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Managing For Dummies Paperback – July 6 2010
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Being a manager can be an intimidating and challenging task. Managing involves teaching new skills to employees, helping land a new customer, accomplishing an important assignment, increasing performance, and much more. The process of management can be very challenging at times, but it can also bring you a sense of fulfillment that you never imagined possible.
Managing For Dummies, 3rd Edition is perfect for all levels of managers. This clearly written, easy-to-understand guide gives you practical advice on the most important aspects of managing, such as delegating as opposed to ordering, improving employees' performances, getting your message across, understanding ethics and office policies, team building and collaboration, and much more.
- Tips and advice for new and experienced managers
- All-new chapters on employee encouragement and corporate social responsibility
- Guidance on managing employees by leveraging the power of the Internet
Managing in today's lightning-speed business world requires that you have the latest information and techniques for getting the job done. Managing For Dummies, 3rd Edition provides you with straightforward advice and up-to-the-minute strategies for dealing with anything that comes your way.
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFor Dummies
- Publication dateJuly 6 2010
- Dimensions18.54 x 2.29 x 23.11 cm
- ISBN-100470618132
- ISBN-13978-0470618134
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From the Inside Flap
Learn to:
- Get your message across with clear expectations and straightforward communication
- Successfully manage people, projects, and teams
- Plan, organize, and delegate tasks
- Encourage and motivate employees
The fast and easy way to effectively manage people, projects, and teams
Being a manager can be an intimidating and challenging task. This clearly written, easy-to-understand guide gives you practical advice on the most important aspects of managing, such as delegating as opposed to ordering, improving employees' performances, getting your message across, team building and collaboration, and more.
- I'm a manager, now what? learn to identify different management styles and get a handle on the most important aspects of managing leading, inspiring, and engaging
- Know your role get the lowdown on the key duties you'll face as a manager, from hiring new employees, coaching and mentoring your staff, monitoring performance, and everything in between
- Master management master the day-to-day duties you'll carry out as a manager, like delegating, communicating, budgeting, and many more
- Tackle the tough stuff take a look at the challenging sides of management and arm yourself with the skills to tackle these sticky situations, like managing change and disciplining employees
Open the book and find:
- How to find your leadership style
- Tips on creating a supportive environment
- Guidance on motivating employees
- Interviewing do's and don'ts
- How to set goals and juggle priorities
- Advice on running effective meetings
- Delegation myths and facts
- Budgeting, accounting, and working with financial statements
- How to use technology to your advantage
From the Back Cover
Learn to:
- Get your message across with clear expectations and straightforward communication
- Successfully manage people, projects, and teams
- Plan, organize, and delegate tasks
- Encourage and motivate employees
The fast and easy way to effectively manage people, projects, and teams
Being a manager can be an intimidating and challenging task. This clearly written, easy-to-understand guide gives you practical advice on the most important aspects of managing, such as delegating as opposed to ordering, improving employees' performances, getting your message across, team building and collaboration, and more.
- I'm a manager, now what? learn to identify different management styles and get a handle on the most important aspects of managing leading, inspiring, and engaging
- Know your role get the lowdown on the key duties you'll face as a manager, from hiring new employees, coaching and mentoring your staff, monitoring performance, and everything in between
- Master management master the day-to-day duties you'll carry out as a manager, like delegating, communicating, budgeting, and many more
- Tackle the tough stuff take a look at the challenging sides of management and arm yourself with the skills to tackle these sticky situations, like managing change and disciplining employees
Open the book and find:
- How to find your leadership style
- Tips on creating a supportive environment
- Guidance on motivating employees
- Interviewing do's and don'ts
- How to set goals and juggle priorities
- Advice on running effective meetings
- Delegation myths and facts
- Budgeting, accounting, and working with financial statements
- How to use technology to your advantage
About the Author
Bob Nelson, PhD, is the founder and President of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a management training and consulting firm based in San Diego, California. He is the author of the multi-million copy best-selling book 1001 Ways to Reward Employees and (with Peter Economy) The Management Bible.
Peter Economy is the Associate Editor for Leader to Leader and is the bestselling author of more than 50 books.
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- Publisher : For Dummies; 3rd edition (July 6 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0470618132
- ISBN-13 : 978-0470618134
- Item weight : 567 g
- Dimensions : 18.54 x 2.29 x 23.11 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #58,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #75 in Business Project Management
- #78 in Project Management (Books)
- #148 in Human Resource Management
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About the authors
Bob Nelson, Ph.D. is president of Nelson Motivation, Inc. and the world's leading authority on Employee Recognition and Engagement. He has published over 30 books that have sold over 5 million copies that have been translated into over 30 languages. He has presented on six continents and worked with 1000s of organizations including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. He is currently a Senior Fellow for The Conference Board, a Top Thought Leader for The Best Practices Institute, and has been named a Leading Global Employee Engagement Influencer by EE Awards, and a Top Five Management Guru by Global Gurus. He received an MBA in organizational behavior from UC Berkeley and a PhD in management education with Dr. Peter F. Drucker, "The Father of Modern Management," at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles.
Peter Economy is a Wall Street Journal best-selling business author, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and publishing consultant with more than 125 books to his credit (and more than 3 million copies sold).
Peter’s latest book is Wait, I’m Working With Who?!? published by Career Press. He also helped create Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results; Everything I Learned About Life I Learned in Dance Class; The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness (a Wall Street Journal bestseller); Managing For Dummies; User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product; The Management Bible; Peter Isler’s Little Blue Book of Sailing Secrets; and many more.
He is the Leadership Guy on Inc.com and for more than a decade served as Associate Editor for Leader to Leader magazine—published by the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum in New York City. Peter taught MGT 453: Creativity and Innovation as a lecturer at San Diego State University, is on the National Advisory Council of The Art of Science Learning, and is a founding member of the board of SPORTS for Exceptional Athletes.
A graduate of Stanford University (with majors in Economics and Human Biology), Peter has worked closely with some of the nation’s top business, leadership, and technology thinkers, including Jim Collins, Frances Hesselbein, Barry O’Reilly, Peter Senge, Kellie McElhaney, Jeff Patton, Marshall Goldsmith, Marty Cagan, Lolly Daskal, Guy Kawasaki, Emma Seppala, William Taylor, Jim Kilts, Jean Lipman-Blumen, Stephen Orban, Ken Blanchard, and many others.
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