{"id":106,"date":"2008-09-16T06:51:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T11:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.6waghs.net\/poojanblog\/why-i-like-the-manager-tools-podcast\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T06:51:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T11:51:32","slug":"why-i-like-the-manager-tools-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/why-i-like-the-manager-tools-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I like the Manager Tools Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manager-tools.com\/\">Manager Tools Podcast<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for a couple years now. I really enjoy it, because the direction is specific, yet one can generalize the specifics to form concrete principles.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast presents everything in <strong>very<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0basic steps. If the topic is hosting a meeting, they tell you (in a dozen or so steps) <em>exactly<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0what to do. <strong>I mean exactly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me a week or so ago that I&#8217;m an unlikely fan since I&#8217;m not in a role to execute any of their detailed steps.<\/p>\n<p>I realized early this week why I like it so much: by being presented with these basic steps so often, one can generalize on them and gain very insightful principles.<\/p>\n<p>For example, while detailing a discussion about feedback, they tell the story of Shamu&#8211;and how Shamu only gets positive feedback yet learns to jump over a rope suspended above the water.<\/p>\n<p>I realized immediately that I don&#8217;t give enough positive feedback to my peers nor my children (nor do I receive enough from my bosses). After realizing this deficiency, it became very easy to compensate for it&#8211;both at home and at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to\u00c2\u00a0Manager Tools Podcast\u00c2\u00a0for a couple years now. I really enjoy it, because the direction is specific, yet one can generalize the specifics to form concrete principles. The podcast presents everything in very\u00c2\u00a0basic steps. If the topic is hosting a meeting, they tell you (in a dozen or so steps) exactly\u00c2\u00a0what to do. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,40,41,52,221,63],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","tag-feedback","tag-management","tag-manager-tools","tag-podcast","tag-productivity","tag-shamu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}