HOW TO GUIDES
The Fast Track to Being a Great Boss
Ever ask yourself “How do I do THAT?” when it comes to managing your team or your business? Ask no further. You’ll find all our How To topics below. Check back often, as we are adding more on a regular basis!
If you have a request for a topic, or question for us, feel free to Contact Us.
Management Challenges
No matter what industry you are in, or how big your organization is, there are some common headaches that every manager is facing right now:
- Not having enough people
- Learning how to manage a friend
- Striking the right balance when it comes to delegation
Sound familiar? The good news is that you are not alone. Below you will find some of our best resources for the most common and pressing management challenge we all share.
- How to Justify Adding Staff (with Sample Presentation)
- How to Promote an Employee (with Sample Letter of Recommendation for Promotion)
- How to Manage a Friend: When a Friend Becomes and Employee
- How to Delegate Effectively
- How to Justify a Need for Training
- How to Overcome the Fear of Managing Employees Older than Your
- How to Overcome Your Predecessor
- How to Deal with Office Conflict: 8 Tips
- How to Build a Successful New Team from Scratch
- How to Justify Hiring a Specialist or Higher Cost Employee
Employee Issues
Managing teams and projects starts and ends with people. Whether we like it or not, our professional success heavily depends on our ability to crack the code. Fortunately, while organizations are uniquely different and there is no one-size-fits-all solution to every issue, there are some general themes and strategies you can apply to tackling the most common employee challenges.
Here are some of those common employee issues and strategies for managers.
- How to Manage Negative Employees
- How to Boost Morale: 7 Tips for Managers
- How to Manage Employees Overseas
- How to Write Performance Evaluations for Your Employees (with Sample Framework)
- How to Choose the Right Development Assignments for Employees (with Template)
- How to Create Strategies for Managing Each Employee
- How to Plan for Employee Turnover and Succession
- How to Give Effective Feedback: The Dos and Don’ts
- How to Manage Poor Performers
- How to Develop Your Employees
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General Management
Just looking to sharpen your skills? Every one of us is learning and dealing with new challenges on a regular basis. Here are some common hurdles you might face in your day-to-day activities.
- How to Run an Effective Meeting
- How to Meet Your Performance Metrics
- How to Create a Project Estimate
- How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis of Your Business
- How to Create the Right Office Layout
- How to Improve Your Relationships with Customers
- How to Improve Business Through Metrics
- How to Manage Your Own Boss
- How to Make a Skills Matrix
- How to Develop a New Process
Communication
Communication is perhaps the single root cause of most office and work place issues, and thus it deserves its own category. Interpersonal style, cultural differences, emotions and a long list of other human traits influence how we communicate – good or bad.
As managers and business leaders, we’re left to sort through human nature and find ways to ensure our team communicates well. Not easy!
Here are some essential resources to help you manage workplace communication.
Managing Projects
Not all project or program managers supervise people. And yet, all project managers need to get results through people just as supervisors do. The challenge, of course, is it’s a lot easier to get someone to do something when they work for you. Thus, managing project teams introduces its own unique set of challenges.
How to run a staff meeting – excellent article. Would be great if you also did ‘How to run effective weekly one to one staff meeting’.
Hi Melissa!
Thanks for taking the time to comment, I’m glad you found our information useful. And thank you for a great suggestion. I will add it to our list of future articles!
Please feel free to email us with any questions or suggestions you may have!
Tim G.
Editor
Manager’s Resource Handbook
Melissa,
Great suggestion, thanks a bunch! We’ll add it to the list of future topics.
Tim G.
Editor
Manager’s Resource Handbook
We really enjoy your How to Guides! Having worked at Fortune 100 companies my entire career I find the articles concise and helpful. In an effort to help my General Manager become more productive I passed on to her “How to Delegate Work Effectively,” “Employee Engagement” and “How to Run a Staff Meeting.” To some your advice is common sense, but to many it’s new territory. Thanks!
Thank you for the comment and feedback, TS! We really do appreciate it.
And I must agree – good management is really just about applying common sense to any number of scenarios. How do you motivate people to perform their best such that it leads to profit and success of the organization?
Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Tim G.
Editor
The Manager’s Resource Handbook
Can you maybe do an article on effective stand ups. What to discuss and how to stay on track in 15 min or less giving everyone the opportunity to talk.
– Should there be meeting notes taking in a stand up?
– How to avoid employees going into story time
Hi JP,
Great suggestion! We will add this to the list of upcoming articles.
Kind Regards,
Tim
Editor
The Manager’s Resource Handbook
Hi there JP,
Thanks again for your suggestion! We actually moved this to the top of our list. You can find the our article on how to run a stand up meeting HERE.
We do hope you find it useful!
Tim