#224: "Leading Others" with Dorling Kindersley

Introduction

A few weeks ago, in our "People Skills" newsletter, we looked at the e-books you can read and download in our "Management Skills" topic. Today, we look a little closer at one of the books in this section that we, at Manage Train Learn, love.

The e-book in question is "The Essential Manager's Handbook" from Dorling Kindersley.

The reason why we love this book is that, unlike many textbooks and manuals on management, this e-book uses a visual style on every single page.

This means you can browse the pages and choose what you want to read rather than reading a page of text only.

This allows you to dip into the book wherever you want and according to what, at that moment, interests you.

To show you what we mean, here are the pages for the category on "Leadership", and the topic, Chapter 03, "Leading Others"...

01. Intro to "Leading Others"

Leading others is the process of providing direction, influencing, and energizing others, and obtaining follower commitment to shared organizational goals..

02. Taking an Ethical Path

Few of us would be likely to steal or cheat, but how principled would you be, or should you be, when faced with routine business situations involving ethical choices. As a leader, you need to have a clear understanding of your ethical principles and set a consistent example for your team...

03. Ensuring Cultural Fit

An organisation's culture, or personality, refers to the key characteristics that the organisation values and that distinguish it from other organisations...

04. Solving Problems

Managerial success depends on making the right decisions at the right time. However, unless you define a problem and identify its root causes, it is impossible to make appropriate decisions about how to solve it...

05. Building Power

Power is the capacity to influence an individual or group to behave in ways they would not otherwise have done. Learning how to acquire power and exercise it effectively will help you manage and influence others and develop your managerial career...

06. Types of Power

Your power within an organisation can come from a variety of sources. Use these different types of power in their correct contexts to maximize your effectiveness as a manager...

07. Managing Change

Individuals, managers, teams, and organisations that do not adapt to change in timely ways are unlikely to survive in our increasingly turbulent world environment...

08. Helping Others Improve

Helping employees become more competent is an important part of any manager's job. It contributes to a three-way win for the organisation, manager, and the employees themselves...

09. Demonstrating Positive Regard

The relationship between you and the person you are helping is critical to the success of the coaching, mentoring, or counselling you undertake with them...

10. Counselling Others

Counselling is the discussion of emotional problems in order to resolve them or to help the person better cope. They include divorce, serious illness, financial problems, interpersonal conflicts, drug and alcohol abuse, and frustration over lack of career progress...

11. Coaching and Mentoring

Coaching is the process of helping people improve performance. A coach analyses performance, provides insight on how to improve, and offers the leadership, motivation and supportive climate to help achieve that improvement...

12. Managing Careers

In today's rapidly changing business landscape, managers need to actively manage their careers and provide career guidance to those they are managing...

What Next?

If you find the design of "The Essential Manager's Handbook" helpful for your own learning, then you should download the book from BiznizBooks (it's free) and use it frequently.

The link is: https://www.biznizbooks.com/#/books/940

If you aim to excel as a professional manager and leader, you should be learning something relevant and important in your job every day.

Using "The Essential Manager's Handbook" can be a great starting point with categories on Managing People, Leadership, Achieving High Performance, Effective Communication, Presenting, and Negotiating.

In addition, you can then use any of the 22,000 plus resources of Manage Train Learn, to expand, develop, and master your knowledge and skills.

With regular daily practise, reflection, and review, you will not only become a skilled learner, with all that entails. You'll also become skilled in how to get the best out of others.

Well done and good luck!

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