Download or read book Coaching Essentials for Managers The Tools You Need to Ignite Greatness in Each Employee written by Sara Canaday and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the ultimate guide to retaining and engaging your employees. Readers will walk away feeling fully prepared to coach and inspire their employees to do their best and most engaged work." —Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers Discover how developing your coaching skills can help unleash your leadership superpower Helping employees hit their goals and feel engaged at work has always been a rewarding part of a manager's job. But in today's hybrid world, helping your team overcome challenges and feel fully seen, heard, and appreciated is more than simply a "nice to have" skill. Developing a robust, modern approach to coaching can help unlock your leadership "superpower." In Coaching Essentials for Managers, leadership development expert Sara Canaday presents a solid business case for sharpening these skills by explaining the tangible, proven benefits for employees, managers, and their organizations, and reveals that coaching—like many other management skills—is one you can hone and perfect with the right information and tools. Whether you're just starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices, you'll find what you need here, in three easy-to-digest parts: Part I: The Essentials includes coaching fundamentals, frameworks, attributes of a great coach, a knowledge check and coaching self-assessment Part II: The Essentials Applied covers real-world challenges in performance coaching and developmental coaching, common obstacles coaches face, and how to coach in the virtual environment Part III: Beyond the Essentials explores effective questions, powerful phrases, coaching "do's and don'ts" and helpful tools and resources PLUS: A Coaching Framework Guide, Coaching Preparation Worksheet, and Coaching Development Plan Filled with self-assessments, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises to help reinforce what you've learned, Coaching Essentials for Managers will help you walk away feeling fully prepared to coach your employees to do their best, most engaged work—a leadership "superpower" that now, more than ever, is needed in today's rapidly evolving workplace.

Download or read book Finance Essentials for Managers The Tools You Need to Succeed as a Nonfinancial Professional written by Chris Haroun and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Must-know financial concepts you need to know to succeed in today's world of work—from the new Essentials series for business professionals From reading an income statement to analyzing valuation methodologies, understanding the basics of finance is an essential part of your professional knowledge tool kit—even if it's not your primary role in the company. Finance Essentials for Managers delivers the key concepts you need to know, so you can master the topics required for moving to the next step in your career. Best of all, no prior accounting or finance experience is required. Based on author Chris Haroun’s hard-earned experience on Wall Street, at Goldman Sachs, in the venture capital industry, and serving at some of the world’s leading hedge funds, this practical guide is organized into three thematic sections: Part 1: The Essentials delivers a solid overview of accounting, financial ratios, forecasting financial statements, valuing companies, investment research, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, options and more. Part 2: The Essentials Applied highlights which areas of finance you need to focus on and provides exercises for creating and forecasting financial statements, using investment research and more. Part 3: Beyond the Essentials illustrates five different case studies on specific finance topics, including investments in Meta (formerly Facebook) and other pre- and post-IPO investments that Haroun has participated in. Finance Essentials for Managers also provides access to the authors downloadable comprehensive 100-step investment research template that he designed in Microsoft to analyze the financials, fundamentals, valuation and much more on any company. Filled with practical advice, useful tools, assessments, and more, Finance Essentials for Managers ensures that you will walk away feeling fully prepared to put your sharpened skills into action right away―even if you've never received formal training in finance before.

Download or read book A Manager s Guide to Coaching written by Anne Loehr and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To stay on top, companies need to do more than just tread water—they need to grow. And that means that their employees need to develop and improve their skills at the same pace. More than ever, managers are being encouraged to improve employee performance through effective coaching, but so few of them have the time—or the knowledge—it takes to do it successfully. Brian Emerson and Ann Loehr have spent years showing some of the country’s top companies how to develop their most promising employees. Now in this helpful manual they guide managers through every step of the coaching process, from problem solving to developing accountability. Readers will discover:the top 10 tips every manager should know before he starts to coach • how to handle difficult conversations, conflicting priorities, and problem team members • how to hold follow-up meetings after goals and priorities have been set • sample questions they can adapt to various situations • examples of common problems and how they can use coaching to address them.Clear, practical and straightforward, this is an invaluable tool that will help all leaders coach employees, colleagues, and themselves to excellence.

Download or read book Negotiation Essentials The Tools You Need to Find Common Ground and Walk Away a Winner written by Keld Jensen and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actionable, easy-to-understand negotiating strategies you can use to dramatically improve your business, career, and personal life Negotiations can be a perplexing and often-intimidating endeavor. Are there aspects about the process that are hiding beneath the surface, unknown to even experienced negotiators? Or insider tools that would change your game considerably? The answer is yes—and they’re all revealed in this practical guide from a world-renowned negotiation expert. Negotiation Essentials demystifies this all-important subject, helping you break the process down into easily digestible parts. It covers the most important negotiating concepts, including the critical differences among great, good, and bad negotiators; choosing when, where, and how to negotiate; the art of saying no; understanding body language; how emotions, stress, and personal chemistry affect decision making; and behavioral patterns of the most successful negotiators. Negotiation Essentials is organized into three thematic sections: PART I: THE ESSENTIALS explains how to identify a negotiation, how to know who is winning, the important role preparation plays, creating a winning negotiating strategy, and more. PART II: THE ESSENTIALS APPLIED starts with an assessment to see which areas of negotiation you need to focus on, then teaches the 10 phrases in a successful negotiation, 5 different negotiation styles and how to use them, and so much more. PART III: BEYOND THE ESSENTIALS, dives into negotiating across cultures, the roles that emotions, stress, personal chemistry, and trust play in negotiations, the difference between face-to-face and online negotiations, and secrets of the award-winning Negotiation Economics philosophy—opening the possibility of achieving up to 42% unrealized value. Filled with essential takeaways wrapping up each chapter, assessments, illustrations, color illustrations, and clear action steps, Negotiation Essentials concludes with a Negotiating Essentials Toolkit, which includes the professional negotiators pre- and post-negotiation checklists. Whether you’re discussing a possible promotion with a supervisor, speaking to a potential high-dollar client, or engaging in a merger and acquisition process, knowing how to plan and conduct a successful negotiation is what will spell the difference between success and failure.

Download or read book You According to Them Uncovering the Blind Spots That Impact Your Reputation and Your Career written by Sara Canaday and published by . This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canaday offers practical steps to help people leverage the perceptions of a great reputation into bottom-line success.

Download or read book Time Management Essentials The Tools You Need to Maximize Your Attention Energy and Productivity written by Anna Dearmon Kornick and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Must-know concepts and smart strategies for values-based time management—from the new Business Essentials Series Time management is an essential skill that every professional needs, no matter the industry. With ever-evolving flexible workplaces, so many collaboration apps to manage, and more, the tools and strategies needed to manage your time effectively have changed. Whether you're just starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices, you'll find what you need to know in this book, in three easy-to-digest parts: PART I: THE ESSENTIALS covers the foundational pieces for sustainable, purpose-driven time management, as well as potential pitfalls to avoid. PART II: THE ESSENTIALS APPLIED offers a self-assessment for taking inventory of your strengths and weaknesses, followed by practical applications and step-by-step exercises to bring the fundamentals of time management to life. PART III: BEYOND THE ESSENTIALS offers useful tips and strategies to enhance your skills, from getting better sleep and maintaining concentration to creating organized systems and tapping into your natural energy. Filled with assessments, tool kits, actionable advice and more, readers will walk away from Time Management Essentials feeling fully prepared to put their skills into action right away.

Download or read book Leadership Unchained written by Sara Canaday and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Leadership Unchained, Sara Canaday offers a unique perspective that helps modern leaders break free from the chains of conventional wisdom and blaze new trails toward even greater success. You'll learn when to apply classic principles. And when to boldly defy them.

Download or read book Sales Essentials The Tools You Need at Every Stage to Close More Deals and Crush Your Quota written by Rana Salman and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Must-know concepts and smart strategies for every step of a sale—from the new Business Essentials Series for busy professionals The focus of sales always seems to be on the ultimate goal of closing deals, which makes it easy to overlook the crucial steps that come before, during, and after the sale. But, the reality is, knowing the right things to do in all steps of the process is what sets us up for success. Whether you're just starting out or are looking to improve your sales skills, this book from industry expert Rana Salman is a start-to-finish guide that will quickly lead you toward quota-crushing performance. Everything you need to know is here, in three easy-to-digest parts: PART I: THE ESSENTIALS explores the foundation for the sales experience, provides insights into common challenges sellers encounter, describes the characteristics needed to excel in sales, and more. PART II: THE ESSENTIALS APPLIED gives you targeted tools designed to help you close deals and expand accounts, including tips on prospecting, preparing and conducting discovery meetings, getting the most out of follow-up meetings, effectively onboarding new clients, and more. PART III: BEYOND THE ESSENTIALS offers even more hands-on advice about the human side of sales—from dealing with rejection and self-doubt to learning about specific tactics to help protect your mental health, and more. Packed with practical advice, useful tools, assessments, and a toolkit, Sales Essentials is the comprehensive resource you need to immediately boost your skills and increase your confidence on the way to career-changing sales success.

Download or read book Gung Ho written by Ken Blanchard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-10-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, co-authors of the New York Times business bestseller Raving Fans, are back with Gung Ho! Here is an invaluable management tool that outlines foolproof ways to increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace. It is a must-read for everyone who wants to stay on top in today's ultra-competitive business world. Raving Fans taught managers how to turn customers into full-fledged fans. Now, Gung Ho! brings the same magic to employees. Through the inspirational story of business leaders Peggy Sinclair and Andy Longclaw, Blanchard and Bowles reveal the secret of Gung Ho--a revolutionary technique to boost enthusiasm and performance and usher in astonishing results for any organization. The three principles of Gung Ho are: The Spirit of the Squirrel The Way of the Beaver The Gift of the Goose These three cornerstones of Gung Ho are surprisingly simple and yet amazingly powerful. Whether your organization consists of one or is listed in the Fortune 500, this book ensures Gung Ho employees committed to success. Gung Ho! also includes a clear game plan with a step-by-step outline for instituting these groundbreaking ideas. Destined to become a classic, Gung Ho! is a rare and wonderful business book that is packed with invaluable information as well as a compelling, page-turning story. Management legend Ken Blanchard and master entrepreneur Sheldon Bowles are back with Gung Ho!, revealing a surefire way to boost employee enthusiasm, productivity, and performance and usher in astonishing results for any organization. Raving Fans brilliantly schooled managers on how to turn customers into raving fans. Gung Ho! now brings the same magic to employees. Here is the story of how two managers saved a failing company and turned in record profits with record productivity. The three core ideas of Gung Ho! are surprisingly simple: worthwhile work guided by goals and values; putting workers in control of their production; and cheering one another on. Their principles are so powerful that business leaders, reviewing the manuscript for Ken and Sheldon, have written to say, "Sorry. Ignored instructions. Have photocopied for everyone. I promise to buy books, but can't wait. We need now!" Like Raving Fans, Gung Ho! delivers.

Download or read book Everyone Deserves a Great Manager written by Scott Jeffrey Miller and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to become a great manager in this Wall Street Journal bestseller from the leadership experts at FranklinCovey. The essential guide when you make the challenging yet rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager includes field-tested tips, techniques, and the top advice from hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized by the four main roles every manager fills, this must-read guide focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change to success. No matter what your current problem or time constraint, pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset by developing people skills and clarity through straightforward advice. Dive into common managerial tasks like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, with useful worksheets and a list of questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.

Download or read book The Progress Principle written by Teresa Amabile and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives—consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner work life, often unwittingly. As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer explain in The Progress Principle, seemingly mundane workday events can make or break employees’ inner work lives. But it’s forward momentum in meaningful work—progress—that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees in 7 companies, the authors explain how managers can foster progress and enhance inner work life every day. The book shows how to remove obstacles to progress, including meaningless tasks and toxic relationships. It also explains how to activate two forces that enable progress: (1) catalysts—events that directly facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy—and (2) nourishers—interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality. Brimming with honest examples from the companies studied, The Progress Principle equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the insights they need to maximize their people’s performance.

Download or read book The 4 Disciplines of Execution written by Chris McChesney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUSINESS STRATEGY. "The 4 Disciplines of Execution "offers the what but also how effective execution is achieved. They share numerous examples of companies that have done just that, not once, but over and over again. This is a book that every leader should read! (Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of "The Innovator s Dilemma)." Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it s likely no one even noticed. What happened? The whirlwind of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest in executing your strategy for tomorrow. "The 4 Disciplines of Execution" can change all that forever.

Download or read book The Practice of Self Management written by Christopher Forman and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time-tested lessons, meditations, and daily-life practices will help you to expand your awareness, deepen your understanding, and transform your connection with those around you. The practices do more than enhance business effectiveness. Becoming more present, reducing reactivity, and dissolving barriers will transform your life as a whole.

Download or read book Perfect Phrases for Leadership Development Hundreds of Ready to Use Phrases for Guiding Employees to Reach the Next Level written by Meryl Runion and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIME Leadership development has become a top business priority. When leaders at every level are empowered, companies excel in innovation and are able to respond instantly to changing market dynamics. Perfect Phrases for Leadership Development has hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for empowering others to take on leadership responsibilities regardless of their specific position in the company. You’ll find all the right words and phrases you need for: Boosting employees’ sense of autonomy Redirecting efforts without stifling creativity Encouraging decisiveness and resourcefulness Igniting energy and enthusiasm

Download or read book Superstar Leadership written by Rick Conlow and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover and implement “the most important, proven leadership principles and ideas” in just thirty-one days with this step-by-step manual (Ken Hicks, CEO/Chairman, Footlocker, Inc.). It is the rare excellent boss who can achieve great results by earning their staff’s loyalty and inspiring exemplary performance. Now you can learn the secrets of these Superstar leaders—and become one of them. Superstar Leadership examines the key habits of the best and worst bosses, identifying nine key performance drivers that are proven to increase and sustain results. Do you want to earn more money for your company? Electrify your department? Increase customer loyalty, sales, and productivity while simultaneously decreasing turnover, improving innovation, and having fun? With evaluations and activities designed to help you hones your leadership skills, you can achieve all of this. Superstar Leadership will teach you: Why fifty percent of managers fail, and how to avoid being one of them Seven keys to employee motivation The high-performance formula that will catapult your career success The nine strategies of a Superstar leader How to create a high-performing team and exceed your goals And much more!

Download or read book Heroic Leadership written by Chris Lowney and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Principles for Lasting Success Leadership makes great companies, but few of us truly understand how to turn ourselves and others into great leaders. One company—the Jesuits—pioneered a unique formula for molding leaders and in the process built one of history’s most successful companies.In this groundbreaking book, Chris Lowney reveals the leadership principles that have guided the Jesuits for more than 450 years: self-awareness, ingenuity, love, and heroism. Lowney shows how these same principles can make each of us a dynamic leader in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book The Master Coach written by Gregg Thompson and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, coaching is recognized to be one of the most effective human resource development processes available, and it is becoming increasingly popular in organizations of all sizes. Faced with historically low levels of employee engagement (as little as 13% according to Gallup’s latest survey), business leaders see coaching as key to unlocking the human talent, creativity, and innovation that is hiding in plain sight in their workplaces. And rather than bring in external coaches for this purpose, they want to integrate coaching into their company culture—a 2015 study by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Human Capital Institute (HCI) found that 81% of organizations surveyed planned to train managers/leaders in coaching skills. The Master Coach is written for these leaders, and is perfectly positioned to become the definitive book on the topic. Drawing on the wealth of experience that has made Gregg Thompson and Bluepoint Leadership Development the choice of numerous Fortune 100 companies, it illuminates the essence of what it takes to be a great coach. The Master Coach will appeal to leaders at all organization levels, showing them how to make a significant shift in their attitudes, values and behaviors and become more coach-like in all of their daily interactions and conversations. The Master Coach is based on the simple but profound 3Cs Coaching Model. This proven approach asserts that to master the art of coaching one must have an exemplary Character that invites the trust of others, be able to form rapid Connections with others at deeply personal level, and have the ability to initiate and guide intense, attitude-changing Conversations. At every step, Thompson reminds readers that coaching is not merely about what the coach says or does; it is about who he or she is.