Easy-to-understand approach to helping managers help themselves. The material in this workbook is arranged in a carefully planned sequence for use in seminar work sessions or for your private study. It also provides a practical on-the-job resource. Each section includes useful exercises designed to reinforce your learning.

Whatever your management job may be, this book will help you. You will learn:

• How skills must change.
• What effective managers do.
• How to establish workable goals.
• When problems can lead to growth.
• How to be a better judge of your own progress.

If you're not now a supervisor, it will help you:

• Decide whether you really want to be in management.
• Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses.
• Determine how they affect your work habits.
• Schedule your time.
• Set Priorities.
• Analyze your communication effectiveness.
• Test your skill in making decisions.
• Measure your performance objectively.

Management development is your responsibility. In this book you will concentrate on effective management ideas and practices, but more than that, you are given the opportunity to take a unique look at yourself and your personal development as a manager.

The Leader's Guide offers complete instructions, specific pre and post meeting assignments, tests and master copies of visuals.

"What Managers Need to Know is the åbed rockÇ management training program needed by everyone who thinks they are promotable."

-- Brian Cook, President, Famous Footwear