Manager by Design Year in Review: Top Article Series (part 1)

As we close out the year, here are the top series of articles published by Manager by Design in 2010.

Providing Positive Reinforcement:

A manager needs to provide positive reinforcement to encourage that employees keep doing the things that are going well, and perhaps do more of the things that work, and less the things that don’t.  Here are the Manager by Design articles related to Positive Reinforcement:

Examples of when to offer thanks and when to offer praise

“Thanks for your Hard Work” vs. “Thanks for your Good Work”

The Value of Providing Expectations: Positive reinforcement proliferates

Managers should provide focus on what’s going right and reward those behaviors

An example of tracking positive performance and praise of an employee in an employee performance log

Getting started on a performance log – stick with the praise

Using a Performance Log:

So many things happen when managing, it’s easy to forget what happened.  Or worse, it’s easy to remember the things that don’t matter as much.  What does matter is the performance of the employees.  Here are tips on keeping a performance log.  Remember — it should include the good stuff your employees are doing!

Helpful tip for managers: Keep a performance log

Important fields that an employee performance log should contain – Beginner Level

Important fields that an employee performance log should contain – Intermediate Level

Important fields that an employee performance log should contain – Advanced Level

Keeping a performance log – why not?

An example of tracking positive performance and praise of an employee in an employee performance log

Getting started on a performance log – stick with the praise

An example of how to use a log to track performance of an employee

Meetings:

Managers get invited to meetings all the time.  They also invite a lot of people to meetings too.  This means that meetings are important.  So what makes a good meeting?  Here are some articles by Manager by Design on the topic:

Criteria to generate a virtuous cycle for meetings

A leading indicator for team performance: Chart your meeting quality

Nine simple tips to make meetings more compelling

Making it a mandatory meeting sabotages the meeting

More reasons mandatory meetings are bad for you and bad for your team

The first step to getting out of the mandatory meeting cycle: Don’t call meetings if you were planning one-way communication

How to get out of what seem to be useless meetings

How to get out of really useless meetings

Happy New Year from Manager by Design!

Share and Enjoy