Management Skills for New Managers

by Carol W. Ellis

Book Overview

"Just because you've been promoted to manager doesn't mean you've got all the skills and information you need to excel. Management Skills for New Managers is an accessible, friendly introduction to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814408303
• ISBN13: 9780814408308
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Basic Information, Simple Workbook Presentation

This little book is designed to help new managers better understand the role their new role. A written version of an American Management Association seminar, this publication is essentially a combination of some instructional text and a workbook. The pages are filled with fill-in blanks, check-off boxes, and similar exercises found in a seminar workbook. This concise work meets its objectives of providing a self-learning tool addressing the fundamentals of management. Readers seeking something more sophisticated than a seminar workbook should look elsewhere. The book is organized into eight chapters, seven presenting content and a wrap-up summary. Topics of the instructional chapters are Defining Your Role, Effective Communication, Performance Management, the Four Phases of Learning, Motivation, Delegation, and Coaching. Action-step exercises are provided at the end of each chapter to help the reader focus new knowledge on personal performance. The eighth chapter offers another form to re-cast what was written at the end of the chapters to create a big picture of forward movement. For people looking for a simplified, yet wide-ranging and current, introduction to the basics of front-line management, this book fills a need. The workbook format means that the engaged reader will write answers to a lot of questions and exercises while moving through the pages, rather than simply reading text to grasp the new concepts.