The Essential Manager's Handbook: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Successful Management

by D.K. Publishing

Are you looking to take the next step in your career? Can you manage yourself with ease, but need more confidence when managing others?

Achieving excellence as a manager requires a broad skillset, and  The Essential Manager’s Handbook  provides easy-to-follow and engaging advice on the 6 key areas. Nurture your confidence with managing people, leadership, achieving high performance, effective communication, presenting, and negotiating.

With key quotes, bright visuals, and breakdowns by subject, this book is accessible and easy-to-use. Interactive tips and checklists will encourage you to note down your thoughts, examining past and present workplace experiences that you can learn from. Expert insights from management professionals and step-by-step instructions will help you understand how to deal with challenges and gain valuable management skills for life.

This accessible and clear guide is packed with practical, no-nonsense information covering everything you need to know about acquiring and developing management skills. Pick up  The Essential Manager’s Handbook  for quick reference when you’re in need of guidance or work through each section at your own pace to become the best manager you can be.


Series Overview : DK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style, covering a range of essential topics, from managing, coaching, and mentoring teams and individuals to time management, communication, leadership, and strategic thinking. Each guide is clearly presented for ease of reference, with visual pointers, tips, and infographics.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Management, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Personal Development

464 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2016

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book focused on personal development as a manager in the areas of managing people, leadership, achieving high performance, communication, presentations, and negotiations. Delivery of content included visual statistics and short quick reads of info.

A great resource for new managers and a refresh for seasoned managers.

[Boyan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good collection of practices to follow. The book is organized in parts with different aspects for each part. You can read it page by page or just the parts that interest you most. It is very easy to get a summery for each part.

[Khaled · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Essential Managers Handbook seeks to cover any topic that may be remotely related to a managers role. Unfortunately, the result of this broad scope is a watered down reference book which may be useful to leaf on rare occasion. Additionally, the visuals which consist mainly of some colored boxes and arrows dont add much value.

The book covers many topics yet only provides barely a page of information on each section. Furthermore, many of the topics are concepts that all professional staff should have some knowledge of, not just managers. For example, time management, prioritisation, non verbal communication, work-life balance, etc...

Additionally, it includes sections which are not strcitly neccessary needed for example building a brand, writing, negotiations. Yes every manager should know how to write ofcourse! Also, not every manager is going to build a brand. So why include these things here.

Can we have less business books that take 500 pages to explain things that only require 20 max?

Being a manager, is being someone who interprets or develops the organizations vision/strategy and leads a group of people to acheive that target. He/she does that by clearly communicating the goals to his team and ensuring that they have all the resources needed to achieve those targets. A manager listens to his team, and acts on what feedback they give on the ground. A manager helps the team grow. A manager celebrates his teams success. A manager assumes all responsibility for failures and protects his team.


Thats your handbook.

[Rhonda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Easy to flick through and pick up some pointers because there aren't many words on each page. Some of the graphic design didn't make much sense - just designed to fill the space and look colourful. There was some overlap in content on presenting, so it appears existing material was tossed together, not well planned or integrated. No references for any of the statistics. I found the section on negotiating most useful.

[Mere · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the way this book was laid out. Super simple to understand.