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Ask a Manager
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Ask a Manager is designed to help you get a raise, a promotion, or just how to talk about problems with your manager.
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The Brand is Your Responsibility
We all know what a brand is. Whether its beer, a car, or a maker of industrial chemicals, each company's brand helps define the company in the market place.As managers and employees, we are called to protect our brand vigorously, and insure that our...
Time for Training
If there ever was a time to encourage and go to training, during a recession is just that time!Employers and employees need to stop looking backward, and instead look forward to where they want the business and its employees to be as the economy rebo...
Helping an Employee Cope with Grief
Death is a difficult reality, especially when an employee loses a loved one. Individuals deal with grief in different ways and often are unaware of a change in there behavior. Managers, by and large, are not mental health professionals, but should ...
How to Survive Matrix Teaming
A good friend of mine and MBA classmate suggested the topic of this post.Many of us, especially those with project management experience, work with matrix teams where there is no clear power structure. How does a person survive this type of environm...
Helping Employees During a Recession
Here in the early days of 2009, people the world over are feeling the effects of the global recession. The daily news is blaring stories of massive layoffs, cutbacks, and closures. After a while, all of this bad news takes it toll. As a manager, h...
How to Network Inside Your Company
Once you have been in a job some length of time, you generally have met people from different organizations who perform different functions from you. In some cases, the meeting is serendipity, or it is required cross-group teaming.This type of netwo...

