Explicit Expectations

Newly-promoted into your first people-management role? Looking to explore, develop, and prepare yourself for a next step into management? Seeking a refresher to ensure you haven't lost touch with the fundamentals of management and meeting your people's needs? This book provides the essentials and foundations of people management, serving as a resource and guide to help those with new people management responsibilities (and those who want a refresher) to develop and reboot their mindsets, perspectives, and skills in the areas of:

• strategic planning and organizational design
• justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
• recruiting and interviewing
• on-boarding
• goal-setting
• conducting check-ins and one-on-ones
• driving accountability through prioritizing, delegating, and empowering
• coaching and other leadership styles
• feedback and critical conversations
• performance management
• engaging and motivating your team
• employee and career development
• conducting effective team meetings that people want to attend
• change management
• terminations
• managing up
• co-developing and updating a living Explicit Expectations Engagement & Alignment Guide to ensure managers and their team members are in continuous alignment

Whether you're new to managing people in a start-up environment, an individual contributor exploring to see if people management is right for you, or a seasoned supervisor/manager looking to return to basics, this resource is bound to provide you with fresh insights, practical tools, tips, and models, and some familiar reminders to help optimize your people-management prowess.