Product Description

"The New Manager's Handbook" provides 24 lessons for mastering your new role. You've been promoted to manager - and that puts you in a whole different ballgame. From difficult employees to demanding bosses, you never know where your next problem is coming from. What you do know is that you'll be expected to solve that problem - and solve it quickly and effectively. "The New Manager's Handbook" explains the rules of this new game, and gives you invaluable tips and pointers for teaming with your employees while inspiring them to breakthrough performance and results. Let the two dozen rules and guidelines in this quick-hitting manual show you the best ways to: delegate review performance; think strategically; lead great meetings; give and get results-oriented feedback; provide direction; speak with power; criticize with honesty and tact; ask the right questions; motivate average performers; and prepare for change.As a new manager in today's no-room-for-error workplace, you will be challenged and tested every day. Unlike previous positions, however, your success will judged by the performance of others. Give yourself every opportunity to succeed, and learn how to win the respect of both your employees and your supervisors, with the time-tested and field-proven techniques in "The New Manager's Handbook".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1707 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

From the Back Cover

The New Manager's Handbook: 24 Lessons for Mastering Your New Role

You've been promoted to manager--and that puts you in a whole different ballgame. From difficult employees to demanding bosses, you never know where your next problem is coming from. What you do know is that you'll be expected to solve that problem--and solve it quickly and effectively.

The New Manager's Handbook explains the rules of this new game, and gives you invaluable tips and pointers for teaming with your employees while inspiring them to breakthrough performance and results. Let the two dozen rules and guidelines in this quick-hitting manual show you the best ways to:

• Delegate
• Review performance
• Think strategically
• Lead great meetings
• Give and get results-oriented feedback
• Provide direction
• Speak with power
• Criticize with honesty and tact
• Ask the right questions
• Motivate average performers
• Prepare for change

As a new manager in today's no-room-for-error workplace, you will be challenged and tested every day. Unlike previous positions, however, your success will judged by the performance of others. Give yourself every opportunity to succeed, and learn how to win the respect of both your employees and your supervisors, with the time-tested and field-proven techniques in The New Manager's Handbook.

About the Author

Morey Stettner is the editor of Executive Wealth Advisory and a popular speaker and communication consultant. He has written a number of professional and management books, including Skills for New Managers, The Art of Winning Conversation, and others.

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended!
If you are a new manager, aspire to a managerial position or recently promoted an employee to a managerial or supervisory position, we suggest this manual as required reading. In fact, every new manager should be given a copy of the book along with the promotion. Too often great employees are promoted without any concept of the new skill set required to succeed as a manager or supervisor. This handbook clearly identifies the new competencies needed and explains how to develop or acquire them. Author Morey Stettner also pinpoints many of the common mistakes new managers make - and tells you how to avoid them. Anyone studying business management in college also should read this book, since it provides good, practical "in the trenches" advice that's hard to find in textbooks.

Good guide for managers
I liked this book. It's succinct, to the point and can be read in just a couple of hours (max). What's more, the messages are spot on!

Each chapter has only three pages (that's unique) and concludes with three tips for implementing the idea or topic. It's well written and covers the majority of things a new manager should consider.

I very much like the starting point of the book "Give Feedback". And Stettner is talking about giving praise, not criticism (giving criticism only comes toward the end of the book). This is a great way for a new manager to set a positive example to the people he or she is going to manage. The second chapter is about "How to make the best of bad news), something that the new manager is most likely to encounter very early in the new role. The book topics flow nicely from there, including some great tips on how to impress your boss.

If you are looking for a short, introductory book on the topic of management, or perhaps as a gift for someone who has just been promoted, this book would be ideal. For the serious student of management, it would go well as a primer to be followed by a more detailed book later.

Bob Selden, author What To Do When You Become The Boss: How New Managers Become Successful Managers

Useful and succint
More like a leaflet, but nevertheless a very useful book for new or aspiring managers.