The Management Toolkit Bundle

With Minds at Work by David Grebow and Stephen Gill, move from a traditional “command and control” position to become an advocate of communication and collaboration. The authors share what happens when managers help their direct reports grow as people and use technology to pull the learning they need when they need it.

In How Did I Not See This Coming? A New Manager’s Guide to Avoiding Total Disaster by Katy Tynan, follow the fictional story of Julie, a onetime star producer, to see how a new manager can successfully make the shift into a role with leadership responsibilities. Along the way, Tynan offers the five essential tips for managers—starting with recognizing team values and strengths. You, too, can be the manager everyone’s talking about—in a good way—because you’re the one who figured it out.

The TD at Work issue “Develop Management Skills With the ACCEL Model,” also by Katy Tynan, delves into the five skills of the ACCEL Model: accountability, collaboration, communication, engagement, and listening and assessing, offering examples of what they look like in practice and tips for building them. The issue follows two employees as they plan an event together and considers how their manager might make the best use of their skills and deal with any bumps in the road.

Lastly, Ken O’Quinn helps walk managers through a process for crafting clear, effective prose in the TD at Work issue “Business Writing for Managers.” He provides guidance for organizing your thinking, creating your first draft, and fine-tuning your words to make them as clear as possible.