The Hour Guide to Management
The Fundamentals of Being an Effective Leader

What are the simple things you need to do to be a better manager? How do you go about having more time and less stress in your work life?In return for a little of your time, The Hour Guide to Management will give you the tools you need to be a confident, effective manager. In straightforward terms, with practical easy to follow steps, the book explores and answers the questions that challenge new as well as experienced managers:• The things you need to do to get people to follow you.• How to give negative feedback and get good results.• How to go about developing a high-performance team culture.• The key elements you might be missing that will allow you to work smarter.• How to keep getting better, including the one big thing that could be holding you back.The Hour Guide to Management provides a clear, basic understanding of what you should do to be a good manager. It condenses these topics into four guiding principles that you can start applying right now in your everyday work life. P.W. Irvine is a management trainer based in Melbourne, Australia, with expertise in succeeding in high-volume challenging businesses. He shares his hands-on knowledge developed through decades of experience and condenses complex interpersonal challenges into unified, simple concepts for the everyday manager. He draws on his extensive background of providing accredited workplace-based training, management consulting, and delivering leadership seminars to create a tool you can read in one hour but will keep in your pocket for a lifetime.