Mastering Management Styles: Expert Guidance for Managers: Discover and perfect your ultimate management style to succeed as a leader

By Harris Silverman

The way you choose to interact with your employees not only determines the quality of their work and the tone of your office; it is also a critical influence on your success as a manager. This practical instruction manual provides you with a go-to set of analytical tools and hands-on strategies that will bring out the best in your employees. Drawing on his years of management expertise, Harris Silverman takes you through the various elements of management style, and shows you how to decide on the best approach to take in any situation, enabling you to be the most effective and successful manager you can be.

Whether you're feeling the pressure of your management role or simply unsure how to bring out the best in each of your employees, this is the instant toolkit you need for management success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Release date: May 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781783000470

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Table of Contents

Mastering Management Styles: Expert Guidance for Managers

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

Conventions

Reader feedback

Piracy

1. Why Management Style Matters

Why style matters

The elements of management style

Two axes

Guidance

Orientation

Adapt!

Managing on a spectrum

Managing work versus managing people

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

Summary

2. The Elements of Management Style: Direction versus Consultation

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

What is the direction/consultation axis?

Managing on the direction/consultation spectrum

Choosing between them

The impact on employees

The work

The attitude of the employees

Risks

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

Summary

3. The Elements of Management Style: Control versus Autonomy

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

What is the control/autonomy axis?

Managing on the control/autonomy spectrum

Choosing between control and autonomy

The impact on employees

The work

The attitude of the employees

Risks

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

Summary

4. The Elements of Management Style: Coaching, Mentoring, and Supporting

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

Coaching

What is coaching?

When to coach

How to coach

Coaching is a collaboration

Non-managerial coaching

Mentoring

What is mentoring?

When to mentor

How to mentor

Support

What do we mean by support?

When to offer support

Risks

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

Summary

5. The Elements of Management Style: The Organization or the Employee?

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

The organization/employee spectrum

The interests of the organization

Differences between organizations

The interests of the employee

Striking the balance

The impact on employees

Risks

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

Summary

6. Differences Between Employees

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

Differentiating between employees

Experience levels

Personality types

Direction, control, coaching

Introverts and extraverts

Ways of working

Creative people

The impact on employees

Risks

Case study: Dave and Rhonda

Summary

7. Conclusion: Things to Remember

Adaptability

Adapting to the nature of your employees

Adapting to the nature of the work

Adapting to the needs of the organization

Your place on the team

Be part of the team

Be tolerant of mistakes

Your personal issues

Summary

Mastering Management Styles: Expert Guidance for Managers

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Mastering Management Styles: Expert Guidance for Managers

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Credits

Author

Harris Silverman

Reviewers

Alasdair Dewar

Carol M. Heller

Project Coordinators

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Hardik Patel

Commissioning Editor

Danielle Rosen

Copy Editors

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Ameesha Green

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About the Author

Harris Silverman is a Management Coach and Career Counselor who works on the development of management skills, career planning, and career advancement with both corporations and individuals. He has extensive experience in employee development in both the public and private sectors, and holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Education degree, in addition to a BA.

He is available for consultation both by telephone and in person, worldwide. He is based in Toronto, Canada.

For more information about Harris and to read his blog, please visit www.HarrisSilverman.com.

About the Reviewers

Alasdair Dewar is a highly experienced manager with a vast wealth of industrial and management experience learned across a varied range of industries. Alasdair graduated from Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland with an honors degree in Engineering Management in 1993. He has worked in electronics, FMCG, Pharma, and