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Management demystified: why not only managers manage

When you hear the word “management”, which pictures come to mind? It is likely the response is a middle-aged male in a corporate setting who makes decisions about what others are meant to do. However...

Management development, Management Trends, Organizational culture, VUCA

The future of management and how to prepare for it

The future of management: Which management skills do employers and employees need to be prepared for the future?

Technology has the potential to amplify human capabilities. Yet, it is not digital transformation but rather business transformation as a whole that will help propel organizations into being top...

Digital age, Management development, Management Trends

On-the-job training is used in many organizations even though it has a poor track record in terms of learning effectiveness

Why on-the-job training to build your management skills alone won’t make you succeed

Many organizations rely on on-the-job training to equip employees with leadership skills. There are many advantages to on-the-job training including its convenience and low-cost. However, in offering...

Evidence-based learning, Human Resource Development, Management development

Top 10 management skills you should have in 2019 to boost your career and change the world to the better

The top 10 management skills and how they help you with professional growth

From the workplace to extracurricular activities, there are some abilities that are not only useful in life, but are also highly sought-after by employers. In this blogpost, we would like to...

Management development, Management Trends

Insights from evidence-based management bring many benefits to managers and professionals.

What are the benefits of evidence-based management in business? An interview with Eric Barends, MD CEBMa

In two sessions, we interviewed Eric Barends, the Managing Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management (CEBMa). Eric is based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and advises management teams and...

Decision making, Evidence-based Management, Human error, Management development, Strategy

Knowing your management style, your strengths, and your limitations can help you become a more effective

Dr. Devon Price

Evaluating Your Management Style & Strengths with Evidence-based Management Practices

Managers are typically tasked with monitoring, evaluating, and guiding the work of other people. This focus on external goals and activities does not necessarily encourage introspection; however, it is vital that managers become examiners of their own behavior and performance, as well as of their employees.

Management development, Management performance, Management self-evaluation

Managers and professionals have also to are about themselfs and build their resilience.

Dr. Devon Price

Manager Resilience: Preventing burnout and thriving in crisis

Managers are typically tasked with overseeing and taking steps to ensure the productivity of their employees. This task is complicated and requires a finely-tuned blend of providing motivation, doling out consequences, adapting to institutional change, and helping employees build independence and new skills.

Work and well-being, Resilience, Management development, Burnout, Mental health

Managers and professionals should also keep an eye on their own health and wellbeing as basis to care for others.

Dr. Devon Price

Manager Health and Wellbeing: Taking Care of Yourself When Managing Others

Most managers are, by definition, focused on factors outside of themselves. Managing a team of employees and running an organization requires a ton of outward attention, and an ability to prioritize others’ needs before addressing ones’ own. This perspective, however, can come at a high price: managers may neglect to notice or address their own stress and physical health.

Management development, Resilience, Mental health, Work and well-being, Stress, Burnout

From time to time managers need to evaluate their performance based on qualitative and quantiative data in order to find areas to improve

Dr. Devon Price

Evaluating Your Management Performance with Insights from Psychological and Organizational Research

Managers are uniquely positioned to evaluate the performance of their employees as well as themselves. By virtue of your position, you have access to a variety of data sources that can be used to draw conclusions about employee productivity, commitment, and satisfaction; many of these data sources can also be used to draw meaningful inferences about your own leadership ability.

Management self-evaluation, Management development, Management performance, Employee retention, Absenteeism rate

In order to be successful as a manager, you need a specific set of skills. Industrial-organizational research provides valuable insights into how these skills look like and how you can acquire them.

Dr. Devon Price

Growing into Your Position: Professional Skills Managers Should Develop on the Job

If you’ve risen to a management position, you have already demonstrated the ability to be flexible, assertive, and growth-minded. This CQ Dossier will provide you with an initial guide of skills you need as a manager and how you can acquire them.

Management development, Emotional intelligence, Scientific thinking, Management communication

Emotional and psychological skills such as de-escalation, perspective taking and boundary setting are key skills for managers in the private and public sector.

Dr. Devon Price

Holistic Growth: Emotional and Psychological Skill Development for Managers

Managing a diverse array of working professionals is an endlessly complex task. Not only is each employee multifaceted and psychologically complicated, so are the constantly evolving relationships and group dynamics present between each of them. It is no surprise, then, that some of the most common problems encountered by managers are interpersonal and psychological in nature.

Management development, Emotional skills, Psychological skills, De-escalation strategies, Psychological perspective-taking