Hiring Great Employees and Becoming a Better Listener

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Hiring Great Employees and Becoming a Better Listener This week’s newsletter features tips on two important management skills: How to Become a Better Listener And How to Hire the Best Employees   Please share this newsletter with your co-workers! Retweet the articles, share them on Google Plus, like them on Facebook, or forward the newsletter. You can follow me on Twitter: @greatleadership or email me with suggestions for articles  at:managementguide@about.com.   Thanks and regards,   Dan Dan McCarthy Management & Leadership Expert 10 Tips for Hiring Awesome Employees Management is easy when you have great employees! Invest the time in hiring the best people and you won’t have to invest the time later in in dealing with difficult employees.   READ NOW Share Poor Listener Syndrome (PLS): 7 Causes and Cures One of the most important skills for any manager is listening. Listening demonstrates respect, concern, an openness to new ideas, empathy, compassion, curiosity, trust, loyalty, and receptivity to feedback – all considered to be qualities of an effective leader. READ NOW Share 30 Ways to Annoy Your Employees: Most managers are decent, hardworking human beings that do their best with the best of intentions. But no manager is perfect, and sometimes stress brings out the worst of behaviors. Read about the 30 things that managers can do that are sure to annoy their employees. READ NOW Share 10 Surefire Ways to Annoy Your Manager It’s an uphill battle to be successful if you don’t have a good working relationship with your manager. While results are the most important measure of success, great results can often be overshadowed if you’re always doing little things that annoy your manager. Here are 10 things to avoid doing in order to stay in good standing with your manager. READ NOW Share Most References are Worthless (unless they are former managers) When it comes to references, the only reference that matters is a former manager. The candidate’s manager is going to have first-hand experience managing the employee. They will know their strengths, weaknesses, and can even provide valuable advice for the hiring manager on how to manage the employee if hired. Read more to find out how.   READ NOW Share Advertisement About Money   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Management & Leadership newsletter. If you wish to 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. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved

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