Book description
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.
Table of contents
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- Introduction
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Book I: Getting Started
- Chapter 1: Now You're a Manager
- Chapter 2: Setting Goals as a Manager
- Chapter 3: Embracing Corporate Social Responsibility
- Chapter 4: Managing with Technology
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Book II: Embracing Leadership
- Chapter 1: Tapping into the Brain of a Leader
- Chapter 2: Training and Developing Leadership Brains
- Chapter 3: Developing a Vision
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Chapter 4: Building Your Leadership Skill Set
- Taking Stock As You Get Started
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Strengthening Your Leadership Muscles
- Using what you have
- Responding to situations flexibly
- Taking advantage of fortuitous circumstances
- Making sense of ambiguous or contradictory messages
- Ranking the importance of different elements
- Finding similarities in apparently different situations
- Drawing distinctions between seemingly similar situations
- Putting concepts together in new ways
- Coming up with novel ideas
- Communicating with skill
- Modeling Great Leadership Behaviors
- Grasping the Roles Leaders Play
- Chapter 5: The Process of Leadership
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Book III: Mastering Key Management Duties
- Chapter 1: Hiring: The Million-Dollar Decision
- Chapter 2: Engaging Your Employees
- Chapter 3: Managing Vir tual Employees
- Chapter 4: Conducting Meetings That Work
- Chapter 5: Delegating to Get Things Done
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Book IV: Communicating with Employees
- Chapter 1: Encouraging Commitment through Coaching and Mentoring
- Chapter 2: Communicating Effectively
- Chapter 3: Having Critical Conversations
- Chapter 4: Conducting Performance Appraisals
- Chapter 5: Resolving Conflict
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Book V: Managing Teams
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Chapter 1: Putting Together a Strong Business Team
- Giving “Team” a Business Meaning
- Telling the Difference between Work Groups and Teams
- How Teams Help Managers to Manage
- Introducing the Most Common Types of Teams
- Looking Before You Leap: Factors to Consider in Adopting Teams
- The Terrible Twenty: Why Teams Sometimes Struggle
- Spotting — and Soothing — Resistance
- Winning Them Over
- Introducing the Three Cornerstones: Focus, Cohesiveness, and Accountability
- Training Your Team in Six Critical Skills
- Chapter 2: Strategies for Building Effective Teams
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Chapter 3: Developing Tools for Productive Team Players
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Making Active Listening a Part of Your Team Process
- Opening the door to a good conversation
- Drawing out a speaker with probing questions
- Reflecting a speaker's feelings
- Paraphrasing to capture the content
- Combining reflection with paraphrasing
- Dodging pitfalls
- Speaking So That People Listen — and Get Your Point
- Changing old speaking habits
- Adopting an assertive speaking approach
- Using nonverbal tools of assertive speaking
- Speaking in the positive
- Planning for Success — and Working Your Plan
- Solving Problems (Rather than Making Them Worse)
- Brainstorming — Developing Ideas and Getting to Solutions
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Making Active Listening a Part of Your Team Process
- Chapter 4: Working Productively with Teams
- Chapter 5: Managing Advanced Team Matters
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Chapter 1: Putting Together a Strong Business Team
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Book VI: Managing Business Change
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Chapter 1: Laying a Foundation for Change
- Understanding the Cycle of Change
- Spotting Change Indicators
- Assessing Your Organizational Change Readiness
- Deciding What Type of Change You Need
- Implementing a Tried-and-True Change Model
- Recognizing the Call for Leadership
- Role Playing: Assuming Different Roles during Change
- Facilitating Change across Leadership Structures
- Chapter 2: Putting Your Plan for Change into Motion
- Chapter 3: Making Change Stick
- Chapter 4: Applying Change Strategies in Specialized Circumstances
- Chapter 5: When Everything Changes: Working with Complex Change
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Chapter 1: Laying a Foundation for Change
- About the Authors
- Cheat Sheet
- More Dummies Products
Product information
- Title: Managing All-in-One For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2014
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781118784082
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