More often than not, professional success means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for how to deal with the emotions, conflicts, and personalities you’ll encounter in that role. In this video workshop, consultant Devora Zack teaches the tools you need succeed—and even thrive!—as a manager.

Zack introduces two primary management styles—thinkers and feelers—and helps you develop a management style that fits who you really are. With the help of enlightening examples, dynamic exercises, and lifesaving tips, she guides you through a range of challenging situations, demonstrating how her innovative approach makes managing less of a stumble in the dark.

• Discover why many people dislike the role of “manager”
• Identify and accept your temperament
• Learn how to capitalize on your strengths
• Explore the Thinker-Feeler personality spectrum
• Examine the interplay between thinking-feeling and introversion-extroversion
• Apply The Platinum Rule, the ERSA method, and numerous other cutting edge tools
• Gain techniques to identify others’ styles and motivate based on their primary drivers
• Increase your self-awareness

Devora Zack, CEO of Only Connect Consulting, is a global keynote speaker, consultant, and coach with 100+ clients such as Cornell University, Smithsonian, Australian Institute of Management, U.S. Department of Education, and Mensa. Her books, Singletasking, Networking for People Who Hate Networking, and Managing for People Who Hate Managing, are published in over 25 languages. She has been featured on ABC-TV, Fox Business, USA

Self-assessment companion product to Leading with Character and Competence to address four corners of character and competence.

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Format: Online Subscription

Price: $9.95 for one-year subscription, or five tests, whichever comes first

Description: This instrument is intended to help you understand your strengths and weaknesses in leading with character and competence. It consists of 80 questions that address these eight characteristics: integrity, humility, accountability, courage, learning, change, judgment, and vision. The assessment will produce a graphic of your results and interpretation from the author. You take the test up to five times within a 12-month period and compare your results.

Author's Welcome

You are about to take the “Leading with Character and Competence Self-Assessment.” This assessment consists of 80 questions that address each of the four corners of character and of competence. It will take you about 15 minutes to complete the assessment.

Using a 5-point agree/disagree scale where 1 means “strongly disagree and 5 means “strongly agree,” simply indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each statement as it relates to your own attitudes and behavior.

Remember, this is a self-assessment. Sometimes people are tempted to overrate themselves or to manipulate their answers. Taking that approach will invalidate your results and prevent you from gaining deep insight into your performance and helping you accelerate your development. Please complete the assessment as accurately and honestly as you can. If you do, your results will be actionable and will form the basis for the next stage of your personal growth as a leader.

Once you receive your results, carefully review them and identify no more than three development priorities for yourself. This will allow you to focus your efforts and energy and make sustainable behavioral change over time.

Sincerely,

Timothy R. Clark, Ph.D.

Right-Brain Project Management: A Complementary Approach looks at contemporary project management from a fresh perspective, exploring "right-brain" approaches that are intuitive and capitalize on natural human thinking and activity. Coupled with the logical and formal, or "left-brain," methodology associated with conventional project management, facilitation of right-brain functions offers a good range of techniques for project success. Presenting extensive research and the experiences of project managers who use right-brain approaches successfully, this book sheds a unique and hopeful light on conquering the challenges of contemporary projects. In this valuable resource, you will: Explore the current landscape of project management, which highlights contemporary projects that are complex and aggressive Examine topics that address how people grow and develop patterns of thinking and attitudes that have a profound effect on the management of projects Consider what truly motivates people to get out of bed and right to their projects Evaluate the profound changes that take place on projects and how to navigate those changes Discover the seven principles of right-brain project management, founded on the powerful and rich processing capabilities of the right brain Learn how the successful project manager can become a whole-brain project manager by enlisting resources from both the right and the left sides, and how to further enhance project management by incorporating innovation and flexibility.

Volume of the Business Analysis Essential Library Series Getting It Right: Business Requirement Analysis Tools and Techniques, presents principles and practices for effective requirements analysis and specification, and a broad overview of the requirements analysis and specification processes. This critical reference is designed to help the business analyst decide which requirement artifacts should be produced to adequately analyze requirements. Examine the complete spectrum of business requirement analysis from preparation through documentation. Learn the steps in the analysis and specification process, as well as, how to choose the right requirements analysis techniques for your project.

Managing Politics and Conflict in Projects is an easy-to-read, no-nonsense guide that walks you through the “soft” issues of project management, including communicating, negotiating, and influencing skills that are vital to your project success. Understand your organization's political climate and culture and ascend the corporate ladder to the next level as a project manager. Learn how to deal with political issues requiring complex organizational and interpersonal skills, using valuable review points, tips, and a fictional narrative illustrating the book's main points.
•Improve and develop your leadership, interpersonal, and communications skills
•Negotiate your political environment
•Acknowledge and overcome challenges inherent in project management
•Enhance your career by effectively utilizing politics and conflict
•Recognize and interpret the barriers of communication
•Be prepared to enter into a negotiation
•Overcome cultural challenges

Improve Your Agency's Performance Budgets and Accountability Reports

Performance Budgeting: What Works, What Doesn't is a must-have resource for government officials implementing performance budgeting within their organizations. The author examines performance budgets and accountability reports from a cross-section of federal agencies and offers an objective critique of both their form and content. Examples of the best—and the worst—federal performance budgeting efforts offer insights and lessons for agency officials charged with determining the best performance budgeting techniques to put into practice. Readers will benefit from reviewing examples of other organizations' work and will learn how to use evaluation tools to apply performance budgeting techniques to their own organizations.

Understand the evolution of performance budgeting and its inherent advantages
Examine the performance budgets and results for eleven federal agencies
Benchmark against the best agency submissions, and avoid the pitfalls of poor budgets and accountability reports
Identify the attributes of good performance measures and learn how to develop them
Bonus! Includes a CD-ROM with the latest performance and accountability reports for all 24 CFO agencies.