Newly-promoted into your first people-management role? Looking to explore, develop, and prepare yourself for a next step into management? Seeking a refresher to ensure you haven't lost touch with the fundamentals of management and meeting your people's needs? This book provides the essentials and foundations of people management, serving as a resource and guide to help those with new people management responsibilities (and those who want a refresher) to develop and reboot their mindsets, perspectives, and skills in the areas of:
- strategic planning and organizational design
- justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
- recruiting and interviewing
- on-boarding
- goal-setting
- conducting check-ins and one-on-ones
- driving accountability through prioritizing, delegating, and empowering
- coaching and other leadership styles
- feedback and critical conversations
- performance management
- engaging and motivating your team
- employee and career development
- conducting effective team meetings that people want to attend
- change management
- terminations
- managing up
- co-developing and updating a living Explicit Expectations Engagement & Alignment Guide to ensure managers and their team members are in continuous alignment
Whether you're new to managing people in a start-up environment, an individual contributor exploring to see if people management is right for you, or a seasoned supervisor/manager looking to return to basics, this resource is bound to provide you with fresh insights, practical tools, tips, and models, and some familiar reminders to help optimize your people-management prowess.