Quick Guide Publications
The Quick Guide Management Series brings you the latest tools and techniques for leadership and management that are both practical and easy-to-apply.
You can read the Quick Guides cover-to-cover or they can be used as a reference when you need to brush up on a topic. Use them to sharpen your knowledge and skills on how to be an effective leader.
- Get up to speed quickly on key management topics
- Complex subjects digested into easy-to-read charts, tables, diagrams and brief descriptions
- Only 48 pages so you can read it cover-to-cover or just one topics at a time
- Topics are only one or two pages in length so you can pick it up when you have a spare minute
- Not a thick book, so you can throw it into your briefcase for a quick read on that airplane ride
- What you need to know about what’s going on in management and sales
- Inexpensive primers that you can hand out to your team
Sponsoring a Project
Sponsoring a Project addresses what leaders need to know to oversee a successful project. You’ll find answers to important questions such as: How do you write an effective charter? What should be included in a project plan? How do you tell if a plan is complete or not? What kind of reporting should you expect back from a project leader? What’s your role in making the project a success? With answers to these and many more questions, this Quick Guide will give you what you need to improve your ability to oversee projects, manage the project leader, and ensure that your projects are getting the results you want!
Change Accountability
Change Accountability addresses the most common topic everyone deals with in the organization today - Change! Changes can take many forms: changes in processes, changes in structure, a shift in leaders, new product introductions, etc. Whether you’re an individual affected by change or a leader with accountability for creating change, you’ll find the tools, techniques and tips you need to handle organizational change effectively. This Guide provides individuals who are experiencing change with the Six Keys of C.H.A.N.G.E.™ . By using the Keys, individuals will be able to analyze the impact of the change on them, identify their attitudes about change, recognize negative behaviors and make a decision about how they will respond to the change. As a leader who must lead a change initiative, the Guide offers the Leader’s Map for Change™ which will help you move a group through a process that can be filled with anxiety, confusion and even anger. Both leaders and associates will find this Guide a must have for coping with every variety of change.
Meeting Management:
Leading Successful Meetings
Imagine yourself as a meeting leader with a toolbox of methods, techniques and practices you can utilize to acheive the goals of your meetings everytime - in the time you set forth. A dream? Maybe - but if you use the tools and techniques offered in this Quick Guide, you will find that you can turn that dream into reality.
In it, you will find information on how to:
- Select and prepare a meeting room
- Start and end your meetings on time
- Get the entire group participating
- Achieve meeting goals so you don’t rehash the same old discusion again and again
- Improve your meetings constantly based on feedback and input
The New Matrix Management
In this Quick Guide the author addresses the topics every leader who works in a matrix needs to know in order to prepare the organization for success. You’ll find information on how the management of an organization happens in more than one dimension: the vertical which is the dimension of business units and functions that is drawn on a company’s Organizational charts, and the horizontal which is the dimension of customers and suppliers, where we create products and services through business processes and projects. Other topics address specific areas of managing the matrix organization, including: how to map the horizontal dimension, the relationships that exist within a matrix organization, the rules of optimizing business processes to achieve success, the role of business process and project steering councils, what we must learn in order to manage effectively in two or more dimensions, and much more.
Power and Accountability
Power & Accountability addresses how accepting unconditional accountability can put an individual on the path to becoming more powerful and achieving goals and dreams. As you read the pages of this Quick Guide you will learn how to use accountability in your personal and organizational life to become more powerful – to become person that doesn’t victimize others or use force as a way to succeed. You’ll read about the illusion of control and how to let this go and create win-win situations that are the essence of a truly powerful person.
Accountability for Leaders in a Matrix
Power & Accountability addresses how accepting unconditional accountability can put an individual on the path to becoming more powerful and achieving goals and dreams. As you read the pages of this Quick Guide you will learn how to use accountability in your personal and organizational life to become more powerful – to become person that doesn’t victimize others or use force as a way to succeed. You’ll read about the illusion of control and how to let this go and create win-win situations that are the essence of a truly powerful person.