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How to Manage Managers

Harvard Business

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.

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Student consulting – it does more than deliver

Tom Spencer

It’s great CV and interview fodder. For most students, this will probably be the main reason why they join a student consultancy – it looks great on the CV and gives you something to talk about in interviews. This was definitely the case for me.

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Why Consulting: The 2019 Ultimate Guide

QEmploy

Preparing for interviews. Preparing for interviews. For instance, you have consulting within Business Strategy, Marketing, IT, Management and so on. If you’re able to prove your worth and manage your projects, you could be facing more responsibilities or even managing roles in your next project. Where to find work?

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How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager

Harvard Business

When you’re hiring a new manager, the stakes are high. You need someone who can effectively lead people, manage a budget, liaise with upper management — and, usually, do it all from day one. Would you hire or promote a star player into a management role if they’ve never managed anyone?

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Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do

Harvard Business

Is it a problem of time management? Take for example the case of my recent client, an engineering consulting company I’ll call Astride. I also interviewed the partners and a cross section of employees to better understand the anchors on raising Aristide’s productivity. What could be the cause?

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Health Care Providers Can Use Design Thinking to Improve Patient Experiences

Harvard Business

This thorough understanding of patients (for example, those who regularly miss appointments) is what guides the rest of the process. For instance, a team investigating several no-shows would quickly see that many cases do not necessarily involve a patient’s forgetfulness or time management.

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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. In my own case, making complex ideas simple is a skill I have honed and that I enjoy to such a degree that if the answer is “yes,” I would rank this a 4 or a 5. In my case, if an opportunity requires me to grow, I will rank it a 5.