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- Are you powerful? Or powerless?
- I was working with a woman years ago who was frustrated because she felt powerless in her role. Since then I've heard this complaint many times. From both men and women, although it's increasingly more prevalent across a wide range of industries, roles, and levels of...
- Tags: Subordinate, Manager, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, John McKee
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- 10 ways to make a difficult conversation a little easier
- It's the conversation every manager or supervisor dreads: Talking to a subordinate whom co-workers have complained about. Regardless of whether the issue is punctuality, work ethic, or worst of all, hygiene, the conversation poses a challenge. Here are some tips that might make the process easier and more effective. ...
- Tags: Conversation, Option, Subordinate, Tension, Product Marketing, Business Services, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Workforce Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Calvin Sun
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Seven traits of fearful managers
- I recently came across a survey blurb that stated that a certain percentage of management feared being out of the office because they were afraid that a subordinate would outshine them in their absence. While I don't remember the exact percentage of those respondents, I know it wasn't a trivial...
- Tags: Workplace, Subordinate, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2007-08-11
- People Performance: Can You Believe What You See?
- Things I'm Not Certain About...(?!)An interesting take on the micromanagement phenomenon. I have sometimes characterised my own management approach as being one of 'get the heck out of the way' so I am pleased to see it being echoed in this way!There are a couple of points which come out...
- Tags: Performance management, midniteone, micromanagement, subordinate, performance
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- Respect the processes you put into place
- Pardon me if I am on a bit of a rant today, but I am fuming over being the victim in a situation I will call "disrespecting the process." Since I just coined the phrase, let me define it for you. Disrespecting the process is a situation in which a...
- Tags: General, Delegation, Decision Making
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- Know your workplace obligations
- Clean and sharpShould be the Lemma of any industry, on any manager desk, on any Service position.NHMBefore any of these, trust...because the boss may have bosses, and the subordinate may be a boss. When the boss's boss says "Do this, but y
- Tags: it management, herrmanso@..., subordinate, supervisor, workplace
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Know your workplace obligations
- By Paul GlenWouldn't it be nice if every boss came with a standard API?It would be so easy to look at the interface specifications and know exactlywhat he expected, in what format he expected it, when you should deliver it,what predictable events would result from your input and how you...
- Tags: Business ethics, subordinate, Workplace
- Technical articles 2006-11-27
- Is it time for an employee 'plate check?'
- I was fortunate enough to be able to spend some time this weekwith Nance Guilmartin. She is anEmmy-award winning broadcaster, author, speaker, corporate consultant, andexecutive coach. Nance has a way of challenging you to become better even whenyou think you are doing well in the area of communications.I have always...
- Tags: Nance Guilmartin, plate, subordinate
- Blog posts 2006-08-19
- Managing a loud and obnoxious subordinate
- Managing a loud and obnoxious subordinateEver so often I struggle to manage one of my people. I've just turned 30 and this person is in their mid 40's. I've been her manager for just under a year, and started with the company as her manager, whereas she's been here 5yrs.This...
- Tags: anyhelpwouldbegreat, Human Resources, it management, loud, managing, obnoxious, subordinate
- Discussion threads 2005-07-14
- Management dilemma: How should you handle IT pros' spotty attendance?
- TechRepublic member erzulie_d is a manager with a quality assurance and control unit in Parsippany, NJ. He has a subordinate who is highly competent but who is often out of the office for personal reasons. He doesn't want to create bigger problems by addressing the attendance issue with this subordinate...
- Tags: attendance, information technology, Steven A. Watson, subordinate
- Technical articles 2003-05-13
- Talking Shop: Shift focus from project details to work processes
- By Steven WatsonYou've been promoted from a LAN technical expert to an administrator or manager of a LAN unit. All of your hard work has paid off, and you are being recognized for the outstanding employee that you are.But once the glow of achievement begins to subside, the reality of...
- Tags: LAN, Guest Contributor, subordinate
- Technical articles 2003-04-08
- Trouble delegating? Try some risk analysis
- You've got way too much to do. You'd like to delegate a project but you don't trust anyone else to do it. Check out Artner's Law and learn how to decide how and when to let go of some of your responsibilities.Delegation: Has there ever been as broad a chasm...
- Tags: Strategy, Bob Artner, delegation, Artner, risk analysis, subordinate
- Technical articles 2000-11-09
Additional Resources
- Windows 2003 root CA hosed up
- When I first set up this Win2K3 domain, I installed a root CA and a subordinate CA. We started to have problems with the certificate exchange within the domain, so I looked up the problem here and ran the certutil function, which cleaned it all up. the result is that...
- Tags: bernhardt@..., certificate, Computer Associates International Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2003, root ca, windows, windows 2003
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- Use Word to create an organizational chart in minutes
- You don't need special software or advanced design abilities to create an organizational chart. Here's how to make a quick-and-easy org chart in Word. When you need to come up with an organizational chart in a hurry, you don't have to sacrifice a professional appearance in order to...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Mary Ann Richardson, Word processors, Click OK, Insert Shape, organizational chart, Organization Chart, Microsoft Office Suite Word Tips Newsletter, Toolbar, Chart, Office Suites, Software
- Technical articles 2006-08-15
- A subordinate refuses an assignment
- A few years ago I managed a larger IT staff than I presently do. We held regular staff management meetings to facilitate communication among ourselves. In one of these meetings I tried to delegate an assignment to a junior staffer that would have helped the entire department keep on top...
- Tags: Assignment, Help Desk, Call Centers, Team Management, It Operations, Management, Tim Malone
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- 10 ways to make a difficult conversation a little easier
- It's the conversation every manager or supervisor dreads: Talking to a subordinate whom co-workers have complained about. Regardless of whether the issue is punctuality, work ethic, or worst of all, hygiene, the conversation poses a challenge. Communications coach Calvin Sun offers some tips to help make the process easier and...
- Tags: Conversation, Supervisor, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Download resources 2008-01-25
- Three tactics for dealing with sub-par performance of contractors
- What do you do when a tem member is not meeting your expectations? Normally, a project manager would deal with poor performance through a process of trying to determine the cause of the performance problem, further monitoring, getting very specific on deliverables and due dates, documenting the performance problems, and...
- Tags: Contractor, Performance, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- CDRom Watchdog (exe)
- You can master the usage of the CDROM/DVDROM by using CDRom Watchdog. So that CDROM/DVDROM will be your loyal subordinate. All the disks or CD-ROM unaccepted by you are forbidden to use. You can prevent such things to happen by CDRom Watchdog, that your children play the games secretlyparent control...
- Tags: CD-ROM, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-08-31
- iCal Web Calendar (exe)
- iCal is a Web calendar server. Anyone with a Web browser can access the calendars on their local intranet or Internet. Any number of calendars can be created and accessed by any number of users. Security controls who can make calendar entries. Features include rolling up subordinate calendars into a...
- Tags: Web, Calendar, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2004-11-12
- 7 levels of delegation
- Are you a micromanager? Or maybe one of those generalists whos so vague giving direction that your staff never know exactly what to do? Clients frequently ask if delegation is a style thing that can be learned. Or is it an art thing which is more intuitive;...
- Tags: Workplace Strategy, Women In It, Teams, Success, Power, Performance, Morale, Mentoring, Management, Leadership, Job Satisfaction, General, Company Culture, Coaching, Co-workers, Career, Boss
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
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