The Managerial Leadership Bible: Learning the Strategic, Organizational, and Tactical Skills Everyone Needs Today, Second Edition

The Managerial Leadership Bible: Learning the Strategic, Organizational, and Tactical Skills Everyone Needs Today, Second Edition

by Jeffrey Magee
Released April 2015
Publisher(s): Pearson
ISBN: 9780134097787

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Book description

Think of this comprehensive handbook as your personal mini management seminar on identifying organizational excellence – and then achieving it! World-renowned executive trainer and consultant Jeffrey Magee helps you recognize the management approaches that work best, and then model your own strategies and tactics after the success you see.

Packed with action plans and templates, The Management Leadership Bible, Second Edition is designed to help you start driving ROI from its techniques right now. You’ll learn how to choose your optimal style and approach for every individual and team interaction, stimulating maximum performance from everyone around you. Coverage includes:

  • Defining your mission statement for your new view of success

  • Choosing among six alternative managerial leadership intervention styles

  • Succeeding in five different organizational structures and levels

  • Analyzing your players and your prospects for team success

  • Sustaining your "Professional Success Quotient"

  • Mastering nine tactical steps to high impact leadership

  • Interviewing, hiring, and promoting the right people

  • Developing your "Winning Habit" paradigm

  • Converting negativity to positive outcomes

  • Speed-reading personalities, negotiating win-win outcomes, and building alliances

  • Creating your winning management game plan

  • Keeping "C Level" and "E Level" personalities from selling you out

  • Avoiding the deadly leadership sins that destroy performance

  • Planning for your replacement

    • The first edition of The Management Leadership Bible established itself as a best-seller in practitioner-based training, academia, and CPE self-study. Now with 60%+ new content focused on today’s management challenges, teams, and employees, this edition is more valuable than ever. It will be an indispensable resource for established and new supervisors, managers, and leaders – especially those rising from frontline management to executive roles.

    Table of contents

    1. About This eBook
    2. Title Page
    3. Copyright Page
    4. Contents
    5. Course CPE Information
    6. About the Author
    7. Preface
      1. Why This Book, The Managerial Leadership Bible? The Answer Is Easy!
    8. 1. Ground Zero, All Factors Being Equal
      1. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson One
      2. Review Questions
      3. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    9. 2. Five Mission Statements for Ultimate “New View” Success
      1. The Organizational Mission Statement
      2. The Departmental Mission Statement
      3. The Player’s Mission Statement
      4. The Customer Mission Statement
      5. The Self/Professional Mission Statement
        1. Mission Statement Planning Sheet
      6. Three Subgroups in Life—Rule 80/10/10©
      7. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Two
      8. Review Questions
      9. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    10. 3. The FIST FACTOR®, Your Mental Board of Directors
      1. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Three
      2. Review Questions
      3. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    11. 4. Six Alternative Managerial Leadership Intervention Styles
      1. Manager
      2. Teacher
      3. Mentor
      4. Counselor
      5. Disciplinarian
      6. Coach
      7. Management/Team Control Model
      8. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Four
      9. Review Questions
      10. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    12. 5. Five Differing Organizational Structures and Levels
      1. Manager (Vocabulary) Style Changes
      2. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Five
      3. Review Questions
      4. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    13. 6. Analyzing Players and Prospects for Team Success
      1. Instrument One: The Self-Analysis Inventory (A.K.A. Ben Franklin Decision-Making Model)
      2. Instrument Two: The Player Capability Index™
      3. Instrument Three: TE Factor
      4. Instrument Four: Player-Task Function-Trait Comparison Index™
      5. Instrument Five: All-Star Player
      6. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Six
      7. Review Questions
      8. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    14. 7. Sustaining Your Professional Success Quotient
      1. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Seven
      2. Review Questions
      3. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    15. 8. Your Five Organizational Levels of Operation
      1. Begin Stage Managerial Leadership Hints
      2. Defend Stage Managerial Leadership Hints
      3. Blend Stage Managerial Leadership Hints
      4. Transcend Stage Managerial Leadership Hints
      5. End Stage Managerial Leadership Hints
      6. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Eight
      7. Review Questions
      8. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    16. 9. Nine Tactical Steps to High-Impact Leadership
      1. #1: Managing Attitude, Self-Awareness, Mindset, and Ego
      2. #2: Motivating Groups and Individuals
        1. Self-Assessed Motivators/Incentives
        2. Giving Praise (Recognition) and Incentives (Rewards)
      3. #3: Managing Meetings and Huddles
        1. Before the Meeting
        2. During the Meeting
        3. After the Meeting
      4. #4: Delegation Dynamics
        1. Management Techniques/Tactics for Delegation
      5. #5: Designing Decision-Capable Individuals and Groups
        1. How to Create and Lead a Team
      6. #6: Engaging Difficult and Challenging Personalities
        1. Management Techniques/Tactics for Engaging Difficult Personalities
      7. #7: Counseling the Difficult Player (Terrorist)
      8. #8: Dealing with Procrastination and Burnout
        1. Management Techniques/Tactics for Procrastination
        2. Management Techniques/Tactics for Burnout
        3. Management Techniques/Tactics for Combined Procrastinators and Burnout
      9. #9: Managing Time, Time Wasters, and Paper Information Flow
        1. Management Techniques/Tactics for Managing Time, Time Wasters, and Paper Information Flow
      10. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Nine
      11. Review Questions
      12. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    17. 10. Improving Interactive Communication
      1. Communicate to the Receiver’s Sensations
      2. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson Ten
      3. Review Questions
      4. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    18. 11. Interviewing, Hiring, and Promoting the Right Person
      1. Model One: Winning Player or Ideal All-Star Player Profile
      2. Model Two: Position/Employee Personnel Performance Appraisal Assessment Instrument
      3. Model Three: Rule 80-10-10, Who Are They?
      4. Model Four: Position Competency Task-Traits Index
        1. Position Competency Analysis Grid
      5. Model Five: Player Capability Index
      6. Model Six: Personal Mission/Value Statement
      7. Model Seven: Social Media Analysis
      8. Model Eight: Boss-Peer-Subordinate Perception
      9. Model Nine: Ask for Copies of Past Performance Reviews
      10. Model Ten: Application Analysis
      11. Model Eleven: Job Description/Expectation Document
      12. Facilitating the Interview
      13. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson 11
      14. Application for Position Template
      15. Employment Agreement Template
      16. Review Questions
      17. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    19. 12. Developing a Winning Habit Paradigm
      1. Designing Employee and Team Performance Appraisals
      2. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson 12
      3. Performance and Development Assessment
        1. General Performance
        2. Job Performance and Knowledge
        3. Interpersonal Relationships and Communication
      4. Review Questions
      5. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    20. 13. Powerful Steps to Convert Negativity to Positive Outcomes
      1. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson 13
      2. Review Questions
      3. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    21. 14. Speed-Reading Personalities, Negotiating Win-Win Outcomes, Building Alliances
      1. Before the Negotiation Process
      2. During the Negotiation Process
      3. After the Negotiation Process
      4. Step One—Basic Information Identification
      5. Step Two—Scale of Flexibility
      6. Step Three—Common Ground
      7. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson 14
      8. Review Questions
      9. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    22. 15. Putting Together a Winning Management Game Plan
      1. Job Description/Expectation Profile Document
      2. Creating Reengineering Laboratories
        1. Example: Action Plan
      3. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson 15
      4. Review Questions
      5. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    23. 16. Ensuring Your C-Force and E-Force Personalities Don’t Sell You Out!
      1. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson 16
      2. Review Questions
      3. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    24. 17. Gutless Leadership, the Deadly Sins That Erode Performance
      1. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson 17
      2. Review Questions
      3. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    25. 18. Succession Planning and Exportable Skills
      1. Managerial Leadership Bible Lesson 18
      2. Review Questions
      3. Review Question Answers and Rationales
    26. 19. The Trajectory Code Model
    27. Glossary
    28. Final Examination: The Managerial Leadership Bible Course #2015
      1. Course Expiration Date
      2. Exam
    29. Index

    Product information

    • Title: The Managerial Leadership Bible: Learning the Strategic, Organizational, and Tactical Skills Everyone Needs Today, Second Edition
    • Author(s): Jeffrey Magee
    • Release date: April 2015
    • Publisher(s): Pearson
    • ISBN: 9780134097787