Best practice stories
These posts come from true stories by competent and caring managers like you. They’ll let you bring the latest thinking into your meetings. Browse the search and category menu: there’s probably a post on something you’re working on today!
Adversity, The Ultimate Test of a Manager
Adversity proves a manager’s ability to develop a team’s spirit, collaboration, commitment, and skill. It tests the manager’s competence, compassion, [...]
Don’t Churn Your Org Chart!
When your organization chart isn’t optimal, your organization isn’t optimized Your chart shows the best way to distribute work among [...]
The Iron Triangle of Ethical Management Decisions
Every conscientious leader knows that one ethical breach by one employee can wreck an organization. They also worry good employees [...]
The 12 Things That REALLY Motivate Employees
Will Everyone Pitch in to Meet Our Big Goal? To accomplish something big--and to be respected as a boss--you [...]
New Manager 30-Day Quick Start Checklist
First-time managers often get no training or get buried in it. This peer-created checklist helps new managers make a great [...]
The Dotted Line to Hell
Dotted line reporting results in poor work, staff burnout, and turnover: it assumes employees can tell their two bosses [...]
Be a Model Manager: No Longer a Patchwork Process
How can The Milwaukee Model help develop, recruit, and retain great managers? As a teenager, one member worked at [...]
The 4 Tests of Managerial Power
A Goldilocks story: A member told us about two senior managers, both honest and caring, but one uses their [...]
Teams That Rock It
One member’s Sustainability Committee rocked it because they’d been given the right cocktail of direction, boundaries, and encouragement. They’d planned [...]