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Join Jed and Bob as they discuss how using simple tool of the Circle of Focus can help you better focus your efforts and get more done. Listen to the ‘Circles of Focus’ Podcast (15 mins 21 sec): Click here to get the ‘Circles of Focus’ Cheat Sheet

Jed & Bob podcasted about Managing Work Overload several weeks ago, and got a fair bit of feedback in response. Join the guys as they talk about some of the pushback they get from their advice on how to handle Work Overload. Listen to the ‘Dealing With Work Overload – The Sequel’ Podcast (16 mins […]

This week Jed and Bob talk about how you manage when your entire workforce is seemingly without any experience. In the old days we used to give people five or ten years to get up to speed. Now we might only have five or ten months. This entirely changes the way we need to lead […]

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss how to improve your meetings using Wily Manager’s Four Points to Meeting Effectiveness. Listen to the ‘Conducting Effective Meetings’ Podcast (14 mins 30 sec): Click here to get the ‘Conducting Effective Meetings’ Cheat Sheet

Join Jed and Bob as they talk about how you can be much more successful whether you are negotiating a contract, or simply trying to change behaviors of your direct reports. Listen to the ‘Triangle of Satisfaction’ Podcast (14 mins 23 sec): Click here to get the ‘Triangle of Satisfaction’ Cheat Sheet

Join the Wily Manager guys this week, as they put on the Stats-hat, and talk about Scatter Diagrams, and spotting correlations. Before you decide to skip this podcast, know that Jed and Bob are committed to making this easy, and you might even learn how to use stats to make better management decisions. Listen to […]

Join the Wily Managers guys this week, when they talk about how to use Attribution Theory to help improve the performance of your people. Listen to the ‘Attribution Theory’ Podcast (15 mins 00 sec): Click here to get the ‘Attribution Theory’ Cheat Sheet

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss the 10 important Business Lessons you won’t learn at business school. Many of the Business School professors may not like this list, but it useful for the rest of us. Listen to the ’10 Things They Won’t Teach You in Business School’ Podcast (15 mins 00 sec): Click […]

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss how to overcome the feeling of being completely overwhelmed at work. Also learn what some of the tell-tale signs of Work Overload are. Listen to the ‘Overload at Work’ Podcast (14 mins 00 sec): Click here to get the‘Overload at Work’ Cheat Sheet

Mrs. Columbo loves the Wily Manager podcast. Join Jed and Bob this week as they talk about how to properly conduct a workplace investigation. It would be nice if Managers didn’t have to deal with this, but it’s one of those “burden of leadership” things. Listen to the ‘Employee Investigations’ Podcast (15 mins 00 sec): […]

Once you’ve ruled out killing your boss (due to the lengthy prison sentence), you may want to form some other strategies to deal with a difficult boss. Join Jed and Bob as they talk about some of the things you can do to manage a difficult situation with your boss. Listen to the ‘Dealing With […]

Getting out of the building might be a good way to encourage creative thinking, but it can also be a huge waste of time and money. Join Jed & Bob as they discuss how you might structure an offsite meeting to maximize the benefit. Listen to the ‘Offsite Meetings: Advancing the Retreat’ Podcast (15 mins […]

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss what happens when your boss won’t make a decision, why he might be unwilling to do so, and what you can do about it. Listen to the ‘My Boss Won’t Make a Decisions’ Podcast (14 mins 11 sec): Click here to get the‘My Boss Won’t Make a Decisions’ […]

This week the Wily Manager guys talk about building trust on teams. If you’ve every been on a team that was a bit dysfunctional, then this week’s discussion will resonate with you. Listen to the ‘Building Trust in Teams’ Podcast (15 mins 32 sec): Click here to get the‘Building Trust in Teams’ Cheat Sheet

Join Jed and Bob as they define many of the terms related to measurement in business, and explain how to get started on measurement in your business. They also describe the difference between a good performance indicator and a bad one, and as always, they will leave you with three things to remember. Listen to […]

If you’ve got 30 seconds to win someone over to an idea, a product, or your organization, are you ready to do so? Thinking what you should have said after the fact won’t do you a lot of good. Join the Wily Manager guys this week, as they discuss how to make your elevator pitch. […]

You don’t need a Masters Degree in Finance to do a Cost Benefit Analysis. Join Jed and Bob as they talk about how to use this simple and effective tool. Listen to the ‘How to do a Cost Benefit Analysis’ Podcast (14 mins 25 sec): Getthe‘How to do a Cost Benefit Analysis’ Cheat Sheet

Join Jed and Bob as they talk about the Performance Management process, and more specifically about Setting Goals and Objectives. How do you cascade them up and down the hierarchy? Find out this week. Listen to the ‘How to Set Goals and Objectives’ Podcast (15 mins 16 sec): Get the‘How to Set Goals and Objectives’ […]

Join Jed & Bob as they discuss the Seven Steps to writing a good business case. Listen to the ‘How to Write a Business Case’ Podcast (14 mins 47 sec): >>Get the‘Writing a Business Case’ Cheat Sheet

Organizations with highly engaged people outperform merely ordinary organizations on every axis: production, cost, & safety. So how can individual managers who may not have the authority to hire a concierge for every employee capture their people’s discretionary effort? Join Jed & Bob to find out. Listen to the ‘Capturing Discretionary Effort’ Podcast (15 mins […]