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Becoming a New ManagerDrive the Agenda, Create Teams, Influence Cultures, Provide Feedback You've just been promoted to a managerial position for the first time - congratulations! But beware: the managerial role differs markedly from the individual contributor role. |
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Coaching PeopleMotivate employees, Listen actively, Clarify your rules, Adapt your style. All managers engage in some kind of coaching relationship with direct reports and other people in the their organisations. |
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Creating a Business PlanDefine Your Purpose, Gather Resources, Develop a Strategy, Gain Support Every business needs a business plan, a plan to meet the expected and unexpected opportunities and obstacles the future holds. |
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Delegating WorkEstablish Trust, Provide Coaching, Follow Through, Recognise Achievement Delegation isn't simply a matter of offloading what you don't want, or don't have the time to do. |
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New ListingDeveloping EmployeesEvaluate Potential, Draft a Plan, Drive Top Performers Managing employee growth is critical to your organisation's success. But to develop your employees effectively, you must have certain skills, such as the ability to seek out opportunities, set goals, and provide feedback. |
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Dismissing an EmployeePlan thoroughly, Understand the law, Be straightforward, Take responsibility. While no one likes to be the bearer of bad news, managers are sometimes faced with the difficult task of having to dismiss an employee whose performance just can't be brought up to par. |
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Executing InnovationDefine Your Vision, Secure Resources, Sustain Excitement Ideas are not enough: successful innovation requires people to pick up where the creative process leaves off. |
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Executing StrategyIdentify Priorities, Create Action Plans, Make Judgment Calls Tough objectives require more than smart thinking; they require effective follow-through. This book helps you understand what strategy is and how to translate that knowledge into the elements of a strategic plan. |
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Fostering CreativityIdentify Opportunities, Promote Diverse Ideas, Enrich Your Environment By fostering creativity in your team, you help unleash your company's innovative powers. But this requires a disciplined process for leveraging employees' unique experiences, thinking styles and expertise. |
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Giving FeedbackExercise leadership, Lower defenses, Overcome obstacles, Change behaviour. Feedback is an essential interactive process meant to help the recipient learn, grow, and change. |
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Giving PresentationsKnow your audience, Plan for visuals, Overcome fears, Rehearse effectively. Making persuasive presentations isn't just a matter of charisma and fancy charts: it requires concrete skills that are vital to keeping your audience engaged and involved. |
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Hiring an EmployeeKnow the Position, Identify Candidates, Lead Interviews, Make the Offer Your hiring decisions can make or break your team. Hire the right employees, and your team's performance will soar. |
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Laying Off EmployeesMake Clear Decision, Communicate Effectively, Rebuild Your Team Implementing a layoff is one of the most difficult and painful challenges a manager can face. Handled skillfully and compassionately, a layoff can set your team and your company on a positive new path. |
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Leading PeopleSet a direction, Inspire followers, Craft your vision, Drive change. Packed with practical tools and expert advice, Leading People shows managers how to bring out the best in their team. |
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Leading TeamsPick team members, Communicate objectives, Clarify roles, Build trust. This user-friendly guide presents the proven strategies of top experts on creating and guiding effective work teams. |
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Leading Virtual TeamsEmpower Members, Understand the Technology, Build Team Identify How do you lead a team scattered all over the globe? How do you keep members you can't see focused, communicative, and productive? |
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Making DecisionsInvolve Your Team, Evaluate Risks, Assess Alternatives, Take Action As a manager, you make countless decisions every day. Some are straightforward, such as assigning a team member to a project. Others are far more complex, such as determining how to handle an underperforming product line. |
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Managing ChangePrepare Your Group, Follow a Plan, Address Reactions A diverse workforce can also yield such important competitive advantages as a higher level of profitable innovation, a better understanding of market opportunities, and stronger employee productivity and commitment. |
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Managing CrisesRecognize Risks, Be Decisive, Communicate Honestly, Manage Stress Crises affect all of us. As managers, we need to identify potential crises and deal with them as best we can. |
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Managing Difficult InteractionsGet the Facts, Identify Emotions, Respect Differences, Facilitate Resolution With this book, readers will learn how to determine which confrontations are worth an investment of their time and energy. |
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Managing DiversityPromote Inclusiveness, Handle Conflict, Tap into Value A diverse workforce can also yield such important competitive advantages as a higher level of profitable innovation, a better understanding of market opportunities, and stronger employee productivity and commitment. |
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Managing ProjectsLine up resources, Set deadlines, Monitor budgets, Create reports. Covering the gamut of tasks involved in managing any project, this portable guide develops ideas about planning, team building, motivation, mid-course assessment and correction, and after-project review. |
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Managing StressTake Charge, Ask for Help, Improve Health, Enhance Productivity Stress in the workplace can't ever be completely eliminated, but it can be managed so you can function in a healthy and effective way. |
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Managing TimeFocus on goals, Avoid distractions, Organise your space, Delegate effectively. Managing Time delivers proven advice on how to get the right things done - faster, smarter, and more efficiently. |
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Managing UpFoster Communication, Set Expectations, Avoid Confrontation Managing Up provides strategies for keeping your boss in the loop and on your side, despite differences in style and philosophy. |
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Measuring PerformanceAssess Metrics, Address Shortfalls, Avoid Common Mistakes Often managers need to assess both financial and non-financial performance. What process would you use to measure things that are not easily quantifiable? |
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Negotiating OutcomesCreate value, Identify Opportunities, Be Flexible, Establish Trust. Negotiation is the process by which people deal with their differences. Read More | Buy Online |
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Performance AppraisalEvaluate Accomplishments, Deliver Feedback, Set Goals One of your most sensitive duties as a manager is conducting performance appraisals. How do you objectively evaluate another person's performance? |
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Persuading PeopleBuild Consensus, Gauge Your Audience, Change Behaviour, Overcome Resistance Persuasive people generate real value for their companies by turning ideas into action. But persuasion isn't easy; it takes practice, patience, and psychological savvy. |
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Preparing a BudgetClassify Expenses, Forecase Revenue, Understand Variance This guide will teach you how to forecast future business results, such as sales volume, revenues, and expenses |
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Running MeetingsSet agendas, Energize people, Management conflict, Stay on time. This title covers everything from meeting location and etiquette to effective planning, facilitation, and follow-up; from dealing with problem behaviours to getting closure on key issues. |
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Setting GoalsPrioritize Objectives, Keep Plans Focused, Measure Your Success Setting goals is a key part of any manager's job. Through goal setting, you define business outcomes that you and your team will accomplish collectively and individually. |
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Shaping Your CareerKnow Yourself, Identify Opportunities, Develop New Skills, Take Initiative Your career is not a one-time decision made early in life. Rather, you refine or redefine it as you grow professionally. |
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Understanding FinanceBudgeting, Financial statements, Accounting methods, Cost/Benefit analysis. Assessing the financial health of a business is an important part of any managerial position. This guide explains the essential concepts of finance in a way that nonfinancial managers can quickly grasp. |
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Understanding MarketingKnow Your Mission, Plan Campaigns, Target Your Market Businesses soar when everyone in the organisation adopts a marketing mind-set, an awareness of who the company's customers are, what they want and how the organisation can serve them profitably. |
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Writing for BusinessFocus your message, Use active voice, Be concise, Edit for accuracy. Effective business writing results on a foundation of basic principles. Master them, and you'll know how to handle the many different writing tasks that come your way. |
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