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How To Effectively Manage A Remote Team

It won’t be long before many of us will be super experts at managing a remote team. I have had the pleasure and flexibility of working...

When You Go Away, Really Go Away

At CSR, we pride ourselves on the work we do for our clients and what we share with them – accountability, best practices, creative...

When Your 360 Evaluations Are No Longer Cutting It

Team members at CSR are big fans of author Patrick Lencioni. Last year I read about his Team Effectiveness Exercise at “The Hub.” ...

Why MBOs Are Oldies But Goodies

MBOs? Should I pull out my scrunchies and legwarmers, too? Okay, MBOs (Management By Objectives) may be a little old school, but they are...

Why A New Manager Belongs In The Hot Seat

At CSR, we’re always looking for cool tools that make teams work more effectively. One of my colleagues recently led a team...

Four Reasons To Love Performance Reviews

The infamous yearly evaluation…you hear facetious jokes about it, but there seems to be a consensus that the individual reviews with...

The Awkward Truth Of Law Firm Management

Try telling your attorney that they aren’t great at something. I promise it won’t go over well, so I’ll do it for you. Lawyers as a rule...

Micromanagement vs. Overcommunication

I am a high data need person – it has been one of the struggles which throughout my professional life I have had to deal with but has...