Free eBook: Management and Leadership Questions and Answers [Kindle Edition]

Who Is This Book For?

Many folks become leads or managers by chance. Someone assigns them the management of a group, team, product, project, or program because of their area of expertise while not taking into account they have never had any management education or training. And without the specific skills and techniques necessary to clarify objectives, avoid serious errors of omission, and eliminate costly mistakes, the whole enterprise can quickly become a recipe for disaster. But for those without the formal background who want to become acquainted with the discipline of management and leadership, help has indeed arrived.
You would have probably realized that managing or leading is not as easy as telling other people what to do, then sit back to watch things get done. You need to be able to:
1. hire, motivate and retain great people
2. communicate clearly with them
3. train, mentor and coach them often with limited resources and time
4. evaluate their performance and take necessary steps to improve it
5. manage office politics
6. juggle a full load of your own responsibilities at the same time
Your ability to lead and get work done by others can always be improved. Even the most confident, experienced leaders are facing challenges they could not have imagined a few years ago. Without new skills to meet those challenges, it is next to impossible to get ahead or sustain business success. But, this book covers every challenge you are likely to face on releasing the individual and collective performance potential of your employees. The questions here reflect the information you need to be the best that you can be in your position. Fundamentals on delegation, influencing, job descriptions, scope of responsibility and authority, performance reviews, and giving directions, plus many others are described in an easy to understand format.
This book is concise and to the point. You should be able to absorb all the information in one informative weekend that will open your eyes to positive ways to manage the people in your professional life. Each section is direct and packed with relevant and practical knowledge every manager, experienced or novice should read for review or to commit to memory before heading back to the office. No fluff or difficult to interpret flow charts and graphs. All solid realistic information that makes this a must read. It can be assigned reading and study in any management or leadership development program.

How This Book Is Organized?

Arranged by topic, this book makes it easy for you to locate the information you need quickly. Each section starts with an overview of a given topic. If you think of it, effective and efficient management is not just one skill but a collection of skills, each section representing one of the skill areas. Together, they form a framework for management success.
Key Topics Covered in about 650 Questions and Answers:
1. Management and Leadership
2. Vision, Mission and Values
3. Roadmap
4. Effective Communication
5. Meetings Management
6. Empowerment
7. Effective Delegation
8. Conflict Management
9. Influencing People
10. Negotiation
11. Emotional Intelligence
12. Team Building
13. Change Management
14. Recruitment, Hiring, Orientation, and Retention
15. Coaching, Counseling and Mentoring
16. Motivation
17. Managing Up and Across
18. Managing Managers
19. Office Politics
20. Performance Management
21. Discipline and Termination
22. Stress Management
23. Management Templates