First Time Leadership

Learn to conquer every challenge like a pro with the clear, candid advice in The First-Time Manager. For nearly four decades, this trusted guide has brought newcomers up to speed on the nitty gritty realities of managing people. The updated seventh edition delivers new information that helps you manage across generations, use online performance appraisal tools, persuade with stories, oversee remote employees, build a team dynamic, match a boss’ style, and more.

As a top-performing sales professional, you know how to own your calendar, focus your energy, create opportunities, navigate the sales process, negotiate, and close deals. Yet, if you are like most new sales managers, there is still so much you don’t know and that can trip you up if you aren’t careful. Luckily, Mike Weinberg knows the pitfalls to avoid and mindset changes needed to successfully make the leap. This powerful new resource contains candid guidance on how to master your expanded responsibilities like a pro.

As a manager, you are prepared to face any challenge when it comes to the work at hand, but you may not be ready to overcome a hostile work environment, a catastrophic disruption in workflow, or any other of a multitude to challenges that can arise, seemingly from nowhere.

This new offering from management expert Gary S. Topchik, coauthor of The First-Time Manager, Fifth Edition, covers the basics of team building, giving novice managers all the activities and information they need to achieve team-building success. From making the transition from team member to team leader, to holding team members accountable, to managing challenging situations and resolving conflict, The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building tells listeners how their own management style can influence how successful their teams become.

Being an inclusive manager boils down to finding ways to balance power and love day-to-day. When do we prioritize the needs of an individual employee over that of the whole team? When do we hold firm that what the team needs is more important than what the individual wants? How do we ensure that we uphold one person’s boundaries without compromising another’s? How do we live up to the promises we make to ourselves and to each other, all while driving results and hitting our earnings targets?

Developed for business professionals, The First Two Hours teaches you how to design your day, rather than be at the mercy of it. Using research on neuroscience, energy flow, and the body's natural rhythms, it divides the workday into manageable blocks and helps you determine when you are most resourceful, and therefore when you should complete your most demanding tasks.

Regardless of your expertise and experience, it’s your people skills, political nous and ability to build key relationships that will ensure you survive and thrive. Packed with real-life examples and practical guidance, Become a Successful First-Time CEO is a roadmap to help you develop the confidence and master the strategies you need to be an inspirational corporate leader.

The world of work continues to grow more complex with hybrid work, a shortage of talent, and a mandate for more inclusive environments with a true DEI perspective. These changes have created many exciting opportunities but also carry big risks for HR managers on the front lines in organizations in transition.

In First Things First, Stephen M. R. Covey advocates categorizing tasks by urgency and importance so that you can focus on what actually needs to be done in the limited amount of time that you have. Using personal examples and insight from years of business experience, he argues for a new way of looking at your “to-do” list. Rather than offering you another clock, First Things First provides you with a compass, because where you're headed is more important than how fast you're going.

Passive learning just doesn’t cut it in today’s evolving, competitive workplace. Research demonstrates that action-first learning works because it engages the mind immediately and makes sure that knowledge and skills will stick. With a more diverse array of action-based training designs, organizations can motivate learners, provide hands-on, collaborative practice, and drive behavioral change.

When Lynsi Snyder’s grandparents founded In-N-Out Burger in 1948, they built it with a passion for quality and service that Lynsi embraced at a young age. After starting as a store associate at age seventeen, she then worked in other departments, gaining firsthand experience with almost every aspect of the family business until she became president in 2010. She has led the company through explosive growth—today, there are three-hundred-ninety-two stores and counting—and is deeply committed to the well-being of the In-N-Out Burger family.

In your career, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial - going from individual contributor to competent manager. New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this timeless, indispensable book, Harvard Business School professor and leadership guru Linda Hill traces the experiences of 19 new managers over the course of their first year in the role.

The First-Time Leader provides basic frameworks, processes, and tools to help first-time leaders and their teams deliver better results faster. Leading is about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together, to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose.

Our book demystifies the art of negotiation, proving that with the right techniques and mindset, anyone can become a master. Say goodbye to self-doubt and hello to confident deal-making! Arm yourself with the proven strategies in this book, and watch as you navigate negotiations with confidence and acumen, regardless of your starting point.

Congratulations, the day has finally arrived! You’re officially a first-time manager! But the question is, what’s next? How will you manage a team who works great with each other, meeting all their goals and making every project a success? When trouble arises, what are the proven ways to manage conflict, meet tight deadlines, and still make sure your team feels valued? This book will share with you the proven tips and strategies to help you become an effective and stress-free manager, lead a super successful team, and keep your boss happy.

One professional transition that stands out and is vital to your career is shifting from playing the role of an individual contributor to becoming a manager. There are a lot of things that new managers need to learn apart from leading others. You need to work on yourself, win your team members' trust and respect, become a motivator for them, and find the right balance between the delegation of responsibilities and maintaining control. Becoming a manager is the first step in this process. You work hard, dedicate long hours, and give up your weekends to earn a promotion.

Author and ICF-certified Leadership Development Coach Tajan Braithwaite Renderos, ACC, MPH has been coaching individuals to take that next step into management. By offering solid, proven tools and tactics, this book can help anyone transition smoothly into a management role by filling common gaps in knowledge that can hold people back.

Packed with real-life lessons from an experienced manager and coach, Nurture provides bite-sized people management tips to help you get the most from your new team. The information in this audiobook will increase your chances of successfully navigating the journey from buddy to boss.

This book provides actionable strategies and techniques that listeners can implement daily. It offers practical advice to help listeners navigate challenges they may encounter in their supervisory role. It also takes a holistic approach to becoming a supervisor, covering not only the technical aspects of team management but also emphasizing the importance of mindset, communication, problem-solving, and ethical leadership. It provides a well-rounded and comprehensive guide for aspiring supervisors.

You’ve spent years training to be an expert in your field. Years hunched over books and articles, writing essays late into the night on the science and art of your chosen profession. Through hard work and determination, alongside lots of experience, you’ve now become pretty good at it. So good in fact, that you have been asked to stop doing it all the time. You’ve been asked to be a manager.