Buy Your Boss a Book – P.Sharpe
or Managing People for a Happy Workplace
Silvan House. Not Yet published – Due April 2018
Studies show that a huge percentage of people are unhappy at work, and many of these people name dissatisfaction with their boss as a major cause.
Managers are apppointed for many reasons (technical expertise, qualifications, prior experience, high self-belief, big plans etc.). However, only rarely are they appointed because they are good ‘people managers’. Consequently, many managers stumble in their relationships with their staff. And those big plans? Well, many are at best under-achieved.
This book asserts that all of us can improve our day-to-day people management skills. With only a little effort, we can start to develop better staff relations. We will begin to discover that happy employees are better motivated, more productive, and more stable. We will find that happy employees take-up less time, create less stress and can actually make organisational goals a whole lot easier to achieve.
This very practical little book is written by a successful senior manager and CEO. The book is based on decades of management experience in both private industry and government. It is about how to manage staff on a daily basis, at a person-to-person level, in ways that are simply not taught in Management or HR courses. It includes over 40 simple, fully explained guidelines, which can be implemented at any time, in any order – starting tomorrow. The overriding principle is simple: good people management starts with the mananger, how we see ourselves and our employees, and how we behave toward others in the workplace. It’s not hard, and the rewards for everyone are immense.