Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers - Softcover

Andersen, Erika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591841909 ISBN 13: 9781591841906

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2007

Synopsis

How to develop an all-star staff, even if you don’t know the first thing about managing

“Your employees are, like you and me, flawed and hopeful human beings whose success is at least partly dependent on your skill as a manager, human beings who will thrive with skillful and consistent attention and wither without it.”

Erika Andersen has helped some of the best-managed companies in the world develop their employees. Now she explains how to stay ahead of the competition by investing in your people. You’ll discover that:
· Listening is your most powerful asset. Use it to motivate and build commitment.
· Everything you know about interviewing is wrong. Discover what you really need in a potential employee.
· Successful companies hire for keeps. Get people feeling like part of the team from day one.

Whether you’re a first-time manager or a senior executive, Andersen will help you create a dynamic workplace, where the efforts you make today will blossom into success for years to come.

About this title

About the Author

Erika Andersen is the founder of Proteus International (www.proteus-international.com), a consulting firm established in 1990 that works with CEOs and top executives of many major corporations, including Molson Coors Brewing, MTV Networks, Union Square Hospitality Group, PepsiCo, ESPN, Comcast, Lifetime Television, Madison Square Garden, and Bank of America. Erika and her family live in Kingston, New York. The firm has offices in New York and Minneapolis.

Review

In "Growing Great Employees," İErika?s¨ offered a comprehensive guide to being a fun, smart and effective manager?the kind of manager that any company would love to have. (Leo Kiely, president and CEO, Molson Coors Brewing Company)

"Growing Great Employees"?creates the sense that you?ve got somebody with you every step of the way, somebody who knows what you?re up against and can help you be the kind of manager and leader you want to be. (Doug Herzog, president, Entertainment Group MTVN)

For the past twenty-five years, Erika Andersen has been working with companies to make sure that employees achieve their true potential. In "Growing Great Employees," Erika is sharing that practical, smart, soup-to-nuts insight on how to be the best kind of manager with a broader public. (Geraldine Laybourne, president and CEO, Oxygen Networks)

A most readable, insightful, and thorough treatment, filled with common sense and practical examples. A must read for all managers interested in growing their people. (W. Timothy Gallwey, author of "The Inner Game of Tennis" and "The Inner Game of Work")

The consummate ?how to? manual for choosing and nurturing great employees. Erika's techniques are practical and highly effective and this is a powerful tool for creating a stable and innovative work environment. Read it and watch your staff blossom! (Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, president and CEO, Women in Cable Telecommunications)

In "Growing Great Employees," [Erikas] offered a comprehensive guide to being a fun, smart and effective managerthe kind of manager that any company would love to have. (Leo Kiely, president and CEO, Molson Coors Brewing Company)

The consummate how to manual for choosing and nurturing great employees. Erika's techniques are practical and highly effective and this is a powerful tool for creating a stable and innovative work environment. Read it and watch your staff blossom! (Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, president and CEO, Women in Cable Telecommunications)

Believe me when I say you can take four full semesters of 'management' in business school, or you can simply read, keep, and refer to "Growing Great Employees," This book transcends all the theory, fads du jour, and management babble on the current scene and offers simple, straightforward, and, most important, effective steps for creating a community of work in which people are so fulfilled and so productive that they achieve superior results. (James A. Autry, author of "The Servant Leader")

"Growing Great Employees"creates the sense that youve got somebody with you every step of the way, somebody who knows what youre up against and can help you be the kind of manager and leader you want to be. (Doug Herzog, president, Entertainment Group MTVN)

"Growing Great Employees" is like having an expert at your side, one whose clear-headed lessons provide a nutrient-rich road map for perennially winning at business.
Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group, author of "Setting the Table"
This book transcends all the theory, fads du jour, and management babble on the current scene and offers simple, straightforward, and, most important, effective steps for creating a community in which people are so fulfilled and so productive that they achieve superior results.
James A. Autry, author of "The Servant Leader"

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1591841909
• ISBN 13: 9781591841906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304