Soundview Human Resources Vol. 5Bad choices. Endless bickering. Lost opportunities. Wasted time. Does your leadership team suffer from any of these decision-making or communication ills? If so, it's not alone. Many teams trip over common obstacles while making crucial strategic choices. This summary collection offers practical advice, management insights, and useful tools to help you successfully lead your top executives and implement change in your organization.
The Soundview HR/Management Collection, Vol. V gives you the resources you need to be a better leader in your business and community. These summaries cover a wide range of topics essential for every good leader interested in learning more about essential people skills including new executive’s first 90 days, problem resolution, and successfully inspiring employees. Buy the collection and get three for the price of two. Titles are also sold individually.
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Featured HR/Management Summaries in this Collection:
Vol. V – Essential People Skills
The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins: In The First 90 Days, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins presents a road map for taking charge in the first 90 days of a new executive position. The first days in a new position are critical because small differences in actions can have a huge impact on long-term results. This summary will equip executives with strategies and tools to get up to speed faster and achieve more sooner. Watkins shows readers how to diagnose a situation and understand its challenges and opportunities.
Crucial Confrontations by Al Switzler, Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan: Mastering crucial confrontations requires a specific skill set. In Crucial Confrontations, consultant Kerry Patterson and executive coach Joseph Grenny join forces with their fellow researchers and trainers Ron McMillan and Al Switzler to help others develop the skills it takes to resolve the most pressing problems, including quality violations, safety infractions, cost-cutting mistakes, and medical errors. The authors write that their research shows that most organizations are losing between 20 and 80 percent of their potential performance because they have not mastered crucial confrontations.
First Among Equals by David H. Maister, Patrick J. McKenna: Managing people is difficult, particularly when you are tasked with leading a group of confident, intelligent professionals — often used to working with a certain amount of autonomy — to accomplish some task or essential goal. Group leaders must be skilled not only in management basics (delegation, decision-making, running meetings, and so forth), but also in the “softer” skills of inspirational leadership practices.Crammed with concrete advice and practical applications and examples, First Among Equals, written by two leading experts in the field of managing professionals, will help you inspire, cajole and provoke your people to reaching their full capabilities and promise.
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