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November 27, 2018

Is the Work Getting Done? Five Ways to Monitor Employee Performance

There are a number of myths that prevent managers from being strong, but one of the most common questions we hear at RainmakerThinking is, "How can I possibly keep track of my...
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June 11, 2018

How to Retain Top Talent: The Prestige Factor

In today's talent wars, where employees have more negotiating power and are releasing pent up departure demand in droves, how do you gain control of turnover? The problem with...
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June 11, 2018

Managing People Is Getting Harder

By Bruce Tulgan   Undermanagement can be difficult to identify. After all, everyone at work is surrounded by metrics and meetings all the time. It may seem like management is...
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June 11, 2018

Are We All Millennials Now?

Workers of all ages today rely every day on their immediate managers for help meeting their basic needs and expectations and dealing with a whole range of day-to-day issues that...
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June 11, 2018

Why Is This Generation Gap Different?

With any new generational shift, there is always the hope that the new young upstarts will eventually wise up, settle down and, basically, conform. Anxieties arise as new...
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May 09, 2018

Better Hiring, Attraction, and Retention: 6 Key Takeaways from the New York Times

Last week, I shared the first three of my top six takeaways from Tessa Ann Taylor’s hiring strategy at The New York Times: Widen the Scope of Your Hiring It’s Worth the...
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Topics:   Contemporary Issues
April 30, 2018

Break Free from the Vicious Cycle of Undermanagement

By Bruce Tulgan   Managers who are convinced they don't have time to manage almost always spend lots of time managing people anyway. That's because whenever a manager avoids...
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April 30, 2018

What Is High-Structure, High-Substance Dialogue?

Our research shows that when things are going wrong in a management relationship, almost always, the common denominator is unstructured, low substance, hit-or-miss...
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November 04, 2014

When an Employee Needs Help With Interpersonal Communication

The bad news is that more and more managers tell us that employees are becoming so accustomed to communicating with people electronically, some are losing the ability to...
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Topics:   Management
August 21, 2014

Bruce Tulgan Offers Solutions to Workforce Challenges

Since 1993, Bruce Tulgan has been researching the challenges business leaders, managers and supervisors in the workforce face. His findings are the foundation of 19 books and...
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Topics:   Business
March 04, 2009

Finding the Right Jobs for Gen Yers

What a job means to Gen Yers depends on what’s going on in their lives at any given time.  Here are the seven job types for Generation Y:Sometimes they just want to hide out and...
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February 16, 2009

Q&A: Bruce Tulgan on Managing Gen Y

Bruce Tulgan is an expert on managing young people and the author of the bestsellers It’s Okay To Be The Boss and Managing Generation X. He recently spoke with Premiere about...
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