Manager's Corner

Welcome to the Manager’s Corner, your ultimate resource hub for honing your leadership skills and boosting team performance. Here, you’ll find carefully curated recommendations for insightful articles, must-read books, and thought-provoking podcasts that cover a wide array of topics.  Additionally, explore a wealth of learning resources including online courses, webinars, and workshops designed to keep you ahead in the ever-evolving business landscape.

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Goal Setting
  1. Synchronize Goals to Optimize Your Team 
  2. Establishing Team Goals and Responsibilities, and Using Feedback Effectively  
  3. Saving Time by Setting Goals
  4. Aligning Goals and Priorities to Manage Time 
  5. Setting SMART Goals (AI Simulator) 
Managing & Leading Teams
  1. Leading by Motivating
  2. Being a Fair and Caring Manager
  3. Effectively Directing and Delegating as a Manager
  4. Choosing and Preparing Your Delegate
  5. Getting What You Expect from Your Delegate 
  6. Engaging the Power of a Multigenerational Workforce
  7. Talent Development and Transformation: Developing the People You Lead: Session Replay 
  8. Leadercamp on-demand: Business Acumen Series on People 
  9. Leadercamp on-demand: Communicate To Influence 
  10. Developing a Successful Team 
  11. Driving for Results (AI Simulator) 
  12. Facing Virtual Team Challenges 
  13. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams Audiobook 
  14. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams Book 
Emotional Intelligence
  1. Developing Emotional Intelligence 
  2. Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Leader 
  3. Navigating the Workplace with Emotional Intelligence 
  4. Leading with Emotional Intelligence – podcast 
First Time Manager
  1. The Reality of a First-Time Manager
  2. Facing Challenges as a First-time Manager
  3. Leadercamp on-demand: The Transformational Shift
  4. Leadercamp on-demand: Mastering Influence
  5. The First-Time Manager, Seventh Edition – Book
  6. The First-Time Manager, Seventh Edition – Audiobook
Growth Mindset
  1. Developing a Mindset of Growth and Learning 
  2. Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 
  3. The 7 Habits on the Go: Timeless Wisdom for a Rapidly Changing World – Book 
  4. The 7 Habits On the Go: Timeless Wisdom for a Rapidly Changing World – Audiobook 
  5. Making the Most of Making Mistakes 
Communication Essentials
  1. Expanding Your Communication Skill Set
  2. Harnessing the Power of the Written Word
  3. Choosing the Right Interpersonal Communication Method to Make Your Point
  4. Enhancing Communication through Listening
  5. Audience and Purpose in Business Writing (Lesson recommended: Knowing Your Audience: Key Reader Characteristics within the course)
  6. Proven Techniques for Technical Communication (Lesson recommended: Know Your Audience within the course)
  7. Get to the Point! Sharpen Your Message and Make Your Words Matter Book
  8. Leadercamp on-demand: Intentional Communication
  9. Communication Essentials Assessment
  10. (AI Simulator) Managing Emotions During Crucial Conversations
Giving & Receiving Feedback
  1. Delivering Feedback That Encourages Growth 
  2. Receiving Feedback with an Open Mind 
  3. Polishing Your Feedback Skills 
  4. Leadercamp on-demand: Building Trust by Giving and Receiving Feedback 
  5. Giving Constructive Feedback (AI Simulator)
  6. Giving Developmental Feedback (AI Simulator)
  7. Giving & Receiving Feedback Assessment 

Books

  1. Think Again by Adam Grant
  2. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  3. The Thin Book of Trust by Charles Feltman
  4. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wisemen
  5. The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute
  6. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There By Marshall Goldsmith
  7. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
  8. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change by William Bridges, PhD with Susan Bridges
  9. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
  10. Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
  11. Extreme Leadership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
  12. Start with Why by Simon Sinek
  13. High Road Leadership by John C. Maxwell
  14. Me, But Better by Olga Khazan
  15. Resurface by Cassidy Krug
  16. Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
  17. Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference – Jeffrey Buller

Podcasts

  1. Delegation – how to get it right?
  2. A New Approach to Doing More With Less
  3. Exploring Generational Diversity at Work
  4. Leadership Essential Pt. 1: The Science of Self-Management
  5. Dare to Lead with Brene Brown and James Clear on Atomic Habits Part 1 of 2
  6. Dare to Lead Aiko Bethea on Inclusivity at Work: The Heart of Hard Conversations
  7. Dare to Lead Charles Feltman on Trust: Building, Maintaining, and Restoring It
  8. Dare to Lead Jodi-Ann Burey and Ruchika Tulshyan on Imposter Syndrome
  9. Dare to Lead Dr. Linda Hall on Leading With Purpose in the Digital Age 
  10. Manager Tools 
  11. The Leadership Shift from Managing People to Developing People 

Videos

  1. What Does it Really Take to Be Accountable?
  2. Why we Blame – accountability & communication
  3. What is Accountability?
  4. How to Claim Your Leadership Power
  5. How To Foster Collaboration On Teams
  6. How To Build Trusting Teams
  7. 6 Leadership Myths That Are Ruining Your Team
  8. How great leaders inspire action
  9. Engage and Inspire: Simon Sinek’s Guide to Starting with Why
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    Employee Relations

    By fostering a supportive and constructive workplace environment, Mines aims to cultivate employee loyalty and enhance overall employee engagement.

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