Regardless of how long you've been managing or how many people report to you, statistics show you probably aren't getting the most out of your team. It's not because you can't be a great manager you've just never been given the training on the basics of management. For the frontline managers, directors, and even executives who want actionable advice for optimizing their performance, The Effective Manager is here!

Whether you're in sales, engineering, marketing, operations, logistics, software development, or any other field the two most important responsibilities of any manager are to get results and retain your team. No other guide on the market gives you data-driven guidance along with corresponding tools to help you do so. Over one million people a month download the award-winning Manager Tools podcast, and now this inclusive, go-to resource puts all the same strategies, techniques, and perfected tools at your fingertips.

This book will give you a step-by-step plan for transforming your relationships with your direct reports. Manager Tools has surveyed/tested over 90,000 managers over the past 20 years. Based on that data, it provides the best ways to achieve the four critical managerial behaviors:

• Build Relationships. Why talking all the time doesn't work to build trust. Why most managers focus on the wrong topics when chatting with directs. How to build trust through frequency and high-quality communications. How and why to introduce, brief, start, and continue the most important tool: One On Ones.
• Communicate About Performance. Managers say they want more feedback and guidance from their boss but then they make the same mistake with their own team members. They don't know what to say, or when to say it, or why directs push back on corrective guidance. You'll learn here how to rollout feedback so that you can address positive or negative situations in less than 10 seconds. No drama, just better results.
• Ask for More. Great managers are never satisfied. They inspire and praise, and also identify areas for improvement. They work with their team to improve each member's productivity by collaborating on goals and a plan to get there. The Coaching Model allows you to improve skills in 10 minutes a week and without spending hours on a detailed five month growth plan.
• Push Work Down. The very best managers challenge their teams to do more by sharing their own work, exposing directs to higher level challenges, and freeing up their own time to get more done that only they can do. Learn how to Delegate a responsibility in five minutes.

Discover how managers all over the world have elevated their ability to do their jobs well and earn the respect and admiration of their teams with the proven methodology in The Effective Manager.