Managing to Make a Difference: How to Engage, Retain, and Develop Talent for Maximum Performance - Hardcover

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LARRY STERNBERG is a Talent Plus Fellow and on the Board of Directors. He has designed and conducted training programs on a variety of topics for thousands of executives and managers and has served as a facilitator for numerous organizations to articulate their mission, vision, and values. His areas of expertise include selection, training and development, employee engagement, empowerment, self-directed work teams, strength management, and leading change.

KIM TURNAGE has spent her career figuring out where people naturally excel and connecting them with opportunities to stretch those talents. A natural teacher and coach, she works as a senior leadership consultant with Talent Plus, helping global client partners with the selection, development, retention, and succession planning of top leadership talent.

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MANAGING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE

"Larry Sternberg is a good friend, a gifted leader, and an outstanding teacher. His counsel has clearly contributed to my success and I'm truly grateful he has finally written a book to share his insights and wisdom with everyone. Whether you're a team member, a manager, or a senior leader, Managing to Make a Difference will inspire, refocus, and bring out the fearless leader in anyone."
—CATHY GREENBERG, PHD, bestselling author of Fearless Leaders: Sharpen Your Focus, top-ranked radio/TV personality, and top 100 executive coach

"We are fortunate that Larry Sternberg has been a member of the Talent Plus staff for more than 17 years. He currently serves as a Talent Plus Fellow, and as a member of our Board of Directors. His leadership has been a key factor in building our appreciative, high-performance culture, which has earned Talent Plus numerous awards, including a coveted place on Fortune magazine's Best Places to Work list several years in a row. In her 14-year tenure with Talent Plus as a Leadership Consultant, Kim Turnage has studied thousands of managers and consulted with C-suite leaders to help them build high-performing teams. In Managing to Make a Difference, Larry and Kim share many of the principles and practices that make our company and our client organizations great places for people to work and grow."
—KIMBERLY RATH, Founder, Chairman, and President of Talent Plus, Inc.

"Managing to Make a Difference is a terrific book! This book provides tools and reminders on employee engagement and recognition that will surely bring out the best in everyone as leaders. Well done!"
—JEREMY DIMICK, Vice President of Operations, Harman Management Corporation

"In 1993, I asked Larry Sternberg to become a General Manager in The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. He and his team achieved such impressive results I asked him to teach his approach to all the leaders in the company. Every manager and leader can learn a lot from Managing to Make a Difference."
—HORST SCHULZE, legendary hotelier, Chairman and CEO, Capella Group, LLC

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Becoming a manager is an exciting milestone step in a career—more responsibility, higher-company profile, and the position to influence consequential achievements. All too often, managers with the talent and ability to exceed their performance requirements fall short because they don't receive adequate training in leadership and team building. Managing to Make a Difference is the answer for middle managers across all industries looking for a turnkey system to boosting their practical skill set for bringing together, leading, and earning the respect of high-performing teams.

It's not easy juggling all the tasks you need to accomplish in your day with the responsibilities associated with mentoring, advising, and inspiring a group of people, and if you're barely treading water, designing a management strategy is a pipe dream. Don't worry—this practical guidebook immediately takes the guesswork out of becoming the type of magnetic leader who draws the best work out of teams. Whether you've just been promoted to manager or feel something is holding you back from elevating your team to reaching its full potential, this lesson-based workbook takes you through a tangible process for driving team performance with enough time and energy left to advance your own career.

From building individual relationships and maximizing your engagement to shaping the culture and leading through change—the logically progressive series of lessons are supported by coherent philosophy, substantiated research, and the firsthand practices of Larry Sternberg, who has extensive experience working with some of the most recognized brands in the world. Every chapter includes a real-world example illustrating the covered lesson along with to-the-point explanations, as well as hands-on experiments you can conduct to attain your own familiarity with the strategies before bringing them on the job. Take the competitive edge you need to outshine other managers with this guidebook's:

• Straightforward, actionable advice for precision tuning your soft skill set to empower and champion employees
• Tactics to negate such draining bad behaviors as gossip and blocking change without sacrificing the rapport with your team
• Guilt-free steps you can take to provide for your own needs and advance towards your goals

Managing to Make a Difference gives you all the latest practical tools and techniques for shaping the highly engaged, high-performing teams that make an impact.