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Manager as a Corporate Athlete

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Manager as Corporate Athlete

Who would you want on your basketball team taking the game-winning shot with two seconds left? Would you want a confident and relaxed teammate like Michael Jordan, or a stressed out teammate? The answer is obvious.

Let’s apply this in our business environment. You, as a manager, will perform better when you stay relaxed and confident. If you stress out, you loose your ideal performance state. There is also the residual effect you have on your staff and your customers by staying calm and in control. They will admire your spiritual strength and feel that they can learn and perform better when around you. The more tranquil a person becomes, the greater is his/her success and power for good.

Tags: Effective Management, great manager, managent ideas, professional success, successful management
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Why Brand Your Audit Department

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Branding your audit department is essential for your success. A brand consists of a logo, a name and the entire feelings and expectations created by a product or service.

Why brand your audit department?

To show your customers how your department positively affects the company
To set expectations for your customers on consistency and quality of the internal auditing experience
To help recruit top employee prospects from within and outside the company
To build strong and trusting relationships with your customers
To build loyalty and pride among the audit staff for retention purposes
To provide confidence for the audit committee and investors
To provide confidence for the external auditors for placing reliance upon your IA’s work papers

Next month’s ETip will consist of specific steps to take to develop your IA brand.

Tags: professional success, successful management, Team Building, teamwork
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How to Mentor

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Mentoring

Successful managers are strong mentors to their staff members. This is done by:

Being a positive role model and identifying other managers that can do the same.
Supporting your staff in calculated risk-taking that is essential for their growth.
Working with your staff individually to understand and help them develop their unique skills.
Supporting continuing education efforts that are available through professional organizations.

Your involvement in mentoring will make it possible for your staff to develop to their fullest potential which will make them of greater benefit to your department.

Tags: Effective Management, managent ideas, mentor, mentoring, successful management
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Selling Candidate’s on Your Company

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Think you’re not in sales? Think again.

Recruiting top professionals requires you to sell your company in the interview.

Here’s a guideline for the order in which to sell to the candidate in the interview process:

1. Sell the company

2. Sell the position

3. Sell career growth options

4. Sell yourself as a manager/mentor

Tags: professional development, professional success, Recruiting, successful management
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Recruit Your Way to Success

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Great managers are great recruiters. You can be a great recruiter by:

1) Being active in your professional trade associations

2) Being active in the initial hiring process and not delegating it all to HR and staff

3) Looking for opportunity hires, i.e. hiring when great talent is available even if no specific opening was contemplated

4) Re-recruiting your current staff. Show them you care (if you’re not re-recruiting your best staff, someone outside your company is)

Your involvement in recruiting is crucial to your department’s success in today’s environment where talent is scarce. Demographics and the retirement of the Baby-boomers indicate that talent scarcity is a long-term issue.

Tags: great manager, managent ideas, recruit, Recruiting, successful management
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5 Keys for Career Success

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Career success is achieved by thoughtful preparation, implementation, and sacrifice. Look at these 5 keys and commit to integrating them into your life over the next several months.

Map Out Your Career Goals:

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.” – J.C. Penney

Excel at Networking:

Networking is a lifestyle of cultivating and maintaining relationships. It is not selling. It is not asking for a job.

Improve Your Communication Skills:

62% of CEOs said communication skills got them to the top.

Develop Your Personal Brand:

Be able to tell someone who you are, what you do, and how you ad value. (See archived tip on the Conselium web site dated December 2005).

Take on Extra Responsibilities:

Take on duties of your boss so he/she can get promoted and you can slide into his/her vacated position.

Tags: career success, professional development, professional success, successful management
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Teambuilding – Tips for High Performance - Part 1

Friday, March 20th, 2009

This is the first part of a two-part e-tip on team building. This month’s e-tip focuses on the “harder” topics such as structuring your team. Next week’s e-tip will give tips on the “softer topics,” such as communication, recognition and creating trust.

7 Tips for Building Your Team

1. Observe group dynamics. Should an individual be an underperformer or have a negative attitude, they mu teamwork st be removed from the team. It’s true: one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch.

2. Hire carefully. Bring appropriate talent to the team; identify what talent is needed for each individual role. Encourage and support continuous improvement.

3. Diversify. Having team members with different experiences, ethnicity, and problem-solving approaches leads to fresh ideas.

4. Clarify each person’s role including deliverables, timeframes, etc.

5. Develop a cross training program. This protects the team should someone leave and it also provides stimulation that keeps everyone challenged.

6. Welcome new teammates. Turnover is inevitable to all teams. Assign a mentor to the new team member until he/she gets up to speed.

7. Encourage individual team members to hold each other accountable. Have everyone agree on an accountability system. The team leader cannot be everywhere and observe all interaction.

Tags: high performance, professional success, successful management, Team Building, team structure, teamwork
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Want to be a great manager?

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Look to Yourself First.

People don’t want to be micro-managed; they want to be taught, coached and lead by someone they admire and respect.

management

Here are some ideas that great managers use to build successful teams:

1) Hire smart people; they make you and your department look good

2) Hire positive people; you cannot change attitude

3) Provide encouragement; threats detract from morale and lead to turnover

4) Openly acknowledge success of your staff; praise is powerful

5) Allow your staff to make mistakes without reprisal; we grow from our setbacks more than from our
successes

Your key to being a great manager; become a effective leader, teacher, coach and encourager.