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The Hands-Off Manager January 18, 2012

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How to Mentor People and Allow Them to Be Successful The Hands-Off Manager
How to Mentor People and Allow Them to Be Successful

Author: Steve Chandler, Duane Black
©2012 | 1st Edition | 224 pages | Paperback
ISBN: 9781601632234 / 1601632231
Pub Date: MAR-12
Price: US$ 14.99

The number one reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is “my manager.” Most managers and executives not only aren’t aware of this obvious problem, but probably wouldn’t know what to do about it if they did. 

Today’s employees do not respond to the old hands-on, militaristic management styles. They are highly independent, individual professionals with their own fully developed ideas. Leaders and managers who try to micro-manage them will inevitably confront wide-spread disgruntlement, absenteeism, and turnover…and increase their own and their employees’ stress levels.
 
In The Hands-Off Manager, Chandler and Black offer a new vision for all managers. With stories, examples, and vibrant activities for the reader to practice, this book shows any manager—new or seasoned—how to coach and mentor employees rather than hover over their shoulders and goad them into action. In this system, each employee’s strengths are honored and honed in a climate of partnership and mutual goal-setting.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Endorsement
 
“The ‘bible’ for employee empowerment.”
—Rebecca Clement, Soundview Executive Book Summaries
 
“Steve Chandler and Duane Black present an approach to management that promises to lower your stress level, increase your happiness and allow everyone in your organization to be more creative and productive.”
—Rolf Dobelli, getAbstract.com
 
“Hands-off managers allow what is possible to emerge while pushing away those mindsets that only bring limitations.”
—HR.com
 
 
 
 
 
About the Authors
 
Steve Chandler is one of America’s best-selling authors whose dozens of books —including the best-sellers 100 Ways to Motivate Others, 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, and Reinventing Yourself—have been translated into more than 20 languages. Chandler is also a world-famous public speaker who has been a guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows. Chandler has been a guest lecturer at the University of Santa Monica where he teaches in the graduate program of soul-centered leadership. Chandler has been a trainer and consultant to more than 30 Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
 
Duane Black is the executive vice president and chief operating officer of SunCor Developments, where he oversees 150 employees and more than 150,000 acres of current and future housing developments. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Creating Personal Presence September 12, 2011

Posted by McGraw-Hill Education (Asia) in Leadership.
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Creating Personal PresenceCreating Personal Presence
Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader

Author: Dianna Booher
ISBN: 9781609940119 / 1609940113
©2011 | 1st Edition | 216 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: OCT-11
Price: US$ 15.95
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It may be difficult to define, but we all know presence when we encounter it. Someone walks into the room and people step aside. Heads turn. When those with presence speak, people listen. When they ask, people answer. When they lead, people follow. People with presence look confident and comfortable, speak persuasively, think clearly even under pressure, and act with intention and integrity.

Presence is not something you have to be born with. It’s not about status symbols or position. It’s not about who you are but about how you are. And it’s something anyone can learn. Award-winning speaker and consultant Dianna Booher provides scores of practical tips on the physical qualities, communication techniques, thought processes, and attitudes that underlie powerful personal presence. This comprehen- sive guide will enable readers to become compelling leaders no matter what their current position.

Booher shows how to master the dozens of small and significant things that work together to convey personal presence. She details how dress, body language, manners, and even your surroundings enhance credibility and build rapport. You’ll learn to use voice and language to demonstrate competence and deliver clear and memorable messages, think strategically and organize ideas coherently, and relate to others in ways that convey genuine interest, respect, good humor, and reliability.

Personal presence can help you get a date, a mate, a job, or a sale. It can help you lead a meeting, a movement, an organization, or a nation. Presence can take you wherever you want to go. With Dianna Booher’s expert, entertaining advice, you can have the same kind of influence as the most successful CEOs, celebrities, and civic leaders.

 

 

Publicity

  2. Article on Investor.com – “Inspire People To Listen” , Nov. 1
  3. Article on CNN.com, “Want to be a leader? Act like one“, Feb. 7

 

 

About the Author

Dianna Booher is CEO of Booher Consultants. Her clients include 9 of the 10 largest corporations in America and 140 of the Fortune 500 companies. She has won several awards including the Star Quality Award from IBM, the Lifetime Achievement Award from ASTD, and she was inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame. She was featured on Successful Meeting Magazine’s list of “21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century” and named one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in America” in 2007 and 2008 by Executive Excellence.

 

 

Book Trailer: Creating Personal Presence

 

 

 

 

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