Good Cop Bad Cop

By Stephen Bucaro

Are you a manager who's wondering why other department managers don't have same personnel problems you have? Are you a supervisor whose manager thinks you can't control workers under you? In this article, I reveal a technique used by shrewd managers and their supervisors to maximize performance of personnel in their department.

- Note, if your rank is below supervisory level, please discontinue reading this article. This information is for managers and supervisors eyes only.

First, let's put a foundation under information you about to receive.

- The most difficult, complex, and critical resource to control in any organization is not business process, not materials, not technology ... it's people. People are much more complicated to deal with than even most advanced technology. The biggest budget item for any business is labor costs and cost of employee benefits. A business that doesn't get maximum performance from their people resources has little chance of survival.

- If you are a manager who thinks you have power in your department, let me educate you right now - workers can make or break you. The workers have power in your department. I have seen a situation where department supervisor and manager didn't get along. The supervisor conspired with workers to make manager look bad. Eventually, manager was fired.

As a manager, if you don't have rapport and complete trust in your supervisor, you had better sit down with that individual and come to an understanding, or get rid of them immediately. A manager and supervisor must work together like a well oiled machine or employees, not manager, will be running department.

Where manager and supervisor fit into organizational structure.

A manager looks after interests of company. The company allocates resources to manager and manager uses those resources to accomplish company's objectives. A manager needs to be diligent in use of company's resources.

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Your Condensed Guide for Working a Room By Dr. Oscar

Working a room...if only it could be fun...or at least guaranteed productive. I am referring to that mandatory event that requires us to mix and mingle, to meet and greet.

Command performance events like a cocktail party, a business dinner, or a charity event can feel stiff and uncomfortable. Very few people actually enjoy walking into a room full of strangers.

So why put yourself through that torture? Well for one thing, Nathan Keyfitz, professor of sociology at Harvard observes, "Social skills will be of even greater importance for economic success in future. The most successful people will be those who can communicate and connect best."

Put another way, it's free advertising, and you control entire message. Is it sometimes uncomfortable? Absolutely, but upside is huge. The more you put yourself in networking situations, easier it becomes and greater professional, social, and personal benefits.

Here is a condensed guide for working a room:

Approach every networking opportunity with attitude that it is going to be fun. While no single event is guaranteed to change your life, any single event could. Remember, success is measured by percentages, not perfection. Who isn't attracted to someone who is smiling, laughing, and enjoying him or herself!