
Leadership Skills for Managers
31 Skills, Strategies and Tactics to Build a Self-Sufficient, High-Performing Team, Retain Top-Notch Talent and Create Self-Confident Future Leaders
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J. Viva
About this listen
Managing people is hard. This book will give you the tips and tricks you need to lead with style and grace.
One of the biggest challenges for managers today is recruiting and maintaining quality employees. Authoritative managerial styles don’t work anymore. Today’s employees aren’t interested in blindly taking orders from the top and working dead-end jobs.
To build a successful business, you must also have employees who feel invested in the company’s success. They have to want the same things you want. They have to feel empowered to make good decisions.
A true leader shows empathy, communicates effectively, and builds trust: skills you can use to drive success.
If you have been looking for ways to increase efficiency while boosting employee satisfaction—in short, ways to be the most effective leader you can be—look no further. This book will show you how to harness negotiation, motivation, and persuasion skills to keep your employees invested and united in a common goal: business success.
Inside Leadership Skills for Managers, you will discover how to:
- Build happier teams with stronger performance.
- Effectively intervene in team conflicts.
- Set group goals and delegate.
- Encourage cohesion among team members.
- Create a management system that works.
- And much, much more!
This work outlines the latest management theory to build stronger teams.
Learn to manage your employees or teams more effectively.
Get this book today and find out how to maximize your leadership potential.
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- NathanS
- 02-13-23
Copious, Abundant, Overflowing With Knowledge!
This book is an encyclopedia of information for managers and would-be managers to become skillful leaders and lead their teams and, ultimately, their organizations to success. There are more than 31 skills explained in detail here. Author J. Viva and narrator Jack Nolan have done a wonderful job and have presented the book and all their citations skillfully.
A few things that stood out for me:
- Managers drive fundamental change in any organization.
- Teams are the basis of any organization.
- In organizations, nobody is indispensable, but everybody is necessary.
- Always be your best version.
- To be the best manager, you have to master the context.
- Believe in yourself and lead; your team will follow you.
- Employee well-being and mental health should always be paramount.
And many, many more. If you want to be a skillful manager, look no further; get this book now!
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- SS1967
- 02-26-23
Tactical Management Skills
Pretty much everything a new, or experienced manager needs to refine build or refine their skill set around managing, and developing a team. Functional strategies target maximizing talents and inherent skill sets, positive character traits, and ideals for enhancing team cohesion and productivity. Excellent resource.
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Excellent leadership primer for managers
Having been in leadership at various levels, I can recommend this book for managers! Well done.
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- Travis Warner
- 02-11-23
Extremely Helpful!
Learned a ton listening to this audiobook. My favorite part was the section on team conflicts. I have always struggled in this category, and the author's wisdom and experience was really helpful! I also thought the narrator had great pacing and a pleasant voice for the material! A joy to listen to.
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- Abby
- 02-15-23
Lots of information!
In terms of the information it provided to its listeners, this audiobook is useful and in-depth. It gives managers or anybody serving in a leadership role inside any business a clear roadmap of tactics for how to attract and keep staff and build successful teams that can accomplish objectives. The author's placement of the information is easy and simple to follow. It showcases the various difficulties that contemporary leaders must overcome. Managers and leaders may manage their life with the aid of this wonderful tool. Anybody who wants to be at the top of their game in life should consider it, not just leaders.
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- Nir
- 02-14-23
You can be a strong leader
It's really hard to manage people. I know it as I have led a group of colleagues for a small not-for-profit organization, and it was not a cup of tea- so many challenges and obstacles. I could have used the insights and tips in this book during those times. This book contains lots of practical tips and strategies that will help you be an effective and confident leader, help build a strong and efficient team and create an enjoyable work environment. Definitely recommend.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-23-23
valuable insights and practical tips
If you want to be an effective leader and build a successful business, then Leadership Skills for Managers is the audiobook for you. It's full of valuable insights and practical tips for managing people in a way that inspires them to work towards a common goal.
The author shows you how to communicate effectively, build trust, and motivate your team to achieve greatness. The book outlines the latest management theory and teaches you how to delegate tasks, intervene in conflicts, and create a management system that works.
If you're a manager or business owner looking to increase efficiency and boost employee satisfaction, then this audiobook is a must-listen. It will help you become the kind of leader your team needs to succeed.
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- Elena Janero
- 03-01-23
Awesome book on leadership for the 21st century
This book is awesome because it really gets down to the more modern style of management and leadership that’s effective in 2023. I got my masters in I/O psychology and did my capstone project on leadership. I’m always curious to see what other people have to say about how to be a good leader, and this book includes many of the things I learned in grad school. It emphasizes the type of leadership where you lead by example, how to keep your employees (high turnover is such a problem today), and how to best communicate with your team.
I highly recommend!
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- Danielle D.
- 02-13-23
Perfect book for leadership
I've learned alot from listening to this book in terms of improving my management skills and communication with my staff.
Since applying the new methods I learned I've noticed an improvement in my staff when it comes to their motivation and drive to do a great job.
I highly recommend this book, it was well written and we'll narrated.
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- Jessica J.
- 02-21-23
Great Info for All Professionals
I run a talent division at my company which includes training our management staff. This was a super handy tool with awesome insight. I plan to give this to our managers.
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