The ASTD Management Development Handbook

  • 10h 22m
  • Lisa Haneberg (ed)
  • Association for Talent Development
  • 2012

The ASTD Management Development Handbook is a powerful and useful collection of writing covering many aspects of management in today’s business climate. Deftly edited by management expert Lisa Haneberg, The ASTD Management Development Handbook provides the best and most insightful thinking on leadership from modern management professionals who are in touch with the issues, challenges, opportunities, and dynamics present in contemporary corporate culture. These contributors, while writing in a range of styles and on a range of management- and leadership-related topics, have in common a great deal of real-world managerial experience, a passion for communicating their insights clearly, and a desire to share their cutting-edge thinking on best management practices.

Among its many focused lessons, some of the aspects of successful management today covered by The ASTD Management Development Handbook are:

  • understanding and working with the complexity, power, and energy dynamics within organizations
  • creating workplace cultures where authenticity, openness, quality, community, happiness, and recognition flourish
  • the importance of continued learning, and the crucial role the brain physiology and performance connection plays in leadership and management
  • grasping and utilizing the manager’s role in creating and transforming organizational culture
  • developing, leading, and maintaining teams that work efficiently and productively together, and learning how to enable overall team success
  • the theory and practice of management as a social act, and the requirements and opportunities this offers
  • using conveyance to increase performance and build success for yourself, your team members, and your organization
  • becoming adept at creating, inspiring, and engaging productive workplaces.

In collecting and distilling the wisdom of a broad range of experienced management and leadership practitioners and thinkers, each of whom writes on his or her own specific area of expertise, The ASTD Management Development Handbook suffers from no blind spots or filler chapters. Instead, it is a vital, cohesive compilation of the most current thinking on modern managerial practices available today, filled with concise, focused, pragmatic lessons and wisdom.

About the Editor

Lisa Haneberg is a leadership and management author, speaker, researcher, and consultant with over 25 years of experience providing executive and management development and training and coaching solutions for organizations large and small. With many books on coaching, management, and leadership to her credit, Lisa has also worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies, and is in the process of completing her PhD in management at Walden University.

In this Book

  • Complexity and Perseverance
  • The Way We're Working Isn't Working: More and More, Less and Less
  • Irreverence as a Managerial Tool: What Managers Can Learn From Tina Fey, Martin Luther, and Bob Dylan
  • The Five Universal Themes in Business
  • Positively Using Your Power
  • New Evidence of Servant Leadership's Efficacy as a Managerial Approach
  • Two Good Things About Cats and Eight More Perspectives for Results
  • The Manager's Role in Creating a Learning Culture
  • Managing Scenario Projects
  • A Note on Women and Power
  • Brainpowered Tone Tools to Manage Excellence
  • Who Says There's No Crying in Leadership?
  • The LPK Field Guide—An Inspiring Model for Communicating Expectations
  • Rethinking Your Organization as a Community—The Open Source Way
  • From Quality to Excellence: Essential Strategies for Building a Quality-Oriented Culture
  • The Mesh: Access Over Ownership
  • Should Managers Care About Employee Happiness?
  • The Manager as Extreme Leader
  • Winning with a Culture of Recognition
  • Creating a Sharing Society
  • Are SMART Goals Dumb?
  • How Team Building Really Works
  • Get Rid of the Dotted Lines: Accountability and Authority in Managerial Relationships
  • Performance Management at Ground Level
  • The First Secret of Improvisation—Yes! Space
  • Engaging Management: Put an End to Employee Engagement
  • Creating Winning Teams
  • Co-Create: Building a Successful, Enduring Organization One Project at a Time
  • You're Not the Boss of Me
  • Make Talent Your Business
  • Unmanaging the Network
  • How to Fascinate
  • ValYouCasting: The New Workforce Social Competencies
  • Using Social Media to Create Systems of Engagement
  • How to Run a Great Web Meeting
  • Convening: The Ultimate Management App
  • The Multicultural and Multigenerational Workplace: What Are the Future Challenges to Leaders?
  • Conclusion—Management Is a Craft
  • Reference Section—For Further Exploration!
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