Be A Better Manager

Managers are crucial to the success of organizations because they make executive-level strategies happen. Despite the importance of management and management development, they often receive less attention than leadership development, leaving managers alone and lacking skills in management techniques. To avoid the excesses of the micromanager whose employees feel second-guessed all the time and the passive, acquiescent manager whose employees struggle and whose goals go unachieved, this Infoline provides a self-development guide.

Tora Estep is a senior associate editor at ASTD, where she has been a staff editor and writer for more than five years. She edited Infoline, ASTD's monthly publication dedicated to training workplace learning and performance professionals in a wide variety of topics and wrote several issues, including Be a Better Manager, Meetings That Work!, Basics of Stand-Up Training and Managing Difficult Participants. She has also contributed several articles to T+D and was part of the editorial and writing team that produced the ASTD Learning System, a 10-volume study guide for practitioners preparing to take the CPLP knowledge exam. Prior to ASTD, she worked as an editor for International Communications, Inc., editing books and magazines for the World Bank, the International Development Bank, the U.S. Southern Command, and more.