The Middle Manager

Surviving & Thriving as a Leader

Category Archives: Performance

Motivation

When it comes to motivation, there are two aspects of management. The first is how we manage a team. As managers, we provide direction to our teams to work towards specific business goals, and it is important that everyone works together as a cohesive unit towards that target. It is important that we understand how […]

Two Simple Words

When times are tough and businesses have to reduce budgets or cut back, IT support often has a big target on its back because they are typically a cost center with a fairly large number of employees. There have been times in my career as a manager when I’ve had to let my staff know […]

Oblivious

In all the travel I’ve been doing lately, one thing has become clear. We live in a time when most people are oblivious to what is happening around them. For example, my daughter is disabled, and is confined to a wheelchair. Many of the hotels we stayed at during our drive through the South offered […]

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