3 THE UGLY TRUTH: SUCCESSFULLY GROOM YOUR NEXT MANAGER

SHARED FROM THE BOOK:

THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT MANAGING PEOPLE

RUTH KING

Advantage Quest Publications

256 pages

 

6 STEPS TO SUCCESSFULLY GROOM YOUR NEXT MANAGER

1	Decide how much information he needs
2	Introduce the new manager to his team
3	Responsibility, authority, and accountability
4	Hard lessons to learn
5	Hiring
6	Firing

 

LESSONS FOR MANAGERS TO LEARN

1. Have a score card
2. Decide what is confidential and what can be shared
3. Get trained, acquire needed skills
4. Has the right information
5. Be friendly but not friends with team members
6. Learn to deal with difficult problems
7. Treat everyone fairly
8. Discipline with fairness
9. Need to make hard and unpopular decisions

 

7 GREATEST MANAGEMENT MYTHS

1. Your employees can read your mind
2. You can be friends with your employees
3. Your employees have the same agenda as you do
4. Your employee have the same work ethics as you do
5. You can change people
6. You can do it alone your employees are irreplaceable

To be continued…..

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