• Motivation: You can learn the art of moving your colleagues toward higher levels of on-the-job performance.
• Evaluation: Anyone can criticize; it takes an effective leader to help people see for themselves their path toward improvement.
• Difficult Conversations: Confronting difficult people and situations requires study and practice.
• Developing Yourself as a Coach and Teacher: Editors need to be skilled teachers, but few are taught how.

Navigating The Newsroom

• Conflict Resolution: Smart editors develop reliable strategies for handling conflict before it becomes corrosive.
• Negotiation: The ability to negotiate helps editors seek the balance and commitment that leads to better journalism.
• Time Management: There are tools that enable leaders to balance important goals with urgent deadline demands.
• Process Analysis: Systematic study of the complex processes and procedures can streamline
  newspaper production.
• Meetings and Communication: Journalists are overwhelmed with e-mail and meetings. Both need to be managed well.
• Newsroom Relationships: Managing the staff is just the beginning. Bosses and peers can be an even greater challenge.

Working Toward Tomorrow's Newspaper

• Idea Generation: Great ideas seldom just happen. More often, they result from using a few simple idea-generation techniques.
• Women Readers: The industry’s greatest challenge is to reverse the decades-long flight of women readers from daily newspapers.
• Thinking Beyond Words: Editors need to master evolving tools of graphic design and multi-platform presentation.
• Strategy Management: Declining readership and increased competition demand clear-headed strategies for the future.
• Changing the Culture: It takes vision, commitment and courage to change a culture through careful experimentation.