Focusing on Your Strategic Role

About this episode

This episode discusses how managers can maintain focus on strategic objectives while managing everyday tasks and relationships.

As a manager you’re constantly being pulled away from your strategic objectives by everyday tasks that may be important, but aren’t helping you to achieve your primary objectives. As the manager, you should continuously seek ways you can maximize your group’s overall performance. In this podcast we’ll discuss how to keep your focus on productivity while, at the same time, managing key relationships and caring for staff.

People in this episode

Hosts: Fred Ball, Rick Kendall

Topics covered

• strategic management
• productivity
• team performance
• relationship management
• staff care

Keywords

• management
• strategy
• productivity
• team performance
• staff management

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