Proven tips to handle everyday management situations--all in a fast moving, easy-to-reference format. Learning to manage is probably the most demanding--yet career-enhancing--on-the-job training you will ever have. Let Skills for New Managers show you how to succeed and flourish as a manager.

This short, highly focused model for effective management will help you master topics including: hiring--how to uncover and hire people who will shine--and make you look good; criticism and discipline--tips on how to carry out two of the most difficult--but essential--aspects of management; leadership--strategies and behavior styles for mentoring, coaching, problem resolution, and more. Effective management skills can be learned. Skills for New Managers will give you everything you need to create your own management style, use that style to promote solid performance in your employees--and take the next critical step in your climb up the career ladder.

Content includes:

• The Successful New Manager
  
• Piercing Six Myths of Management
  
• How to Build Momentum in a New Job
  
• Managing to Listen
  
• Speak Like a Leader
  
• The Art of Motivation
  
• Dishing Out Criticism
  
• Discipline That Pays Off
  
• The Organized Manager
  
• The Right Way to Delegate
  
• Managing the Boss
  
• Cultivating a Network