Hour Guide to Management, The

What are the simple things you need to do to be a better manager? How do you go about having more time and less stress in your work life? In return for a little of your time, The Hour Guide to Management will give you the tools you need to be a confident, effective manager. In straightforward terms, with practical easy to follow steps, the book explores and answers the questions that challenge new as well as experienced managers: • The things you need to do to get people to follow you. • How to give negative feedback and get good results. • How to go about developing a high-performance team culture. • The key elements you might be missing that will allow you to work smarter. • How to keep getting better, including the one big thing that could be holding you back. The Hour Guide to Management provides a clear, basic understanding of what you should do to be a good manager. It condenses these topics into four guiding principles that you can start applying right now in your everyday work life. P.W. Irvine is a management trainer based in Melbourne, Australia, with expertise in succeeding in high-volume challenging businesses. He shares his hands-on knowledge developed through decades of experience and condenses complex interpersonal challenges into unified, simple concepts for the everyday manager. He draws on his extensive background of providing accredited workplace-based training, management consulting, and delivering leadership seminars to create a tool you can read in one hour but will keep in your pocket for a lifetime.