Management
User Manual to Me
A "User Manual to Me" is like a user guide for a person. It can cover how someone works optimally, their strengths, their weaknesses, and how to best utilize the person. The trend initially began with managers writing them to share with direct reports, but recently more people have been writing them and sharing with their managers and peers.
What You'll Learn
Intro to Personal User Manuals
The Indispensable Document for the Modern ManagerJay explains what a user guide is, why you need one, and deconstructs his own. The sections for his own include: 1. Communication 2. Reporting 3. 1:1s 4. First 6 months 5. Feedback from me to you 6. Feedback from you to me 7. On micromanagement 8. Me as a resource to you 9. Professional Development 10. Hiring/Managing your team 11. Contribution to Strategy 12. Logistics
How to Make a Personal User Manual
This is How You Revolutionize the Way Your Team Works Together... And All It Takes is 15 MinutesDavid provides a detailed process for how to make personal user manuals, some of the content in the personal manual for him, and the results of rolling it out as a process across his entire company: "I have never, not even once, seen this kind of overwhelmingly positive response to an exercise before."
Personal User Manual Examples
