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How to Manage Difficult People in Your Team
One of the biggest problems new managers face is juggling team management with other responsibilities, especially when they have to manage difficult people. According to an analysis by the Center for Creative Leadership, about 68% of new managers struggle with this issue. In team management, managers mainly deal with managing difficult people and challenges involving…
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12 Productivity Frameworks And Tools For Effective Management
Over 50,000 US users search for “productivity” in Google every single month, highlighting the growing interest in finding an effective productivity framework. When you add the long list of queries around productivity tips, productivity apps, productivity planners, and other forms of definitions around the term, we’re ranking over 300,000 total searches across the board. We…
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The Business Guide to Intrapreneurship
With the boom of entrepreneurship, there has been a distinct separation between corporate work and starting a business of your own. However, most people are not familiar with what intrapreneurs are or how intrapreneurship works, as it receives far less coverage than it should. While entrepreneurship often gets the spotlight, intrapreneurship offers a compelling alternative…
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Managing Interruptions And Boosting Work Performance During Crisis
Digital businesses were forced to move fully remotely during the social isolation of COVID-19. While they may have been accustomed to some level of remote work, managing interruptions became a critical challenge as they fully embraced a distributed workforce, highlighting the need for new strategies to maintain productivity. This shift demanded not only a robust…
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7 Reasons Why It is Difficult to Manage New Projects (Or Inherit an Old One)
What makes it so challenging to manage new projects effectively? As a project manager, you need to assess the culture, your role, your team, how problems escalate, what your responsibilities are and how to tackle edge cases (delays, problematic team members, running out of budget, handling scope creep, disagreeing with a client, etc.) Organizations that…
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The 4 P’s of Employee Relations and Conflict Management in the Workplace
Workplace conflict, a key aspect of employee relations, costs $359 billion in paid hours or 385 million working days annually, according to the “Workplace Conflict and How Business Can Harness it to Thrive” report. There were news articles about Apple employees having concerns about the ‘rigid’ rules in hybrid working, while Google’s people were frustrated about…
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Strategies In Managing A Software Development Team
Prior to launching my own web development agencies over 10 years ago, I’ve jumped between the role of a senior developer and a manager multiple times – including leading and managing a software development team role. My first stunt in management was back in 2007. We were building a Java-based distributed software for a telecom…
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Creating an Employee Performance Review and Feedback Workflow
Resilience is my number 1 hiring trait. As a manager, you will have ups and downs with your employees, and your feedback should reflect this. The relationship with your employees is a journey with its share of triumphs and challenges. Your feedback should mirror this journey, offering both praise and constructive criticism in a timely…