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transitioning from a colleague to the boss

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Transition from a colleague to the boss: The challenges of management jobs

When I grow up, I’d like to be a boss. Perhaps not the most common career people end up having, but I am sure that it’s on your list too. The executive chair offers many benefits: Decision making power, great travel and of course the big money and all that sounds excellent, right? But is there something we are missing- can all that glitter be gold? We spoke with someone who should know. Michael Dams is currently the Managing Director and Director Central Europe (DA-CH) at National Instruments

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Management Skills 205: How to be the bearer of bad news

Being the bearer of bad news is of the biggest challenges managers face. No body likes bad news, and it is worse when you know you might be ruining somebody’s day or much more. It never gets easier to tell someone they’re not performing up to standards, or to tell a whole team that their project they’ve spent so many hours on is now scrapped or the company is downsizing.

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10 Fatal Flaws in Leaders

Fatal Flaws in leaders are perhaps spoken less of compared to what qualities a leader must possess. As a candidate of management jobs, this is critical as a check. Leadership consultants Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman conducted two studies to judge the characteristics of those who were fired as well as those who were considered least effective in terms of their leadership skills.

Cross-training for building your work strengths

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Management Skills 204: Cross-training at work to build your strengths

Management is always on the look-out for employees with leadership potential, who exhibit great communication, visionary thinking, and who can also get things done and follow through. But of all the leaders you have observed, can you name one who is exceptional in all of these areas. There are many who get by or are above average in several domains

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Laying the groundwork for Innovative thinking

“You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and still be in business tomorrow.” This quote lays out the challenges that an organization and personnel in management jobs today face. The new corporate mantra for most organizations specially post the 2008 recession is “innovation”. Everyone wants to provide new services, cutting edge technology, niche services that differs from others existing in the market. But what is the workplace doing to encourage innovation? How are organizations laying the groundwork for innovative thinking?

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Tips on fixing a work relationship

If you realistically think about it, we tend to spend a lot of time at work- perhaps even more in management positions. Considering this and just plain productivity reasons (that improves when our working relationships are good), it’s important to consider factors that can enable us to improve relationships with our bosses and colleagues alike. Everyone has a bad day and a wrong foot-ed start to the proverbial Manic Monday. But that is no reason to take the bad mood to the next work meeting because sometimes conflicts are just plain difficult to avoid.

tips to optimize job application applying in Germany

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Applying in Germany: tips to optimize your job application!

A few moons ago, we published tips on CV writing when you’re applying for management jobs in Germany. Today we have a follow-up on this series. We share tips to optimize your job application.

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Building a workplace values manifesto for your team

With workplaces becoming more collaborative, people are increasingly looking not just for jobs, but also for organizations whose values and culture align with their own. As a manager, it is your decision on the working environment you wish to create – be it an authoritarian or a self-organizing working environment.

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Innovation is a C-word

Companies and managers worldwide struggle with a big phenomena: How do you create innovation? As a leader in a corporate trying to scale to the next S-curve, trying to find that one new topic that proverbially ‘moves the needle’ is not an easy puzzle to tackle. Especially, when at times existing structures, hierarchies and silos creating distances between the innovators and customers prove to be major issues in idea implementation. Does innovation come from bottom up, business or design school, or does it belong to the C-suite. Do we agree that ‘Innovation is a C-word?’.

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7 tips on how to start your career afresh

After working with one of the big 4 consulting firms for over 5 years, I decided to hit a weird career crisis, and start afresh. I was looking for doing new things considered ‘unsafe’ when not in the early 20s. And then I had a problem- how do you start ? Here are my top 7 tips on how to start your career afresh.