What Your Boss Never Told You – The Quick Start Guide for New Managers is for folks who’ve recently been promoted into a leadership role – or are thinking about that promotion.
With 21 short chapters, this book helps you hit the ground running and be effective from your first day. It’s available as a paperback or a Kindle ebook.
Neville Billimoria, Senior VP and Chief Advocacy Officer for Mission Federal Credit Union says,
“This book bridges this knowledge and experience gap with poignant anecdotes, razor sharp insights and actionable ways to jump start your career when leadership and management become mission critical. It includes just about everything you wanted to know but didn’t know how to ask with respect to getting started in management – and includes some timeless gems for the seasoned manager as well.”
To order or preview sample chapters, click here. Just $12.95 as a paperback, $4.99 as an ebook.
Managing Friends & Former Peers is a Just In Time Leadership Series ebook that is enormously helpful for people who’ve been put in charge of their own department, and who now face the challenge of managing people who’ve been friends or co-workers.
It’s hard enough to take charge of a team, without having to navigate the awkwardness that comes from being a friend’s boss.
This book takes the mystery out of conducting the critical conversations you’ll have with friendcos (friends and former co-workers), ensuring that everyone can move forward with clarity and confidence.
Sommer Kerlie, Executive Director for The Centre for Organization Effectiveness, says,
“I read Managing Friends & Former Peers on a one-hour flight. The book is short, sweet, and jam-packed with tips and techniques to manage this potentially delicate dynamic.”
To order your Kindle-ready copy for just $4.99, click here.
Frustrated with the meetings you run? Do people arrive late? Does the meeting get off-track? Do some people dominate the discussion, while others rarely contribute?
This book (which you can read in about an hour) will help you overcome all the major complaints about meetings. You’ll reduce the number of meetings and their length. You’ll get better team-based decisions. You’ll even learn how to eliminate elephants in the room, stop beating dead horses, and introduce fireflies to take your meetings to a new level.
Robyn Taylor, of the San Diego Community College District, says,
“So, How Was Your Meeting? is great! I love the straightforward way it presents the information. It’s easy to read, easy to access, and packed with lots of valuable tips.”
You can eliminate your frustration and run effective meetings. Click here to order your copy today!
To Do or Not To Do – How Successful Leaders Make Better Decisions (written with Eric Klein) describes simple and practical methods leaders can use to make better decisions. It’s short, sweet, and to the point. You can read it in an hour and use the concepts immediately.
Lucy Freedman, coauthor of Smart Work: The Syntax Guide for Mutual Understanding in the Workplace, says,
This book is the most painless introduction to participatory decision-making to date. You learn when and how to involve people through an amusing anecdote and a self-test at the end. Invaluable!
To order your copy of To Do or Not To Do click here. Just $18.95.