10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager

by Lisa Haneberg

Overview

There’s always room for improvement. It’s tough to be a great manager, but also fascinating, enriching, meaningful, and fun. Organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together to do their best work in the service of company goals—make no mistake, management is a people-driven job. Though the barriers to success are many—you could become a victim of circumstances, confuse the need to manage with the need to control, let management become maintenance, fail to tune up and realign—don’t be discouraged. With over 30 years of experience, author Lisa Haneberg has seen it all and is here to guide you with 10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager. From detailing the foundational importance of knowing your business to understanding pull versus push motivation, managing change, and leaving a legacy, Haneberg illustrates how to establish or realign your management habits, describing in each step an area of action you can develop for a healthy management practice. With pointers, examples, tables, tools, and worksheets, this updated second edition is also aligned with ATD survey-based research on social skills crucial to managerial success—so you are better able to build managerial capabilities. Intended for managers of all experience levels, this book will help you to embrace your challenges and triumph over management barriers. Make your current management challenge the best job you will ever have.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949036206
Publisher:	Association for Talent Development
Publication date:	05/21/2019
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	130
Sales rank:	1,057,337
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lisa Haneberg is an organization development, human resources, leadership and management author, practitioner, and consultant. She has over 30 years of experience providing executive and management development and training and coaching solutions for large and small organizations (including health care, manufacturing, services, nonprofit, and government organizations). She has particular expertise in the areas of senior team development, performance management, executive coaching, talent management, succession planning, organizational agility and alignment, and middle management effectiveness. She is the author of several books, including Coaching Training; Coaching Basics; Developing Great Managers: 20 Power Hours; Double the Love: 11 Secrets for Building Highly Accountable and Engaged Teams; Focus Like a Laser Beam: 10 Ways to Do What Matters Most; Organization Development Basics; and Two Weeks to a Breakthrough: How to Zoom Toward Your Goal in 14 Days or Less.

Table of Contents

IntroductionStep 1: Know Your Business Step 2: Work Well with Others Step 3: Define and Model Excellence Step 4: Hire for Fit and Success Step 5: Use Pull Versus Push MotivationStep 6: Reinforce and Reward the NonnegotiablesStep 7: Bring Out the Best in OthersStep 8: Plan, Measure, and Adjust Step 9: Manage Change and Transition Step 10: Build a Career; Leave a Legacy ConclusionAbout the Author