The Essential Managers Handbook

DK brings you a practical guide summarising the skills and secrets you need to manage yourself and others with ease and confidence.

Introducing DK’s Essential Managers series - a one-stop guide full of top tips to boost productivity, performance and passion within a business environment. Achieving excellence as a manager requires a broad skillset, and The Essential Manager’s Management Handbook provides easy-to-follow and engaging advice on the six key areas. Nurture your confidence with managing people, leadership, achieving high performance, effective communication, presenting, and negotiating.

Jam-packed with interactive tools needed to thrive in a business environment, from setting goals to solving problems, delivering a speech to developing yourself, this business management book incorporates key quotes, bright visuals and breakdowns by subject, making it accessible and easy-to-use.

Enveloped in a slim and sleek design, The Essential Manager’s Handbook encompasses:

- Step-by-step instructions adopting a ’how-to’ approach across a broad range of themes
- Highly effective ’ask yourself’ questions to encourage self-reflection and self-growth.
- Includes essential guidance on management-specific issues around remote-/hybrid-working
- Brings together content from individual titles in the Essential Managers series in a larger ＂manual＂ format

Your time is precious, so why waste it?

With power to every page, discover top tips on how to make bold business decisions; chair meetings; manage teams and more. Invest in this must-have management book and you will be well on your way to boosting your business. With expert insights from management professionals and step-by-step instructions on dealing with challenges and gaining valuable management skills for life, this book provides all the tools you need to soar into success, no matter what your business goals may be!

At DK, we believe in the power of discovery.

So why not dive deeper into our Essential Managers series? A total of 10 titles, this curated collection of business books will help you hone your power and maximise your potential as an effective manager. Learn how to develop your leadership skills with Essential Managers - Leadership or improve upon your people skills with Essential Managers - Managing People.
Tailored to your business goals, discover the DK book that’s right for you!

Why settle for mediocre management when you can be unbeatable in your business!

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