Growing Great Employees

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BooksGrowing Great Employees

Comprehensive Guide to the Art and Practice of Managing People

Growing Great Employees is conversational, anecdotal, and humorous – much more fun to read than the typical advice to managers.

The book covers the whole cycle of employment, from recruiting, to hiring and orienting, through developing and career transitions. For each point in the cycle you’ll find practical instructions with simple models, real-life examples, and self-directed activities to try things for yourself. It’s a well-tested, systematic guide to creating a workplace where people thrive — and get great results.

Learn such easier-said-than-done skills as:

  • Influence through Listening: using listening to motivate and build commitment;
  • Targeted Interviewing: clarifying what you need most in an employee, and assessing how each candidate fills those needs;
  • Hiring for Keeps: getting employees started off on the right foot, so that they’re committed and contributing as quickly as possible;
  • Feedback for Action: discovering the strengths and Achilles’ heels of individual employees, and giving feedback that will help them improve without discouraging them;
  • Delegating that Sticks: giving employees more responsibility – and feeling confident they’ll succeed;
  • Firing with Integrity: how to let someone go without damaging them, yourself or the company.

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Comprehensive Guide to the Art and Practice of Managing People

Grow­ing Great Employ­ees is con­ver­sa­tion­al, anec­do­tal, and humor­ous – much more fun to read than the typ­i­cal advice to managers.

The book cov­ers the whole cycle of employ­ment, from recruit­ing, to hir­ing and ori­ent­ing, through devel­op­ing and career tran­si­tions. For each point in the cycle you’ll find prac­ti­cal instruc­tions with sim­ple mod­els, real-life exam­ples, and self-direct­ed activ­i­ties to try things for your­self. It’s a well-test­ed, sys­tem­at­ic guide to cre­at­ing a work­place where peo­ple thrive — and get great results.

Learn such eas­i­er-said-than-done skills as:

  • Influ­ence through Lis­ten­ing: using lis­ten­ing to moti­vate and build commitment;
  • Tar­get­ed Inter­view­ing: clar­i­fy­ing what you need most in an employ­ee, and assess­ing how each can­di­date fills those needs;
  • Hir­ing for Keeps: get­ting employ­ees start­ed off on the right foot, so that they’re com­mit­ted and con­tribut­ing as quick­ly as possible;
  • Feed­back for Action: dis­cov­er­ing the strengths and Achilles’ heels of indi­vid­ual employ­ees, and giv­ing feed­back that will help them improve with­out dis­cour­ag­ing them;
  • Del­e­gat­ing that Sticks: giv­ing employ­ees more respon­si­bil­i­ty – and feel­ing con­fi­dent they’ll succeed;
  • Fir­ing with Integri­ty: how to let some­one go with­out dam­ag­ing them, your­self or the company.

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