Victor Lipman is a management trainer and author.
Victor Lipman is a management trainer and author. His online course on Udemy is The Manager’s Mindset and his book is “The Type B Manager.” He has more than 20 years of Fortune 500 management experience. He contributes regularly to Forbes and Psychology Today, and his work has appeared in Harvard Business Review. I recently wrote…
Feedback is a little like management oxygen – we tend not to think much about it and take it for granted but when it’s absent we quickly encounter problems. We know feedback is an important element of management, and I’ve written about it on occasion, but I can’t say I’d seen a lot of insightful…
I often like to say there’s no cookie-cutter mold for successful management. Great managers come in all shapes and sizes.
Over the course of a long management career I slowly became conscious of a trend: Managers who had little idea of how they were coming across to others, who weren’t fully conscious of the effects of the messages they were sending, had difficulties with employees. On the other hand, managers who seemed more insightful about…
True confession: Toby was my favorite character on The Office.
There’s an old consumer-protection saying that “if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.” For hiring managers I’d amend that adage slightly and say, “If a candidate seems too charming to be true, he probably is.” Don’t get me wrong—there’s nothing wrong with charm in business. But there’s also data suggesting…
I knew about “management by objectives.” Then I learned about “management by biscuits.” You can learn about management in the unlikeliest places. In this case, it was from Hamish, my out-of-control West Highland Terrier.
We hear a lot in the business world about over-management, specifically the well-documented and demoralizing tendency toward micromanagement. In fact, a 2014 accounttemps survey found that 68% of people who felt micromanaged found it demoralizing. But we hear relatively little about under-management. Yet this quality—this tendency to (often subtly) avoid one’s managerial responsibilities definitely plays…
Communication is the oil that keeps the engine of your organization running smoothly, and it all starts with management. “I never met a good manager who wasn’t also a good communicator.” Today, more than two decades later, I still remember the conversation well. I was discussing “what makes an effective manager” with one of our company’s…
In order for employee objective-setting to work, it needs to be approached as more than a frustrating bureaucratic exercise.
Employees everywhere want to improve and get ahead, so why aren’t you providing employee development opportunities?
Frustrating employees got you down? Here are 5 ways to combat this management nightmare. In one key area, senior management differs not at all from the role of the supervisor on the shop floor. Regardless of your level in an organization, you will over the course of your management career have difficult people to deal…
Handling conflict and being ready to face it is a key component of being a leader
When it comes to your creative employees, it’s about telling them what to do, not how to do it Nearly all companies want innovation and creativity to keep their business vital, but the fact is many executives aren’t overly comfortable working with creative individuals. Why? They often have fundamentally different mindsets. C-suiters tend to be…
