A Handbook for First Time Managers

Aspiring first time managers and individual contributors planning to be managers will benefit from this book as it provides them with critical pointers to succeed in their managerial role. The book helps them to assess their readiness to be a manager. It details out the four key cornerstones of the managerial role: the scope of being a manager, the function of leadership and management, behavioural skills and manage change. Understanding of the four key cornerstones will equip aspiring first time managers with the awareness on what it takes to be successful and gauge their own readiness to take up the role. Upon assessment of their readiness, aspiring first time managers will have the tools in The Manager's Toolkits to develop their own personal managerial plan. The Manager's Toolkits comprises of two components: imManager Framework and imManager Guide which work hand-in-glove together. The imManager Framework is a diagnostic execution plan that helps first time managers to focus on the right things, serving as a roadmap to lead and manage team and encourage managers to ask the hard questions in their pursuit to develop high performing teams. The imManager Guide consists of a checklist questions which serves as the guidelines during the self-diagnostic process.