Management is not nearly as sexy a topic as “leadership” or “development” or the latest project management software. But did you know you can easily:
1. Create a customized toolset for your managers to solve their daily operational and performance issues? This means they won’t be managing by personality, hunch, or hierarchy, and they will be able to report the status of their work as it relates to Big Picture objectives.
2. Coordinate multiple large projects or complex programs to ensure alignment with regional or global outcomes while conserving valuable resources? This means you won’t have to manage everything on separate timelines, especially when many projects impact the same objectives and use shared resources.
3. Establish your Department, Division, or Teams as a network of agreements? This means you can stop managing people, and start managing agreements for deliverables.
4. Train your managers with a Live Project Workshop to increase collaboration, improve communication, and use resources more wisely? This means your managers can stop managing by task lists and timelines alone, and start managing communications for results.
Your challenges, Your production, Your performance.
Jeffrey and Laurie Ford’s book, The Four Conversations: Daily Communication That Gets Results was named Best Management Book of 2009. It is a practical easy-to-use method for improving workplace communications (although it works at home too).
- To see the Table of Contents, Preface, and Author information, click here
- To Order the Book from Amazon.com, click here.
- To visit The Four Conversations website, click here.
- To take the Quiz on workplace communication, click here and you’ll see:
- The 6 symptoms of organization communication problems
- The 6 causes of communication problems
- The 5 uses of organizational communication
- The 4 options to pick up the pace of work in your organization
- Popular ideas to improve communication in your workplace