{"id":39275,"date":"2021-06-21T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=39275"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:06:52","slug":"the-one-minute-manager-ken-blanchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-one-minute-manager-ken-blanchard\/","title":{"rendered":"The One-Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard: Book Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Managing people doesn&#8217;t have to be complicated or time-consuming. Ken Blanchard&#8217;s <em>The One-Minute Manager<\/em> proves that effective leadership can be simple, fast, and powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book \u2014 and its updated version <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-new-one-minute-manager\/\">The New One-Minute Manager<\/a><\/em> \u2014 introduce three core techniques that help managers bring out the best in their teams: goal setting, praising, and redirects. Each one takes just a minute but creates lasting impact. Keep reading to see how these strategies work and why they&#8217;re so effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-one-minute-manager-by-ken-blanchard\"><em>The One-Minute Manager<\/em> by Ken Blanchard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Blanchard&#8217;s <em>The One-Minute Manager<\/em> and <em>The New One-Minute Manager<\/em> teach managers how to get the most out of their employees. After all, the essence of management is getting results out of an organization\u2019s most important asset: its people. One-minute managers are those who recognize that productivity is a function of both quality and quantity: you need to get good results, and quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They do this by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/ways-to-empower-employees\/\">empowering employees<\/a> and giving them the motivation to do well on their own. One-minute managers do not tell people what to do: they help them realize on their own what they need to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New one-minute managers get great results from people by using three simple, but effective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/employee-management\/\">management techniques<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Goal Setting: makes clear what is important to focus on, and provides a way to measure performance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Praising: gives employees confidence that they\u2019re doing well and meeting goals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Redirects: holds employees accountable for lower performance and gets the employee back on track to meeting goals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-one-minute-goal-setting\">One-Minute Goal Setting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This entails having employees set a 250-word goal for each new task. It puts managers and employees on the same page. The manager knows what the employee is supposed to achieve, while the employee knows what to do without needing constant direction and input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-they-work\">How They Work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The manager and the employee sit down together to come up with task-specific goals, each readable in one minute or less. These are specific, measurable goals with deadlines, where success is clearly defined. The employee then emails the goals to the manager so they can always be checked for reference and follows up with regular progress reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-they-work\">Why They Work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>These are effective because they define what constitutes success and promote accountability for achieving specific results. They work because employees are motivated when they have a clear idea of exactly what they\u2019re supposed to be doing. In an ever-changing business world, managers don\u2019t have the time to micromanage their employees.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/one-minute-goals\/\">One-minute goals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-empower-employees-as-a-leader\/\">empower employees<\/a> to be self-starters and stewards of their <em>own<\/em> success.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-one-minute-praising\">One-Minute Praising<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>New one-minute managers deliver immediate and thoughtful praise when an employee does something well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-they-work-0\">How They Work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to a one-minute praising is that it be immediate. The manager has to be on the lookout for good behavior and praise it in real time. Instead of looking to catch their employees doing something wrong,<strong> one-minute managers make a conscious effort to catch their employees doing something <em>right<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/one-minute-praisings\/\">one-minute praisings<\/a> are specific and consistent, and the manager must explain why the employee\u2019s success has contributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/organizational-goals\/\">organizational goals<\/a>. The manager then encourages the employee to do more of the same and reiterates that they are pushing for the employee to succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-they-work-0\">Why They Work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees gain the confidence to achieve bigger goals later on when they receive quick praise for small accomplishments when they\u2019re just starting out. They are also able to link their positive performance with the praising, because<strong> the praising is immediate and focused on a specific achievement. <\/strong>Contrast this approach with that of managers who deliver vague and dilatory positive feedback: the employee doesn\u2019t know <em>what<\/em> they did right and therefore won\u2019t be able to replicate it. One-minute praisings are also highly motivating for employees, as they begin catching <em>themselves<\/em> doing things right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-one-minute-redirects\">One-Minute Redirects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Managers deliver quick, specific, and consistent redirects when an employee who ought to know better makes a mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-they-work-1\">How They Work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/one-minute-redirect\/\">One-minute redirects<\/a> must be linked to the defined goals above: you can\u2019t hold people accountable for not doing things they weren\u2019t told they needed to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Redirects happen in two parts. In the first part, the manager clearly conveys that they are disappointed in the employee because they failed to achieve a specific goal or meet a specific deadline. They also need to demonstrate to the employee why their mistake hurts the organization as a whole. This needs to immediately follow the mistake and it needs to be specific to that mistake.The goal is to help people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/we-learn-from-our-mistakes\/\">learn from errors<\/a> so they don\u2019t repeat them: this won\u2019t happen if the redirect is vague and scattershot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second part, the manager pauses and then reminds the employee that they still think highly of them <em>overall<\/em> and that<strong> the <em>behavior<\/em>, not the <em>person<\/em>, is being critiqued. <\/strong>Lastly, when the redirect is over, it\u2019s over. The manager bears no lingering ill will and treats the employee no differently than before, as long as the mistake isn\u2019t repeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-they-work-1\">Why They Work<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees don\u2019t feel mistreated and don\u2019t view you as an enemy. They\u2019re being criticized for a behavior they can improve, not for a personality flaw that they can\u2019t change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees also appreciate the honesty and openness.<strong> They\u2019re being held accountable <em>immediately<\/em> following a mistake, instead of being blindsided by it months later at a performance review <\/strong>(as so many managers choose to do). The redirects give the employee an opportunity to improve right away and they offer negative feedback at a manageable volume: piecemeal, as it happens, instead of all-at-once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-explore-further\">Explore Further<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To examine the ideas in Blanchard&#8217;s books <em>The One-Minute Manager<\/em> and <em>The New One-Minute Manager<\/em> in greater detail, read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-one-minute-manager\/preview\" rel=\"nofollow\">our full guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing people doesn&#8217;t have to be complicated or time-consuming. Ken Blanchard&#8217;s The One-Minute Manager proves that effective leadership can be simple, fast, and powerful. The book \u2014 and its updated version The New One-Minute Manager \u2014 introduce three core techniques that help managers bring out the best in their teams: goal setting, praising, and redirects. 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