Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It!: Manage, Motivate, and Get Results from Every Employee - Hardcover

Blacklock,Jean; Jacks,Evelyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071470530 ISBN 13: 9780071470537

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2006

Synopsis

Ambition, charisma, and an innovative approach are valuable qualities, but they don't guarantee that a person will deliver great leadership in a business environment. To make a mark and move ahead, today's managers need hard team-building skills on top of abstract individual leadership traits.

The goal is not only to be respected by your employees, but to cut to the chase in how you evaluate new talent, cultivate it, motivate it, and then assemble a complementary team of people that together more than achieve your quarterly goals. That's leadership that delivers. The goal is to Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It!

This book is unlike any business leadership guide on the market. It reveals the four key responsibilities that every manager must embrace to assemble a high-performance team in today's globally competitive marketplace, operating 24/7 at lightning speed:

• Deliver consistent leadership role modeling
• Create a work structure geared towards success
• Develop the right plan to reach your team's goals
• Find the right people to make it all happen

This groundbreaking volume teaches the leadership skills that ambitious subordinates will respond to as build communities of satisfied customers, bosses and shareholders. Just as important, it shows you how to address negative behaviors that can hurt both businesses and careers.

Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It! will help you and all your employees reach their highest work potential-both in productivity and personal fulfillment.

“An enjoyable and practical book...anyone in a management role who wants validation of current techniques or who wants to learn a few new ones will find the reading time well spent.”-George Haran, Investment Executive

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Lead your employees, your team, and your company to greater profits and fulfillment

Managers have to recruit talent, model disciplined leadership, and merge a collection of egos into a focused team capable of consistently meeting deadlines and delivering its financial plan.

But the fact is, challenging work, opportunities to shine and move ahead, and being part of something that matters can be as powerful as a paycheck. Jean Blacklock and Evelyn Jacks identify the steps a manager must take to become a respected, motivating leader, as well as a first-rate team builder. Read this book and learn how to:

• Identify the talent and personalities best suited to your team
• Implement a motivational system of challenges and rewards
• Isolate and resolve negative behaviors
• Deal with employees who “just don't get it”
• Be Accountable, Bold, Caring and Detached--the ABCD's of Today's Top Leaders

"Get Your People to Work Like They Mean It! is an enjoyable and practical book...anyone in a management role who wants validation of current techniques or who wants to learn a few new ones will find the reading time well spent."--Investment Executive

About the Author:

Jean Blacklock is Chief Operating Officer of BMO Trust Company, as well as Vice President & Managing Director, Personal Trust Services for BMO Harris Private Banking. She is often quoted in the press on financial and management issues, and speaks to industry groups on wealth-building, motivation, and career progression. She is the co-author of Food for Thought: Bringing Estate Planning to Life.

Evelyn Jacks is a bestselling author of numerous books, an internationally award-winning entrepreneur of the year and founder and CEO of two national education companies. She is a nationally known tax and fiscal policy commentator in print, radio, and television. She is currently the founder and president of The Knowledge Bureau, Canada's leading continuing education publisher in the tax and financial services industry.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0071470530
• ISBN 13: 9780071470537
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240