Download or read book Developing Supervisors and Team Leaders written by Donald L. Kirkpatrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders and supervisors do not grow on trees; they must be developed. 'Developing Supervisors and Team Leaders' is a practical, how-to guide for creating leaders and supervisors. Spanning topics from determining needs to evaluating performance, it covers all aspects of how to develop the skills, insights, and attitude to lead others. Kirkpatrick demonstrates how to get others to share the same focus, purpose, and efforts toward improving an organization's quality of product or service. From determining needs, planning programs and training to the final evaluation, this book provides knowledge and practical tools for developing successful leaders. Donald Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of the University of Wisconsin, is the author of numerous books and articles on the subject of management and performance.
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: ***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves. A practical must-read, FranklinCovey’s Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral 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 Becoming a Manager written by Linda A. Hill and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the leap to management and leadership In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial--going from individual contributor to competent manager. New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this timeless, indispensable book, Harvard Business School professor and leadership guru Linda Hill traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their first year in the role. She reveals the complexity of the transition, highlighting the expectations of these managers, their subordinates, and their superiors. We hear the new managers describe how they reframed their understanding of their roles and responsibilities, how they learned to build effective cross-functional work relationships, how and when they used individual and organizational resources, and how they learned to cope with the inevitable stresses of leadership. Hill vividly shows that becoming a manager is a profound psychological adjustment--a true transformation--as well as a continuous process of learning from experience. Becoming a Manager, a veritable treasury of essential leadership wisdom, is a book you will turn to again and again no matter where you are on your career journey.
Download or read book The Future of Leadership Development written by Susan E. Murphy and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Leadership Skills for Maintenance Supervisors and Managers written by Joel D. Levitt and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supervision is a leveraged activity. When we develop the supervisor's skills, we enhance the productivity of the whole workgroup. This book provides valuable skill training for supervisors, team leaders, and managers. It offers techniques to improve reliability that can be accomplished at the supervisor level. It teaches both the science and the art of the supervision of maintenance workers, discusses managing meetings and time, the elements of technical issues, and presents management and people skills, offering maximum productivity and high-quality provision of services and at the same time, improving morale throughout the workforce. This book is suitable for all types of maintenance for organizations with supervisors and managers from plant operations, storeroom, construction, and related areas including industrial organizations, construction companies, mines, fleets, building maintenance, janitorial maintenance contractors, and vocational tech schools teaching maintenance short courses.
Download or read book Leading Self directed Work Teams written by Kimball Fisher and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical steps for transforming traditional supervisors and managers into astute leaders of self-directed work teams (SDWTs). In major companies like Kodak, Apple, Walmart, and Honeywell, SDWTs have transformed personnel into a creative and competitive workforce. This book reveals how supervisors in any company can take advantage of the leadership skills that make and keep major corporations competitive. Illustrated.
Download or read book Enhancing Organizational Performance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-04-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Total quality management (TQM), reengineering, the workplace of the twenty-first centuryâ€"the 1990s have brought a sense of urgency to organizations to change or face stagnation and decline, according to Enhancing Organizational Performance. Organizations are adopting popular management techniques, some scientific, some faddish, often without introducing them properly or adequately measuring the outcome. Enhancing Organizational Performance reviews the most popular current approaches to organizational changeâ€"total quality management, reengineering, and downsizingâ€"in terms of how they affect organizations and people, how performance improvements can be measured, and what questions remain to be answered by researchers. The committee explores how theory, doctrine, accepted wisdom, and personal experience have all served as sources for organization design. Alternative organization structures such as teams, specialist networks, associations, and virtual organizations are examined. Enhancing Organizational Performance looks at the influence of the organization's norms, values, and beliefsâ€"its cultureâ€"on people and their performance, identifying cultural "levers" available to organization leaders. And what is leadership? The committee sorts through a wealth of research to identify behaviors and skills related to leadership effectiveness. The volume examines techniques for developing these skills and suggests new competencies that will become required with globalization and other trends. Mergers, networks, alliances, coalitionsâ€"organizations are increasingly turning to new intra- and inter-organizational structures. Enhancing Organizational Performance discusses how organizations cooperate to maximize outcomes. The committee explores the changing missions of the U.S. Army as a case study that has relevance to any organization. Noting that a musical greeting card contains more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950, the committee addresses the impact of new technologies on performance. With examples, insights, and practical criteria, Enhancing Organizational Performance clarifies the nature of organizations and the prospects for performance improvement. This book will be important to corporate leaders, executives, and managers; faculty and students in organizational performance and the social sciences; business journalists; researchers; and interested individuals.
Download or read book How to Lead a Team written by Caden Burke and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a new team leader or struggling to get your team on track? Are you struggling to find your place as a leader, or not sure what it takes to lead a high-performance team?"How to Lead a Team" is a great guide to help you take the step from being the boss to being someone your team respects and admires. It breaks all the complexities of managing a team down into 7 actionable steps!While this guide provides you some pointers and tips for navigating your position as a leader, it also asks you to think and consider how you currently are leading. It helps you to evaluate where you are and what you, as an individual, need to change to push yourself to the next level. This guide veers away from the specific technical approaches for your success and opens up the discussion for how you can create your success as a leader-recognizing that you can learn much more from self-evaluation and assessment than you can from any single person already experiencing success. The best way to find success is to look within yourself and dig it out.YOU WILL LEARN: - How to assess your management strategy.- How high performing managers track progress and goals.- How the empowerment of your team frees up your time.- Why it is important to grow your team's skills and develop their talents.- How to encourage your team.- How to motivate and inspire your team.- How to be the example for your team.- How to get out of the boss zone and into the influencer zone.- And much more. To help you on this journey of achieving the goal of becoming an amazing leader, this guide goes through many actionable examples and strategies. As you press yourself to grow, you will find that there are so many experiences you have already had that will help formulate your ability to be successful as a leader. Now, it's time to take the plunge and grow!
Download or read book Effective Supervision written by David L. Goetsch and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing ten years of experience, this complete "seminar in a book" includes success tips for supervisors, and "hands-on, real-world" activities that teach the many and varied skills necessary for success in today's workplace. It develops individuals who know not only about supervision, but who know how to supervise. Chapter topics cover leadership, facilitating change, communication, ethics, motivation, decision making and problem solving, performance appraisal, employee complaints, workplace violence, legal issues, training, health and safety, staffing, and team building and teamwork. For supervisors, team leaders, and work coaches--for on-the-job training, business and industry seminars, and distance learning.
Download or read book Managers and Leaders are They Different written by Abraham Zaleznik and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Leadership Gap written by Lolly Daskal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do people see you as the kind of leader you want to be? Are your strongest leadership qualities getting in the way of your greatness? After decades of advising and inspiring some of the most eminent chief executives in the world, Lolly Daskal has uncovered a startling pattern: within each leader are powerful abilities that are also hidden impediments to greatness. She’s witnessed many highly driven, overachieving leaders rise to prominence fueled by well-honed skill sets, only to falter when the shadow sides of the same skills emerge. Now Daskal reveals her proven system, which leaders at any level can apply to dramatically improve their results. It begins with identifying your distinctive leadership archetype and recognizing its shadow: ■ The Rebel, driven by confidence, becomes the Imposter, plagued by self-doubt. ■ The Explorer, fueled by intuition, becomes the Exploiter, master of manipulation. ■ The Truth Teller, who embraces candor, becomes the Deceiver, who creates suspicion. ■ The Hero, embodying courage, becomes the Bystander, an outright coward. ■ The Inventor, brimming with integrity, becomes the Destroyer, who is morally corrupt. ■ The Navigator, trusts and is trusted, becomes the Fixer, endlessly arrogant. ■ The Knight, for whom loyalty is everything, becomes the Mercenary, who is perpetually self-serving. Using psychology, philosophy, and her own experience, Daskal offers a breakthrough perspective on leadership. She’ll take you inside some of the most cloistered boardrooms, let you in on deeply personal conversations with industry leaders, and introduce you to luminaries who’ve changed the world. Her insights will help you rethink everything you know to become the leader you truly want to be.
Download or read book The Extraordinary Leader Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders written by John Zenger and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2009-06-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People can learn how to lead. This was the position John H. Zenger and Joseph R. Folkman took when they wrote their now-classic leadership book The Extraordinary Leader—and it’s a fact they reinforce in this new, completely updated edition of their bestseller. When it was first published, The Extraordinary Leader immediately attracted a wide audience of aspiring leaders drawn to its unique feature: the extensive use of scientific studies and hard data, which served to demystify the concept of leadership and get readers thinking about the subject in a pragmatic way. Now, Zenger and Folkman revisit the subject to address leaders’ most pressing concerns today. The result is an up-to-date, essential leadership guide for the twenty-first century that includes: Late-breaking research on the psychology of leadership New information on leading in a global environment A breakthrough case study on measuring improved leadership behavior Studies revealing the importance of follow-through The Extraordinary Leader is a remarkable combination of expert insight and extensive research. The authors analyzed more than 200,000 assessments describing 20,000 managers—by far the most expansive research ever conducted for a leadership book. Zenger and Folkman have created the leadership book of the ages. The Extraordinary Leader explains how to build leadership skills that will take you and your organization to unimagined success.
Download or read book Team Leader Training written by Carl L. Harshman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising of different modules or developmental plans in key leadership areas: Interpersonal Skills, Team Development, Performance Management, and Organizational/Team Boundary Management, this book shows you how to identify the characteristics of future leaders, develop a team leader certification program, and monitor for quality and progress.
Download or read book New Supervisor Training written by Elaine Biech and published by Association for Talent Development. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare and establish new front-line leaders with training that develops essential supervisory skills. Investing in new supervisors increases productivity and organizational profitability, and it results in engaged, high-performing teams. Yet many new supervisors—the very people responsible for planning and organizing work in every organization—are often undertrained in the skills required to be a successful front-line leader. In New Supervisor Training, training legend Elaine Biech presents innovative two-day, one-day, and half-day training workshops that help supervisors embrace their new roles and develop supervisory skills in five key areas: promoting communication, guiding the work, leading the workforce, coaching employee performance, and developing themselves. Free tools and customization options The free, ready-to-use resources (PDF) that accompany this book include downloadable presentation materials, agendas, handouts, assessments, and tools. All workshop program materials, including MS Office PowerPoint presentations and MS Word handouts, may be customized for an additional licensing fee. Browse the licensing options in the Custom Material License pricing menu. About the Series The ATD Workshop Series is written for trainers by trainers, because no one knows workshops as well as the practitioners who have done it all. Each publication weaves in today’s technology and accessibility considerations and provides a wealth of new content that can be used to create a training experience like no other. Other books in the series include Communication Skills Training, Leadership Training, and Coaching Training.
Download or read book 25 Activities for Developing Team Leaders written by Fran Rees and published by Pfeiffer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 Activities for Developing Team Leaders In this book, acclaimed team development and leadership expert Fran Rees, has written the long-awaited companion to the bestselling book 25 Activities for Teams. 25 Activities for Developing Team Leaders is organized around her L.E.A.D. model of facilitative leadership: Lead with a clear purpose, Empower to participate, Aim for consensus, and Direct the process. Created as a hands-on resource for trainers, facilitators, and team leaders, 25 Activities for Developing Team Leaders includes a variety of exercises that will help foster team-leadership skills including simulations, discussions, problems to solve, role plays, and real-work collaboration. The book explores a wide variety of topics and includes development activities that cover how to: Define the role of the team leader Apply the L.E.A.D. model to team leadership and development Coach team members and the team Design purposeful, participative team meetings Create effective team communication Address team challenges Resolve conflicts and disputes Conduct team self-evaluation Each activity in the book can used as a stand-alone learning exercise or in any combination to create a formal, team-leader development curriculum. The activities can also be used by team leaders during informal team meetings. 25 Activities for Developing Team Leaders is designed for today's modern working environment. The activities are flexible enough to fit the needs of a particular group and designed to be delivered in timeframes sensitive to busy work schedules. "This book is a critical for any reader who wants to develop themselves or others as strong team leaders and high-performing teams. Team leaders, human resource and training employees will find this resource easy to execute, invaluable in building a structured program, and one that gets results. External consultants will find the text to be helpful in structuring their project plans for clients." —Leigh Wilkinson, HRD consultant, State of Maine Office of Training and Development
Download or read book Blue Collar Leadership Supervision written by Mack Story and published by Kaizenops. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOTE: Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Unleash Your Team's Potential is the blue-collar version of Maximize Your Leadership Potential: Beyond Management & Supervision and the content is nearly identical. It's primarily for those who have others reporting to them, especially those new to a formal leadership position or those who have had very little or no formal leadership training. Think of this book as "Leadership 101" for front line leaders. It's written in an easy to read format with 30 chapters that are three pages each. It can also be easily utilized for conducting a 30 day book study with your front line leaders. My first book in the Blue-Collar Leadership series, Blue-Collar Leadership: Leading from the Front Lines, was written as a tool and resource for high impact leaders to use to develop the front line, entry level team members that are so often underdeveloped and overlooked in the blue-collar workforce. High impact leaders can use it to transform those they lead into high impact team players. This second book in the series, Blue-Collar Leadership & Supervision: Powerful Leadership Simplified, is a tool and resource for developing those courageous people who have stepped up and accepted a position of leadership, most often, without ever receiving any formal leadership training. They're simply expected to lead without being taught how to lead. And, they do the best they can. This book will help them grow beyond supervision and management. They will understand what it means to be a high impact leader of people and how to become a more effective front line leader. They will learn how to move beyond managing people and to begin leading people. As I share the principles that allowed me to be promoted 14 times in the first 20 years of my career, they will learn how to get noticed by the right leaders and how to get promoted for the right reasons. With over 11,000 hours of leading cross-functional teams through change and transformation, I've also used the principles in this book to achieve amazing results with and through other people. After reading this book, you will have a choice. Will you remain a traditional supervisor or manager? Or, will you choose to become a high impact leader that also supervises and manages?
Download or read book Supervisory Development Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
