A Guide on Personal Development for Managers

Everyone is so busy rushing around doing their own thing – working, parenting, fire-fighting, trying to manage themselves and others, and in many cases just surviving. This book is dedicated to managers who want to do better for themselves and for their team members. The content is designed to help people to consider how they can develop themselves, how to control their life, become more organised, welcome change, tackle challenges face on and enjoy life more. This book helps people on their journey.

Building and leading a successful team is one of the most valuable and rewarding management activities. This book explores why team working has become such a prevalent force in the global workplace and looks at the many different types of teams that now exist. It explores contemporary thinking on leadership, particularly situational leadership, action-centred leadership and ethical leadership and provides practical techniques to build teams and develop their performance.

The Shape of Teams

Approaches to Leadership

Team Building

Maximising Team Potential

Ken Giles
Lecturer in Management, Open University Business School
Rosemary Thomson
Deceased
Andrew Thomson
Formerly a professor at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK.

86 stimulating activities

PowerPoint OHTs that can be customised

session plans and outcomes, clearly mapped to the MCI units and elements

instructions and timings for delivering the activities

hand-outs, worksheets and case studies

guidance on evidence gathering and portfolio building

David Pardey
Director of QMD Ltd and development consultant for the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Comprehensive and highly practical, Introducing Leadership introduces the principles and practice of leadership, from theory through to the development of the reader’s own leadership ability. From the analysis of the different sources of leadership and management theory emerges a model that will provide the basis for the development of readers’ own leadership skills and for the application of these through the rest of the book.

Written by an experienced author in the field of management development, the book is split into three parts: Section one – the nature and role of leadership Section two – leading others Section three – leading innovation and change

The learning development is clearly structured and this text also provides the underpinning knowledge requirements for Level 3 qualifications in leadership.

Author: Neil Russell-Jones

Author: John Townsend