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Working Things Out at Your Own Level Doesn’t Always Work AuthorityCollaborationCommunicationConsultingDecision MakingGuidanceLeadershipManagementOrganizationstructured communication
October 18, 2024

Working Things Out at Your Own Level Doesn’t Always Work

The fact is that despite the collaboration revolution, with its flatter organizations and self-managed project teams, there is always somebody in charge who is making decisions. Choices are considered up and down the chain of command.…
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The Five Components of Hands-On Management adviceAuthorityCoachingConsultingExpectationsflexibilityFocusGuidanceInfluenceLeadershipManagementMeetingsMotivationOrganizationPerformance StandardsTraining
October 18, 2024

The Five Components of Hands-On Management

There are volumes of research that have attempted to distinguish between leaders, managers, and supervisors: Leaders focus on the big picture, managers focus on details, and supervisors focus on carrying out the details. Leaders inspire, managers…
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The Seven Types of Management Challenges and How to Solve Them adviceAttitudeBehaviorCommitmentCommunicationEmployee PerformanceExpectationsFocusGuidanceInterdependencyLeadershipManagementMeetingsMotivationNew TeamOrganizationPerformance ManagementProductivitystructured conversationsTraining
October 18, 2024

The Seven Types of Management Challenges and How to Solve Them

Despite how unique your management challenges may seem, the common denominator is likely unstructured, low-substance, hit-or-miss communication. When things are going wrong in a management relationship, that is usually at least part of the cause. What…
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The Top Causes of Employee Turnover CommitmentCommunicationExpectationsflexibilityGuidanceHigh PerformanceopportunitiesOrganizationpent-up departure demandpost-pandemic workforcerelationship conflictstaffingtalent shortagesTalent WarsTrainingtraining processesturnoverunemploymentWorkforce
October 18, 2024

The Top Causes of Employee Turnover

After huge recent fluctuations in the job market—and despite ongoing downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering—unemployment is at record lows and employers are facing more severe talent shortages than any time since we at RainmakerThinking began our workplace…
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14 Tired Myths About Gen Z for Managers to Replace AuthorityCoachingCommitmentDevelopmentExpectationsExpertsflexibilityFocusGen ZGuidanceInformation EnvironmentopportunitiesOrganizationRecognitiontips
December 20, 2024

14 Tired Myths About Gen Z for Managers to Replace

These are some of the things that today’s young people are telling us in interviews: “They act like their power is unquestionable, but anyone can be cancelled overnight.” “My boss doesn’t fully trust me to work…
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There Are Seven Myths Holding Managers Back BehaviorDevelopmentGuidanceHybrid workforceLeadershipManagementMeetingsOrganizationTrainingUndermanagementVicious Cycle of UndermanagementWorkforce
October 18, 2024

There Are Seven Myths Holding Managers Back

Managers today are under more pressure than ever. The pressures of managing a hybrid workforce, navigating increasingly enmeshed cross-functional collaborative relationships, and retaining as many people as possible are really adding up. Plus, managers still have…
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What Is High-Structure, High-Substance Dialogue? AccountabilityadviceCoachingCommunicationEmployeesExpectationsFocusFundamentalsGuidanceManagementMeetingsMotivationPerformancePerformance StandardsResourcesUndermanagement
November 9, 2024

What Is High-Structure, High-Substance Dialogue?

Our research shows that when things are going wrong in a management relationship, almost always, the common denominator is unstructured, low substance, hit-or-miss communication. With the added complications of managing some combination of remote, hybrid, and…
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