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The New Manager's Tool Kit: 21 Things You Need to Know to Hit the Ground Running
In this helpful guidebook, authors Don and Sheryl Grimme provide a fresh, friendly approach to tackling the challenges of management and leveraging your new position to help your organization succeed. Novice managers have their work cut out for all new skills to learn, different personalities to deal with, and greater responsibilities to fulfill. The New Manager's Tool Kit provides you with fast, powerful lessons to help With lessons covering both basic management skills as well as more advanced leadership tactics and bonus tips to help managers overcome the most difficult leadership challenges, The New Manager's Tool Kit provides those charged with managing and leading others the tools and real-world knowledge they need to succeed and open themselves up for further advancement.
256 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2008
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September 25, 2018
Great book for first time managers covering a lot of topics that are relevant in today's business world regardless of the industry.
January 26, 2009
[N.B. My wife and I are the co-authors of this book. Offered here is my self-assessment. It is honest, but certainly not "objective.":]
The title might seem to portray it as just another how-to book for first-time managers. It is a how-to book applicable to new managers … and so much more. It is also a why-to book of unusual scope and perspective.
The New Manager's Tool Kit addresses not only classic supervisory challenges (e.g., coaching, mentoring and motivating employees, optimizing performance, teamwork, and two-way communication), but also:
Interpersonal skills (e.g., attitude, assertion, dealing with ‘difficult’ people, and managing stress and anger) ... and
Issues especially relevant today (e.g., job burnout, work/life balance, rapid change, employee retention, diversity, generations, disabilities, harassment, and workplace violence).
As such, the title can be interpreted as: a new tool kit...for all managers. As Peter Schwartz has observed in his customer review, it is “useful at every level of an organization.”
Our book provides a fresh approach to employee management in today’s diverse, globally competitive, 24/7 world – informed by new paradigms and recent studies. The essence of each topic is encapsulated via pithy secrets, acronyms, riddles, and metaphors … expounded using case studies, scenarios, and real-world examples … and validated by its impact on the bottom-line and/or the reader’s own experience. Only then do we offer the how-to’s, tips, activities, and applications.
The underlying theme (explicitly stated in the introduction and throughout the book) is: respect, for self and others. The vision pursued is: organizational success in perfect accord with individual fulfillment.
The title might seem to portray it as just another how-to book for first-time managers. It is a how-to book applicable to new managers … and so much more. It is also a why-to book of unusual scope and perspective.
The New Manager's Tool Kit addresses not only classic supervisory challenges (e.g., coaching, mentoring and motivating employees, optimizing performance, teamwork, and two-way communication), but also:
Interpersonal skills (e.g., attitude, assertion, dealing with ‘difficult’ people, and managing stress and anger) ... and
Issues especially relevant today (e.g., job burnout, work/life balance, rapid change, employee retention, diversity, generations, disabilities, harassment, and workplace violence).
As such, the title can be interpreted as: a new tool kit...for all managers. As Peter Schwartz has observed in his customer review, it is “useful at every level of an organization.”
Our book provides a fresh approach to employee management in today’s diverse, globally competitive, 24/7 world – informed by new paradigms and recent studies. The essence of each topic is encapsulated via pithy secrets, acronyms, riddles, and metaphors … expounded using case studies, scenarios, and real-world examples … and validated by its impact on the bottom-line and/or the reader’s own experience. Only then do we offer the how-to’s, tips, activities, and applications.
The underlying theme (explicitly stated in the introduction and throughout the book) is: respect, for self and others. The vision pursued is: organizational success in perfect accord with individual fulfillment.
September 10, 2011
pracitcal applicable book
August 23, 2012
A recommended book for everyone who have task to manage, to lead & complete a task
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