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Wait, I'm the Boss?!?: The Essential Guide for New Managers to Succeed from Day One - Paperback | Diverse Reads

Wait, I'm the Boss?!?: The Essential Guide for New Managers to Succeed from Day One

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Your management mentor in book! This is the go-to guide on making good decisions, helping teams work together, dealing with people problems, and achieving goals when you're newly in charge or looking to brush up on your leadership skills.

Wait, I'm the Boss?!? is chock-full of useful information, tips, and checklists that can be used by anyone who aspires to become a skilled manager. While it’s written with the new manager in mind, it can also serve as a useful refresher for any manager, no matter how experienced he or she may be. With this book in their hands, new managers will always know where they are going—no matter where they are. This much-needed, helpful guide explores the fundamental skills that every new manager needs to understand, practice, and master. These fundamental skills include:

    Building teams and teamwork
  • Creating a fun and effective organizational culture
  • Rewarding and motivating employees
  • Leading organizational change
  • Learning how to hire great employees
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Delegation
  • Communicating effectively
  • Dealing with layoffs and terminations

Whether you’re in your first management position, are an experienced leader, or are hoping for a promotion, Wait, I'm the Boss?!? will be the mentor you need.

ISBN-13: 9781632651648

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Publication Date: 03-01-2020

Pages: 208

Product Dimensions: 5.10(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

Peter Economy is the bestselling author of Managing for Dummies (more than 600,000 copies sold globally) and a top columnist (The Leadership Guy) at INC.COM who averages more than 500,000 page views a month for his more than 1,200 columns published to date. He routinely works with C-level executives, executive coaches, and business consultants worldwide. Visit him online at petereconomy.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part I So, You're Now the Boss

Chapter 1 Managers Do This (Not That) 3

Chapter 2 Time to Set Some Goals 13

Chapter 3 Want to Be Sure Employees Perform? Measure and Communicate 21

Chapter 4 Back to School: Create a Learning Organization 29

Chapter 5 Teamwork Makes the Dream Work 37

Part II Really Key New Boss Skills

Chapter 6 Leadership: Inspiring Those Who Work for and with You 49

Chapter 7 Delegation: Making the Most of Your Leadership 61

Chapter 8 The Vision Thing 69

Chapter 9 Be a Better Coach and Mentor 83

Chapter 10 Motivating Today's Employees 91

Part III Common New Boss Challenges

Chapter 11 Finders Keepers: Recruiting and Retaining the Best Employees 109

Chapter 12 Uh-Oh-Dealing with Employee Problems 117

Chapter 13 When Good People Go Bad: Discipline and Termination 123

Chapter 14 Tearing Down Organizational Roadblocks 133

Chapter 15 Fail Faster (and Win Sooner!) 147

Chapter 16 Leading a Diverse Workforce 155

Chapter 17 Surviving Politics and People 165

Glossary 183

Notes 187