How the Lack of Basic Management Skills
Can Bite You on the Butt!
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He couldn't lead because he lacked basic management skills.

He didn't know how to be a good coach, how to adapt his style, that listening was key, how to stop conflict in its tracks and how to get a team to work together.

He was promoted because he was technically smart. He knew the company, the products and the customers.

When he was initially promoted, it seemed obvious he should be the new leader. He knew the product better than anyone else.

But, after that promotion he never went to the next level. In fact, he was the first leader to go when the lay-offs came.

We've probably all suffered from a boss who was technically smart, but lacked basic management skills.

Heck, we've probably all felt like, at one time or another, that we could use a refresher course in our own management skills, especially when difficult people "problems" come up.

Having poor basic management skills WILL bite you in the butt. You know - sneak up from behind you to startle, surprise and hurt you.

I hear it all the time in the training classes I teach.

I'll ask participants to describe the actions of the best boss they've ever had. Together we create a nice, robust list in a couple of minutes. (BTW, listening is ALWAYS at the top of the list.)

Then we start talking about the worse manager they ever had. That's when it gets interesting.

People can talk about bad managers for hours! It could have been 20 years ago, but the bad manager's specific bad actions are NOT forgotten. "Bad boss" behavior is recalled in minute detail and with venom.

I believe that many "bad" boss actions come from decent people who lack basic management skills. After all, most managers never start their career hoping they'll be the worse manager ever!

And if their company doesn't offer business career training they're left on their own to make all sorts of mistakes...leaving 'wounded' people in the hallway.

Only to be remembered forever with anger and resentment.

Missing basic management skills will 'bite you in the butt' in these ways:

• people will say yes and mean no
• turnover will go up
• productivity will go down
• you could be demoted or worse, fired.

That's why I'm so excited to partner with Ray Miller, an experienced and practical corporate consultant, facilitator and writer.

With his material, Management Training By The Book I & II you can hone and build your basic management skills.

It puts management skills, lessons and training in your hands, immediately. Now, there's no excuse for a lack of management skills.

Also, if you're a small business owner you can use this material to guide development discussions with your managers.

Or if you're a corporate trainer - this material is perfect and cost effective - buy a book, one for each manager and hold weekly or monthly lunch and learn discussions.

These books provide:

• Detailed explanations of basic management skills and concepts and best practice principles
• Case studies and situational examples
• Action steps
• Printable forms, tools and exercises and your own personal action plan for how you will implement what you have learned

The material is high quality and practical. The case studies and exercises are very helpful. And it's all accessible, online, immediately.

If you were to pay a consultant/facilitator to come in a teach this it would cost $350 to $1,500 per person.

What's so amazing is that each of these basic management skills training books cost less than $20 each!

Here's what's covered in Management Training by the Book I:

• Twelve - 1 to 2 hour how to basic management skills training courses on the following topics:
• Qualities of Leadership
• Adaptive Leadership
• Goal setting and Feedback
• Empowerment and Motivation
• Coaching
• Listen Up! – How to Really Listen
• Straight Talk- Making Your Point
• Managing Difficult Situations
• Managing Conflict
• Managing Change
• Team Building Skills
• Conducting Performance Evaluations

This basic management skills book is an eBook - 275 pages and it costs $19.97 - can you see why I'm so jazzed about this resource?

When you buy the book you can reduce ink, paper and printer costs when you print it out using this very cool and free trial printer utility at http;//www.fineprint.com

Here's what's covered in the Management Training by the Book II:

• Thirteen - 1 to 2 hour how to basic management skills training courses on the following topics:
• Strategic Planning
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Conducting Career Discussion
• Effective Interviewing
• Facilitating Group Dynamics
• Get off my back! Is your manager a micro-manager?
• Group Decision Making
• Conducting a Job Analysis
• Meeting Management
• Orientation Programs
• Making Effective Presentations
• Self Directed Work Teams: An Overview
• Time Management

This This second eBook has 200 pages and costs $17.97 - another amazing price. - Again, can you see why I'm so jazzed about this resource?

And just a reminder in case this is a concern, when you buy the book you can reduce ink, paper and printer costs when you print it out using this very cool and free trial printer utility at http://www.fineprint.com

You can use this material as your daily reference guide - your Management Resource Bible.

It doesn't matter whether you're new to the world of management or you've been managing people for years - you can use these basic management skills books to make sure that poor management skills do not bite you in the butt!

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