Managing Managers Toolkit
This toolkit contains an overview of the tools in your management toolbelt and a checklist of the skills, behaviors, and practices to spot for when managing managers.
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This toolkit contains an overview of the tools in your management toolbelt and a checklist of the skills, behaviors, and practices to spot for when managing managers.
Management is both a technical and a relational skill. As the manager of a manager, you’re paying attention to the outcomes they lead their team to achieve and how they relate to their staff in the process. Here are six tips for managing managers.
Here are five of the most important things a new manager should keep in mind.
Management is both a technical and a relational skill. As the manager of a manager, you’re paying attention to the outcomes they lead their team to achieve and how they relate to their staff in the process. Here are six tips for managing managers.
This toolkit contains an overview of the tools in your management toolbelt and a checklist of the skills, behaviors, and practices to spot for when managing managers.
Whether you’re a senior leader or a middle manager, you can use this tool to get aligned with your team about management expectations and responsibilities.
Tap into the collective power of your managers with effective managers’ meetings! Here are 5 tips for running them effectively.
Here are five of the most important things a new manager should keep in mind.
Interacting with your direct reports’ direct reports—with care, attention, and consistency—has significant benefits. Here are three specific tips for navigating skip-level relationships successfully.
Skip-level meetings are one-on-one meetings that managers hold with staff other than the people they manage directly. They’re helpful for building relationships, gaining insight into your team and organization, and getting feedback about the managers that you manage.
Send your managers and staff members these sample emails to get started with skip-level meetings today.
Preparing for a unionization process? Use this resource to prepare to announce staff unionization to managers at your organization
Use this resource to help prepare your managers for bargaining at the beginning of a unionization process.
Use this resource to help support your managers through bargaining a first contract.
Preparing for a unionization process? Use this sample project plan to get ready for the first two phases of unionization: recognition and preparing for bargaining.
Esta caja de herramientas contiene una panorámica de las herramientas de su cinturón de gestión y una lista de comprobación de las habilidades, comportamientos y prácticas que hay que buscar en la administración de los gerentes.
This interactive, online training for social justice and educational equity leaders provides essential tools and mindsets for equitable, sustainable, and results-driven management.
This training, specifically for BIPOC managers, is a compilation of Managing to Change the World and several Skill Builders with additional content on race and power dynamics.
Coming soon… Make staff development and retention central to your work. Learn to cultivate staff strengths, inspire accountability, and address performance problems.