The high-value manager : developing the core competencies your organization demands

Book

The high-value manager : developing the core competencies your organization demands / Florence M. Stone & Randi T. Sachs.

Stone, Florence M. (Author). Sachs, Randi Toler. (Added Author).

Summary:

"The High-Value Manager gives you the broad knowledge base that will help you safeguard your job and advance your career, especially in tough times. It outlines 80 core competencies typically required for managerial success - the benchmarks that executives use most often when deciding whom to hire, promote, or fire. And it helps you determine which competencies are most important in your organization." "To help you squeeze every drop of practical guidance from this book, the authors provide a self-evaluation questionnaire that pinpoints your managerial strengths and weaknesses. It's the private, objective way to identify where improvement is needed. You'll also find a complementary series of "managerial capability" questions that can be used to gain insights from your boss, employees, peers, and customers." "This guide will prepare you to focus on 4 key management competency areas: leadership, continuous improvement, team management, and life and career planning. Specifically, The High-Value Manager will help you acquire or enhance such skills as communicating a clear vision, creating a learning environment, facilitating and coaching teams, playing politics the positive way, getting people to talk about problems, listening effectively, steering conflicts away from personalities and toward issues, focusing on customers, cultivating a power base, and increasing your visibility." "Part management workbook and part career guide, The High-Value Manager will enable you to make the crucial transition from adequacy to excellence. Like a fitness class, it is designed for active involvement. Under each core competency, you'll find clear descriptions of the managerial concept(s) involved, guidelines for mastering the skill under discussion, on-the-job examples and scenarios you can relate to, and quizzes or other self-help tools to help you grow."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 0814402984
ISBN: 9780814402986
ISBN: 0814479081
ISBN: 9780814479087
Physical Description: iv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : AMACOM, ©1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Succeeding in today's leaner organizations. Are you a high-value manager? : a self-inventory test ; How do you rate? -- Strategic leadership. From managing to empowering ; Providing a learning environment ; Making the corporate vision and values a reality ; Staying current and flexible -- A commitment to continuous improvement. Practicing preventive management ; Focus on customer service and quality improvement -- Managing the white spaces -- Teams and team management. Team facilitation ; Conflicts within and outside the team ; How to coach/how to counsel in team settings ; How to get what your team needs ; Maintaining team momentum as you reach your goal -- Life skills. "It's already afternoon!" ; Networking and political know-how ; Looking beyond today's job.
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