How to Be a Better Manager by Reading a Person's Face | Useful Commute Podcast

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  stealthbomb08/05/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How to Be a Better Manager by Reading a Person's Face | Useful Commute

  Very usefull insight!!!!

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  Ian P08/06/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How to Be a Better Manager by Reading a Person's Face | Useful Commute Podcast

  Four of the people I 'manage' I have never met and am never likely to.
  I recruited them via the internet, interviewed them solely based on abilities - using parametric tests and a review of their capability folder and I manage and pay them purely on results using agreed targets.
  Physiognomy and psychology were touted in the Victorian era as surefire ways of defining character.
  Thesew four could be in a Guatamalan insane asylum suffering from leprosy but as long as I get results for the compensation I offer, do I care how balanced or pretty they are?

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  amer.dantrading08/06/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How to Be a Better Manager by Reading a Person's Face | Useful Commute Podcast

  surely its not a bout pretty as Mr.Ian p said
  face and body language is important for the manager to understand it ... u can know people characters in alot of technics ..... i hope to search for body language . i have i book i will try to mension is site later so all chick how to read body lang

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  DonnaK08/06/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How to Be a Better Manager by Reading a Person's Face | Useful Commute Podcast

  I think it's funny that "How to Read a Person's Face" is 100% audio message - still good stuff.

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  quanyin08/12/08 Report as spam
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  sorry if there is a written form (as implied in the autoresponse). I
  must have overlooked that option.

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  abu.isaac@...08/12/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How to Be a Better Manager by Reading a Person's Face | Useful Commute Podcast

  Good one.....Lets see how much managers can use this in real life scenario

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  gmoeller109/15/08 Report as spam
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  RE: How to Be a Better Manager by Reading a Person's Face | Useful Commute Podcast

  As PM for an operations-critical stratetic project, I concur with the author. Noticing and correctly interpreting & responding to emotions is critical to successful teambuilding, negotiation, sponsor management, & so much more. Without this skill you steamroll ahead with your message or plan of action, ignoring feedback that can help you make subtle adjustments to get true buy-in, as opposed to much less valuable "compliance." If compliance is your only goal, you'll hit the wall when a crisis erupts and the only thing that'll save you is a unified team willing to do whatever it takes to pull your fat out of the fire. You don't get that kind of loyalty with an approach the demotes emotionally and culturally complex individuals to the status of mere "plug & play" components.

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  RE: How to Be a Better Manager by Reading a Person's Face | Useful Commute Podcast

  Regarding the comment above about remote personnel management - the author doesn't say anything about verbalization shifts - e.g. tone of voice, terminology / phraseology, verb tense, formal vs. informal expressions, etc. but these are useful emotional cues when facial expression is carefully guarded or cannot be observed. Especially helpful if interaction is primary over the phone or via email.