Manage Your Staff More Effectively — Gina Gardiner

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And Pave Your Way to Your Next Promotion

Managing people successfully requires far more than technical expertise. Many professionals are promoted because they excel in their job, only to discover that leadership, team management, delegation, employee motivation, and performance management demand an entirely different skill set.

In Manage Your Staff More Effectively, leadership expert Gina Gardiner shares proven management strategies developed over more than thirty years of helping leaders, managers, and organisations build high-performing teams and achieve outstanding results. This practical management guide provides real-world tools to help you become a more confident, effective, and respected leader.

Whether you’re a first-time manager, team leader, supervisor, department head, business owner, or experienced executive looking to strengthen your leadership skills, this book offers actionable advice you can apply immediately to improve team performance, workplace culture, and employee engagement.

Ask yourself:

• Do you spend time dealing with problems generated with and by your staff?
• How effectively do you hold people to account?
• Do you hate having those difficult conversations with staff when things go wrong?
• Do you worry about managing other people’s emotions?
• Are you good at delegating or do you find it quicker to do things yourself?
• Do you have the time to manage strategically or are you always fire-fighting?

How YOU Can Manage Your Staff More Effectively offers a comprehensive set of practical strategies for managers, to help get the very best from their staff as individuals and as teams.

Everything in the book has been tried and tested in a variety of organisations; it is a distillation of over thirty years’ experience of developing leadership at every level. The book does not attempt to teach grandmothers or grandfathers to suck eggs, but offers tried and tested principles, strategies and ideas which have been proven to work. It has relevance for experienced managers who want to share good practice and for aspiring leaders who want to develop and deepen their leadership skills.

The book covers a wide range of issues including:

• Developing strategic vision.
• Creating your dream team.
• Creating a “can do” culture.
• Effective delegation.
• Holding people to account.
• Developing a solutions approach.
• The power of anticipation.
• Giving positive feedback.
• Having those “hard conversations”.
• Managing stress for you and your team.
• Creating a good work/life balance.

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Reader reviews and ratings:

 
“This book is MUCH MORE than it says on the cover. It’s almost a complete guide to being an effective manager and most certainly will help its readers get themselves promoted.”

Ed Lincoln, publishing consultant