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The First-Time Manager

by Jim McCormick
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The First-Time Manager
The First-Time Manager

Turn your promotion into confident leadership

This trusted guide prepares first-time managers for new responsibilities. Learn to lead meetings, hire, motivate, listen, and handle pressure. The updated edition also covers remote teams, appraisals, and generational differences.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Jim McCormick
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ISBN: 9781400233588
Author: Jim McCormick
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
Related Collections: Business, Personal Development
Related Topics: Management, Leadership, Personal Development, Business, Leadership, Management

Description

The trusted management classic and go-to guide for anyone facing new responsibilities as a first-time manager. Learn to conquer every challenge like a pro with the clear, candid advice in The First-Time Manager. For nearly four decades, this trusted guide has brought newcomers up to speed on the nitty-gritty realities of managing people. The updated seventh edition delivers new information that helps you manage across generations, use online performance appraisal tools, persuade with stories, oversee remote employees, build a team dynamic, match a boss’s style, and more. The jump from star employee to new manager is bigger than most people realize -- with opportunities to fail at every step. Stumbling your way through isn’t an option. In The First-Time Manager, you will learn skills leading meetings, hiring employees, motivating others, actively listening, staying calm under pressure, overcoming resistance and much more. With little experience or training, a coveted promotion can become a trial by fire. No one needs that. Turn to the book that thousands have relied on to hit the ground running.
 

Turn your promotion into confident leadership

This trusted guide prepares first-time managers for new responsibilities. Learn to lead meetings, hire, motivate, listen, and handle pressure. The updated edition also covers remote teams, appraisals, and generational differences.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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