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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. You might know how to do the former, but how do you do the latter? And how do you serve as a good role model?

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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

Exit interviews were usually handled by junior managers on the HR team, but Amrita felt that given the high rate of attrition among doctors at Krisna over the past year, it was her responsibility as head of HR to talk to Dr. Vishnu Patel, a respected cardiologist who’d just given his notice. Ben Edwards/Getty Images.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Rather, if you find that you have some additional time before starting your first job post-graduation or even in-between your first and second jobs, these suggestions might provide some ideas on how to best utilize it. With your new-found free time upon securing a job, consider learning a new skill or two. Start Consulting.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business

“It takes a lot of effort on the part of a manager to show someone what that is.” Give her guidance on where you want her to emphasize her time, and also how long something should take. Case Study #1: Support your perfectionists and look for time-saving tools.

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The Six-Minute Hypothesis Rule

CaseInterview.com

In the debrief sessions, I discovered that these candidates had difficulty determining how to draw the line between asking a few initial clarifying questions vs. asking too many and delving into an unstructured question and answer session with no hypothesis to provide the conversation with some structure. Additional Resources. No, Thanks!

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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Harvard Business

So be sure you’re in good standing with your manager before making the request. And try to “imagine how your boss will hear your proposal.” ” Consider what will worry your manager, and then think of ways to preempt those concerns. Give your boss time. “Give them the time and space to do that.”

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