Smart Moves That Successful Managers Make

Any manager intent on leading effectively and successfully needs this book. Cassandra Mack gives away the keys to successful management in a practical, down-to-earth, step-by-step fashion. Whether you are a brand new supervisor or a veteran manager, you will come away with tips to increase your overall effectiveness. Gessy Nixon, author of, The Weekend Entrepreneur Whether you're a department manager, division head, project manager, team leader or an executive director of a young organization, Smart Moves That Successful Managers Make will help you lead and manage more effectively. Smart Moves That Successful Managers Make will show you how to: 1. Map out a game plan to help you lead and manage more effectively. 2. Help your people prioritize tasks, set goals, manage their workload and work at their optimum potential. 3. Avoid the 12 fatal mistakes smart managers make. 4. Make office politics work to your advantage without compromising your integrity. 5. Manage your manager so you can get what you need to thrive without driving yourself crazy. 6. Chart out a course to ensure that your work life doesn't overwhelm your personal life. 7. Increase your value, visibility and sphere of influence. Cassandra Mack owns a successful training and development company through which she and her team provide keynotes, training solutions, coaching curriculum development and grant writing services. Cassandra has written 7 best-selling books and hosts a popular internet radio show through The New York Carib News which is listened to by more than 200,000 people each week. For more information go to: www.strategiesforempoweredliving.com

The Busy Woman's Little Book of Motivation is a collection of insightful lessons and anecdotes that will help you own your power, keep the cup full enough to feed yourself, get in the driver's seat of your career, let go of the ledge, break the habit of self-sabotage and take steps toward healthier relationships. In the power-packed, little book you'll learn how to give yourself the best of what you've got and live life by your design. If truth is what you seek and balance is what you need, this is where you'll find it; right here in Cassandra Mack's The Busy Woman's Little Book of Motivation. Intensely and intentionally Cassandra speaks to the heart, mind, body, and soul of the woman who's too busy to know that she's too busy. Slow down long enough to sit down with this powerful book and you will be a better woman for it. Mischa P. Green author of 30 Things He Told Me But Can't Tell You Because You Won't Listen I have read many books that advise women on empowerment, but Cassandra Mack's book shows you exactly how to own, respect, and have confidence in your power as a woman, daughter, mother, sister and friend, refusing to allow others to dismiss or diminish you. Miranda J. Carr, author of Dysfunction and Heartache If you are trying to reach your goals, create more balance, build your career, let go of the habits that do not serve you well and make healthier relationship choices all at the same time, The Busy Woman's Little Book of Motivation is the guide you need to get there. You'll learn to become more empowered in a tangible way and open yourself up to all of the wonderful possibilities that await you. Kisha Robinson, Co-CEO, OneDa Twinz Finally, a fresh look at what women can do to take charge and re-charge. Cassandra deals with the underlying reasons why so many strong women struggle and offers heart-felt advice on how to live more authentically. Jacqueline Rose, PhD, Corporate Coach and Consultant

Smart Moves That Successful Youth Workers Make provides core principles and practices for effectively working with today's youth. You'll learn: how to manage the 7 roles of the front-line youth worker, avoid the ten common mistakes most youth workers make, set boundaries without being cold and unapproachable, and help teens build healthy self-esteem and take positive charge of their lives.

A book about how the author's company, Value Financial Services, balances happiness for employees, customers, and investors.

Smart Moves takes a distinctive look at essential issues faced by today’s business managers. Avoiding jargon and mystique, it provides straightforward opinions and practical advice on how managers can handle everyday business and career challenges.

Most contemporary organizations use management teams to manage and coordinate their businesses at all levels of the organizational hierarchy. Management teams typically set overall goals, strategies, and priorities, making vital organizational decisions. They discuss issues, solve problems, offer advice, and ensure various processes and units are aligned and interact efficiently. Although management teams are vital for overall organizational performance, research indicates that they are largely underused and less effective than their potential would suggest for value creation. This book provides a research-based and practical model of the characteristics of effective management teams. It looks in depth at each factor of the model, discusses the supporting research, provides examples of how the factors influence the work and effectiveness of management teams, and shares tips and tools for successfully working with management team development. It provides researchers, academics, and students of organizational behavior with an overview of the variables that empirical research has found to be robustly related to management team effectiveness and will enable leaders and management consultants to develop more effective management teams.

The Rules of Management will teach you how to manage your team--and manage yourself. They're surprisingly easy to learn and live by. Now, Richard Templar has brought them all together in one place: the quick, irreverent The Rules of Management. Templar covers everything from setting realistic targets to holding effective meetings; finding the right people to inspiring loyalty. Learn when and how to let your people think they know more than you (even if they don't)--and recognize when they really do! Discover how to adapt your style to each team member... create your own private game plan for success... manage stress and stay healthy... and take charge, as if you were born to manage! The Rules of Work are about how you are seen to be doing it. They are about how you appear to others. And they are about helping you to achieve the success you richly deserve. This new, even better, edition includes 10 brand new rules to take you further, faster. These rules are the guiding principles that will improve both what you do and how you do it, giving you the unmistakable air of confidence that will win you admiration, respect, and the next promotion. With The Rules under your belt you'll have the edge in everything you do, without having to compromise your principles.

The book provides the reader a 40 year "enlightenment" jump in fixing troubled organizations or making good ones better. It delineates hundreds of rules and principles outlined in 25 Strategies for transforming any size or type of business into one that exceeds expectations for performance and profit. It lays the groundwork for: taking care of yourself, the leader, creating a positive work environment, selecting key personnel, improving quality and customer satisfaction, reducing overhead costs, personal and strategic planning, self development, time management, manning, compensation, program and process management, protecting trade secrets, and dealing with snakes, alligators and weasels. The book is based on leading and managing 15 highly technical teams in accomplishing very dissimilar functions and missions.