A Manager's Guide to Self-development
3rd Edition
Published in December 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-07-707829-4 (ISBN)
Description
This updated edition builds on the increasing emphasis on self development as the way forward for managers, and offers a practical strategy for understanding and undertaking such a programme. The guide first outlines the authors' philosophy and method and tests the reader's strengths and weaknesses. Based on this understanding of needs, the text then examines 11 key qualities of successful management in 49 practical exercises, including communication and working in teams.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
30ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-707829-4 (9780077078294)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Mike Pedler
A Manager's Guide to Self-Development
Book
03/2001
4th Edition
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
€24.75
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Previous edition
Mike Pedler | John Burgoyne | Tom Boydell
A Manager's Guide to Self-development
Other
02/1988
2nd Edition
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
€20.58
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Content
Part 1 Setting and meeting goals for management self development: a career/life planning activity; some ideas about management and the qualities of successful managers; assessing yourself and setting some goals for self-development; a guide to the selection of activities. Part 2 Activities for management self development: extend your knowledge of situation facts; making contacts; managing your time; keeping up to date; facts and assumptions; personal journal; powerlines; differences and discrimination; micro-political mapping; credulous listening; decision making; planning and decision making; choosing solutions; role set analysis; planning change; analysis of experiences; catastrophic contingencies; budgetary control; asserting yourself; response to conflict; practising new group behaviour; interpreting yourself and others; counselling style inventory; getting to know you; getting to yes; collaborative working; looking after yourself; relaxation; fitness; managing your feelings; stability zones; who's the boss?; practising change; action planning; imaging; accepting other people's ideas; brainstorming; approaches to creativity; attribute alternatives; coping with complexity; quick thinking; developing a helicopter mind; managing your dependency; understanding your learning processes; study skills; how do you learn?; mind you language; converations with yourself; backwards review.