10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager, 2nd Ed

10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager, 2nd Ed
Author: Lisa Haneberg
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1949036219

There’s always room for improvement. It’s tough to be a great manager, but also fascinating, enriching, meaningful, and fun. Organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together to do their best work in the service of company goals—make no mistake, management is a people-driven job. Though the barriers to success are many—you could become a victim of circumstances, confuse the need to manage with the need to control, let management become maintenance, fail to tune up and realign—don’t be discouraged. With over 30 years of experience, author Lisa Haneberg has seen it all and is here to guide you with 10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager. From detailing the foundational importance of knowing your business to understanding pull versus push motivation, managing change, and leaving a legacy, Haneberg illustrates how to establish or realign your management habits, describing in each step an area of action you can develop for a healthy management practice. With pointers, examples, tables, tools, and worksheets, this updated second edition is also aligned with ATD survey-based research on social skills crucial to managerial success—so you are better able to build managerial capabilities. Intended for managers of all experience levels, this book will help you to embrace your challenges and triumph over management barriers. Make your current management challenge the best job you will ever have.

10 Steps to Successful Coaching, 2nd Edition

10 Steps to Successful Coaching, 2nd Edition
Author: Sophie Oberstein
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 195049621X

Build Your Coaching Skills to Develop Others Coaching has the power to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Its interactive process helps individuals set and act upon goals, make better decisions, and produce results. 10 Steps to Successful Coaching offers meaningful advice to help you embrace and elevate your existing coaching skills, drawing upon your strengths as a leader, colleague, or employee to bring out the strengths of others. This book is an entry point for anyone who wants—or has been asked—to do some formal or informal coaching. It’s also for anyone who wants to infuse day-to-day interactions in the workplace with a powerful new skill: development through coaching. With coaching skills quickly becoming essential for anyone who wants to help others develop in the workplace, use this book as your road map to being an effective coach who is ready to listen, encourage, and challenge others to greater achievement. Your coachees will enjoy greater job satisfaction and confidence, and your organization will benefit from this cost-effective way of developing employees and improving productivity. You, as a coach, will discover growth in your working relationships and gain a tremendous sense of accomplishment. This second edition addresses coaching in terms of the broader organization; creating a coaching culture; the impact of technology on the coaching relationship; and goal and accountability setting; overcoming obstacles to good listening; and ending the coaching process. You'll find a diverse array of tools to help you along the way. Examples include: a development plan to highlight existing coaching skills and areas of opportunity sample questions to ask during sessions forms to secure commitment to coaching an assessment to evaluate your organization’s coaching culture.

10 Steps to Successful Presentations, 2nd Edition

10 Steps to Successful Presentations, 2nd Edition
Author: ATD
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1950496341

Overcome Your Fear of Presenting Are you afraid of public speaking? Do you feel anxious before presenting? Are you worried about making mistakes in front of others and being judged? If so, you are not alone—public speaking and presenting are among the things people fear the most. Conquer your phobia of public speaking with 10 Steps to Successful Presentations. In this second edition, the Association for Talent Development provides an updated 10-step guide to delivering first-rate presentations whether you have several months or just one day to prepare. Discover how to develop a dynamic, engaging presentation and deliver it flawlessly. Learn strategies to reduce stress and become a think-on-your-feet presenter. Master your openings and closings (including the question-and-answer session) and captivate your audience from start to finish. Updated tools offer guidance and reassurance along the way. New content covers: leading virtual presentations telling interesting stories and relatable examples using mindfulness to recover in the moment asking questions to involve the audience.

Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager, 2nd Edition

Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager, 2nd Edition
Author: Gary P. Latham
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1473691087

Over 50-years of management science distilled for everyday practice. The essential information you need to become an evidence-based manager from hiring to retention. Information is presented within 10 general lessons of management, a new case-study featuring two evidence-based managers in action, and thought-provoking questions at the end of each chapter. NEW to this edition: NEW Material on the importance of emotional intelligence NEW Chapter 5: on ways to engage your employees in their work NEW Chapter 6: on ways to ensure your career success NEW Chapter 7: on how to create a psychologically healthy workplace NEW Chapter 9: on the pitfalls to avoid when making decisions NEW Chapter 10: two leading-edge ways to coach and appraise the people on your team NEW End of chapter questions to reinforce learning

Becoming a Manager

Becoming a Manager
Author: Linda A. Hill
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633696979

Making the leap to management and leadership In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial--going from individual contributor to competent manager. New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this timeless, indispensable book, Harvard Business School professor and leadership guru Linda Hill traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year in the role. She reveals the complexity of the transition, highlighting the expectations of these managers, their subordinates, and their superiors. We hear the new managers describe how they reframed their understanding of their roles and responsibilities, how they learned to build effective cross-functional work relationships, how and when they used individual and organizational resources, and how they learned to cope with the inevitable stresses of leadership. Hill vividly shows that becoming a manager is a profound psychological adjustment--a true transformation--as well as a continuous process of learning from experience. Becoming a Manager, a veritable treasury of essential leadership wisdom, is a book you will turn to again and again no matter where you are on your career journey.

Becoming A Top Manager

Becoming A Top Manager
Author: Kevin Kaiser
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-12-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118858557

Make the move up to senior management with lessons from world-renowned business school experts Based on themes from INSEAD's popular Transition to General Management programme, authors Kevin Kaiser, Michael Pich, and I.J. Schecter offer sound advice and practical insights for those looking to move to senior general management roles. By following the stories of three managers making the transition to general management, Becoming A Top Manager highlights not only the most crucial aspects of becoming a successful general manager, but also the necessary mindset changes required—both on a personal and professional level—that will ultimately translate into ongoing success. Provides practical insights, clarity and confidence for those looking to move into senior general management roles Written by a well-known and experienced international author team Outlines key skills and executive tools needed for the transition Online resources also available at www.wiley.com/go/topmanager

How to be an Even Better Manager

How to be an Even Better Manager
Author: Michael Armstrong
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0749463309

This eighth edition of the best-selling How to be an Even Better Manager covers 50 essential topics across the three key areas in which any manager needs to be competent: managing people; managing activities and processes; and managing and developing yourself. Thoroughly revised and updated, with nine new chapters providing timely advice on topics such as benchmarking, cost cutting, improving organizational capability and recovering from setbacks, this is an invaluable handbook for current and aspiring managers. How to be an Even Better Manager provides sound guidelines that will help you to develop a broad base of managerial skills and knowledge. Even the most experienced manager needs to keep abreast of new developments and brush up on essential competencies, so this new edition will continue to be an invaluable aid.

The 80/20 Manager

The 80/20 Manager
Author: Richard Koch
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0316243051

Bestselling author Richard Koch shows managers how to apply the 80/20 Principle to achieve exceptional results at work -- without stress or long hours. In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle , Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle -- the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort -- into practice in their personal lives. Now in The 80/20 Manager, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management. An 80/20 manager learns to focus only on the issues that really matter, achieving exceptional results, and feeling successful everyday while working less hard in fewer hours. A large number of managers -- especially in these difficult times -- feel completely overwhelmed. Their inboxes are overflowing and they constantly struggle to finish their to-do lists, leaving little time for the things that really matter. The 80/20 Manager shows a new way to look at management -- and at life -- to enjoy work and build a successful and fulfilling career.

Focus on Them

Focus on Them
Author: Ryan Changcoco
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1562869728

Perfect the Skills to Excel as a Manager An engagement crisis, a management skill shortage, a retention problem—call it what you will, today’s research and workplace insights emphasize that many employees leave managers. . . not companies. Good managers know they need to deliver results to be successful. But great ones? They understand the essence of managing encompasses something more: making connections, embodying the right skills, and developing their direct reports. They also realize managing well takes practice. With Focus on Them, you’ll get the tools and know-how to excel as a manager. Edited by the Association for Talent Development’s own management authority Ryan Changcoco, research expert Megan Cole, and content developer Jack Harlow, this book explores ATD’s new management framework—the ACCEL model. Each chapter, written by a leader in management and talent development, focuses on one of the five skills all managers need: Accountability (Timothy Ito) Communication (Ken O’Quinn) Collaboration (Winsor Jenkins) Engagement (Hunter Haines) Listening and assessing (Michele Nevarez) By investing in your own development—boosting your ACCEL skills—you signal to your employees that you’re serious about their development and learning, too. Becoming a manager isn’t climbing a mountain. By focusing on the basics, you can transform from a results-oriented manager to the super people manager your employees need.