Managing people for the first time : gaining commitment and improving performance

This book shows: how to move from taking orders to giving them.

Absolutely everybody in all types of organisation - business, professional, governmental, academic - has to make the critical leap to managing people for the first time.

There are countless books on managing people but very little written from the perspective of the novice, someone faced with the daunting task of changing from following instructions to giving them.

First published by Pitman, the book instantly caught on and was widely adopted in businesses and in particular the public sector.

It has now been fully updated and revise to reflect recent changes theory and practice.