Management Bits and Tips

Many people don’t want to accept help either personally or in inter-team context (bit). Never suggest what you don’t want for yourself and even if you want help for yourself suggest assistance (tip).

I originally learnt about this advice from Weinberg’s book “Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach”. Today one of my colleagues sent me the link about M. Dell proposing help to Putin’s Russia. May be Dell needs help in this time of economic uncertainty?

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From time to time it is useful to have formal thank-you-for-your-service letters emphasizing how customers need your services for day-to-day running of their business processes and / or during their critical situations (bit). Have ready templates for asking about such letters (tip).

Follow-through prioritized service requests with feedback templates. If there are no critical issues schedule periodical questionnaires. When people ask you for a service-favour request a letter clarifying how your service-favour reply helped them to do their business.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -

To look at your salary expectations from a new angle I recommend at least to read the description of the following book that I “wrote” and published:

Salary Figures: A Codebook of Expectations

- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -