The Essential Manager's Handbook


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Are you looking to take the next step in your career? Can you manage yourself with ease, but need more confidence when managing others? Achieving excellence as a manager requires a broad skillset, and The Essential Manager’s Handbook provides easy-to-follow and engaging advice on the 6 key areas. Nurture your confidence with managing people, leadership, achieving high performance, effective communication, presenting, and negotiating. With key quotes, bright visuals, and breakdowns by subject, this book is accessible and easy-to-use. Interactive tips and checklists will encourage you to note down your thoughts, examining past and present workplace experiences that you can learn from. Expert insights from management professionals and step-by-step instructions will help you understand how to deal with challenges and gain valuable management skills for life. This accessible and clear guide is packed with practical, no-nonsense information covering everything you need to know about acquiring and developing management skills. Pick up The Essential Manager’s Handbook for quick reference when you’re in need of guidance or work through each section at your own pace to become the best manager you can be. Series Overview: DK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style, covering a range of essential topics, from managing, coaching, and mentoring teams and individuals to time management, communication, leadership, and strategic thinking. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and infographics.




Essential Manager's Manual


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Improve your management skills and take control of your career with the new edition of this bestselling one-stop-shop for every manager. Pick up tips and advice on 12 core management skills- from communicating and motivating to conducting a company presentation. Explore all your options and put them into action with the aid of charts and diagrams. Plus, discover how to handle work issues whatever your level, with over 1,200 essential power tips. Follow as a complete management course or dip in and out of topics for quick and easy reference. Take it wherever life takes you!




Managing Your Career


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DK's best-selling Essential Managers series are ideal for managers at every level. These compact references demonstrate the techniques and skills that are useful in any work environment, making this series the most accessible single-subject business guides on the market.




Managing People


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The practical guide that gives you the tools to succeed when managing people. This title in DK's Essential Managers series contains all you need to manage people effectively and to develop or hone your management style. Find out how to improve your skills by learning how to motivate staff, improve performance, and create positive relationships. You'll learn to build confidence, communicate clearly, and establish trust for navigating situations such as giving feedback, settling conflicts, and managing teams remotely. In a slim, portable format, Essential Managers gives you a practical "how-to" approach with step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "ask yourself" features showing you how to focus your energy, manage change, and make an impact. Whether you're new to people management or looking to enhance your existing skills, this is the guide for you.




DK Essential Managers: Managing People


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Whether you're eager to learn how to manage people or are an experienced professional aspiring to enhance your effectiveness as a manager, this practical guide is the ideal companion. DK Essential Managers: Managing People starts by helping you understand yourself and making you self-aware - an invaluable predecessor to managing others and getting the best from them. Find out how to improve your people management skills by learning how to motivate staff, improve performance, and create positive relationships. You'll learn to build confidence, communicate clearly, and establish trust. Statistics, brief case studies, and colorful graphics and charts help you navigate the path towards successfully managing people, whether for a small retailer or a Fortune 500 company. This indispensable volume is part of DK's Essential Managers series that offers the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style. In a slim, portable format, DK Essential Managers: Managing People gives you a practical "how-to" approach with step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "ask yourself" features that show you how to focus your energy, manage change, and make an impact. About DK Essential Managers: The DK Essential Managers series covers a range of business and management topics and have sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and graphics. The handy pocket format slips easily into a briefcase or portfolio.




Project Management


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Discover the ultimate practical guide to effective project management. Packed with clear, expert advice, bold graphics and bite-sized text, this beginner’s guide to modern project management gives you the tools you need to manage a team in different locations/time zones. Inside the pages of this project management book, you’ll find: • Practical, “how-to” approach that teaches you the skills you need to run a project successfully. • New spreads with tools for project managing teams who are working remotely. • Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists and “Ask yourself” features that show you how to make an impact. • Tables, illustrations, “in-focus” panels and real-life case studies that demonstrate and explain problem-solving, and how to build confidence and get results. Learn how to improve your project management skills by defining a project brief, analyzing stakeholders and building a strong team. You'll also discover useful tips for initiating projects, delegating effectively and achieving your goals on budget and on time — every time. Essential Managers Project Management shows you how to focus your energy, manage change in the workplace and make an impact, even in a time when remote — and flexible — working plays a key role in business and management. It’s the perfect book for managers of all levels. Whether it’s negotiating, managing people or improving your leadership skills, DK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style.




DK Essential Managers: Manage Your Time


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The most finite resource any manager has is time. This handbook teaches readers how to save and preserve their time by first understanding its limitations, and then showing them how to guard it. Practical guidance includes ways of limiting interaction with subordinates (e.g. "Don't sit down if you are followed into your office" and "Place your chair out of view if your door is open"), the benefits of keeping a time log, and how to spot (and avoid) a time-wasting trap. The book also takes full advantage of modern technology by explaining how to maximize e-mail, voicemail, and other tools available to save precious time. The book is clear, concise and efficient, ensuring that none of the time you spend reading it is wasted. DK Essential Managers: Manage Your Time is part of the bestselling DK Essential Managers series. Packed with essential tips for today's competitive business world, these efficient guidebooks are ideal for anyone interested in improving their business skills. Concise treatment of dozens of techniques, skills, and methods make Essential Managers the most accessible guide to business available.




DK Essential Managers: Managing Your Career


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If you don’t control your career, your career controls you. The ability to maintain a dynamic career path and develop a portfolio of skills and achievements is a must for managers. Managing Your Career shows you how to build on past experience and maximize opportunities to achieve success and fulfillment in your working life. From reviewing your current situation to exploring career options, monitoring development, and handling crises and change, all the key aspects of effective career planning are covered. With 101 practical tips scattered throughout, and self-assessment exercises that enable you to evaluate how well you have managed your career to date, this is an invaluable pocket reference for every ambitious manager. DK's bestselling Essential Managers books are ideal for managers at every level. These concise references demonstrate the techniques and skills that are useful in any work environment, making this series the most accessible single-subject business guides on the market.




How Management Works


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Discover everything you need to know to improve your management skills, and understand key management and business theories with this unique graphic guide. Combining clear, jargon-free language and bold, eye-catching graphics, How Management Works is a definitive and user-friendly guide to all aspects of organizational management. Learn whether it is more e­ffective to lead through influence or control? Is delegation the key to productivity and how do you deal with di­fferent personalities? Drawing on the latest theories and practices - and packed with graphics and diagrams that demystify complex management concepts - this book explains everything you need to know to build your management skills and get the very best out of your team. It is essential reading if you are an established or aspiring manager, or are studying a course in business or management. Much more than a standard business-management or self-help book, How Management Works shows you what other titles only tell you, combining solid reference with no-nonsense advice. It is the perfect primer for anyone looking to start their own business, become a more effective leader, or simply learn more about the world of business and management.




DK Essential Managers: Presenting


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An update of one of the key Essential Managers titles, Presenting gives you the tricks of the trade to make presentations with confidence. Part of the best-selling Essential Managers series, this book will carry the same livery on the jacket, but will have new text and a completelymodern, updated design.