Book description
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This series of books aims to provide practical guidance on a range of soft-skills areas for those in IT. They may also be used to good effect by others, including those who deal with IT professionals, in order to facilitate more effective and co-operative working practices.
The Effective Manager is intended to provide IT managers with practical advice and tips on how to become an effective manager.
Help develop your management skills
Whether you are new to management, or have been a manager for some time, management is a skill that can be learned and developed in order to gain the trust and respect of your team members and to achieve team and organisational goals.
This book will help you develop your management skills. It is designed to assist you in understanding the characteristics of a high-performance manager, to help you assess where your strengths and development areas lie as a manager and to create a plan of action for realising your management potential.
"Table of contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 1: WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE MANAGER?
- We join organisations and leave managers
- Good and bad managers
- So what makes a good manager?
- A working model for the effective manager
- Undertaking activities
- Creating a high-performance team
- Developing people’s skills and confidence
- Where do you focus your attention as a manager?
- Analyse and compare your scores
- The consequences of imbalance
- Activities to undertake with your team
- Summary
- CHAPTER 2: DEFINING THE PLAYING FIELD
- CHAPTER 3: MANAGING PERFORMANCE
- CHAPTER 4: HANDLING DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
- CHAPTER 5: RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION
- CHAPTER 6: MANAGING THE TEAM
- CHAPTER 7: MOTIVATING OTHERS
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ITG RESOURCES
Product information
- Title: The Effective Manager
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2009
- Publisher(s): IT Governance Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849281119
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