Cuando pase de los objetivos neutrales a los objetivos con consideraciones de equidad e inclusión, ponga en práctica estos consejos para no perder el rumbo.| The Management Center
Sometimes the best thing you can do during hard times is give your team some time off. This sample email turns a planned meeting/retreat into a mental health day.| The Management Center
This worksheet can help managers adjust roles and restructure the work after layoffs, permanent vacancies, or downsizing.| The Management Center
Get resources for managing your emotions as you prepare to conduct layoffs. Use our journaling prompts, reflection questions, and mantras to stay grounded.| The Management Center
This toolkit offers concrete tools, samples, and templates to help leaders conduct layoffs.| The Management Center
Find sample language and a template for conducting a clear, compassionate, and human-centered layoff conversation.| The Management Center
In a crisis, a big part of every leader’s job is to provide a container for staff and make sense of what’s happening. Use this worksheet to plan out 5 key components for communicating to your team during tough times.| The Management Center
When it comes to handling unknowns at work, one concrete step every team member can take is to create a backup plan for who will take over key responsibilities if one or more team members is out. Use our template to start.| The Management Center
Here is a list of some of the most common choice points, or key decision-making opportunities, managers face that may have equity and inclusion impacts.| The Management Center
Use this success sheet to help set annual goals for individual staff members, describing what success looks like and how the staff member will get there.| The Management Center
Once you’ve set goals, make sure to regularly check in on progress. Use the Goals Stepback Worksheet to track progress and share updates about your team or individual goals on a regular basis.| The Management Center
Track progress toward your individual, team, or organizational SMARTIE goals.| The Management Center
Need inspiration for goal-setting? Check out our goals bank of sample SMARTIE goals for common areas in the progressive and education equity sectors.| The Management Center
Choice points are forks in the road where some paths replicate the status quo and other paths open opportunities for racial equity, inclusion, and belonging. This article shares five steps for using choice points to interrupt bias and advance equity.| The Management Center
When looking for work you can delegate, ask yourself: what are the areas where you can make the greatest impact and leverage your strengths? Use comparative advantage to decide what work you should own and what you should delegate.| The Management Center
Have you asked a staffer how a project is going and received a simple “good” in response? Here are some questions to get beneath the surface.| The Management Center
What do you do when someone isn’t performing well—they’re not meeting expectations, hitting goals, or demonstrating the must-haves of their role? How much should you invest in performance improvement? When is it time to let someone go? And, how the #@$% do you decide? These four steps will help you navigate the tricky processes of addressing performance problems.| The Management Center
Get better at giving feedback—and help your staff get better, too—with these five tips.| The Management Center
When you’re moving from equity-neutral goals to goals with equity and inclusion considerations baked in, practice these tips to stay on track.| The Management Center
This agenda provides a template that you can ask staff members to fill out and send you ahead of your check-in. It’s structured to help staff members and managers check in on progress toward goals, stay aligned on current projects, talk about what’s going well, and what could be going better, and get aligned on next steps.| The Management Center
Your one-on-one check-ins are essential. Here are a few tips for checking in during the pandemic (and any other extended crisis).| The Management Center
Los puntos de elección son bifurcaciones en el camino donde algunos caminos reproducen el estatus quo y otros caminos abren oportunidades para la equidad racial, la inclusión y la pertenencia. Con los puntos de elección, los líderes toman una pausa consciente para reflexionar, generar opciones y promulgar cambios que promuevan la equidad y la inclusión.| The Management Center
Learn how to set and achieve goals at work with 7 clear steps, the SMARTIE framework, and strategies for inclusive, results-driven success.| The Management Center
The more self-awareness and authentic consideration of others we cultivate, the better equipped we are to build and get better results, especially during moments of conflict, tension, and frustration. One key way to do this is through perspective-taking.| The Management Center
Trabajar en un equipo requiere una gran comunicación: dar instrucciones claras, alinear las expectativas y ofrecer (y recibir) comentarios que ayuden a las personas a crecer. En este artículo, compartimos un marco simple para dar más y mejor retroalimentación: CSAW (Conectar, Compartir, Preguntar, Concluir).| The Management Center
¿Nervioso de dar retroalimentación? Esta hoja de trabajo le ayudará a pensar en lo que quiere decir y en cómo decirlo con CSAW (Conectar, Compartir, Preguntar, Concluir).| The Management Center
While much of the burnout and overwork we see in our sectors is beyond any individual person’s control, we do have control over how we manage our time and systems so that we can achieve great results, avoid unnecessary chaos, and minimize fatigue. This article covers personal practices that can help you and your team get your most important work done sustainably.| The Management Center
Líderes y gerentes de proyectos: utilice esta hoja de trabajo cuando delegue un nuevo proyecto o responsabilidad para ponerse de acuerdo sobre las expectativas, los recursos, las limitaciones y la forma de revisar el progreso.| The Management Center
Prepárese (o prepare a su equipo) para el éxito poniéndose de acuerdo con su gerente o jefe de proyecto sobre las prioridades, las expectativas, los recursos y los puntos de control a lo largo del camino.| The Management Center
When check-ins are done right, they can revolutionize the way you manage. In this article, we share our best tips for getting the most out of your check-ins.| The Management Center
Whether you’re a staff member, project leader, or director, one of the most important skills you may need in the current terrain is the art of saying “no” (to some things) so you can make room for others. In other words: how to reprioritize.| The Management Center
Engage your team in tough decision-making using this simple table.| The Management Center
Learn about PTR, a tool that can help you focus on what really matters so that you can mitigate bias and get to better outcomes.| The Management Center
Tap into the collective power of your managers with effective managers’ meetings! Here are 5 tips for running them effectively.| The Management Center
Si alguna vez ha tomado una decisión—desde la forma de comunicar anuncios importantes al personal hasta lo que ha comido en el desayuno—ha utilizado el PTR. PTR, que significa preferencias, tradiciones y requisitos, es una herramienta que puede ayudarle a centrarse en lo que realmente importa para que pueda mitigar el sesgo y llegar a mejores resultados.| The Management Center
Middle managers, try out these three strategic mindsets for easing the squeeze between frontline staff and senior leadership.| The Management Center
By using choice points to focus on equity and inclusion, this template provides you the opportunity to reflect on interactions with team members (direct reports and colleagues). Doing this with an eye towards your whole team—rather than on a case-by-case basis—can help you spot disparities and check for bias.| The Management Center
In this article, we offer a new definition for effective management—one rooted in equity, sustainability, and results.| The Management Center
Project leaders and managers: use this worksheet when delegating a new project or responsibility to get aligned on expectations, resources, constraints, and how you'll check in about progress.| The Management Center
Help your staff develop and learn a new skill at work! Find advice and a step-by-step guide to support your colleagues here.| The Management Center
A worksheet to help you embed equity and inclusion into your SMART goals, from the organization that popularized the SMARTIE approach.| The Management Center
Learn how to build resilience at work by focusing on what you can control. Get to know the sphere of control strategy.| The Management Center
The purpose of fair process is to create space for authentic, equitable, and inclusive engagement and build clarity about decisions, resulting in stronger relationships, engagement, outcomes, and implementation.| The Management Center
Setting and aligning on expectations is the starting point for all things management—whether you’re hiring, setting goals, delegating projects, or evaluating performance. Here are three simple steps for getting aligned on expectations.| The Management Center
This article shares guidance for managing through crises, including ways to ground yourself, support your team, and learn from your experiences. It is an updated version of “How to Manage When Things Are Not Okay (And Haven’t Been For Centuries).”| The Management Center
The days following Election Day can be filled with stress and uncertainty. This sample email includes ways you can show up for your team.| The Management Center
What’s different about managing in a unionized workplace? This article overviews what changes and what stays the same.| The Management Center
Use this debrief template to come together after a collective bargaining process, capture lessons learned, establish a strong foundation for labor-management relations, and prepare for future negotiations.| The Management Center
Senior leaders can use this template to help roll out changes established by a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.| The Management Center
Hesitant about giving feedback to staff or coworkers? We address common misconceptions so you can build a feedback culture and strengthen relationships in the process.| The Management Center
When it comes to sustainability at work, recovery is just as important as pushing through. Use this worksheet to identify practices in your sphere of control to help you recover and restore.| The Management Center
A key component of the delegation cycle is finding strategic ways for the manager to stay engaged. This article helps managers and staff align on where to check in over the course of a project.| The Management Center
Learn to define clear roles in project management with the MOCHA framework. Get insights on assigning responsibilities effectively.| The Management Center