Book 3 covers:

C6.2 Working to a Budget

C7.1 Building a Team

C8.3 Leadership

This is a book about the practicalities of leadership for middle managers - about providing readers with the framework or scaffolding to being a better manager. It’s not theory - it’s all about what the seriously good managers actually ‘do’. When we start our careers, we learn in compartments: this course on delegation, that workshop on motivation. Of course hit and run training courses help us, as does a good role model or two, but the best managers are the ones who construct a framework of actions around the main focus of getting the job done that means it gets done more efficiently, with less stress and is ultimately more rewarding for all concerned.

The good news is that although there are some common threads, this framework, or scaffolding, has different shapes - depending on your unique business or management style. This book provides readers with that framework or scaffolding.

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

Explore ways in which you can build a culture of commitment, performance and learning

Improve your influencing skills and the level of influence you hold with organisational stakeholders

Use contemporary concepts and theories to analyse your approach to management and leadership and to identify areas for development

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.

Keith Porter
Lecturer, Westminster Business School, Westminster University, UK Paul Smith
Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK Roger Fagg
Lecturer, Birkbeck College, London University, UK

Provides excellent coverage of the CIPD Leadership and Management Standards

Includes self-assessment exercises, exam questions, further reading and research

New edition of the best-selling Core Management by Winfield et al and companion text to Managing Information: Core Management by Bedward and Stredwick

This is a new and completely revised edition of the successful text published in 2000 entitled Core Management. The book provides excellent coverage of the CIPD syllabus for three core areas of the CIPD syllabus. New end of chapter website links are included. The text is written in an easy-to-read style and each chapter is linked to other relevant parts of the book.

Readership: CIPD students on accredited programmes. Undergraduate Business Students specializing in HR and MA in HRM.

David Pardey with a foreword by John Adair.
Published by ILM

Written specifically for existing and aspiring team leaders, Leading Teams covers all the key leadership topics in straightforward and accessible language.

Leading Teams is an ideal resource for candidates studying an ILM programme, but is equally useful for individual team leaders keen to develop their knowledge and understanding of the role as part on their continuing professional development.

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