Pocket Guides for Management Development
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learning, training and coaching workers, corporate universities,
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guide covers an important topic such as managing generations,
mentoring, creativity, project management, knowledge management
or strategies for handling people issues such as conflict
management, sexual harassment and performance. Order
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The
Manager's Guide to Interviewing and Hiring Top Performers
Today's
tight labor market is forcing organizations to maximize
the time they spend attracting and keeping top performers.
Organizations that can attract, inspire, and retain top
performers are in the position to beat out their competition.
This is true both in market share and being able to draw
outstanding employees.
This book is for individuals with training responsibilities
who are looking for tools to help their managers, supervisors,
and/or team leaders interview, hire, and retain top performers.
If you or someone in your hiring system has limited experience
in interviewing and hiring, this book will help you and
your organization to be more proficient in hiring practices.
Includes over a dozen job aid templates for recruiting,
hiring, and retaining top performers.
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Interviewing
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Manager's Pocket Guide
to Dealing with Conflict
Conflicts
occur everyday in the life of managers. You can't escape
them, but you can learn how to handle them better. Conflict
causes stress, low morale, and decreased productivity.
This pocket guide is for leaders who want to learn skills
that will prevent and resolve conflicts and ensure a better
working environment. Readers will learn how to recognize
patterns of conflict, identify causes of conflict, prevent
conflicts from developing (and escalating), and apply
conflict resolution techniques. By mastering these skills
managers will be able to better serve their employees,
helping them to navigate through interpersonal conflicts
and maintain workplace
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Dealing
with Conflict
Manager's
Pocket Guide to Generation X
Bruce Tulgan
If you find yourself asking questions like these, you
can't afford not to have The Manager's Pocket Guide to
Generation X! This concise, hands-on guide will enable
managers to recruit, train, motivate, and retain young
employees. It explains in simple terms what makes Generation
X employees different, and outlines how you can put their
unique skills and characteristics to work on behalf of
your organization.
Includes:
- A concise description of Generation Xers and why
they're uniquely suited to help their employers compete
effectively in the new global marketplace
- Answers to the most commonly asked questions about
Generation X like Are they really slackers? Do they
really have short attention spans? Why do they seem
to need so much feedback?
- Several self assessments so that managers can get
immediate feedback on their knowledge and perceptions
about Generation X
- 50 case studies in which Xers explain in their own
words which management styles are effective with their
generation, and which ones are not and why
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X
Managing
the Generation Mix : From Collision to Collaboration
No doubt about it: The newest diversity issue in the workplace
is age diversity. Many organizations have finally figured
out how to recruit young talent only to watch them drive
down a collision course with seasoned employees over issues
like work ethic, respect for authority, dress code and
every work arrangement imaginable. And they're not sure
what to do about it. The fact is, generational conflicts
are not merely a matter of young versus old. They mirror
critical business issues every organization faces as it
transitions from the workplace of the past to that of
the future. Managing the Generation Mix will help you
place your multi-generational team on the course to collaboration.
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the Generation Mix
Managing
Generation Y : Global Citizens Born in the Late
Seventies and Early Eighties
Carolyn A. Martin, Ph.D. and Bruce Tulgan
Here they come: the fourteenth generation of Americans.
Self-confident and optimistic. Independent and goal-oriented.
Masters of the Internet and PC. Young adults who believe
education is cool, integrity is admirable, and parents
are role models. They're blunt. They're savvy. They're
contradictory. They're the children of Baby Boomers and
the upbeat younger siblings of Gen X. They are the 29
million young adults born between 1978 and 1984 streaming
into the workplace whose presence will continue to grow
each year for the next ten years. They are Generation
Y.
Managing Genertion
Y is for those who want to become the employer of choice
for the next cohort of young adults. Discover the Gen
Y traits that pose the greatest challenges to managers
as well as the best practices you can implement now to
keep these upbeat, techno-savvy workers focused and motivated.
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Y
Manager's
Pocket Guide to Recruiting the Workforce of the Future
Bruce Tulgan
In today’s downsized, restructured, and reengineered
workplace, there is a tremendous pressure to recruit high-quality
people in order to get more work and better work doen
with fewer people. Through best practice, worksheets,
and checklists, Recruiting the Workforce of the Future
will show you how to develop and implement effective hiring
solutions for today’s workplace.
Employers should no longer recruit for the long term,
but to get the job done today, tomorrow and next week.
Give your organization the advantage in quickly and effectively
recruiting the talent you need.
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the Workforce of the Future
The
Manager's Pocket Guide to Career Skills for the New Economy
Bruce Tulgan
In the new economy, individuals will have to be extremely
good at fending for themselves if they are to survive
and succeed. The most successful people will position
themselves as free agents and sell their skills and abilities
on the open market. Career Skills for the New Economy
will show you how to create your own success through best
practices that come directly from the real strategies
of real people who succeeding on their own terms.
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Skills for the New Economy
The Manager’s
Pocket Guide to Workplace Coaching
Daniel A. Feldman, Ph.D
This guide is designed to help people become better managers.
When a person is elevated to a management position, it
is usually because he or she has done well at mastering
the prerequisite technical skills.
Coaching employees to develop their skills helps not only
the employee, but also the manager, the team, and the
organization.
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Coaching
Manager's
Pocket Guide to eCommuncation
E-mail,
voice mail, conference calls, and videoconferences have
revolutionized communication. Companies are dependent
on technology to link personnel across cities, states,
and countries, especially as virtual teams become more
a part of our business environment. Yet, companies rarely
provide formal training on how to manage these resources.
This book provides guidelines for communicating effectively
through e-mail and voice mail, suggestions for getting
the most out of your conference calls and videoconferences,
and creative and practical suggestions for communicating
with, building, and managing your virtual team.
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Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Meetings
Learn
easy, proven techniques that keep you in control of your
meetings. This complete guide to effective meetings will
show you how to prepare for success and end with results.
It includes structured activities that keep everyone focused
on your issues, practical techniques for dealing with
unproductive participants, and essential considerations
for high tech meetings. If you hold meetings, this book
is a must!
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Effective Meetings
Manager's Pocket Guide to
Emotional Intelligence
One
of the keys to becoming a true leader is emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence quotient (or EQ) encompasses qualities
that go beyond general intellectual intelligence and technical
competency. EQ includes self-awareness, self-control,
self-confidence, motivation, empathy, and competencies
in the social environment. These hallmarks of a true leader
can be learned. The activities in this guide will help
strengthen the reader's EQ skills, resulting in a more
successful career and a more satisfying life.
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Intelligence
Manager's Pocket Guide to Documenting Employee Performance
Terry L. Fitzwater
This guide will help you document and change unwanted
work behaviors before they become issues for termination.
It includes information on a four-step progressive discipline
process and how to apply it; clarifying gaps in execution
vs. gaps in knowledge; behavior modification through corrective
action; a process for documenting peformance issues; and
a look at the legal framework surrounding discipline.
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Employee Performance
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Employee Relations
Terry Fitzwater
This pocket guide is packed with insight and key skills
for those new to the process of management or anyone needing
new ideas and tools concerning relationship management.
It provides survey materials to help managers evaluate and
assess skills and policies in order to identify areas where
change may be necessary. Also included are suggestions on
programs and philosophies in order to increase an employee's
desire to remain with an organization. This book helps define
how management practices and styles, organization policies
and procedures, and employment laws impact employee relationships.
It offers ideas toward developing a more satisfied workforce
and a company more informed about some of the more common
employment laws.
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Relations
The
Manager's Pocket Guide to Influence with Integrity
This guide offers
ways to continuously improve your skills of persuasion.
Whether you are in management or on the shop floor, the
ideas presented will help you make your influence
more powerful,
more positive, and make your sphere of influence wider
and wiser.
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Influence with Integrity
The
Manager's Pocket Guide to Valued Centered Ethics
Charles D.Kerns,
PhD, MBA
How managers
behave is the single most important factor in determining
the level of ethical behavior in an organization.
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Valued Centered Ethics presents
a framework and system to prepare managers to face real
world ethical dilemmas and decision points in their daily
work. This unique model consists of virtuous values, managerial
leadership practice and carefully conceived behavioral
standards.
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Manager's Pocket Guide to Knowledge Management
Kathleen Foley Curley and Barbara Kivowitz
If you’re ready to start the knowledge management
process in your organization, this book provides a practical
plan and roadmap. You’ll walk through all the stages—assessment,
planning, deployment, and evaluation—and gain specific
action steps for putting it all together to expand your
core competency and win competitive advantage.
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Manager’s Pocket Guide to Leadership Skills
Peter Stark & Jane Flaherty
No matter how you arrived at your supervisory position,
you need a specific set of skills to work successfully with
your employees. Written for those who want to not only survive,
but thrive in their leadership role!
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Skills
The Manager’s
Pocket Guide to Organizational Learning
Organizational
learning requires constant reexamination of one's ideas
while engaging in a long-term effort to alter the practices
of the organization as a whole. This guide is intended
as an easy-to-use reference that will help you identify
learning strategies, which you can then adapt to your
particular circumstances.
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The Manager's Pocker Guide to Project Management
Michael Greer
This guide contains a set of worksheets, guidelines, checklists,
and tools to perform specific project management tasks in
a step-by-step fashion. This allows those new to project
managemenr to quickly acquire broad knowledge and skills.
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Performance Management
Sharon G Fisher
This guide clearly spells out the specific steps to ensure
improved performance organization wide. Learn how to analyze
performance, pinpoint gaps in performance and determine
what's causing them, develop strategizes for maximizing
performance, and get the most for your training dollars.
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Management
The Manager's
Pocket Guide to Corporate Culture Change
Richard Bellingham, Ed.D
This guide provides practical methods for empowering the
whole organization to align culture to support strategic
business change.
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Culture Change
The Manager's
Pocket Guide to Diversity Management
Dr. Edward E.Hubbard
This pocket guide will teach you the skills required to
effectively manage a diverse workforce - not because it's
the "right thing to do" or your organization
requires it. But because it is good for business.
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Management
The Manager's
Guide to Preventing Sexual Harassment
This guide approaches
the issue globally, from creating policy statements on
sexual harassment and conducting employee audits to determine
vulnerabilities (and appropriate cures), to the five A's
of understanding, to handling and dealing with stereotypes
and biases.
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Sexual Harassment
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Spiritual Leadership
Richard Bellingham, Ed.D and Julie Meek, DNS
The quality of life in organizations is deteriorating. People
don't have a sense that their work has meaning. Cynicism
reigns. People don't want to live and work in this way and
organizations don't function optimally when they do. Leadership
will need to attend to our source of enthusiasm and inspiration
- our soul. A new style of leadership is required, one that
makes collaboration, empowerment, and innovation possible.
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Leadership
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Team Sponsorship
Sarah Pope
This compact, easy to ue guide covers the essentials of
sponsoring three of the most common types of teams; ad-hoc
or temporary teams, standing teams, and natural work teams.
It is essential for any manager who must direct and champion
teams.
The Manager's
Pocket Guide to Creativity
Alex Hiam
Is there a secret to creativity? Can a simple change in
the way we think about problems dramatically cut the cycle
time for generating state-of-the-art solutions? Yes! And
this book will show you how. It presents practical tools
and suggestions for creative thinking while never losing
touch with the essential components of the process: its
looseness, its freedom, its risk-taking. You'll
learn how the elements of creative thinking-the methods
that help us get "un-stuck"-can themselves be
creative. What better way to drive home the power of the
creative thought process than to go out on a limb and
be creative about creativity!
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Pocket Guide to Creativity
Manager's Guide to Public Presentations
Steve Gladis, Ph.D
This compendium of tips will help any manager learn the
survival tactics of public speaking. Dr.Gladis presents
the material in an informal and informative manner, providing
how-to-steps to make the process of presenting easy and
effective.
Manager's Guide to Effective Writing
Dr. Steve Gladis
This pocket guide can help whether you're in charge of a
group of writers, or a person interested in improving his
or her own writing skills. Easy, practical how-to-steps
will guide you toward more effective writing.
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Writing
Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Mentoring
Dr. Norman H. Cohen
This bookd is a practical reference to effective mentoring
in a format that provides quick access to the important
concepts and techniques of this unique, powerful, one-to-one
learning model. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective
Mentoring is a convenient and comprehensive reference, offering
valuable, pragmatic guidance that mentors can use in assisting
mentees.
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Manager's Pocket Guide to Strategic and Business
Planning
Stephen G. Haines
Enterprises in today's Global Information Age must keep
up with rapid changes in technology while overhauling businesses,
programs, and operations to meet the changing values and
demands of customers and employees. This guide will aid
you in applying the Systems Thinking Approach to your strategic
and business planning by explaining how to develop a strategic
plan, ensure successful implementation of the plan, and
build and sustain high performance over the long haul.
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The Manager's
Guide to Virtual Teams
Explore how workforce
technology can enable members to work together on projects-regardless
of geographic location. Workforce technology is a collection
of computer software applications developed to work in
tandem with laptops, e-mail, faxes, modem, and satellite
transmission.
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Systems Thinking & Learning
Stephen G.Haines
This book provides managers with many practical new Systems
Thinking tools and the main concepts of Systems Thinking
to embrace individual, team, and organizational learning,
change, and performance.
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