The Manager's Guide to Maximizing Employee Potential: Quick and Easy Strategies to Develop Talent Every Day

As a manager, your constant priority is delivering superior results, fast. You probably think you don t have a minute to spare for tasks like employee development. The welcome news is you don t have to sacrifice meeting today s demands to focus on preparing promising individuals for tomorrow s challenges. Making recruiting, training, cultivating, and retaining talented people an integral part of what you do, every day, will make you a better manager.

With The Manager s Guide to Maximizing Employee Potential, you ll learn how to master and continually practice tactical, day-to-day talent management. You ll begin by exploring how your beliefs about work and human nature, along with your routine workplace behavior, affect your workers ability and motivation to perform. With a commitment to improving what you expect from and how you treat your people, you ll gain the skills to:

Assess individual potential through a variety of approaches, from assigning stretch projects to delegating a chunk of your responsibilities.

Attract and select the right person for each position, evaluating candidates on criteria that really matters.

Conduct ongoing task-focused training on the job.

Appraise how employees are working and provide constructive feedback on a daily basis.

Excel at everyday performance coaching and seize opportunities for development coaching.

Actively encourage career planning and advancement.

Identify and groom a replacement, whether for a short-term leave or your eventual departure, without alienating contenders.

Transfer informal knowledge through job shadowing, mentoring, and storytelling.

Serve as a model of continuous self-development and much more.

Packed with proven tactics, real-world examples, and expert tips,The Manager s Guide to Maximizing Employee Potential will give you an edge on winning, cultivating, and keeping a highly motivated, high-achieving workforce. Day after day, you ll become not only a better manager, but also a true leader and inspiration to your people.

William J. Rothwell is President of Rothwell and Associates, a full-service consulting firm specializing in talent management and succession planning. He is also Professor of Workforce Education and Development at Pennsylvania State University. His previous books include Effective Succession Planning,What CEOs Expect from Corporate Training, and Working Longer. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

WILLIAM J. ROTHWELL (State College, PA) is President of Rothwell and Associates, a full-service consulting firm focusing on talent management, and a Professor of Workforce Education and Development at Pennsylvania State University. His previous books include Effective Succession Planning, What CEOs Expect from Corporate Training, andWorking Longer.