How to Be a Better Boss

This course presents dozens of tips in short videos that can help make you a better manager.

Introduction

• Becoming a better boss

1. Seeing the Bigger Picture

• Leadership self-audit
• Management by Walking About
• Back to the floor
• Finding the root of problems
• Standing back at all levels

2. Motivation by Maslow

• The difference between leadership and management
• Team motivation audit
• Maslow's hierarchy
• Improving security
• Sense of belonging
• Feeling valued
• The ultimate motivator

3. Other Motivational Techniques

• The management potato
• Watering a plant
• Ownership
• The challenge challenge
• Always learning
• Between the cracks
• Making auditing a habit

4. Adapting to Personality

• Personality types
• Who are you?

5. Working with Your Boss

• Your boss's management style

6. Planning Involvement

• Tannenbaum and Schmidt
• Sliding scale of involvement
• Involving your team
• Encouraging your boss

7. Leadership Style

• Intro to situational leadership
• Styles for your team
• Styles for your boss
• Allocating tasks
• Coaching
• Underachievers
• Who to empower
• Problem with stars
• The banana of boredom
• How to apply situational leadership

8. Developing Your Team

• Coaching is part of leadership
• The process of coaching
• Let's begin
• Loosening the reins
• Your current level
• Asking for coaching
• Asking your boss
• Why coaching is so important

9. The Right Amount of Monitoring

• Two directions of freedom
• The Freedom Ladder
• Freedom for your team

10. Managing Planning and Implementation Differently

• The management matrix
• You're the boss

11. Maximum Delegation

• My biggest regret
• What are your cushions?
• Could vs. can't
• Value of delegating
• Expert systems
• Giving away your job
• Motorbike crash
• 80 percent rule
• Nearly ready
• Delegating a part
• Assigning a deputy
• The delegation process
• Not difficult and very effective

12. Accepting Tasks from Your Team

• What are monkey tasks?
• Monkey givers

13. Understanding Empowerment

• Beyond delegating
• Key parts
• Abdication
• Trying empowerment
• Training your boss
• Combinations of monitoring and supporting

14. Appraisals

• The importance of appraisals
• Power of appraisals
• Making it happen
• Making a difference
• The key to your relationship

15. Your Management Routines

• Regular leadership habits
• Daily actions
• Weekly actions
• Monthly actions
• Yearly actions

Conclusion

• Future actions you can take