Very brief introduction to Manager-Tools.com given by Tyler Peterson at the Utah Engineering Leadership Meetup December 10, 2019. Names the basic models in the Manager Tools Trinity, but does not give the details. For that, visit manager-tools.com, subscribe or listen to the free podcasts. Event Link: https://www.meetup.com/Engineering-Leadership-Utah/events/266937923/

1. Manager Tools
Who Are They and What Can They Offer Me?

3. What is
Manager
Tools?
• Award Winning Business Podcast
• Two Primary Speakers: Mark Horstman And Mike
Auzenne (oh-ZAN)
• Freemium Companion Website: Manager-Tools.com
• Free Forums
• $ubscribe For Unlimited Show Note Downloads
• Various Professional And Career Products
Available A La Carte
• Three Full Day Facilitated Trainings
• Business Consulting Firm
• Two Books

4. Why Does
Manager Tools
Exist?
• Their Mission
• Every Manager Effective®
• Every Professional Productive®
• Share The Guidance Mark Provided As
A Consultant
• Create A Large Audience By Giving The
Podcast Away
• Monetize Services To Fund The Firm

5. What’s Different About Their Approach/POV
Focus On Management
And Avoid Leadership
Focus On Actions And
Deemphasize Theory
Focus On Teachable
Proxies And
Deemphasize Anecdotes
Focus on Behavior and
Deemphasize Attitude

6. Primary Areas of Focus
Subject Podcasts Trainings Books
Management Trinity 100’s Effective Manager Conference
Effective Manager Video Course
Trinity Rollout Emails
The Effective Manager
Communication 100’s Effective Communicator Conference
Effective Communicator Video Course
Online DISC Assessment
Effective Relationships Bundle
—
Hiring >50 Effective Hiring Manager Conference
Effective Interviewer Video Course
Online Interview Creation Tool
The Effective Hiring
Manager

7. “There’s A Cast For That”
• How To Handle Body Odor
• Effective Hiring: Set the Bar High!
• My Direct is Resigning Chapter 1 – Never Counter Offer
• Feedback and the Shot Across the Bow
• The Peer Feedback Model
• Horstman’s Law of Project Management
• How To Use A RACI Matrix
• Time (Priority) Management

8. Let’s Talk About
Management
And Leave the Rest For Later

9. Are You A Manager?
If you are responsible
for someone else’s
performance, then you
are a manager.

10. Management’s Job
Results Retention

11. What Do The
Best
Manager’s
Do?
Know Their People
Talk About Performance All The Time
Ask For More
Push Work Down

12. Why Those
Four?
“Long before Manager Tools, management science had
pretty much concluded that there were 15 management
behaviors that correlated positively with results and
retention.”
The Manager Tools Data – One-on-Ones – Part 1

13. The Plural of
Anecdote Is Not
Data

14. The Top 4 &
The Top 15
Behaviors
Getting to
Know Your
People
Talking
About
Performance
Asking For
More
Pushing
Work Down
The Next 11
Behaviors
Everything
Else

15. The
Management
“Trinity”
One on
Ones
Feedback
Coaching Delegation

16. About
Manager Tools
Models
• Teachable Proxy For a Top Behavior
• Precisely Named With A Precise Meaning
• A Small Number of Concrete Steps
• Highly Focused Purpose
• Guidance For Rollout

17. Manager
Tools One-on-
Ones
Purpose: Know Your People
(And Build Strong Relationships
With Them)
Precise Guidance
On:
Scheduling
Periodicity
Timing
Structure
Content
Platform For Further Tools

18. Manager
Tools
Feedback
Model
Purpose: Talk About
Performance (And Focus
On The Future)
Precise Guidance On:
Rollout
Positive vs. Negative
Script And Preamble (The Four
Steps)
Physical Location
Privacy Considerations
Platform For Performance
Management

19. Manager Tools
Coaching
Model
• Purpose: Ask For More (And Drive
Discontinuous Change)
• Precise Guidance On:
• Rollout
• Context For Coaching — Time Requirements
• How To Create And Execute A Plan In 10
Minutes A Week
• Execution Division of Labor
• Goal Setting — MT Goals — Goal Scheme
• Not A PIP

20. Manager Tools Delegation Model
Purpose: Push Work Down (And
Eliminate Waste)
Precise Guidance On:
Selecting The Work And Assignee
Script For Asking: 7 Steps Including 2 Asks
Avoiding Reverse Delegation
Delegating To The Floor

21. Time Permitting
• Sample Shownotes

22. For More Information
• Manager-Tools.com
• Tyler Peterson — @ManagerJS