The transition from individual contributor to manager is significant and requires essential skills. Suddenly, your focus expands from crushing your own tasks to empowering and guiding a whole team.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the shifting workplace and the new employee experience. It’s a shame that “soft skills” are called just that. In the ...

Poynter offers numerous, intense seminars throughout the year to coach managers on setting priorities, handling difficult conversations and bringing out the best in their teams. All Poynter leadership ...

What skills do first-time managers most need? It's a question as old as the field of management itself. New managers are often thrown into the job without much preparation. Source: Cottonbro Studio / ...

If you’re like many leaders in the startup environment, you might be managing people for the first time–possibly without the training and development that leaders in mature companies receive on a ...

The concept of “management” in the workplace has taken on new significance in the aftermath of the last two years. While managers have traditionally focused on overseeing teams and projects to ensure ...

Almutaz is the founder of Eighty6, a multi-discipline direct marketing company. Connect with him about behavioral economics and marketing. Startups are unlike any other type of business, and so are ...

Dear Dave: I see that you often write about good management, but how can we accurately measure what our managers are doing – or what they are supposed to be doing? I don’t think many of my fellow ...

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CPAs working in modern business and industry face two fundamental and interrelated challenges. On one hand, they’re overseeing automation and other tech upgrades to core finance, accounting, and other ...