Manager Tools

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to start setting annual goals, and why we do not like "SMART" goals.

Part 1 of our guidance on reducing interviewee stress. Adding more stress to a candidate reduces the effectiveness of your interview process. Don't do it.

Part 2 of our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to teach directs how to interview candidates for hiring.

Part 1 of our Hall Of Fame guidance on how to teach directs how to interview candidates for hiring.

Our Hall of Fame guidance on delivering a performance review.

This week, we're re-releasing one of our Hall of Fame casts on how to prepare performance reviews.

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on the secret to reinvigorating a stalled technical career.

There are some rarely forgivable interviewing mistakes that justify ruling a candidate out even when there are good reasons to hire them. Lack of preparation is one of them.

Mark and Mike talk about what happened at the Manager Tools 2019 inaugural M Conference.

Part 2 of our examples of how to respond to different kinds of pushback to feedback.

Our Hall Of Fame guidance on effective and ineffective ways to notify a candidate you’ve interviewed that you won’t be offering them.

Part 1 of our examples of how to respond to different kinds of pushback to feedback.

An interview with Mark Horstman about his new book, The Effective Hiring Manager.

Using consensus as a decision making tool is a bad idea for managers.

Feedback is about behavior. It's not a personal attack.

New team members need guidance about your key issues early on. This is a continuation of our series about messages that shouldn't wait.

Part 3 of our guidance on what leaders do to take their meetings to the next level.

Part 2 of our guidance on what leaders do to take their meetings to the next level.

Part 1 of our guidance on what leaders do to take their meetings to the next level.

Give your team advance knowledge of emergent changes with a Warning Order.