Sunday, May 11, 2008

Nuts and Bolts Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business by Carter McNamara

Nuts and Bolts Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business

by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, partner in Authenticity Consulting, LLC

There has been a recent explosion of books about new concepts in leadership and supervision, such as "New Millennium" leadership and "New Paradigm" leadership. In our experience over the years, leaders and supervisors rarely struggle because they don't understand such advanced concepts. Rather, they struggle because they haven't mastered the fundamentals, those most critical, basic structures and processes of leadership and supervision in their organizations. This guide will help you to master those fundamentals.

There is an adage that states that, in systems such as organizations, "structures determine behaviors that determine events". Too often, we focus only on the events and the behaviors and we fail to see the larger structures, so our efforts to develop more effective leadership often fail. Too many leadership development programs focus primarily on assessing leadership styles and then cultivating personal development -- they forget that, for leadership to really be effective, the organization has to have the structures in place to really support effective leadership in the first place. This guide shows you how to implement those structures in your organization.

The guide is one of the few that takes a solid, plan-based, systems-based view of leadership and supervision. It helps organizations to ensure a smooth transition to a professionally managed organization.

This is a clear, concise and comprehensive guidebook written by the author of one of the world's largest on-line libraries for managers, leaders and supervisors, the Free Management Library(SM). To see the detailed Table of Contents of the guide for for-profit organizations, click
Table of contents for for-profit version of this guide.

Our Leadership and Supervision Consultation and Training

  • We provide leadership and supervision development services, including customizing the process to suit the nature and needs of your organization. To obtain our services, please contact us.
  • We also provide a training session, Nuts and Bolts to Leadership and Supervision. That training can be customized to suit your organization, as well.

To Order Your "Nuts and Bolts Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business"

  • Before you buy your next one-shot, management training session, consider getting copies of this guide for each of your managers, leaders and supervisors. One-shot training sessions rarely build skills in management. Instead, skills in management are built by ongoing reference to, and ongoing practice of, useful tools and resources. This is your guide to those useful tools and resources!
  • Save $1,000's on management training by making this your company's resource guide.
  • Price: $25.00 each. Published April 2002. 175 pages.
  • See To Order and Quickly Receive Your Publication

Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision
for Nonprofit Staff

Until now, it has been very difficult to find a publication that deals with the many day-to-day challenges faced by nonprofit leaders and supervisors. This highly practical guide is customized particularly to the real world of the nonprofit Executive Director and other leaders and supervisors among nonprofit staff. Guidelines are written in an easy-to-implement style, resulting in a highly practical resource that is useful at any time in the life of a nonprofit organization. Guidelines show you how to:

  • Lead from a plan-based, systems view of the nonprofit organization and its programs
  • Effectively work with nonprofit Boards of Directors
  • Lead and manage yourself, including how to avoid burnout
  • Hire, train and retain the best employees
  • Ensure all staff and volunteers contribute directly to achieving the goals of the nonprofit organization
  • Detect and address Founder's Syndrome

This guidebook is very useful for:

  • Founders and Executive Directors of nonprofits
  • Nonprofit managers or supervisors
  • Members of nonprofit Boards of Directors
  • Nonprofit management consultants
  • HRD professionals working with nonprofits

This is a clear, concise and comprehensive guidebook written by the author of one of the world's largest on-line libraries for managers, leaders and supervisors, the Free Management Library(SM). To see the detailed Table of Contents of this guide for nonprofit organizations, click
Table of contents for nonprofit version of this guide.

Our Nonprofit Leadership and Supervision Consultation and Training

  • We provide nonprofit leadership and supervision development services, including customizing the process to suit the nature and needs of your organization. To learn about our approach to consultation, click
    here.
  • We also provide a training session, Nuts and Bolts to Leadership and Supervision. That training can be customized to suit your organization, as well.

Our Other Useful Nonprofit Publications

Other Authors' Publications for Nonprofit Organizations

To Order Your "Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision for Nonprofit Staff"

  • Before you buy your next one-shot, management training session, consider getting copies of this guide for each of your managers, leaders and supervisors. One-shot training sessions rarely build skills in management. Skills in management are built by ongoing reference to, and ongoing practice of, useful tools and resources. This is your guide to those useful tools and resources!
  • Save $1,000's on management training by making this your company's resource guide.
  • Price: $30.00 each. Published July 2002. 204 pages. Comb-binding.
  • See To Order and Quickly Receive Your Publication

Note on intellectual property

  • Authenticity Coaching Circles and Authenticity Training Circles are service marks of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Free Management Library is a service mark of Authenticity Consulting, LLC, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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