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Latest Episodes

Dealing With Work Overload – The Sequel
July 09, 2012

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. Watch the 'Dealing With Wor

Dealing With Work Overload – The Sequel
July 09, 2012

Get our Management Cheat Sheet Collection.  Of course, it's FREE.  It contains more than 40 Cheat Sheets, like this one about Dealing With Work Overload. Below we talk about how to manage Work Overload.  Specifically, we talk about how you can bette

Managing Those With Less Experience: Strategy for an Inexperienced Workforce
July 02, 2012

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 cha

Conducting Effective Meetings
June 25, 2012

Join Jed and Bob as they discuss how to improve your meetings using Wily Manager's Four Points to Meeting Effectiveness. Watch the 'Conducting Effective Meetings' Video (14 mins 30 sec): Download the 'Conducting Effective Meetings' Cheat Sheet, Video,

Negotiation: The Triangle of Satisfaction
June 18, 2012

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. Watch the 'Triangle of Satisfaction' Video (14 mins 23 sec): Download the 'Tria

Scatter Diagrams – Learning a Lot From a Little Bit of Stats
June 11, 2012

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

How to Motivate People Using Attribution Theory
June 04, 2012

Join the Wily Managers guys this week, when they talk about how to use Attribution Theory to help improve the performance of your people. Watch the 'Attribution Theory' Video (15 mins 00 sec): Download the 'Attribution Theory' Cheat Sheet, Video, Audio

Is She ‘The One’? – Conducting an Interview
May 28, 2012

Join Jed and Bob as they continue their discussion on how leaders should manage the interview process.  This week, they talk about how to conduct the actual interview, and offer suggestions on the various questions an interviewer can ask.  Also learn th

Preparing To Interview
May 16, 2012

There’s so much to talk about for interviews that Jed & Bob split it up into this week’s podcast on Preparing to Interview and next week’s on Conducting the Interview.  There are a whole bunch of things you can do in advance of the interview that w

Receiving Feedback: I Used to Be Conceited But Now I’m Perfect
May 14, 2012

Those that learn to accept the feedback of others improve their own performance and do better in organizations.  Join Jed and Bob as they talk about how to seek out and properly receive good feedback, and great ideas on how to get promoted. Watch the 'R