Manager Tools - New Managers

When someone new joins your team, we recommend you communicate early about your key priorities.

This guidance continues our recommendations about topics to cover with new directs, encouraging them to ask questions about everything they don't understand.

We recommend spending time with each new member of your team encouraging them to tell the truth, and not be afraid of not knowing how to do something or the standard way of doing something in their new role.

We recommend spending time with each new member of your team encouraging them to tell the truth, and not be afraid of not knowing how to do something or the standard way of doing something in their new role.

New Directs need guidance on how to start on the right foot. We recommend a series of meetings in their first weeks, one of which makes clear: you have to create and maintain trusting relationships within the organization to succeed.

This guidance continues our recommendations about topics to cover with new directs, encouraging them to be on time with themselves, their work, and their commitments.

This cast recommends a simple approach to speed up your fitting in to a new organization and role.

This cast tells you what to take notes on in your first week in a new job.

Our guidance on how to create a 90 day new job plan.

Our guidance on how to create a 90 day new job plan.

Our guidance on how to create a 90 day new job plan.

Our guidance on the information you need to develop relationships.

Our guidance on the information you need to gather on your bosses.

Mark and Mike conclude their discussion on the single most effective management tool available today - the weekly One-on-One.

Mark and Mike continue their discussion on the single most effective management tool available today - the weekly One-on-One. In the podcast, we refer to both a written summary of the key points for conducting One-on-Ones, as well as a form useful for documenting your One-on-Ones.

Mark and Mike discuss the single most effective management tool - the One-on-One.

RoadMap is the revolutionary new interactive app to help you become an effective manager. Here's what it is and how to use it.

This cast includes Part 4 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools' Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching).

This cast includes Part 3 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools' Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching).

This cast includes Part 2 of our discussion on how to implement the Manager Tools' Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching - and Delegation!).

This cast describes how to gradually implement Manager Tools' Management Trinity (One on Ones, Feedback, Coaching - and Delegation!).

In this cast, we conclude our conversation on the origins of the Management Trinity, focusing on Coaching and Delegation.

In this cast, we continue our conversation on the origins of the Management Trinity, focusing on One on Ones and Feedback.

This cast describes the origins of the Management Trinity: why we preach it, and how it came to be.

In this cast, we share the First Rule For New Managers: the most important recommendation for someone taking over a team.

Introduction to the Manager Tools New Manager feed.