Essential Managers Flexible Working


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Discover how to adapt your management style and get the best out of your team - even if they aren’t in the same room! More people are working from home than ever before. This practical guide gives you all the skills you need to succeed as a flexible worker, and as a manager running projects and teams remotely. Whether you’re new to flexible working or simply looking to sharpen your skills, this is the go-to guide for you. It includes: • A practical, “how-to” approach that offers readers everything they need to run a project and manage a team remotely • Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and “Ask yourself” features • Tables, illustrations, “in-focus” panels, and real-life case studies that demonstrate and explain problem-solving and how to build confidence Learn how to make remote-working work for you and your team Slim, portable, and accessible, Essential Managers Flexible Working takes a no-nonsense approach to remote-working. It shows you how to effectively manage others from a distance by defining expectations, understanding the unique challenges of working from home, and setting up new routines, structures, and processes. Packed with clear, expert advice and useful WFH tips for staying focused and motivated, this business book will help you communicate and work effectively from any location or time zone. Discover how to keep your projects on track and achieve the very best results. It’s the perfect gift for managers at all levels or anyone still adjusting to remote or flexible working. Other titles in the Essential Managers Series DK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style. Find out how to improve your leadership skills with Essential Managers: Leadership. Brush up on or enhance your project management skills with Essential Managers: Project Management.




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.




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.




DK Essential Managers: Interviewing People


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Learn how to find the right person for the job every time with this practical guide that gives you the skills to succeed. Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "Ask Yourself" features show you how to screen candidates, plan questions, and listen effectively to answers. Tables, illustrations, "In Focus" panels, and real-life case studies help you learn to control an interview, analyze candidates' performance, and reach a decision. The text is authored by DeeDee Doke, the editor and writer of Recruiter magazine. The DK Essential Managers series covers a range of business and management topics and has sold more than two million copies worldwide. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and graphics.




The Essential Manager


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This book discusses the evolution of management as a profession over the past two decades and how it continues to evolve. It goes on to describe the new style of management and makes recommendations for what today’s and tomorrow’s managers must know and how to work. Offers ways to think about your role as a manager in order to optimize your effectiveness toward uncertain and turbulent changes Discusses current realities in which management currently operates Provides a historical background of managerial practices and how they’ve evolved in the present workplace




DK Essential Managers: Balancing Work and Life


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This practical guide will help you manage your career and your personal life to achieve both success and happiness. It balances detail and accessibility to make for a read that is concise as well as comprehensive. Written by Robert Holden, a psychologist and stress expert, and Ben Renshaw, a leadership coach and therapist. They are co-directors of The Happiness Project, and each have authored several books, including Holden's Be Happy and Crenshaw's Lead. Part of the 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.




Flying Without a Helicopter


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In Flying Without a Helicopter, Joanie Connell details unique challenges faced by young adults and their leaders in the workplace, offering action plans readers can apply to their real work situation as they move toward solution. This book was written for youwhether you are a manager, a young adult new to the business world, or a parent of that young adult. Thanks, Joanie, for zooming in on this timely topic! Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Great Leaders Grow The problems Joanie Connell describes are real. Employees are enteringand leavingthe workplace without the levels of resilience and independence they need to succeed. I recommend Flying without a Helicopter to people who want to develop the life skills needed to succeed in the corporate world (and their parents) and to leaders who want their companies to succeed. Daniel Bradbury, CEO coach, investor, life science consultant, and former CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Managing across generations now is remarkably difficult, as each one approaches timelines, deadlines, conflict, and recognition in different ways. To understand these differences and leverage the creativity within, you could do no better than to read Connells Flying without a Helicopter! A wise read for leaders as well as employees, job seekers, and even parents! Marshall Goldsmith author of the New York Times and global bestseller What Got You Here Wont Get You There




Essential Management Skills for Pharmacy and Business Managers


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As a manager you will be expected to resolve a range of legal, ethical, operational, human resource, and financial issues that affect your organization. Essential Management Skills for Pharmacy and Business Managers supplies the understanding you will need to manage the day-to-day challenges in this increasingly competitive environment. Presenting a wealth of information on how to resolve common issues across all sectors of the pharmacy environment, it uses case studies to illustrate the methods required to create a patient-focused business where teamwork flourishes and continuous improvement becomes a reality. The book describes the kinds of things that will most often go wrong in organizations of all types and sizes and provides proven methods for resolving these issues. It explains how to develop and implement an effective quality management system in the pharmacy or a retail operation that complies with external standards. Outlining an efficient performance appraisal system, it describes how to manage diversity and details time-tested problem solving, conflict management, and stress management techniques. With coverage that includes employee management, quality management, and quality assurance, the book describes how to create a harmonious work environment that promotes effective communication between pharmacy staff, medical professionals, care givers, patients, and customers. Complete with links to further information in each chapter, it arms you with the tools to empower and motivate your employees to provide world-class patient and customer care.




DK Essential Managers: Building a Team


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Together with B&N, DK combines the successful Interviewing People, Motivating People, and Managing People into the latest Essential Managers title - a bind-up of these 3 titles geared to help supervisors get the most from their employees, manage effectively, and create a positive working environment for any professional team of colleagues. Interviewing People The first section helps you develop the skills you need to evaluate potential employees and select the right candidate. Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "Ask yourself" features show you how to screen candidates, plan questions, and listen effectively to answers. Tables, illustrations, "In focus" panels, and real-life case studies help you control an interview, analyze candidates' performance, and reach a decision. Motivating People This section explains how to improve your effectiveness by building teams, motivating your staff, and enabling them to flourish. Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "Ask yourself" features show you how to promote good practice, create a high-performance culture, and reward success. Tables, illustrations, "In focus" panels, and real-life case studies explain how to create the right environment, encourage teamwork, and deal with demotivated staff. Managing People Part three of this informative and inspiring package helps you to build confidence, communicate clearly, and establish trust. Step-by-step instructions, tips, checklists, and "Ask yourself" features give you the tools to motivate staff, create positive relationships, and improve performance. Tables, illustrations, "In focus" panels, and real-life case studies teach you how to evaluate progress, develop your team, and manage change.




Flexible Work


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Flexible Work: Designing Our Healthier Future Lives examines flexible working through the lens of social science, in particular using psychological perspective to address not only what forms of flexible working there are and how they are evolving but also their prospect in the future of work. Bringing together views from thought-leaders and underpinned by research evidence, this book addresses two of the most fundamental business challenges for large and medium organisations – mental health and productivity – calling for the bridging of science and policy to design flexible working for our future healthier lives. Growing from these foundations, this book explains the latest landscape in flexible working, looking at employee psychological health and productivity, including showing up for work sick. Perspectives are provided from around the world on leadership, line management, ‘over attachment’ with technology, commuting, skill-based inequality and control over working time. Readers are offered insights into the relevance of flexible working for a diverse workforce – invisible disabilities, disabilities, older workers and blended families. Throughout, the book offers suggestions for shaping future policy, practice and research. Each chapter concludes with recommendations, making this essential reading for students, academics, human resource practitioners, policy-influencers, policymakers and professionals interested in flexible work.