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Roll With It? Be Prepared? Or Be Prepared to Get Rolled?

by Bart Gragg

Do you prepare ahead of time or do you just roll with it? In many industries we are trained to “be prepared to roll with it.” Which is someone’s way of saying “We don’t know what to expect.” This is such a problem that when it happens frequently enough it becomes embodied in the culture [...]

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No Wonder New Managers Beat Their Heads Against The Wall!

by Bart Gragg

It turns out that the brain has an automatic mode and a manual mode and they are very real and different parts of the brain for handling different functions. I am not talking about the autonomic vs. somatic nervous systems. I am referring to portions of the brain which handle our experiences in different ways. [...]

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Blue Collar Managers – It’s Your Turn To Be Heard!

by Bart Gragg

This is an opportunity for blue collar managers and those that manage them to voice their frustrations and successes.

Tagged as: Interviews, Management Challenges, Management support, Polls

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Ten Words Not to Use With Blue Collar Managers

by Bart Gragg

When a person moves from labor into management they enter a whole new realm of communication, including vocabulary.

Quite often I hear them talk about and ridicule ‘biz-speak’ or ‘corporate-speak’. It’s not that they cannot grasp these concepts, it’s just that they have never experienced them. Some of them are useless to the blue collar manager, others you will want them to understand. Before you use words, phrases and acronyms be sure your audience understands them.

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From Outhouse to In-House – Challenges Blue Collar Managers Face – Pt. 3

by Bart Gragg

When The New Blue Collar Manager moves from the field to the office he encounters several psychological reactions, chief among them scarcity.
From wide open spaces, outside with the horizon in view, inside a large warehouse, open yards, hot and cold, freedom, ah yes, living the great outdoors life! Then reality hits like a…

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The Top Challenges New Blue Collar Managers Face

by Bart Gragg

The single most prominent challenge that managers who have moved from the field/warehouse into the office face is an environmental change. This environmental change actually has subsets such as:

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