Newsletter
Anniversary
This
week will mark two years since we first produced our newsletter. Our
casts are always actionable – if we can't work out the action you
need to take on a particular issue and put it into a cast –
we don't create the cast.
The
newsletter was designed to allow Mark and the rest of the team give you
thoughts about parts of management and professional life which aren't
necessarily actionable.
We
don't say it often, because we're not in the business of trying to
change mindsets, but having a successful career is a mindset. Here's
five things that we believe, which make us better managers:
People
are inherently good. No-one
came into work this morning with the intention of having a bad day.
No-one intended to make life difficult for us. However, when they do,
even unintentionally, it's our duty to point out the undesirable
outcome.
Management
is noble. Management is a
professional in and of itself. It is a worthy goal to wish to do it
well. Holding ourselves to higher standard in order to do so is a good
thing.
We
can be better, and we should never stop striving to be so.
No matter how mundane the task, it can be done with excellence.
What's more, we can ask others to be better too.
Lead
by example. If you want
someone to behave differently, model the behavior and then ask them to
follow suit. You can't shout and scream and then tell someone that
isn't professional behavior.
Professionalism
means doing what needs to be done, not what you want to do.
Don't wish for it to be easy – pray for the strength to get
through.
Podcast
Awards 2011
The
nomination phase for the People's Choice Podcast Awards has started.
Please nominate us at http://podcastawards.com/.
We
have been privileged to receive your votes in previous years, and hope
that you will nominate and vote for us this year. The awards are one
way that we are able to reach more managers and individual
contributors. Our mission is to change careers, and in order to do that
we need to reach as many as possible. We appreciate your help in doing
that.
Here's
how the awards work. The nomination process is one time only. You will
need to go to http://podcastawards.com/
and submit Manager Tools or
Career Tools in the Business and People's Choice categories. Since
Career Tools won last year, we'd like you to nominate Manager Tools
(but please nominate whom you please). We're not voting yet, so you can
only nominate once, but amount of nominations is 40% of the
determination of who makes the voting slate.There's lots of other
categories in which you can nominate your other favorite podcasts while
you're there.
You'll
need the URLS which are:
http://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/manager-tools
and http://www.manager-tools.com/podcasts/career-tools
Some
of you may be asked to validate your nominations - that's part of the
random security process for the awards.
When
voting opens, you'll be able to vote every day for our casts if they
get through nomination.
We're
privileged to serve you and look forward to doing so for another year.
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