The Essential Manager's Handbook

by D.K. Publishing

DK brings you a practical guide summarising the skills and secrets you need to manage yourself and others with ease and confidence.

Introducing DK’s Essential Managers series - a one-stop guide full of top tips to boost productivity, performance and passion within a business environment. Achieving excellence as a manager requires a broad skillset, and The Essential Manager’s Management Handbook provides easy-to-follow and engaging advice on the six key areas. Nurture your confidence with managing people, leadership, achieving high performance, effective communication, presenting, and negotiating.

Jam-packed with interactive tools needed to thrive in a business environment, from setting goals to solving problems, delivering a speech to developing yourself, this business management book incorporates key quotes, bright visuals and breakdowns by subject, making it accessible and easy-to-use. 

Enveloped in a slim and sleek design, The Essential Manager’s Handbook

- Step-by-step instructions adopting a ‘how-to’ approach across a broad range of themes
- Highly effective ‘ask yourself’ questions to encourage self-reflection and self-growth. 
- Includes essential guidance on management-specific issues around remote-/hybrid-working
- Brings together content from individual titles in the Essential Managers series in a larger “manual” format

Your time is precious, so why waste it? 

With power to every page, discover top tips on how to make bold business decisions; chair meetings; manage teams and more. Invest in this must-have management book and you will be well on your way to boosting your business. With expert insights from management professionals and step-by-step instructions on dealing with challenges and gaining valuable management skills for life, this book provides all the tools you need to soar into success, no matter what your business goals may be!

At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. 

So why not dive deeper into our Essential Managers series? A total of 10 titles, this curated collection of business books will help you hone your power and maximise your potential as an effective manager. Learn how to develop your leadership skills with Essential Managers - Leadership or improve upon your people skills with Essential Managers - Managing People.
Tailored to your business goals, discover the DK book that’s right for you!

Why settle for mediocre management when you can be unbeatable in your business!

Genres: Leadership, Management

480 pages, Hardcover

Published July 19, 2022

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

[Ally Holland · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 Stars
A handy handbook filled with useful tips and tricks

While it's not a catchall for managing, and it's certainly not geared towards any specific business (I work in Revenue Cycle, hospital billing for reference), I found it very helpful in managing my Team, and somewhat similar to what Gallup states.

Especially for someone who doesn't have a management degree.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contents:
Introduction
Managing People
Chapter 1: Understanding yourself
- Developing self-awareness
- Using emotional intelligence
- Applying assertiveness
- Examining your assumptions
- Clarifying your values
- Developing your personal mission statement
Chapter 2: Managing a Team
- Setting goals and planning
- Designing work
- Driving performance
- Valuing Diversity
- Delegating effectively
- Motivating others
- Teaching skills
- Appraising performance
Chapter 3: Leading other
- Taking an ethical path
- Ensuring cultural fit
- Solving problems
- Building power
- Managing change
- Helping others to improve
- Coaching and mentoring
- Managing careers
Chapter 4: Working remotely
- Rethinking the office
- Setting goals
- Working with others
- Staying flexible
- Balancing work and life
- Structuring your time
- Understanding personalities
Leadership
Chapter 5: Understanding leadership
- Defining the challenge
- Leading from within
- Leading through vision
- Growing with your role
Chapter 6: Taking up your leadership role
- Preparing to lead
- Focusing your energy
- Working at relationships
- Using competences
- Providing feedback
- Learning from feedback
- Developing yourself
- Balance work and life
- Inspiring and encouraging
Chapter 7: Leading through challenges
- Focusing on the future
- Enabling change
- Energizing the team
- Managing conflict
- Balancing targets
- Improving confidence
- Learning from entrepreneurs
Chapter 8: Developing leaders
- Investing in the future
- Coaching for success
- Adapting to a changing landscape
Achieving High Performance
Chapter 9: Knowing yourself
- Looking in from outside
- Setting goals
- Analyzing your strengths and limitations
- Developing your brand
- Planning the future
Chapter 10: Improving your skills
- Managing your time
- Participating in meetings
- Chairing a meeting
- Dealing with conflict
Chapter 11: Becoming more effective
- Reading and remembering
- Being creative
- Being confident
- Making decisions
- Saying "no"
- Listening effectively
Chapter 12: Becoming successful
- Networking
- Working with a mentor
- Moving on
- Reviewing your plans
Effective Communication
Chapter 13: Understanding communication skills
- Defining communication
- Overcoming barriers
- Communicating at work
- Planning your approach
- Matching the message
- Choosing your medium
Chapter 14: Speaking and Writing
- Planning your speech
- Developing visual support
- Improving your confidence
- Delivering your speech
- Becoming a better writer
- Writing a business letter
- Using email and instant messaging effectively
- Writing reports
Chapter 15: Communicating with your team
- Listening effectively
- Understanding nonverbal communication
- Running briefings and meetings
- Communicating to persuade
- Managing conflict
Chapter 16: Communicating externally
- Selling
- Communicating across countries and cultures
- Writing for the web
- Communicating through social media
- Running a video meeting
- Communicating in a crisis
- Dealing with a media
- Building brands
Presenting
Chapter 17: Planning to present
- Putting the audience first
- Presenting and selling
- Presenting formally
- Planning the structure
- Selecting a framework
Chapter 18: Taking center stage
- Creating a good first impression
- Looking confident
- Holding the audience
- Taming nerves
- Speaking powerfully
- Succeeding with formal speeches
- Running the Q&A
- Answering tough questions
- Dealing with the media
- Talking to reporters
Negotiating
Chapter 19: Preparing to negotiate
- Becoming a negotiator
- Understanding negotiation dilemmas
- Being prepared
- Designing the structure
Chapter 20: Setting your style
- Defining negotiation styles
- Defining interest-based negotiation
- Negotiating from the whole brain
- Creating win-win deals
- Building relationships
- Developing mutual trust
- Negotiating fairly
Chapter 21: Conducting negotiations
- Negotiating with power
- Making offers and counteroffers
- Making concessions
- Being persuasive
- Managing impasses
- Avoiding decision traps
- Managing emotions
- Dealing with competitive tactics
- Closing the deal
Chapter 22: Developing your technique
- Negotiating as a team
- Dealing with many parties
- Negotiating internationally
- Using a coach
- Being a mediator
- Learning from the masters
Index
Acknowledgements