The New Manager's Handbook (The Briefcase Books)

Every new manager feels both excited and anxious about his or her new responsibilities. If you are a newly appointed supervisor, foreman, manager, leader of a work team, or group coordinator, The New Manager's Handbook helps you focus on the essentials of your new position and gives you the answers you need to be a successful manager. Packed with useful information, this Briefcase Book explains everything you need to know about how to meet and exceed expectations while fully utilizing your ideas, enthusiasm, and talents. Inside you'll find: a performance improvement model to use as a framework when making decisions; detailed explanations of skills and techniques you can use to build high performance work teams; proactive, empowering strategies to assess your team members' strengths, weaknesses, and anticipated needs; and descriptions of typical problems you'll face and how you can solve them using your skills, judgement, and common sense.
To help you get started quickly, this handy resource is divided into three sections covering everything from management basics to troubleshooting for the future. An indispensable guide, The New Manager's Handbook provides all the answers you need to be an effective manager.

Brad Lee Thompson is president of Thompson & Company, Inc.