Supercharge Your Management Role: Making the Transition to Internal Consultant - Softcover

Thomas, Mark; Elbeik, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750625465 ISBN 13: 9780750625463

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Supercharge your Management Role will help you excel as an internal consultant. Using a lively, 'how to' approach, the authors take the manager step-by-step through the management of successful supplier-client relationships in internal projects and initiatives.

*Deliver greater value-added business contributions *Develop stronger and more productive working relationships with internal clients *Secure greater internal client commitment to initiatives and change projects *Work effectively in a less formal and hierarchical way on projects and initiatives *Market your services and build powerful internal networks *Enhance your own worth and value to the organization * Get things done right, fast and first!

Re-engineering, downsizing and empowerment are strategies intended to create more innovative ways of doing business by delegating power and authority to the people closest to the customers.

The effect of this is to reduce the core of the organization by outsourcing many of the traditional support functions such as IT, finance, human resources, internal audit, quality and training. Managers in these departments are finding themselves under pressure increasingly to deliver more value-added services and improve their business contribution. Already many are having to compete with external suppliers and consultants.

If this describes your management role then this book is for you!

Takes the manager step-by-step through the management of successful supplier-client relationships
Shows you how to market your services and build powerful internal networks
Shows you how to enhance your worth and value to the organization

About this title

Review

'...a readable introduction to working as a consultant, with chapters on
meeting clients, understanding their needs, planning action, reviewing
projects and writing and reviewing reports.'
Computer Weekly
'This is a rare book because not only is it a good read, it is a useful
reference for dipping into later.'
Computing, September 1996

Synopsis

Using a "How to" approach, this book takes the manager step-by-step through the management of successful supplier-client relationships in internal projects and initiatives, providing advice on how to deliver more services within your business, and compete with external suppliers and consultants. The need for internal consultants has arisen from the continued downsizing and empowerment within organizations, resulting in power being given to those closest to the customers, thus shrinking the core of the organization. This book aims to help the reader excel as an internal consultant by delivering greater value-added business contributions, developing stronger and more productive working relationships with internal clients, securing greater internal client commitment to initiatives and projects, working effectively in a less formal and hierarchical way on projects and initiatives, marketing your own services and powerful internal networks, and enhancing your own worth and value to the organization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0750625465
• ISBN 13: 9780750625463
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224