With the increased pressures on business today, the workplace can be rampant with resentment, subpar performance, and inflexibility. So how does a manager address the issue of employee and coworker negativity, and create a more positive workplace? Using practical information, useful diagnostic tests, and hands-on instruction, The Bad Attitude Survival Guide provides managers with the tools, insights, and strategies to identify root causes of antiproductive behavior, diagnose problems, and foster a more cooperative and productive working environment. It also realistically assesses the limitations managers might face, identifies problems that cannot be corrected, and suggests how to proceed in a way that will obtain the most desirable results.

The Bad Attitude Survival Guide: Essential Tools For Managers

Business & Money

Chambers, Harry E.

Job Hunting & Careers

Basic Books

In developing background material for a corporate training session on ''Avoiding the Traps of Micromanagement, '' I found zero publications on this specific topic. A key word search of various Internet engines yielded over twenty - five thousand hits on micromanagement. There were many articles and references, yet no publications. Obviously, it is an important topic of interest, but no one has given it formal definition or delved into corrective strategies. This book defines micromanagement, separates illusion from reality, offers diagnostic tools, and identifies corrections. It is intended to offer structure to the discussion

My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide (16pt Large Print Edition)

Management & Leadership

ReadHowYouWant

From house author and popular management trainer, Harry Chambers, comes a paperback original for ambitious individuals who aspire to achieve growth, development, and promotability in their current job. Chambers dispels the modern day myth that the only way to move up is to move out,” and provides a wide array of hands-on strategies and tactics to analyze today's promotional realities, obtain critical skills, recognize internal and external obstacles, and position yourself for success. Drawing from original interview research with managers and trainers in a wide array of industries, Getting Promoted shows workers at all levels how to focus on the most promotable skills, manage perceptions of colleagues and bosses, avoid promotion-killing behaviors, and assess the competitive landscape.

Getting Promoted: Real Strategies For Advancing Your Career

Flatter, more collaborative organizational structures, combined with the pressure to translate innovative ideas into action quickly, are increasing the need by technical professionals-such as computer programmers, design specialists, engineers, and R&amp;D scientists-to expand their repertoire of communication and managerial skills. In this highly accessible and practical book, Harry Chambers offers a wealth of strategies and tactics for building these skills, to the benefit of individuals, teams, and companies. In his trademark shoot-from-the-hip style, Chambers identifies specific real-world challenges that technical professionals face in the workplace, and offers definitive guidelines for enhancing their communication skills-from making presentations to giving and receiving criticism to navigating office politics. Featuring interviews with people in the trenches, as well as self-assessment tools and exercises, Effective Communication Skills will become a valued resource for technical professionals and their colleagues, trainers, and HR departments in all industries.

Effective Communication Skills for Scientific and Technical Professionals

Literature & Fiction

Every manager or business owner knows that the most precious and scarce commodity is talent. And it's a seller's market-with scrappy dot.com start-ups vying with traditional corporations for the best and the brightest, while traditional competitors lure them away with flexible benefits packages, stock options, and opportunities for advancement. On the front lines are managers, who are rarely trained in the finer points of hiring, but whose decisions are playing an increasingly crucial role. In the author's trademark no-nonsense, from-the-trenches style, Finding, Recruiting, and Keeping Peak Performers offers valuable ideas for winning the talent war by seeing the hiring process from the candidate's point of view, exploring non-traditional recruiting sources (including the Internet), and motivating people to stay with the company once they've signed on.

Finding, Hiring, and Keeping Peak Performers: Every Manager's Guide

International, Institute For Strategic

Business Culture

In developing background material for a corporate training session on ''Avoiding the Traps of Micromanagement,'' I found zero publications on this specific topic. A key word search of various Internet engines yielded over twenty - five thousand hits on micromanagement. There were many articles and references, yet no publications. Obviously, it is an important topic of interest, but no one has given it formal definition or delved into corrective strategies. This book defines micromanagement, separates illusion from reality, offers diagnostic tools, and identifies corrections. It is intended to offer structure to the discussion.

My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide

Marketing & Sales

Micromanagement is one of the most widely condemned managerial sins, and one of the most common employee complaints. It contributes to low morale, high turnover, inefficiency, instability, and lack of continuity in an organization. Being perceived as a micromanager can also have significant negative ramifications on your career. But Harry Chambers proves that micromanagement can be identified and resisted—both by those who (often unknowingly) inflict it and by those who are its victims. Chambers details the defining traits of micromanagers, and provides a Micromanagement Potential Indicator (MPI) test to help you evaluate whether (and to what extent) you might be a micromanager. He provides real-world examples of micromanagement in action, analysis of the damage it does, and advice on what to do about it—whether you’re the victim or the perpetrator. He offers detailed, field-tested strategies that will eliminate the damage that over-controlling behavior causes and increase creativity, risk-taking, productivity, and initiative in any organization.

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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Books by Chambers, Harry E.

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The Bad Attitude Survival Guide: Essential Tools For Managers

My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide (16pt Large Print Edition)

Getting Promoted: Real Strategies For Advancing Your Career

Effective Communication Skills for Scientific and Technical Professionals

Finding, Hiring, and Keeping Peak Performers: Every Manager's Guide

My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide

My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide