The 27 challenges managers face : step-by-step solutions to (nearly) all of your management problems

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Machine generated contents note: Note on How to Use This Book Chapter 1 The Fundamentals Are All You Need Chapter 2 The Challenges Of Being The "New" Manager Management Challenge #1: When Going From Peer To Leader. Management Challenge #2: When Coming From The Outside To Take Over Leadership Of An Existing Team Management Challenge #3: When Bringing Together An Entirely New Team Management Challenge #4: When You Are Welcoming A New Member To Your Existing Team. Chapter 3 The Challenges Of Teaching Self-Management Management Challenge #5: When Employees Have A Hard Time Managing Time Management Challenge #6: When The Employee Needs Help With Interpersonal Communication Management Challenge #7: When The Employee Needs To Get Organized Management Challenge #8: When The Employee Needs To Get Better At Problem-Solving Chapter 4 The Challenges Of Managing Performance Management Challenge #9: When You Have An Employee Who Needs To Increase Productivity Management Challenge #10: When You Have An Employee Who Needs To Improve Quality Management Challenge #11: When You Need An Employee To Start Going "The Extra Mile" Management Challenge #12: When Your Employees Are Doing "Creative" Work? Management Challenge #13: When The Employee You Are Managing Knows More About The Work Than You Do? Chapter 5 The Challenges Of Managing Attitudes Management Challenge #14: When An Employee Needs An Attitude Adjustment Management Challenge #15: When There Is Conflict Between And Among Individuals On Your Team Management Challenge #16: When An Employee Who Has Personal Issues At Home Chapter 6 The Challenges Of Managing Superstars Management Challenge # 17: When There Is A Superstar You Need To Keep Engaged. Management Challenge #18: When You Have A Superstar You Really Want To Retain Management Challenge #19: When You Have A Superstar You Are Going To Lose For Sure. How To Lose That Superstar Very Well.. Management Challenge #20: When You Need To Move A Superstar To The Next Level To Develop As A New Leader Chapter 7 The Challenges Of Managing Around Forces Outside Your Control Management Challenge #21: When Managing In An Environment Of Constant Change And Uncertainty Management Challenge #22: When Managing Under Resource Constraints Management Challenge #23: When Managing Through Interdependency Management Challenge # 24: When Managing Around Logistical Hurdles. Management Challenge #25: When Managing Across Different Languages And Cultures Chapter 8 The Challenges Of Management Renewal Management Challenge #26: When You Need To Renew Your Management Relationship With A Disengaged Employee Management Challenge #27: When You Need To Renew Your Own Commitment To Being A Strong, Highly-Engaged Manager Acknowledgments About the Author Index.

The 27 Challenges Managers Face: Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems; Copyright; Contents; A Note on How to Use This Book; Chapter One: The Fundamentals Are All You Need; The Undermanagement Epidemic: Revisited; Why Managing People Is Hard; How Most Managers Spend Most of Their Management Time; #1. Attending Too Many Mediocre Group Meetings; #2. Wading Through a Never-Ending Tidal Wave of Email; #3. Touching Base, Checking In, and Shooting the Breeze; #4. Interrupting and Being Interrupted; Formal Reviews Are Not Enough

The Inevitable Challenges Every Manager Must Face with Surprising RegularityHow to Make Those Routine Conversations Much, Much Better: High Structure, High Substance; What Is High Structure?; What Is High Substance?; The People List; There's No Such Thing as Advanced Management; Chapter Two: The Challenges of Being the "New" Manager; Start Strong!; What About When Some of Your New Direct Reports Are Actually Your Friends?; Coming on Too Strong; Defining Roles and Responsibilities; Chapter Three: The Challenges of Teaching Self-Management; Teaching Good Self-Management Is a Leadership Coup

What About Employees Who Sneak Out Early?What About Employees Who Take Too Many Breaks and Waste Time at Work?; What About Employees Who Miss Deadlines?; When Employees talk Too Much at All the Wrong Times; When Employees Interrupt Each Other (and You); When Employees Need Guidance in Handling Electronic Communication; When Employees Need to Be Taught How to Make the Most of Meetings; What About More Advanced Problem Solving?; How Do You Help an Employee Develop "Good Judgment"?; Chapter Four: The Challenges of Managing Performance; Performance Management 101

How Can You Hold Employees Accountable Without Rewards and Consequences?Chapter Five: The Challenges of Managing Attitudes; Feelings Are on the Inside Attitude Is What You Do on the Outside; Attitude Is Expressed in Communication Practices; Yes, You Can Require Great Attitudes at Work; There Are No Bad Employees. Only Bad Behavior; The Six Attitudes Most Commonly in Need of Adjustment; Porcupines; Entanglers; Debaters; Complainers and Blamers; Stink-Bomb Throwers; Chapter Six: The Challenges of Managing Superstars; Chapter Seven: The Challenges of Managing Despite Forces Outside Your Control

The "Other Boss"/"Multiple Bosses" Problem"Waiting for Mr. Delay"; Chapter Eight: The Challenges of Management Renewal; Seven Ways to Prepare Before You Reboot Your Management Style; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index; End User License Agreement

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