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How Many Direct Reports Should You Have?
How Many Direct Reports Should You Have? Most Leaders Miss This Critical Culture Element
What is IT Service Management Reporting?
IT service management reporting is a key element to your partnership with your MSP. Learn what reports you should expect, and their benefits.
Hold Getting-To-Know You Conversations With Your Direct Reports
To help you bring out the best in your team, you need to get close and understand their skills, abilities, and motivations. So, the autho...
[Message to Management]: How Much Time Should You Spend with Direct Reports?
Guest blogger Tris Brown shares some surprising data about how much time sales leaders should spend actually leading. Not too long ago, new sales recruits were given a desk, a phone, a phonebook, an overview of benefits, and instructions for how to complete time sheets. Then they were told to get to it. The process …
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What to Do When Your Direct Report Starts Crying (Besides Panic)
There’s more and more media coverage and management literature today about the importance of authenticity at work....
5 Questions Every Manager Needs to Ask Their Direct Reports
Don’t wait until their exit interview to find out what they really think.
6 Steps to Help You to Resolve Conflicts of Direct Reports
Conflict: sometimes you can't avoid it if you manage people. But getting drawn in can make matters worse. Use this checklist when team members butt heads.
How would your direct reports rate you as a leader?
Are you familiar with “secret shoppers?” Organizations ask people to secretly “shop” their establishment, pretending to be customers, and report back the good, the bad, and the ugly. Wouldn’t that…
Direct Report Doesn’t Want to Do Their Job? Ask Madeleine
Dear Madeleine, I just read your article entitled 7 Tips for Letting Go as a Manager on Blanchard LeaderChat. I have a very simple question, but it’s one I have been struggling with: How do you...
Challenge the Status Quo & Create Value With Insight-Based Directed Questions
When customers understand their problems, it’s easy for salespeople to lead them through discovery, because customers don’t need salespeople to shine the light of insight on visible problems. A salesperson can simply confirm the value of their product by asking generic questions. So these customers
Want Your Direct Reports to Give You Feedback? Don't Make These 5 Mistakes
Giving feedback to your manager is hard. These five common mistakes make it even harder.
5 Reasons Why Family Offices Are Focusing On Direct Investments
Direct investments show lasting intent and a long term perspective that aligns well with patient family office capital.
Smart SaaS PPC Tactics: Lead Nurturing vs. Direct Signups
PPC is a powerful weapon for SaaS. But should you build a lead pipeline by targeting top-of-funnel prospects? Or should you seek direct signups?
Grow Your Business With Pure Spa Direct!
One of the things I love most about what we do here at Pure Spa Direct , is helping our clients build and update their businesses - whethe...
How to Direct Your Efforts So Your Boss Will Care About Them
Your relationship with your boss is just like any other relationship: what you actually do doesn’t matter as much as how it’s perceived. But it’s hard to remember this when you’re taking instructions and trying to deliver on goals. Based on the power structure, you’re not calling the shots in the relationship, so shouldn’t you […]
Some Direct Advice on How to Make an Effective Case to Senior Leaders
I just heard from a middle manager who vented about her senior leaders’ lack of response after she made them aware of certain problems. She wondered if there were better ways to explain challenging circumstances or to present unwelcome information.
What to Know About Going Public Through an IPO, SPAC, or Direct Listing
If you’re thinking about taking your company public, make sure you know the pros and cons of an IPO, SPAC, and direct listing.
Do direct-to-consumer digital brands have advantages over traditional retailers?
That’s at least according to a new study sponsored by Oracle from CommerceNext<br>Compared to their traditional counterparts, DTC brands were found to be increasing online marketing budgets at a higher rate, focusing more of their budgets on customer acquisition and more aggressively pursuing AI-driven technology initiatives such as chatbots and personalization. To date, DTCs have also avoided leveraging promotions and discounting, which can be effective…
8 tips for keeping workplace chats and direct messages from turning toxic
A positive work environment in which employees feel respected and safe encourages productivity, morale, and retention. Thus, an organization has a vested
The Top 5 Benefits of an MSP/Direct Sourcing Solution Partnership
Read to learn about how combining an MSP with Direct Sourcing Solution can transform and optimize your talent ecosystem.
