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    Your Career Sanity: Afternoon Edition: Transitioning from a Task Employee to a Top-Performing Manager Ready for the Executive Suite
    Your Career Sanity: Afternoon Edition: Transitioning from a Task Employee to a Top-Performing Manager Ready for the Executive Suite
    Your Career Sanity: Afternoon Edition: Transitioning from a Task Employee to a Top-Performing Manager Ready for the Executive Suite
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    Your Career Sanity: Afternoon Edition: Transitioning from a Task Employee to a Top-Performing Manager Ready for the Executive Suite

    By Chris Moses

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    Transitioning into a people management role is one of the most difficult career steps for most employees. Many times, new managers come in with no people management training and begin mimicking the bad practices of low performing managers from their past. Your Career Sanity gets rid of this disillusions and will greatly benefit the new managers and the employees they lead.

    --MJ Patti

    SVP People and Culture, CircusTrix

    Chris Moses has given you a to-do list of twenty specific lessons every new manager needs to learn, and every seasoned manager needs to remember. I wish someone had shared these lessons with me in my first supervisory job. It would have helped me start my leadership journey on the right foot, and it would have made my team more successful. Your success as a manager will increase when you study these lessons and use them as the catalyst for your continued growth.

    --Randy Pennington

    Author, Make Change Work and Results Rule

    Exceptional playbook for new people leaders or refresher for people leaders struggling to manage a team. Chris shares some great insights.

    --Dan Aptor

    Associate Director, Accenture

    In this pivotal work, Chris Moses tackles the failures of modern leadership while providing clear and implementable strategies for bringing world class leadership in your professional life.

    --MJ Stone

    Co-Owner/Co-CEO Agora Downtown Coffee Shop & Roastery

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewman Springs Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateAug 30, 2022
    ISBN9781684981908
    Your Career Sanity: Afternoon Edition: Transitioning from a Task Employee to a Top-Performing Manager Ready for the Executive Suite

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      Your Career Sanity - Chris Moses

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      Your Career Sanity: Afternoon Edition

      Transitioning from a Task Employee to a Top-Performing Manager Ready for the Executive Suite

      Chris Moses

      Copyright © 2022 Chris Moses

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

      NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

      320 Broad Street

      Red Bank, NJ 07701

      First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2022

      ISBN 978-1-68498-187-8 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-68498-189-2 (Hardcover)

      ISBN 978-1-68498-190-8 (Digital)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1

      You're a Manager—Now What?

      Chapter 2

      Avoid Becoming like Your Worst Boss

      Chapter 3

      Safely Land the Plane Every Time

      Chapter 4

      Accomplishment through Appreciation

      Chapter 5

      Survive then Thrive

      Chapter 6

      The Benefits of Sharing Lunch

      Chapter 7

      Get Rid of Bad Behavior

      Chapter 8

      Goal Setting for Success

      Chapter 9

      Recognition—the Breakfast of Champions

      Chapter 10

      Fear Is Self-Inflicted

      Chapter 11

      Nothing Moves until You Do

      Chapter 12

      Work Can Be Tough You Can Make It Better

      Chapter 13

      The Downfall of Toxic Leadership

      Chapter 14

      Avoid Being Triggered by a Customer's Bad Day

      Chapter 15

      Looking to Your Next Career Level

      Chapter 16

      Moving from Manager to Leader

      Chapter 17

      Hiring and Firing

      Chapter 18

      Managing Up

      Chapter 19

      Be Careful What You Fight For

      Chapter 20

      Reaching the Executive Suite

      Conclusion

      Acknowledgments

      Recommended Reading

      Business Growth

      About the Author

      Thank you to the person/company that shared this book with you. They are excited for you to take the next step in your leadership journey. Best wishes for your continued success.

      Introduction

      Congratulations, you've just been made a manager. The world may appear to be your oyster with wide-open opportunities for you going forward. You may have limited experience with management of people, which is great news; it allows you to write your own success script. Being careful and purposeful with your actions will allow you to exceed expectations while others fail and sometimes fail horribly at management and leadership.

      Here is a not-so-secret aspect of management: most managers fail. A 2017 study published in Inc. Magazine revealed 60 percent of managers fail within two years. In fact, many managers don't even enjoy the role of management. They slide backward and keep making lateral moves to jobs at the same level rather than moving up in their careers. That's why I wrote this book. I want you to avoid the rookie mistakes many new managers make early in their careers. I also made many of these mistakes during my management journey until I figured out what management was and quickly moved up the ladder.

      I have read many books on business and leadership, and I recommend you do the same. Books contain many successful concepts you can learn immediately and be able to quickly apply instead of spending five years learning the hard way on your own.

      The difference between this book and other management books is that most others are written with the executive in mind who's already been in management for years. This book is for first-time or struggling managers, maybe like you, who did excellent work at your task-oriented job and impressed someone enough they gave you more responsibility. Don't screw it up. Discover what it means to manage well. Learn how managers add value not by doing tasks but by leading and helping people.

      Read this book and understand what it means to be an excellent manager and eventually one who's ready and well positioned for the next step up.

      Chapter 1

      You're a Manager—Now What?

      You've been placed into a job you're excited about; you're a manager. Your only experience is leading projects and watching others falter. This is often how management works. After a few months or years of doing a knockout job handling certain tasks, you're now in a position to manage and lead others. Other leaders are ready for you to scratch your head and try to figure things out. Luckily, the people who gave you the job realize you're an uncut diamond and they see your potential. You have a choice to develop as a top-performing manager or sit and hope this new job works.

      Being a manager means most of your job revolves around leading people. This means you're in charge of what other people do to add value to the organization and justify their pay. They're probably doing the same work you did until recently. So it's time to add value and justify your pay while getting everyone pointed in the right direction.

      Moving in the right direction is critical because with your team, you're responsible for doing an impactful job of accomplishing goals for the company and within your area of responsibility.

      You're the person the team comes to when

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