A Practical Handbook for the Boss: What Your Momma Tried to Teach You About Playing Nicely with Others

By Jim Willis

Successful managers and leaders know that despite what many believe, things dont have to be bigger, faster, and more complicated to succeed.

In this practical guidebook for bosses, youll learn how to incorporate good old-fashioned values and common sense to help employees achieve goals. Examining how successful leaders overcome challenges will give you the knowledge you need to:

inspire confidence in others by being consistent; consider policies before implementing them; communicate with employees instead of harassing them; promote positive attitudes in the workplace.

The guide is small enough to carry with you and includes space throughout so you can write down what type of leader you want to be, what positive attributes will improve your chances of success, what negative traits are holding you back, and more.

As you learn management strategies, youll be able to reflect back and apply what youve learned to build better relationships with employees and get them excited about achieving business goals.

Our world today expects everything to be bigger, longer, faster and more complicated to be successful. We often have the misguided idea that it has to be those things in order to be good. Nothing can be farther from the truth! The problem with this is most people dont have time to jump through all the hoops that many professionals expect in order to be seen as successful. Its time that we got back to some good, old-fashioned values when it comes to supervising other people. A Practical Handbook for the Boss is a short, easy to read handbook that is small enough to carry with you and allows you to be a part of the publication by including your own ideas and successes as an administrator. In other words, it helps you see your own successes and builds on them. Hopefully, it will help you be more sensitive to your employees, more focused on your goals, happier in your personal life, and be a better boss.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Feb 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491760734

Jim Willis

Jim Willis earned his master’s degree in theology from Andover Newton Theological School, and he was an ordained minister. He also taught college courses in comparative religion and cross-cultural studies. His background in theology and education led to his writing more than 20 books on history, the apocalypse, and the mysteries of the unknown. His books include Visible Ink Press’ Lost Loot, Hidden History, and Lost Civilizations. He passed away in 2024.

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iUniverse rev. date: 02/09/2015

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Remember … You Are the Leader!

Chapter 2 Be Consistent!

Chapter 3 If It’s Important, He’ll Say It Again!

Chapter 4 The Two Most Important Words to Raise Morale: Great Job!

Chapter 5 Keep It Legal

Chapter 6 Provide a Service to the Public and Remain a Professional While Doing It

Chapter 7 Never Stop Learning

Chapter 8 The Buck Stops Here!

Chapter 9 Even God Rested Sometimes

Chapter 10 What Have I Gotten Myself Into?

Chapter 11 Make a Difference to Someone Today

Chapter 12 Motivational Quotes

About the Author

For my loving family:

Jan

Ryan

Caleta

Thank you for your love and encouragement throughout the years. I’m sorry for any time I was away taking care of business and missing any important events in your lives. I hope you are as proud of me as I am of each of you.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

PREFACE

Since you picked this book up, I would guess that one of two things is going on: 1) you are an administrator / leader and you are looking for some ideas to do a better job or, 2) you want to become an administrator / leader and are looking for ideas to get you started on a successful career. Hopefully, you will find something in this handbook to spur those interests and ideas of your own to make your career more successful. What would I like for you to gain from reading this handbook? More than anything, that there are some new ideas within these pages that you have never before considered. There could also be some things that you have heard some place before, but have forgotten about or not bothered to put into practice at all. Mostly, I hope that you can pick up on some of my own successes and even some of my failures so you can learn from them.

For those of you who value credibility, let me introduce myself to you. I have worked in a variety of careers, beginning as a slick-sleeved airman, and eventually being in an administrative position where I supervised seventy people. In other words, I have experienced being supervised and supervising from both ends of the spectrum.

After graduation from high school in 1971, I joined the United States Air Force and got out four years later as a staff sergeant. I did stay in the Air Force Reserves for the next nineteen years, where I eventually retired as a master sergeant.

The main reason I got out of active duty was to go to college, where I earned a BSEd in elementary education, a MSEd in reading, and certification above my masters