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The purpose of Leadership Skills: For Managers, Supervisors and
Team Leaders is to provide organizational leaders and candidates
for these positions with the fundamental knowledge and skill
development that they need to succeed as leaders in today's
business environment. The book focuses on the nature of the role
that most managers and supervisors are required to fulfill as they
strive to accomplish things through others, which is the essence of
leadership. It recognizes that the many managers and supervisors in
business, industry, government and other organizational sectors
have been appointed to their current positions mainly because of
their technical skill - not because of their leadership ability and
that while some people are "born" leaders, the majority are not.
Therefore, if a person is to succeed as a manager, supervisor or
other organizational leader, he or she must acquire leadership
skills through training and experience, which is exactly what the
author provides the reader in this highly informative and
instructive book. The book consists of twelve chapters that focus
on essential leadership skills including: Understanding The Role
and Responsibility of a Leader, How to Build a Winning Team, How to
Manage Diversity, How to Improve Communication Skills, How to Plan,
Organize and Manage Time Effectively, How to Solve Problems and
much more. Each chapter clearly sets forth chapter learning
objectives followed by instructional text highlighted by a series
of Key Points that emphasize crucial leadership learning issues. At
the end of each chapter the reader is presented with a
Self-Awareness Test that will provide feedback regarding how well
he or she understands the leadership issues and principles
presented. Concluding each chapter is a structured format by which
the reader can prepare a Personal Developmental Plan that will help
him or her gain introspection about developmental needs related to
the topic of the chapter and then prepare developmental goals and a
set of strategies by which skill development can be accomplished. A
final and most valuable feature of the book is the Leadership
Skills Test that will be found in Appendix C. This 40 paired-item
test measures the extent that the respondent's leadership beliefs
and behaviors are congruent with those that research has found are
characteristic of the most successful leaders. The concepts and
principles presented in this book are based on extensive research
as well as on the author's personal experience as a business
executive and management consultant that spans over 45 years.
This is a compendium of sixteen developmental instruments designed
to help HRD and Training Professionals and other Executives assess
the interaction skills of managers, supervisors and candidates for
those positions. Their purpose is to help HRD and Training
Professionals and other Executives understand the training and
development needs of employees. The instruments in this compendium
can be used singly or as part of a series. For example, a
facilitator might choose to administer only the Supervisory Skills
Test to a group of current or prospective supervisors, team leaders
or lead persons in order to obtain diagnostic information that will
help the facilitator design a supervisory training course.
Alternatively, The Supervisory Skills Test can be paired with a
leadership instrument such as the Leadership Skills Test in order
to obtain a broader diagnostic perspective. Similarly, the five
team assessments can be used either singly or in combination in a
structured team building training course. Each instrument consists
of an Administration Manual or Facilitator's Guide and a
Participant's Booklet. The former includes a synopsis of the
instrument and facilitation guidelines and scoring information. The
Participant's Booklet is essentially a "test booklet." Purchase of
this book includes a limited license for the purchaser to reproduce
and use any or all of the material contained herein for educational
and developmental purposes.
This is a collection of 15 team building training activities
developed by well known author and consultant Louis E. Tagliaferri,
retired founder and former CEO of Talico Developmental Systems LLC.
These easy-to-administer team builders capture the attention and
interest of managers, supervisors and employees at all
organizational levels as they demonstrate key team interaction
principles and motivate activity participants. Purchase of the book
includes a limited license to reproduce and use any of the
activities without royalty payments. This is a "must have" for any
training professional or manager who wants to improve the team
skills of employees in his or her organization.
Bellaria di Rivergaro is the story about a family that lived in a
beautiful valley in northwest Italy and the country inn they built
in 1901 that was their home. Emilio and Evangelina meet in a small
hamlet between the towns of Rivergaro and Bobbio along the Trebbia
River. They fall in love, marry and raise a family of eight
children in the place they name Bellaria di Rivergaro (Bellaria).
Within a few years, their two oldest children, Luigi and Elisa,
immigrate to America where they confront the challenges of
assimilating into a different culture. Meanwhile, life at Bellaria
continues through the turbulent events leading up to and through
World War I, while sadly tragedy strikes Elisa and her family in
the immigrant section of New York City. Later, during the fascist
period of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the family finds it
must deal with economic hardship, terror and danger. However, they
are saved from harm by an unsolicited memento from a notorious
personage in the fascist government. The family at Bellaria
confronts even greater danger during World War II when family
members face possible execution because occupying German forces
suspect they are engaged in partisan activities. In America, Luigi
achieves success in industrial construction, but feels a deep sense
of guilt for never fulfilling his promise to return to Bellaria to
see his family. The years pass with the economic fortunes of
Bellaria rising and falling. Emilio and Evangelina pass on leaving
Bellaria to their children. In 1980, after almost eighty years,
Bellaria is sold to acquaintances of the family. However, in
America, the grandson of Luigi makes contact with the family in
Italy and with his wife determines to fulfill his grandfather's
promise, but in an unexpected way.
The book is intended for managers and engineers either involved in
outsourcing or thinking about starting a project. The customer side
managers will learn some tips how to make outsourcing successful
while vendor side mangers will get inside on the customer view of
remote project management expectations. It will be interesting for
outsourcing engineers to get clues about executive motivations of
various management decisions. The authors hope that the book will
make outsourcing more successful. After years of managing offshore
development projects we found ourselves answering a stream of
questions how to do certain things in outsourcing. As more new
managers and engineers got involved in outsourcing and remote
project management, they started looking for solutions to the
similar issues we encountered before. Our colleagues and friends
kept asking us again and again about outsourcing issues, so we
decided to summarize our experience in a book focusing on
intellectual property protection, remote human resource management
and financial models of outsourcing activity. Everything in the
book is based on our actual experience.
This activity based training program gets to the heart of effective
team performance. It gives readers the building blocks that they
need to achieve superior team interaction and problem solving by
using team activities, structured feedback and practical
application exercises as the principal method of instruction. The
program begins with the fundamentals of group dynamics and clearly
demonstrates the differences between group and team behavior. It
then leads readers through a step-by-step process for building and
strengthening teamwork in any organizational setting, including
strategies to achieve superior teamwork and the problem solving
tools that will enable readers to help their organizations achieve
and maintain the competitive edge that is essential in today's
global economy.
Cutting Costs Creatively: A Self-Guided Continuous Improvement Team
Program presents managers, supervisors, work teams and other
employees with the essential information they need to set up and
manage an in-house continuous cost, quality and productivity
improvement program. The book focuses on ten key skill areas that
any Continuous Improvement Team (CIT) needs in order to identify,
prioritize and solve problems that can negatively impact
organizational performance and profitability. The book covers both
technical and non-technical team skills like Decision Making and
Problem Solving, Data Collection, Cause-Effect Analysis, Value
Analysis, The Creative Process and Creative Problem Solving. Also
included is a detailed outline for setting up an in-house CIT
program together with a Model CIT Master Plan. Easy-to-read and
understand, Cutting Costs Creatively is a "must read" for members
of any organization that is committed to strengthen their business
or operation to successfully compete in today's highly competitive
and challenging global economic environment.
The purpose of this manual is to introduce executives, managers and
human resource development professionals to a process by which they
can conduct a successful employee opinion survey in their
organization. The focus of the manual is on planning, execution and
follow up -- three key elements that are requisites of any
management project. Readers will find that the manual contains a
wealth of valuable information including a step-by-step survey
planning guide, model project schedules, sample survey
announcements to employees, examples of survey reports with
interpretation guidelines and a recommended process for post-survey
follow up response action. All of this information is presented in
a way that will be easily understood and that can be easily applied
or administered by any management level employee. The survey
process presented in this manual is based on action research models
that have been widely accepted in the field of organization
development for many years as well as on the author's 40 years plus
experience as a corporate human resource executive and later as a
management consultant specializing in organizational development.
An important aspect of the recommended survey process is that it is
intended to be modified and adapted to meet the special
requirements or individual circumstances of the reader's
organization.
This is a terrific series of easy-to-use exercises to "break the
ice" in a new class or to energize and motivate students to learn.
All training activities are easy to administer, powerful enough to
really motivate, yet short enough so that they do not interfere
with your main training objectives. Each activity has excellent
technical content and makes its point clearly and dramatically.
They make learning fun 25 Quick Start Training Activities is
perfect for any educational setting or learning situation. The
activities can be used with equal effectiveness in high schools,
colleges and universities as well as in education and training
programs conducted by governmental, business and industrial
organizations. This is a "must have" for any instructor or training
facilitator.
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