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title: "Speaking Program: It's Okay to Be the Boss"
description: Improve the leadership and management in your organization. Bruce Tulgan helps managers confront their own bad habits, challenges the myths that prevent leaders and managers from being strong, and shares the eight fundamentals of highly-engaged management that anyone can practice.
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## it's okay to be the boss
### Back-to-Fundamentals Leadership
Most managers simply don't practice the fundamentals of leadership on a regular, consistent basis, and the costs can be monumental. Bruce shares our decades of research about what gets in the way for so many leaders and managers and how to tackle the most common challenges managers face. Get past the seven greatest myths about leadership and learn eight steps back to the fundamentals of high structure, high substance management communication.
##### Participants Will Learn to:
- Build relationships of trust and confidence with direct reports
- Effectively delegate tasks, responsibilities, and projects
- Keep employees focused on what’s important and moving in the right direction
- Increase productivity and quality for high-, mid-, and low-performing employees
- Increase retention of superstar talent
- Reduce waste, inefficiency, errors, downtime, and conflict
##### Techniques and Best Practices for:
- Conducting regular one-on-ones with direct reports
- Communicating clearly and effectively, with an emphasis on coaching-style dialogue
- Tuning in to the particular strengths and weaknesses of every individual on the team
- Working through or around obstacles in order to hold employees accountable
- Making expectations clear
- Monitoring, measuring, and documenting employee performance
- Helping employees solve problems related to productivity, quality, and behavior
- Dealing with persistent performance problems
- Tying rewards to performance
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> ##### “After Bruce's session, many of our owners expressed to me that the information Bruce provided were some of the most impactful ideas they heard from any speaker on the subject of effective leadership. The best part was they felt they had concrete strategies they could use immediately when they returned to be more effective managers for their teams.”
>
> *Ken Lineberger, President, Waters Edge Wineries*
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