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RainmakerThinking, Inc.

RainmakerThinking, Inc.® was founded in 1993 to study the working lives of young people. Since then, we've conducted ongoing research on the changing workplace. And on the basis of that research, we've published fifteen books, numerous research reports and hundreds of articles.

Based on our ongoing research, we have also developed several best-selling management training programs. Bruce Tulgan and Dr. Carolyn Martin have become two of the leading management trainers in the world. Together they, and our other faculty members, have trained tens of thousands of leaders and managers in hundreds of different organizations. Please let us know if we may be of service to your organization.

To learn more about RainmakerThinking,Inc. please visit www.rainmakerthinking.com.

Events:

• 29 March 2007 - It's OKAY to be the Boss: Gen Yers Advance
• 30 May 2006 - Generation Y in the Workforce

Articles:

• Delegation is the True Art of Empowerment
• How Most Managers Deal with Employee Performance Problems
• Managing Peers and Friends
• Finding Needles in the Haystack
• If You Have Too Many Employees to Manage
• Dealing With A Problem Employee
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
• Managing When You Lack Expertise
• Talk About the Work
• The Hard Realities of Managing
• How To Manage Your Boss
• How To Manage Employees Who Manage
• Getting Off On The Right Foot
• Do You Dread Confrontations With Employees?
• Do More for Some People and Less for Others
• Solve Small Problems before They Turn into Big Problems
• Attract and Retain Top Talent by Doing More for Some People and Less for Others
• Special Edition: Guest Contributor Penelope Trunk
• Take It One Person at a Time
• Brand Yourself as a Great Boss!!
• Learn to Talk Like a Performance Coach
• 'Tis the Season...to Hire Generation Y
• Gen X Turns Forty
  • Part I
  • Part II
• Boomers:  After all these years, still the trend-setters?
• Maximizing the Schwartzkopf Generation
• Lessons from the Manager's Boot Camp
  • Part I - Real Lessons From Real Managers in The Real World
  • Part II - What They Should Be Teaching in Management Training
  • Part III - The Most Common Obstacles Preventing Managers From Being Stronger & More Hands On
  • Part IV - Partial Solutions to the Top 3 Obstacles in Order of Reader's Requests
  • Part V - Partial Solutions to the Most Common Obstacles
  • Part VI - Partial Solutions to the Next 3 Obstacles
  • Part VII - How To Jump Start Becoming a Strong Manager
• Managing the Generation Mix
  • Part I
  • Part II
  • Part III
• The Undermanagement Epidemic...Revisited