The Manager Tools Podcast is a weekly audio podcast focused on helping managers become more effective. It is a free podcast and Website that focuses on the practical aspects of becoming a better manager. The show, hosted by Michael Auzenne and Mark Horstman, was awarded People's Choice Podcast from Podcast Awards in 2008, and won the Best Business Podcast award in three consecutive years 2006, 2007 and 2008. They won this award again in 2012. The podcast, together with the sister podcast Career Tools is unique through its combination of a series of simple steps to follow for effective practice, in combination with a good background on how these recommendations lead to the best results. Caricatured, each of the shows consists of "a hundred" simple steps, and contains half a dozen times where Mark gets on his soapbox to exclaim how badly and ineffectively some things are often done in normal practice.
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