Managing All-in-One For Dummies
Author(s): Consumer Dummies
Your all-encompassing guide to managing people, projects, and teams 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 All-In-One For Dummies is the practical, plain-English guide that covers all the basics of business management, helping you to navigate today's most innovative business strategies. Pulls together content from the Dummies Management library Offers advice for anticipating change and leading subordinates through change Includes tips on how to manage your business with effective leadership Whether you're a new manager or a seasoned professional, Managing All-in-One For Dummies gives you everything you need to manage successfully.
General Information
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- : John Wiley & Sons Inc
- : John Wiley & Sons Inc
- : 0.666
- : 31 January 2014
- : United States
- : 01 February 2014
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Consumer Dummies
- : Paperback
- : 658
- : 692
More About The Product
Introduction 1 Book I: Getting Started 5 Chapter 1: Now You're a Manager 7 Chapter 2: Setting Goals as a Manager 23 Chapter 3: Embracing Corporate Social Responsibility 37 Chapter 4: Managing with Technology 51 Book II: Embracing Leadership 61 Chapter 1: Tapping into the Brain of a Leader 63 Chapter 2: Training and Developing Leadership Brains 87 Chapter 3: Developing a Vision 109 Chapter 4: Building Your Leadership Skill Set 125 Chapter 5: The Process of Leadership 145 Book III: Mastering Key Management Duties 161 Chapter 1: Hiring: The Million-Dollar Decision 163 Chapter 2: Engaging Your Employees 181 Chapter 3: Managing Virtual Employees 195 Chapter 4: Conducting Meetings That Work 205 Chapter 5: Delegating to Get Things Done 219 Book IV: Communicating with Employees 239 Chapter 1: Encouraging Commitment through Coaching and Mentoring 241 Chapter 2: Communicating Effectively 257 Chapter 3: Having Critical Conversations 289 Chapter 4: Conducting Performance Appraisals 315 Chapter 5: Resolving Conflict 347 Book V: Managing Teams 373 Chapter 1: Putting Together a Strong Business Team 375 Chapter 2: Strategies for Building Effective Teams 397 Chapter 3: Developing Tools for Productive Team Players 425 Chapter 4: Working Productively with Teams 453 Chapter 5: Managing Advanced Team Matters 473 Book VI: Managing Business Change 503 Chapter 1: Laying a Foundation for Change 505 Chapter 2: Putting Your Plan for Change into Motion 529 Chapter 3: Making Change Stick 559 Chapter 4: Applying Change Strategies in Specialized Circumstances 589 Chapter 5: When Everything Changes: Working with Complex Change 619 Index 641
