There are a number of ways you can stand out as a performer in your company or department. All of them require you to have mastered all aspects of your current role first, and then to have your head up so that you’re listening, observing, and understanding the goals of your department and company. In this way you’ll be able to be productive for your department and yourself. We’ll talk about that in this week's Management Mastery episode.

Major changes can be upsetting in any organization, no matter what kind of change it is. The manager’s responsibility in such cases is to communicate clearly and effectively about the change as much as possible in order to keep rumors and unnecessary anxieties at a minimum. We’ll discuss several of the pitfalls in this kind of situation and how managers can avoid falling into them in this episode of Management Mastery.

Power dynamics are essentially the ways in which influence and control are manifested among individuals or groups and how they impact or controls relationships and interactions. Power Dynamics include both formal authority as well as informal influence, They exist in both the workplace as well as in social settings. We will examine power dynamics over the next few episodes as they are a critical factor in being successful as both a manager and a member of a team. We will start by talking about how to identify them and understand how they operate in a group.