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Tag: New managers

Five keys to better virtual leadership

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    • How can you do your best work during this difficult period of perpetual work-from-home? We’ll explore how journalists around the company are learning to listen more, communicate better, celebrate good work, constructively identify areas for improvement and reconnect in ways that return some of the joy and fulfillment we’ve been missing. This session is packed with concrete examples of what’s working.

    Virtual leadership tip sheetDownload

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    Foundations of data journalism – Scraping

    Data scraping web pages with Google sheets, scraping PDFs with Tabula and PDFtoExcel. Build graphics with Flourish Studio. We’ll also explore how to scrape data from a photograph using Excel.

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    • New England Table Stakes final reports

    Results from a five-month sprint in Portsmouth, N.H., Providence, R.I., Cape Cod, Mass., Quincy, Mass., and the New England DOT.

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    • Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • How things work in the Network

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    • We cover how the many parts of the content division and wider company fit together.

    Additional resources to help you

    How the different parts of the content division fit togetherDownload
    Glossary of Gannett termsDownload
    Content strategy team overviewDownload
    How we networkDownload
    Network: USA TODAYDownload
    Design Center in detailDownload
    Content-innovation-and-emerging-tech-teamDownload

    The Hub for Managers (My Leadership Edge Session, October 2020) Presentation, Recording

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    Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Project-manage like a pro

    Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes that will help you simplify and win.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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    • Situations managers deal with

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    • We cover:Difficult conversations that lead to positive, productive outcomes (Michael McCarter + Amalie Nash) and a series of what-ifs with HR partners Arthur Acuña, Perla Adame and Gretchen Pina-Breedy.

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    More training on Managing teams:

    Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Project-manage like a pro

    Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes that will help you simplify and win.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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    • Mechanics of good management

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    • We cover: the career life cycle, including the art of recruiting, retention and hiring — with a focus on DEI (Michael Anastasi); managing virtually (Jean Hodges); and performance management — proactive, all year long, no surprises (Hollis Towns).

    The art of recruiting, hiring and retentionDownload
    Virtual leadership tipsDownload
    Proactive performance managementDownload

    Additional resources to help you:

    Performance management

    Managing virtually

    The art of recruiting, retention and hiring

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    Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Project-manage like a pro

    Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes that will help you simplify and win.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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    • What good bosses do

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    • We focus on Connecting mission, purpose and values with everyday work (George Stanley & Mizell Stewart III) and Motivation: Celebrating your people; elements of good communication, feedback, etc. (Mizell Stewart III)

    What good bosses doDownload
    List of readings recommended during this sessionDownload
    Chat transcript from recordingDownload

    Here are some additional related resources:

    Connecting mission, purpose and values with everyday work:
    21 Ways to Be a Better Leader

    Top 10 Bad Boss Behaviors

    Goal Setting

    Motivation: Celebrating your people; elements of good communication, feedback, etc.

    How to Establish Open Communication at Work

    TeamRelate: Flexing Your Communication Style (My Leadership Edge Session, November2020): Presentation, Recording

    How to Give Feedback Effectively

    3 Questions That Motivate Any Employee

    The Puzzle of Motivation

    Motivator Worksheet

    Leader as Motivator (My Leadership Edge Session, May 2020) Presentation, Recording

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    Management fundamentals: Prioritizing and delegating

    Illinois state editor Romando Dixson shares how he sets priorities, delegates tasks and projects and delivers results.

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    • Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Project-manage like a pro

    Here’s how to deliver on a big project with many moving people and parts. Ten tips in 60 minutes that will help you simplify and win.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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