About Management: A Manager's Guide to Workplace Professionalism

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Management Management Basics Career Advancement Leadership From Dan McCarthy, your Guide to Management Most employees don’t want to work with what feels like an office full of chimpanzees and jackasses. This week’s newsletter features two new articles on the topic of workplace professionalism: What is Workplace Professionalism? and A Manager’s Guide to Creating and Maintaining a Professional Work Environment   I hope your favorite team won the Super Bowl, you won your squares, enjoyed the commercials, or just had a good time watching with friends or family. However, if you are a manager, please Don't Lead Your Real Team Like You Manage Your Fantasy Football Team!   Please share your favorite articles with other leaders, aspiring leaders, and anyone involved in leadership development! Retweet the articles, share them on Google +, like them on Facebook, or forward the newsletter. You can follow me on Twitter: @greatleadership or email me at: managementguide@about.com. Thanks and regards, Dan What is Workplace Professionalism? What does it mean to demonstrate workplace professionalism? What does unprofessional workplace behavior look like? While it may be hard to define in a simple sentence, we know it when we see it. And we sure as heck know it when its missing, and you can even lose your job for not having it. In addition to competence, here are 10 more characteristics that define workplace professionalism. Search Related Topics:  professionalism  unprofessional  workplace conduct A Manager’s Guide to Creating and Maintaining a Professional Work Environment What can a manager do to create and maintain a professional workplace environment? Plenty! Read more to find out how. Search Related Topics:  professionalism  unprofessional  workplace etiquette 10 Ways to Retain Great Employees The cost of turnover is often way underestimated. The obvious costs are hiring and training costs, but there is also lost opportunity, morale, reputation, customer relationships, and other intangibles that are harder to measure.  The cost of turnover is even higher when you lose a great employee, one of those “A player” superstars. The results of the first one focus on the output differential produced by top performers. While top employees are hard to keep – they tend to promoted, “pulled” into better opportunities, and may have higher expectations, here are 10 things that a smart manager can do to minimize the chances of losing their best employees for the wrong reasons. Search Related Topics:  employee retention  employee turnover  employee selection Five Ways to Lead Product Teams More Effectively In order to bring quality products to market that delight your customers and meet their needs, a company must have leaders that run the product teams effectively. Here are five ways a product team leader or Product Manager can be more effective in accomplishing this and leading the team and the product to success. Search Related Topics:  product management  project management  product manager Related Searches Coaching Management Leadership Skills Time Management Training Management Leadership Coaching Featured Articles New Year’s Development Goals for Leaders 10 Ways to Get Support from your Boss for your Ideas 70 Awesome Coaching Questions Using the GROW Model How to “Coach an Employee Out of a Job" How to Utilize Informal Coaching to Improve Employee Performance How to Set Annual Employee Goals   More from About.com Sign-up for Shareables! An every-morning rundown of the day in history, headlines and trends produced by your pals at About.com. Please sign up it's free (of course), we think you will like it! Want More From About.com Check out our social page tailored to your interest! This newsletter is written by: Dan McCarthy Management Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Management newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com   Must Reads The George Costanza Approach to Leadership Development The Top 10 Performance Appraisal Blunders a Manager can Make 12 Ways for Leaders to Build a Solid Foundation of Trust with their Employees 10 Things We're Not Telling Our Bosses 10 Ways to Ignite Employee Performance Advertisement

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