How to be an Even Better Manager: A Complete A-Z of Proven Techniques and Essential Skills - Softcover

Armstrong, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749480270 ISBN 13: 9780749480271

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2017

Synopsis

<p>If you are a current manager, or aspiring to a management position, this is your invaluable guide to the skills and techniques you need to succeed. <b>Michael Armstrong</b>'s best-selling handbook provides in-depth coverage and practical guidance on improving the three crucial areas of management:<br><br>- Managing people<br>- Managing activities and processes<br>- Managing and developing yourself<br><br>From engaging your team, managing conflict and raising your confidence levels, to improving your financial management and business plans, you will be guided across all the key areas of management with constant applicability to real life situations. <i><b>How to be an Even Better Manager</b> </i>provides sound guidelines that will help you to boost your management ability, supercharge your team's performance and achieve process excellence. With an emphasis on trouble-shooting and problem solving, this is a resource you will be able to turn to again and again for support and advice. <br><br><i><b>How to be an Even Better Manager</b> </i>has sold over 170,000 copies worldwide and been translated into 17 languages. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include all the most pressing skills needed by modern managers. It also includes brand new chapters on handling difficult conversations, promoting a learning culture, handling discipline and under performance issues, leading teams successfully and treating people right.</p>

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About the Author

<p><b>Michael Armstrong</b> is the UK's bestselling author of Human Resource Management books including <b><i>Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice</i></b>, <b><i>Armstrong's Handbook of Strategic Human Resource Management</i>, </b><i><b>Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice</b> </i>and <b><i>Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management </i></b>and several other titles published by Kogan Page. His books have sold over a million copies and have been translated into twenty-one languages. <br><br><b>Michael Armstrong</b> is a Companion and former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the co-founder and a managing partner of E-Reward, one of the UK's first websites dedicated solely to reward management. Prior to this he was an HR director of a publishing company and an independent management consultant. He is based in London, UK.</p>

From the Back Cover

Discover 67 essential topics to help you build your management skills and tackle your business challenges, in the 10th edition of Michael Armstrong's best-selling practical handbook for managers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749480270
• ISBN 13: 9780749480271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336