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Provides insights and information designed to help managers develop a portfolio of outstanding skills. This work focuses on the key purposes of coaching - improving individual performance, solving problems, and securing results - to address the challenges of effective management. It offers tools for mastering the skills of effective coaching.

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Anyone who manages more than one direct report becomes, de facto, a team leader, mediator, and communicator extraordinaire. Featuring diagnostic exercises, worksheets, examples, and a listing of resources, this title provides individuals and teams with the tools to promote effective communication, capitalise on diversity, and improve productivity.

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The book introduces the Contextual Leadership Model, which identifies nine fundamental leadership roles and six common contexts in which leadership is exercised, and guides readers toward matching their roles and actions to the particular context at handas well as making adjustments when context changes.

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One of the most valuable roles a manager can perform in today's rapidly changing environment is to mentor and inspire the people around them to learn.

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Part of "The Manager As..." series, this book covers such issues as the development of a free-agent workforce; the emergence of employees as the only true sustainable advantage; and the opportunities and challenges that managers face in their role as motivators. It addresses common myths and misconceptions about motivation.