Managing Your Own Career

Business & Money

Francis, Dave

Economics

HarperCollins, Publishers

Making a structured investigation into personal needs, motives and talents, this book helps the reader adopt managerial techniques to progress in building a career and thereby to improve the quality of one's working life. It gives the reader the confidence and the tools to find the right path through the jungle of choices.

Managing Your Own Successful Career (The Successful Manager Series)

<p>This is a book for managers and all those who must solve problems as part of their working lives. It presents a practical, structured approach, which has been developed by the authors to help managers tackle their assignments more efficiently. Each step is described, vivid examples given and practical tools suggested. Exercises at each stage of the book provide useful means of evaluating performance and progress. The approach can be used by managers working alone or on a training programme. It presents up-to-date thinking and argues that managers can learn basic skills in problem solving and project management - essential elements of the manager's craft. The book should be a useful resource to managers undertaking a DMS or MBA programme. The author has dedicated it to more than two thousand managers who have attended his training programmes on Effective Problem Solving.</p>

Effective Problem Solving: A Structured Approach (Self-Development for Managers)

Management & Leadership

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Most work is accomplished through organizations, whether industrial, commercial, public sector or not-for-profit. And within the organizations, this book argues, it is people who hold the key to success, because only people can provide the creative element that drives an enterprise along. The authors set out to help to identify and channel the latent strengths in people to the benefit of both the individual concerned and the organizations for which they work. They describe 14 "blockages" that can prevent an organization from reaching its full potential and explain how to overcome each of them. The techniques in question have been used not only in business but also in social work, police forces, local government - even a convent. Moreover, they have been applied in a score of different countries in all the continents of the world. This is the third edition of a book originally published in the usa. With its companion volume "50 activities for unblocking your organization" it provides advice for managers and professional "change makers" determined to improve the effectiveness of their organization.

Unblocking Your Organization

Woodcock, Mike

Gower Pub.Co.

There is no doubt that working through teams can be an effective way to accomplish tasks in an organization. As Mike Woodcock and Dave Francis point out, though, it is by no means the only one. Managers concerned with human resource strategy cannot afford to assume that teamwork will always be the best option. A number of questions need to be asked before any decision is made.Among these questions are the following: What should be the focus of our organization development interventions? Should we undertake teambuilding initiatives? How extensive should the teambuilding initiative be? What resources will be need to support our teambuilding initiative?This book provides a framework within which these questions may be addressed. It presents a structured approach to analysing the key issues, including a series of questionnaires and activities designed to guide the reader through the key strategic decisions that must be taken by any organization contemplating a teambuilding programme. The authors, two of the best known specialists in the field, examine the benefits and dangers of teambuilding as an organization development strategy and offer detailed guidance on further information and resources.This book, a radically revised version of the authors' Organization Development through Teambuilding, will be of enormous value to HRD and OD practitioners.

Teambuilding Strategy

Business Culture

This guide, a substantially revised version of "The Unblocked Manager", is designed to help managers improve their effectiveness, pinpoints 12 potential "blockages" that stand in the way of managerial competence. Each blockage is explained and ideas and materials for tackling the problem are provided, forming a comprehensive framework for self-directed development.

The New Unblocked Manager: A Practical Guide to Self-Development

Increasingly managers are expected to become "people developers", and more training is ongoing and takes place through projects undertaken at work. This collection of 36 training activities is designed to help senior managers identify "blockages" to performance of individuals, and address them through interactive exercises. The book aims to pinpoint key needs and each activity includes step-by-step instructions on how to prepare and run the exercises, accompanied by photocopiable masters of any handouts or other material needed by participants.

Developing Your People: Easy-To-Use Activities for Improving Management Skills

Team Metrics: Resources for Measuring and Improving Team Performance

Presented in a four-ring binder (with an included CD-ROM), this collection of materials consists of a variety of audits, questionnaires, and surveys for use in training, or in real contexts where intervention is needed. Twenty-seven items cover team and leader skills, and team development, motivation roles, culture, and communication. Authors Woodcock and Francis have worked together for 30 years developing, refining, and teaching techniques to people in organizations, businesses, and government agencies of all scales; they are the authors of numerous books and collections of human resources materials. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Routledge

<p>Argues that a sound ethical system is crucial to the success of any organization, and discusses the four foundations of effective management</p>

Unblocking Organizational Values

Scott, Foresman Co.

Training Objectives Illustrate the need for change Develop a strategy for implementing change Understand the effects of change on the organization Equip managers with the skills they require to ensure a smooth transition Training Methods Case studies Surveys Questionnaires Discussion sessions

25 Training Activities For Creating and Managing Change

Human Resource Development Pr

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