Management Bytes
 Anne
Milkovich, is the author of Management Bytes...The
essentials of the management job that no one told you how to do. Get
the low-down from time management to interviewing to effective
meetings and down-right impressive presentations. It's a job—you can
learn it!
Anne's
Biography:
Anne Milkovich left
Microsoft in 1993 to live on the C-Bar ranch in Montana with her
husband and three children. There they raise Black Angus beef and
well-bred Morgan horses.
After her years in
middle management at Microsoft, Anne concluded that the School of Hard
Knocks was not going to issue her the graduate degree she deserved and
completed her MBA through the University of Montana.
Anne Milkovich now
applies her expertise in technical management to make businesses
productive and improve workplace quality of life. As a speaker,
author, trainer, and coach, Anne Milkovich draws on her personal
experience as a technical manager in the deep end as well as her
education to facilitate workplace improvement throughout the world.
Professional Speaking
on Leadership and Management:
The following
speaking topics are adapted from Anne Milkovich's recent and upcoming
books on management.
Content is adaptable
to audience, event, and objectives.
Bringing Out The
Leader In You:
The Four C's Leadership Model
The leader is the one
in front. OK, so how do you get to the front? Like Dorothy's red
shoes, the power to be the leader has been in you all along, you just
need to activate it. When people see the leader in you, they will
follow. All it takes is knowing and implementing the Four C's.
Make-Easy Management:
A Simple Approach To A Complex Job
Learn the Make-Easy
Management Method that applies a simple, tested training approach to
the complex job of management. When you know the Make-Easy method, you
have an internal tool that helps you find the simple approach to
complex situations.
Arriving, Not Just
Driving:
Manage For Results, Not Just Activities
Managers who focus on
activities instead of results get activities instead of results. How
do you get what you want from your workers? Wrong question. Managers
don't get what they want, managers get what they reward. Learn
results-based management that focuses your team on the ends instead of
the means. Reward right results to achieve right results.
Five Principles of
Conflict Resolution That Anyone Can Remember
Do you hate conflict?
Do you dread having to deal with certain people, or confronting
certain issues you know will be tense? Why are some problems so easy
to resolve and some are so... conflicting? Because conflicts are
feelings-based, not facts-based. Separate the feelings from the facts
and you can resolve conflicts as easily as you can plan where to go
for lunch. Five principles are all you need to remember.
Get Your Point Across!
How to Clarify Your Communications
You told them, and told
them, and told them. And they still don't get it! There are reasons
why they don't--reasons you can overcome. And you don't have to get a
degree in Communications to do it. When you hear how the lines of
communication get garbled, and learn some easy tricks to get the
static out of the channels, you'll be able to get your point across
with crystal clarity.
Begin With The End In
Mind:
How To Prioritize Your Life to Achieve Your Goals
Take charge of your
work and personal life and achieve your lifetime goals. Join Anne
Milkovich in taking a humorous and pragmatic look at life that
clarifies your end goals and keeps the daily grind in perspective.
Weather the storms of change with grace and equanimity and remember:
When you keep your eye on the distant horizon, the motion sickness
won't bother you so much.
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