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 ...

On any given day, the demands that managers face are enormous. Not only do they have to manage up to senior leaders; they have to manage down to their teams. They have to be attentive to executing on ...

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 ...

The new report from the Virginia-based trade group warns that while many organizations offer their managers the opportunity to hone their leadership skills through development programs, 90 percent of ...

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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Like most people, I've had good managers and I've had bad ones. But it wasn't until I started managing my own employees that I realized the challenges involved in keeping staff members motivated while ...

The "Understanding and Managing Human Error - Essential Skills for the Transport Manager Training Course (Oct 23, 2025)" training has been added to ResearchAndMarkets ...