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I manage 4 Assistant Vice Presidents and 10 business functions for a large company.

 

One point of criticism I recently received was related to being excellent at solving problems and less effective at preventing them.   One of the suggestions was to begin doing monthly business reviews within my areas of influence.

 

I am looking for direction to a Manager Tools podcast (and associated premium content) or other resources that would get me a template that would help me get started in this initiative.

The functions are high volume processing of work items...most of which has a good data structure for tracking.  Most of the metrics are related to processing time and volumes completed per month within standard compliance.

Thanks.

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Submitted by jhack on Monday May 11th, 2009 9:19 pm

The "Briefing Book" described in the "Mergers and Acquisitions" podcasts ( http://www.manager-tools.com/2006/08/managing-during-mergers-and-acquistions-part-1-of-20  ) would be the best template presented in an MT podcast. 

It's intended use is for a manager whose group is part of an acquired company, to brief the acquiring executives as to the mission, projects, budget, and personnel of the group.  

John Hack

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Submitted by 430jan on Monday May 11th, 2009 11:01 pm

It's not really my line of work, but there are quite a few project and briefing downloads here: http://www.pmadvice.co.uk/intro.asp They are free to access and download and are in Word or Excel format.

Janet

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Submitted by Mark on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 12:23 pm

..but generally I'd say Ops/Projects, Budgets, and People, all against stated goals.  It's hard to come up with a generic one that isn't so generic as to be inacccesible.

Frankly, PMs have the best idea about this, in terms of RAG reports...but even those tend to be lagging rather than leading.

The problem with these reviews is that they tend to report what has already happened.... and there are some techniques for looking forward we'll share.  It's the looking forward that you're...er...looking for.

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Submitted by mcloin on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 10:22 pm

I'll take a look at the resources suggested by the group and will look forward to an upcoming podcast on the subject.