March 6, 2018 • Volume 9, Issue 5 • ISSN: 2154-3240

In This Issue

♦	Feature Article: Plan to Persuade
♦	Ask Amanda: My new manager is a number cruncher. Help!
♦	Practical Tips: New Habits for Routines

Plan to Persuade

Being persuasive is an excellent management skill. Framing communications to enlist support and helping others see the value of your team’s ideas/suggestions/solutions can avoid many misunderstandings. It can reduce or eliminate friction. Prepare the way for your team so that the best solutions have a chance to be executed.

People have an inherent distrust of the complicated. No matter the issue, people like what they understand.
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	Words change worlds.

Practical Tips: New Habits for Routines

Routine tasks like reading/answering email, voicemail, and phone calls can easily hijack your day. Regain control by experimenting with these approaches.

Be Strategic
Most people respond to the most persistent or most recent requests they receive.
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My manager has rotated to another group and will be replaced by a total number cruncher. I am disappointed because I learned a lot from my manager and don’t think a numbers-only approach is the absolute best way to manage. What should I do? J.M., New York, NY

Look at the assumptions in your question. You’re assuming that your new manager has a philosophy of numbers trumping all other measures, that s/he is one dimensional in their management style, and that you will not learn anything from this person.
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