Gary R. McClain - The Everything Managing People Book: Quick And Easy Ways to Build, Motivate, And Nurture a First-rate Team

2nd Edition

Dear Reader,

So, you're a manager. Congratulations! You probably have lots of ideas about how to do things differently and better. Maybe you've already smoothly implemented some of them but have had less success with others. You know you could do more if you knew what to do and how to do it. Although you've had plenty of training in the skills your jobs have required, no one's really teaching you how to be a manager.

You've had your share of bad managers, and you don't want to become one of them. Perhaps you've been fortunate enough to have a great manager at some point in your career, someone you'd like to be like now that you're one. We hope so, because that's the kind of manager we'd like you to be!

In today's business environment, success as a manager means directing and balancing multiple objectives. It's not enough to know processes; you must also know what motivates and supports the people who make those processes happen. This book is a guide to understanding how people function within the workplace and to figuring out how you as a manager can help them grow to be more productive and successful so you are, too.

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Quick and easy ways to build, motivate, and nurture a first-rate team

Gary McClain, Ph.D., and Deborah S. Romaine

Adams Media

Avon, Massachusetts

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McClain, Gary R.

The everything managing people book / authors: Gary McClain and Deborah S. Romaine. 2nd ed.

p. cm. (An everything series book)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN-13: 978-1-59869-143-6

ISBN-10: 1-59869-143-0

1. Supervision of employees. 2. Personnel management. I. Romaine, Deborah S. II. Title.

HF5549.12.M375 2007

658.3 dc22

2006028206

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