Middle Management Survival Guide

Middle Management Survival Guidec is intended to be a survival guide for anyone who calls him or herself a middle manager. All too often the wisdom that flows to the middle managers of this world descends from the lofty heights of academia. By point of contrast, Middle Management Survival Guide c flows from the trenches where middle managers carry out their craft. It is a book grounded in common sense and aimed at creating a world-view and mindset for middle managers that will enable them to better combat the daunting forces arrayed against them. From the perspective of a middle manager this survival guide describes the impossibility of the workplace and the paucity of the tools traditionally available to managers. Most importantly this book provides specific strategies, attitudes and values that will help managers maintain balance and sanity while improving their overall performance as managers. The author has worked as a middle manager for the past twenty years. Tasting both the sweet fruit of success as well as the bitter gall of failure he has acquired a unique insider's view of the daunting task faced by those who call themselves middle managers.

The Middle Man is the first of a 3 part series. It's simply a survival guide for corporate warriors who happen to have landed somewhere in the organizational middle between Senior Leadership and the Workforce. Miller believes people remember things five ways; - Visual presentation - Personal experience - Participation in successful experiences - Participation in disastrous experiences - and last, but not least, a good old fashioned story. Included within are tools and theory to support you in your pledge to move your company forward. The tools covered in this part of the series are the "Initiative Quadrant" and "The Onion." The "Initiative Quadrant" is a work / project readiness and leadership communication tool which presents senior leadership and the workforce with a single page representation of business value, risks and costs associated with all current and planned initiatives within the organization. The "Onion" is a easy to use and administer staffing methodology which helps management and senior leadership understand the nuts and bolts of supporting all products within your portfolio. These tools help to constantly and consistently answer questions that keep your organization fit and prepared for supporting your organization in abundant or lean times alike; What are all our folks working on, and why? Are our operational and capital budgets being spent on the right initiatives? Are the teams working on competitive and absolutely necessary initiatives? Are our staffing levels right to support these initiatives as well as current solutions? Miller's years of experience in the technology field, and over a quarter century of management responsibility in large international companies, combined with his down to earth story telling abilities, help us to understand how to continually deliver solid business support. His methodologies will help guarantee alignment of "the right folks" working on "the right initiatives" to keep your company ahead of the competitive tsunami.

A handbook for anyone involved in middle management in secondary schools. It gives advice on routine aspects such as dealing with paperwork and handling meetings, together with guidance on building and leading a team, and staff development, evaluation and

Learn how to lead and manage people in an organization that values process over departments and horizontal organization over vertical structure. DuBrin suggests specific ways and provides tools to free yourself from traditional management paradigms and grasp the new leadership protocol.

Nurses are already nurse managers. They must manage patient caseloads and care plans as well as supervise aides, technicians, and other care providers. But moving from this type of organic management to a defined nurse manager role is not a natural progression. Nurse managers must command a vast, diverse, and robust skill set, and those skills must first be defined, explained, and operationalized for success. In an environment that offers new managers little support, where do they turn? The Nurse Manager’s Survival Guide (4th Ed.) provides an overview of a nurse manager’s major roles and responsibilities—all the fundamentals needed for success in one easy-to-use, consolidated, practical reference. From tips on building the right team to budgeting basics, time-management tools, and advice on taking care of one’s self (and their team), author Tina Marrelli supplies the resources nurse managers need to excel in day-to-day operations.

Now translated into 12 languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for managers at every level All managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. In today's fast-changing, uncertain business environment, effective management is more difficult than ever. The Manager's Survival Guide is the first hands-on, broad-brush guidebook for handling difficult management situations with skill, diplomacy, and success. Keying on techniques for recognizing and dealing with problems quicklyor even before they beginit explains how to set priorities, interface with both upper management and employees, implement process management, and more.