This practical guide for supervisors and managers discusses contemporary leadership responsibilities, and goes on to specifically describe the steps and skills needed to successfully apply 14 leadership competencies including: Leading organization change, managing time, coaching, creating a motivativing environment and more.

This guide covers the critical emotional qualities that can have a greater impact on success than general intellectual intelligence. Includes best practices on how to enhance self-confidence, empathy, self-control, and other important emotional competencies.

The Leader’s Pocket Guide provides readers with on-the-job expertise to inspire and direct them on their professional journeys. Organized into three sections--self, colleagues, and organization--this useful guide spurs leaders to be ever growing in their careers, and includes lessons on major leadership concepts like why integrity should be your employees’ most highly valued trait, how to lead in a way that empowers others to manage, and why you should identify, commit to, and live by six words. With 101 indispensable tips and tools to explore, you’ll learn how to deliver inspiration, demonstrate character, develop confidence, communicate with authority, think critically, foster innovation, connect with others, resolve conflicts, add buzz to your leadership brand, coach for development, recognize achievement, instill company-wide purpose, and overcome adversity. Augmented by up-to-date research on the role of leaders and the expectations followers have for them, this pithy, powerful, and portable guide contains energizing action tips, clever formulas, self-assessments, and thoughtful places for deeper reflection to spur you toward becoming a top leader in your industry.

Leadership Skills for Managers is an in-depth exploration of the abilities and qualities of a leader (as opposed to just a manager). Leadership attributes such as problem-solving, team-building, and communication are analyzed. Tools, techniques, and real-life examples help the reader develop a plan of action for transforming a vision of leadership into an implementable reality.

Great things come in little packages: 50 commonsense (but rarely common) ideas for building the leadership potential of others.How many managers have time to plow through big books of leadership development? None! And they'll never need to with this slender book of 50 simple yet powerful ideas. The Little Book of Leadership Development goes straight to the heart of great leadership. Free of complicated theories, it focuses on what really works to get people motivated, working effectively, and acting as leaders themselves. The book delivers streamlined instructions on modeling behaviors, sharing information, building accountability, stretching teams, providing feedback, and 45 other practical strategies. Readers will be able to design a system of development tailored to their team and organization. Managers with the ability to self-reflect and a willingness to implement these positive, powerful ideas will see quick improvementsùin communication, efficiency, morale, and every other measure that points to a committed team of emerging leaders.

There are many factors that separate average managers from great managers. In most cases, a person becomes a manager due to working their way up the company ladder, however, being a great manager is more than just being knowledgeable of your company's products or services offered. This 10-lesson management and leadership training course will give you the management skills needed to direct your employees, and the leadership skills needed to inspire your employees. You will also learn the basics in business, similar to those taught in an MBA course. By learning how to lead and manage your employees, plan and structure your department for optimal success, create and build a strong team, delegate, motivate, deal with conflict and different personalities, handle difficult employees, know how and when to fire someone, hold effective meetings, along with the many other skills taught in this course, you will have the confidence and knowledge to become an all around great manager and leader.

"Lab Dynamics is a book about the challenges to doing science and dealing with the individuals involved, including oneself. The authors, a scientist and a psychotherapist, draw on principles of group and behavioral psychology but speak to scientists in their own language about their own experiences. They offer in-depth, practical advice, real-life examples, and exercises tailored to scientific and technical workplaces on topics as diverse as conflict resolution, negotiation, dealing with supervision, working with competing peers, and making the transition from academia to industry." "This is a uniquely valuable contribution to the scientific literature, on a subject of direct importance to lab heads, postdocs, and students. It is also required reading for senior staff concerned about improving efficiency and effectiveness in academic and industrial research."--BOOK JACKET

Jack Stahl became President of two global companies, The Coca-Cola Company and Revlon, before the age of 50. Now Stahl offers down-to-earth approaches, frameworks, and practical solutions to successfully capture business opportunities and manage the critical organizational issues leaders face every day. Stahl lays out seven "Frameworks for Success": Leadership and Management, Creating a High-Capability Organization, Developing People, Brand Positioning with Consumers, Customer Relationship Management, Financial Strategy, and Influencing People. Written in Stahl's accessible and conversational style with illustrative examples, Lessons on Leadership provides immediately usable and proven action frameworks for a leader requiring a fast start to drive value in these important areas.

Chosen from the best of the Project Management Journal(R) and PM Network(R) the articles reprinted in this volume revolve around the nature of the project management challenge, the skills required of effective project managers, and some of the important leadership and management principles. Taken together, they offer a comprehensive and thorough look at the immense leadership challenges and skills necessary to successfully navigate the minefields of project management. This is the first book in the Project Management Institute's (PMI(R)) Editors' Choice Series, a reprint series designed to supplement The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R)).

Told in the parable format of The One Minute Manager, this work draws on the model and messages of Jesus as a source of practical lessons in effective leadership. Recounting the story of a teacher, a minister and a marketplace leader who support one another in their leadership challenges, this book offers unexpected and exceptional answers to tough leadership issues. The authors offer simple strategies for bringing vision - and values - to the workplace by examining messages and examples from the Bible.