Essential Manager's Manual
The ultimate all-in-one reference for the modern manager with over 1,000 power tips
KEY FEATURES
The essential practical guide
to management
- Benefits
new and experienced managers alike
- Covers
all the skills you need, from motivating and delegating to negotiating and presenting
- Explores
your options for action through charts and flow diagrams
- Includes
over 1,000 power tips for handling management issues
- An
exciting and unprecedented visual approach to international business publishing
- Aimed
at the novice and the experienced manager alike in every work environment, from large
corporations to small businesses
DESCRIPTION
Learn how to convey your message
confidently by improving your skills in every form of communication. Create space in your
day by identifying time-wasting traps and planning your time realistically and
effectively. Improve your managerial technique by discovering how to make productive,
informed decisions. Free your time, establish trust and develop staff relationships by
learning delegating techniques. Bring out the best in people by encouraging individual
initiatives and rewarding achievement. Maximise team standards by building up an
outstanding team, releasing creativity and achieving targets. Make meetings work for you
by planning carefully, understanding procedures and concluding successfully. Improve your
presentation skills by learning how to prepare fully, speak with confidence and handle an
audience. Learn effective negotiation by discovering how to start strongly, establish
common ground and close a deal. Find the best person for the job by learning to control an
interview, read body language and analyse information. Discover how to adapt to new
situations by anticipating and planning for change, and understanding its effects. Improve
stressful ways of working by learning how to prioritise, delegate and reorganise your
work.
PRESS REVIEWS & AWARDS
"Famous for its
stylish white publications, DK has produced a clutch of mini books for managers. Each is
jam-packed with colourful photos and graphics characteristic of the brand together with
self-assessment questionnaires and 101 hints on each topic."
The Financial Times
"Aimed at busy line managers who need an accessible and wide-ranging
"encyclopedia", it uses pictures, diagrams, boxes and bite-sized chunks of
information to convey its advice."
People Management
"....12 brilliant guides for blossoming at work."
Chat
"Useful not only for students looking for useful tips for management interviews,
but also with responsibility for those running careers services."
Michael Tiley, LSE
862 pages
