This text is appropriate for college courses in Management Skills. Management is an applied topic. Conceptual frameworks can provide business school graduates with needed information and ideas to understand management situations, but to become effective managers they need practice in behaving as a manager and they need to receive feedback on their performance. This text focuses on how to develop the skills one needs to manage, rather than what managers do. It is organized around the four functions of management (planning, organizing, leading and controlling).
There are many factors that separate average managers from great managers.
Some teams use a talking stick to get this habit ingrained, and you can only talk if you have the talking stick. If you want to say something, you raise your hand and request the talking stick. Other examples might be punctuality, ...
Throughout the text are examples and interviews with practitioners, emphasizing to the learner the importance of the topic at hand
This complete collection of managerial skills prepares users for the work force with a comprehensive introduction to effective management conduct. The book provides a ten-step learning model that enables readers...
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Your company thinks you're ready to manage. We think you could use a little help.
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In this book Jeff Jones shows how managers in education can contribute to school improvement, and focuses on the essential personal and practical management skills needed to instill a positive team culture, and support colleagues ...
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Many of the fundamental principles of psychology form the basis for management training.Using Psychology in Management Training aims to give trainers and student trainers a grounding in the ideas and research findings which are most ...