Wanda on Management. It’s a well-framed discussion of framing: Managers and Decision-Making. Jon Ingham presents Leading in the Love Shack at Management 2.0

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Guest Blogger Nathan Zeldes: Why and How to Communicate Across Company Lines

leaderCommunicator

Better yet, in some cases this allowed me to strike alliances and mount joint projects with like-minded engineers and managers – to the benefit of all our organizations. Or you can visit companies in different fields altogether – many work realities are universal, especially around management methodologies.

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5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations

QAspire

Dissatisfied customers, unhappy team members, disengaged middle management and difficulties in scaling the business. Setting up processes and sponsoring improvement teams may look costly initially, but it actually saves money – by having mature processes and improving on people’s ability to deliver value to customers.

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Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts.

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Morning Advantage: What If Smartphones Were the Old, Old Thing?

Harvard Business Review

Voilà, the fully mature PC would have arrived! Just a 10% increase in the number of women advancing through the average Fortune 500 from manager to director to VP would yield 90 more female top execs, including five senior VPs and one executive committee member, argues this excellently comprehensive McKinsey study.

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Executives and Salespeople Are Misaligned — and the Effects Are Costly

Harvard Business Review

According to an assessment of over 700 sales professionals and senior executives conducted by GrowthPlay — a sales-focused consulting firm where one of us is Managing Director — the problem stems from gaps between the perceptions, attitudes, and information flows between executives and sales reps.