A Manager's Guide to Self-Development (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business) - Softcover

A Manager's Guide to Self-Development has become the indispensable guide for building management skills

Now in its sixth and substantially revised edition, this practical self-development guide helps new and experienced managers and leaders to improve their performance, advance their careers and realize their full potential. It provides:

• A complete picture of the managerial skills and competencies required from change management to coaching
• A flexible, self-development programme to do alone, with a colleague, or in a group

Key features:

• Part Three features more than 55 practical activities, with references and follow up activities to help you develop your skills and abilities
• 4 new activities including Planning & Decisions Making, Virtual Leadership, Critical Thinking and Reflective Practice
• Radically updated 'Career/Life-Planning Activity' chapter featuring a more personal, self-developmental approach
• New 'Trainer's Guide' offering guidance on how to structure sessions and use the activities with groups

"A Manager's Guide to Self-development has been a staple of the Personal Development module on the Executive MBA for some time. The mature framework and eclectic mix of self-study activities in the book complement the experiential and practical approach to Management Education at Henley. The changes introduced in the new edition mirror the strong focus on narrative and reflective sense-making, which are important in preparation for the positions of senior leadership our programme members aspire to."
Chris Dalton, Henley Business School, UK

"This book is an essential purchase for any manager who takes their development seriously. The practical activities engage the reader as an active learner: it will help managers improve their skills and experiment with better ways of working. This is a very timely and extended new edition that is highly recommended."
Kim Turnbull James, Professor of Executive Learning, Cranfield School of Management, UK

"It is with a great sense of privilege that I have been asked to comment on this book. My introduction to the book was in 1978 and it has become a staple resource for my teaching ever since. The authors all come from a tradition that recognises only too well that managers learn naturally, yet with the kind of structure, reflection and encouragement to take action whereby the learning process can be significantly enhanced.The book also recognises the fact that developing individuals is inextricably linked to developing organisations and if individuals are to be effective they need to know themselves and develop appropriate skills and attitudes. The book sets out what these are and recognises that over time they change as organisations change, for example, as 'making contacts' has morphed into 'networking' and 'using power, mentorship and managing change' have crept into the lexicon. Where originally there were 39 activities related to management development there are now 57.I fully endorse the sixth edition and will continue to use the ideas it contains with my own students."
Richard Thorpe, Professor of Management Development and Pro Dean Research, Leeds University Business School, UK