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The Uncritical Critique: How to Not Be Mean – Erik Tyler

 

As a leader or influencer of any kind, it is inevitable that you will be called upon to provide feedback on other people’s performance, work, attitude, etc. This may be part of the formal responsibilities required of your position, such as handling annual reviews or solving HR issues. But whether this is true for you or not, if you are respected and good at what you do, you will eventually be asked for your opinions on the creative or business-related work others have done. And that feedback or opinion will not always be positive.

I myself have been asked countless times to critique or provide feedback to songwriters and musicians, new authors or bloggers, web and graphic designers, novice entrepreneurs and a host of others. And while I’m certainly honored that such people hold my own work in high regard within each of these areas, it can get dicey when what I’m asked to critique is … well, just plain bad.

What do you do in these potentially awkward situations?

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Management Techniques For First-Time Managers 

 

This is a guest post from Ott Jõgi. He is currently working as a Marketing Manager at a start-up called Weekdone, an employee progress reporting platform. He is passionate about time-management and productivity in everything he does. That’s why he is especially pleased that he has the chance to introduce managers across the continents to smart ways that they can save time with innovative tools.

Some of you have worked very hard to get where you are at, have had constructive ideas, have great management techniques, and have the ambition to achieve more in life. Your hard work has paid off and you’ve had your deserved promotion or you finally have the ambition needed to start your own business. Whatever the circumstances, the fact is – you now have a team to manage, whether you are naturally gifted at it or not.

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