Identifying sixteen personality types and fifteen workplace motivators that define a manager's style, an introspective approach shows managers how to overcome weaknesses and become more assertive, sensitive, communicative, and generally more effective.

Changing Your Management Style: How to Evaluate and Improve Your Own Performance

Business & Money

Benfari, Robert C.

Business Culture

Jossey-Bass

An excellent tool for evaluating management potential, and assessing your own approach. Author Robert Benfari presents four factors that determine management style, explains how to analyze each, and how to apply them when evaluating your abilities or those of managerial candidates.

Understanding Your Management Style: Beyond the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator

Management & Leadership

Are the best managers born that way, while the rest of us must struggle with the role and its responsibilities? According to Robert Benfari, our ability to manage effectively is based on a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed, understood and, most importantly, changed. In this book, he identifies six ingredients of successful management and uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to show readers how they can devise personality-specific strategies for improving their ability to resolve conflict, solve problems, manage stress, positively influence others, and handle difficult situations at work.

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style (Jossey-Bass Business/Management Series)

An update of the classic book that reveals the 6 keys to successful management In this new edition of his best-selling book, Robert Benfari explains that the best mangers are not born that way but share a mix of characteristics that can be analyzed, understood, and most importantly changed. He identifies the six characteristics of successful managers (Psychological Type; Needs/Motivation; Use of Power; Conflict Style; Our Basic Values; and Our Reaction to Stress) and uses these building blocks to show how anyone can use personality-specific strategies for resolving conflicts, solving problems, managing stress, handling difficult situations at work, and positively influencing others. <ul>
<li>Includes a proven pathway for becoming an effective manager</li> <li>Contains new information on management style and leadership, human nature and neuroscience, and the dark side of management</li> <li>Includes a self-assessment for each of the six building blocks to successful management</li> </ul>
This research-based book offers the tools leaders need to improve their management style and succeed in the workplace.

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style: Assessments and Tools for Self-Development

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Books by Benfari, Robert C.

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Benfari, Robert C.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Changing Your Management Style: How to Evaluate and Improve Your Own Performance

Understanding Your Management Style: Beyond the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style (Jossey-Bass Business/Management Series)

Understanding and Changing Your Management Style: Assessments and Tools for Self-Development