If you are a manager in business, and you lead a team of people, you’re immediately under pressure to deliver results. Whether you lead a small team of five, or an entire department of 100 or more, the buck stops with you when it comes to results. Good or bad, you are judged on the results you deliver and goals you achieve. But in reality, it’s not just you who delivers results, it’s your entire team, and it’s your job as a manager (and leader) to get the very best from your team each day. This is often easier said than done, and for many managers, improving team performance is a constant headache and source of frustration. Even managers of successful teams are under pressure to achieve more and are on the ‘look out’ for ways to give them the edge. In ‘The Business Manager’s Guide To Getting The Best From Your Team’, you’ll discover a new ‘coaching based approach’ which you can personally use to improve the performance of your team and the results it delivers. You’ll be introduced to a proven step-by-step methodology which other managers (worldwide) are using right now to get the best from their teams, and drive their business units forward. Whatever your industry sector, team size or level of experience as a manager, the ideas in this book will work for you.

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing. That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of 25. She stared at a long list of logistics--from hiring to firing, from meeting to messaging, from planning to pitching--and faced a thousand questions and uncertainties. How was she supposed to spin teamwork into value? How could she be a good steward of her reports' careers? What was the secret to leading with confidence in new and unexpected situations? Now, having managed dozens of teams spanning tens to hundreds of people, Julie knows the most important lesson of all: great managers are made, not born. If you care enough to be reading this, then you care enough to be a great manager. The Making of a Manager is a modern field guide packed everyday examples and transformative insights, including: * How to tell a great manager from an average manager (illustrations included) * When you should look past an awkward interview and hire someone anyway * How to build trust with your reports through not being a boss * Where to look when you lose faith and lack the answers Whether you're new to the job, a veteran leader, or looking to be promoted, this is the handbook you need to be the kind of manager you wish you had.

As a manager or executive in a large corporation (especially in 'Corporate America'), do you ever feel frustrated that you are not getting the best from your team? Do you ever feel your team could achieve more, reach higher goals, deliver greater results, if only you could get the people you lead to perform at a higher level? Perhaps you’ve been thinking about getting some help to develop your team, possibly embarking on a team building day, working with a coach, or even going on a leadership course yourself. You just want to do something to raise the performance of the people under your charge. In a large corporate that should be easy for you to make happen… right? You have access to endless training and development resources and a dedicated HR and training department. Well not always. Sometimes, companies are just so big, the hoops to jump through are too complex, and it just becomes too difficult for individual managers to seek help the ‘official way’. Thousands of managers and executives around the world who work in large national or multinational corporations share these same frustrations. They know they need help to develop their teams, but find it too difficult to access the right internal resources. That’s why business professionals -- like you -- who lead teams of five, ten, 50 people or more, are seeking alternatives to tightly controlled, hard to access, internal resources. Enter Enterprise LEADER, a ‘low cost and easy to use’ team development program, which corporate managers and executives use to develop their own team(s), drive change, and improve performance and business results. In this short guide, you’ll learn more about Enterprise LEADER and find out how you can ‘take ownership’ of the development of your team today and start achieving the results you know your team is capable of. You’ll discover the tools and methodologies corporate managers around the world are using right now to get their teams tuned in to their business, performing at a higher level, and achieving greater results than they ever thought possible. Download ‘The Corporate Executive Guide To Getting The Best From Your Team’ today.

Why getting results should be every nonprofit manager's first priority A nonprofit manager's fundamental job is to get results, sustained over time, rather than boost morale or promote staff development. This is a shift from the tenor of many management books, particularly in the nonprofit world. Managing to Change the World is designed to teach new and experienced nonprofit managers the fundamental skills of effective management, including: managing specific tasks and broader responsibilities; setting clear goals and holding people accountable to them; creating a results-oriented culture; hiring, developing, and retaining a staff of superstars. Offers nonprofit managers a clear guide to the most effective management skills Shows how to address performance problems, dismiss staffers who fall short, and the right way to exercising authority Gives guidance for managing time wisely and offers suggestions for staying in sync with your boss and managing up This important resource contains 41 resources and downloadable tools that can be implemented immediately.

Are you a Female Manager in business in the UK, US, Canada, ANZ or another English speaking region? Are you looking for fresh new ways to drive CHANGE, and improve the PERFORMANCE and RESULTS of your team and overall company? If so, The Female Manager Guide to Getting the Best From Your Team’ is a must read for you. Just as a female racing drivers job is to win races and a female footballers job is to win matches, a female managers job is to get the best from your team and deliver results. Male or female, your goal as a manager is the same… to deliver results through people. But regardless of gender, leading a team of people and getting the best from them is not easy. You need to give yourself every advantage possible in order to deliver the results expected of you. Enter Enterprise LEADER, a ‘low-cost’, ready made team development program which female managers -- like you -- are using to improve team performance and financial and operational results (i.e. more sales, more customers, more profits, more cash, better service, better quality, better results… faster, quicker, easier and with less resources). In this short yet practical ‘how to’ guide, you’ll learn about Enterprise LEADER... what it is, why it works, how to use it and the practical steps you need to take to get the best from your own team. If you are a female manager in the world of business and lead a team of people, the ideas, tools and strategies outlined in this book will help you get your team(s) tuned in to your business, performing at a higher level, and achieving greater results than you ever thought possible. Download and read today!

High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand. Global technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high-growth tech companies including Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global enterprises. Across all of these breakout companies, Gil has identified a set of common patterns and created an accessible playbook for scaling high-growth startups, which he has now codified in High Growth Handbook. In this definitive guide, Gil covers key topics, including: · The role of the CEO · Managing a board · Recruiting and overseeing an executive team · Mergers and acquisitions · Initial public offerings · Late-stage funding. Informed by interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal-clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups.

This insightful management book gives readers a simple, clear-cut, and realistic approach to building a winning work team. It teaches managers how to motivate employees to work together, how to face the challenges of the workplace, as well as how to execute strategy. In each chapter, Evangelista supports relevant examples from a variety of sports coaches such as Vince Lombardi and Lou Holtz. He then methodically steps from the sports arena to the business arena by showing the application of those lessons to work teams. The book's personal perspective and real-world explanations set it apart from other management books. In The Business of Winning, you'll learn to: - Create an effective business plan that links your organization's mission to specific employee actions- Focus a work team on common goals- Coach your employees, your work units, and your entire work team to success