Lessons in People Management (Books24x7. Businesspro)

Come back to Dickens, Illinois with Tom the management coach as he meets with dozens of managers at Mega Manufacturing. The managers at Mega are similar to the managers at your company and struggle with many of the same problems - hiring, performance management, virtual teams, leading, and 46 other topics. Lessons in People Management highlights 50 essential people management lessons in a unique format that is unlike any other book on the market. • Focuses on the 50 essential lessons that can help all managers today (not just theory) • Easy to read and understand, which makes this a perfect book for anyone who has to manage people • Engages the readers and makes you interested parties in learning how the people management lessons help resolve each situation. The resulting book provides perspective on how, why, where and when the people management lessons should be applied. Simple character development and context will help the reader connect with each story. This format will help the reader remember how the lesson is applied to resolve each situation. This, in turn, makes it easier to remember the lesson when it needs to be applied during the course of your job.

Tom Mochal has over 28 years of experience and is President of TenStep, Inc. (http: //www.tenstep.com/), a project management consulting and training company. Tom has published hundreds of columns, and has presented and trained on project management, portfolio management, PMOs and lifecycle topics around the world. He has developed a complete project management methodology called TenStep, a methodology for building and running a PMO called PMOStep, a methodology to help companies implement portfolio management and many others. Tom has also worked at Eastman Kodak, Capgemini and The Coca-Cola Company. Jeff Mochal is a communications professional with more than 11 years of experience working in public relations, marketing and corporate communications. He is an experienced writer, editor and communications strategist with a background in both agency public relations and corporate communications. He is currently Corporate Communications Director for ConAgra Foods based in Omaha.