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The Best Damn Management Book Ever: 9 Keys to Creating Self-Motivated High Achievers
Written by Warren Greshes
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If you want your staff to perform at their best, then you need to become the best damn manager ever, someone who can ignite your employees' passion for their jobs, enabling them to execute their duties at a high level whether you're there or not. The Best Damn Management Book Ever teaches managers, executives, and business owners how to do just that. From the acclaimed author of The Best Damn Sales Book Ever, this concise trove of management wisdom outlines the nine keys to creating self-motivated high achievers.
The Best Damn Management Book Ever uses entertaining real-life stories to explain practical, easy-to-implement strategies to hone your leadership skills. Learn to communicate more effectively with the people who report to you, gain insight, and determine each employee's "Hot Buttons" and motivators. Get detailed steps for creating a culture of excellence, including:
Set high standards, and help your people build winning streaks with daily goals that incrementally expand their comfort zones
Clearly explain to all of your employees the importance of their jobs
Teach people the tools and techniques to be self-motivated
Create opportunities for your middle-of-the-pack employees to interact with your top 10 percent
Learn to offer constructive criticism balanced by praise, recognition, and positive reinforcement
Let people do their jobs so that you don't waste your higher salary performing lower level tasks
Become the best damn leader your staff needs to achieve their goals and blow away the competition.
The Best Damn Management Book Ever uses entertaining real-life stories to explain practical, easy-to-implement strategies to hone your leadership skills. Learn to communicate more effectively with the people who report to you, gain insight, and determine each employee's "Hot Buttons" and motivators. Get detailed steps for creating a culture of excellence, including:
Set high standards, and help your people build winning streaks with daily goals that incrementally expand their comfort zones
Clearly explain to all of your employees the importance of their jobs
Teach people the tools and techniques to be self-motivated
Create opportunities for your middle-of-the-pack employees to interact with your top 10 percent
Learn to offer constructive criticism balanced by praise, recognition, and positive reinforcement
Let people do their jobs so that you don't waste your higher salary performing lower level tasks
Become the best damn leader your staff needs to achieve their goals and blow away the competition.
Author
Warren Greshes
Greshes started his business career in 1973 as a salesman in New York City's Garment Center. By the time he left in 1983, he was running a multi-million dollar manufacturing company. From 1984 to 1986 he was V.P. of Sales & Marketing for a NYC consulting company and in that time tripled their sales. He left in 1986 to start his own business as a professional speaker and over the last 20+ years has been a featured keynote speaker, with an expertise in sales, motivation and customer service, at thousands of corporate and association events on 3 continents.
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