The Young Professional's Guide to Managing: Building, Guiding and Motivating Your Team to Achieve Awesome Results
- 2h 54m
- Aaron McDaniel
- Career Press, Inc.
- 2013
One of the hardest challenges in anyone's career is transitioning from being a employee responsible solely for one's own work to a manager responsible for others' performance. New managers face the stress of giving up control while needing to drive results through others.
Many of the more than 80 million members of the Millennial generation are facing the challenge of managing others without a guide to success specifically tailored to them.
The Young Professional's Guide to Managing fills this void with a mix of relevant tips and stories, and a connection to rich online resources. It is an essential guide for all new managers and emerging leaders, providing important insights, including:
- How to successfully transition to being a manager, from the very first day
- The 10 skills all young professionals must develop to thrive as STAR managers
- Managing people of different generations
- How to hire, develop, and lead teams to incredible results
- Advanced strategies for young managers, including how to fire underperforming employees and how to squash office politics
About the Author
Aaron McDaniel is a corporate manager, entrepreneur, author, public speaker, and community leader. He has held management roles in business development, strategy, marketing, customer service, operations, and sales at AT&T. Aaron wrote The Young Professional's Guide to the Working World and created SparkSource, the online community that reinvents career mentoring. He is also the founder of multiple entrepreneurial ventures, including e-commerce and mobile application development companies. A graduate of UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Haas School of Business, Aaron instructed a highly rated student-led course on leadership and has spoken at some of the nation's top universities and companies. Passionate about giving back, he founded the Jill Wakeman Foundation for Equality and is an active community volunteer in San Francisco, where he lives.
In this Book
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The Young Professional’s Guide to Managing—Building, Guiding, and Motivating Your Team to Achieve Awesome Results
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Foreword by Jim Kouzes
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Introduction—You’re the Boss Now—What Being a Manager Is Really All About
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The 25 Attributes of the Successful Young Professional (They Apply to Managers Too!)
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Transitioning to Manager—You’re Not an Individual Contributor Anymore
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Getting off on the Right Foot—Success as a Manager From Day One
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Workload Balance—You Can’t Always Have an Open-Door Policy
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Team Operations—Effective Meetings and Beyond
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Caught in the Middle—Managing the Competing Interests of Your Boss and Your Team
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It Depends—The Contingency Approach to Management
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Building an Unstoppable Team—Interviewing, Identifying Talent, and Hiring
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Creating Focus—Building Your Team Vision and Goals
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Your Team Is Like a Family—Getting Buy-In, Support, and Trust
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Constructing Your Team’s Culture—The Environment You Create Sets the Tone
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Managers Are Coaches—Developing Your Team Through Feedback and Beyond
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Empowering Your Team—Motivation Is the Fuel of Peak Performance
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Removing Obstacles—The Overlooked Role of a Manager
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Team Recognition—The Power of Saying Thank You
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Guiding the Old and the Young—Managing People of Different Generations
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You Can’t Do It All By Yourself—Driving Results Through Others
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The Manager’s Blueprint—Building and Refining Your Management Style
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Managing Yourself—Continual Development and Improvement as a Manager
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Conclusion—The STAR Manager in Action
