Product Description

Some bosses are better than good - they're inspirational. Their teams deliver exceptional performance because they can't imagine letting their manager down. These Inspirational Managers earn more respect, suffer less stress and produce better results than other managers. Want to be one? This book tells you how.

Inspirational Managergoes to the very 'heart' of management, it shows you how to be a great manager and remain true to yourself. It shows you to how to uncover the best in your people and how to have the tough conversations when they are needed.

Drawing on the experiences of real inspirational managers, facing real challenges and managing real people, Inspirational Manager gives you the tools and techniques to ensure that people notice you and say - “now there's a great manager!”

Like the managers in the book, you'll find at times that it is hard work – but immensely satisfying. You'll love what you do, deliver great results and make a difference. Who knows, you and your team might start enjoying Mondays as much as Fridays!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104957 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review

‘Inspirational Manager is thought provoking and pragmatic. It provides useful tactics and action plans for achieving success across various management disciplines with rules to guide you through each stage. A useful companion throughout your managerial career, this book can help guide you and your people to success.’
Mark Horsfield, Professional Development Manager, Microsoft

‘This is not just another book on management: it is an important book about YOU. It is full of better ways for you to engage with your staff, deal with difficult situations, and recognise success. I guarantee that this book will enhance your performance as a manager.’
Detective Superintendent Peter Rigby - Cheshire Constabulary

From the Back Cover

Some bosses are better than good – they’re inspirational. Their teams deliver exceptional performance because they can’t imagine letting their manager down. These inspirational managers earn more respect, suffer less stress and produce better results than other managers. Want to be one? This book tells you how.

Inspirational Manager goes to the very ‘heart’ of management, it shows you how to be a great manager and remain true to yourself. It shows you to how to uncover the best in your people, and how to have the tough conversations when they are needed.

Drawing on the experiences of real inspirational managers, facing real challenges and managing real people, Inspirational Manager gives you the tools and techniques to ensure that people notice you and say – “now there’s a great manager!”

Like the managers in the book, you’ll find at times that it is hard work – but immensely satisfying. You’ll love what you do, deliver great results and make a difference. Who knows, you and your team might start enjoying Mondays as much as Fridays!

'Inspirational Manager is thought provoking and pragmatic. It provides useful tactics and action plans for achieving success across various management disciplines with rules to guide you through each stage. A useful companion throughout your managerial career, this book can help guide you and your people to success.’

‘This is not just another book on management: it is an important book about YOU. It is full of better ways for you to engage with your staff, deal with difficult situations and recognise success. I guarantee that this book will enhance your performance as a manager.’

Inspirational management thrives when HR is inspirational too. Learn how to achieve this by downloading fascinating new findings by Judith Leary-Joyce - see inside for more information.

About the Author

Judith Leary-Joyce has a real passion for developing great workplaces and wants everyone to get out of bed each morning, eager to get on with their work. As CEO of Great Companies Consulting, she spends her time supporting organisations that have an appetite for delivering great results through their people. She has considerable experience of consulting plus coaching/facilitating leaders, managers and significant influencers in a wide range of organisations. Her psychology background gives her a deep understanding of the factors that drive people to make their best efforts and perform brilliantly.

Judith is also author of Becoming an Employer of Choice a book that explores how you can contribute to the development and maintenance of a great workplace.

Customer Reviews

What real managers need to know about life in the real world
I wish I'd had this book when I first became a manager - I suspect that some of the people who worked for me wish I had as well. The title "inspirational" might sound a bit over the top but basically it's about being the sort of manager who gets the best out of his or her team. This is only management book I've read that seems to be based on the experiences of real managers - there are photos of them in the back of the book so they must be real people - and it shows, the stories sound real, not the usual two-dimensional stuff that passes for case studies in most books. The book is packed with useful ideas that have worked for other people in jobs just as difficult as yours or mine so they have to be worth a crack. One of its best features is the "action plan" at the end of each chapter that set you a list of tasks to achieve today, by the end of next week, next month and so on - they really help make the connection between what the book says and what you need to do yourself. This is one of the few management books that lives up to its marketing spiel.

Give it to all your managers on Day 1
Amazon recommended this book to me because I'd bought the authors earlier book "Becoming an Employer of Choice". Based on my experience with that book I snapped this up. I'm pleased I did.

Our company has just bought a couple of dozen copies (helped by the fact that the price on amazon is very reasonable) so that we can share them around the office and also include one in every induction pack for newly promoted managers - it is fantastic. Those who've read it tell me that they really enjoyed it - particularly as the stories rang true and they felt they could identify with the managers mentioned in the book. That, to me is one of the strengths of the book - unlike a lot of management skills books you get the feeling that this is based on how life is in the real world. The action plans are also superb - we are shamelessly pinching them in our revamped "first 100 days" induction process for new managers.

Shame There Aren't 10 Stars
I loved this book. It deals with the heart of management in a truly inspirational way, based on the successes of real people rather than dwelling on theory. The author has a lovely chatty style making it an easy read. Don't misunderstand me, the messages are both insightful and profound; they are just presented so that they are simple to understand. Each chapter ends with some specific actions, making it pragmatic as well as thought provoking. I have a copy on my desk which I know will become bruised and battered through constant use in the coming years.