Training & Development for Haas Supervisors & Managers
Reading Materials
The titles below are additional sources of information related to the topics covered in various activities of the Curriculum. In general, these are succinct, how-to guidebooks providing ideas and strategies supervisors and managers can use to be more effective at work. Most of these resources are available electronically (click the title to be taken directly to the resource—you may be asked for your CalNet ID and password). Others can be borrowed through the Thomas J. Long Business Library (the title link will take you to the respective library call number).
Management/Leadership
Strategy Execution
- Executing strategy for business results HBS Results-driven Manager Series
Project Management
- Managing projects large and small: The fundamental skills for delivering on budget and on time - Harvard Business Essentials Series
Inclusion
- Developing Cultural Adaptability: How to Work Across Differences by Jennifer J. Deal & Don W. Prince
- Social Identity: Knowing Yourself, Leading Others by Kelly M. Hannum
Management/Leadership Development
- Becoming an effective leader HBS Results-driven Manager Series
- Becoming a manager: mastery of a new identity by Linda Hill
- Becoming a manager: how new managers master the challenges of leadership by Linda Hill
- Managing yourself for the career you want HBS Results-driven Manager Series
- Keeping Your Career on Track: Twenty Success Strategies
- Becoming a More Versatile Learner by Maxine A. Dalton
- Learning from Life: Turning Life’s Lessons into Leadership Experience by Marian N. Ruderman & Patricia J. Ohlott
- Preparing for Development: Making the Most of Formal Leadership Programs by Jennifer Martineau & Ellie Johnson
- Reaching Your Development Goals by Cynthia D. McCauley & Jennifer W. Martineau
- Setting Priorities: Personal Values, Organizational Results by Talula Cartwright
- Setting Your Development Goals: Start with Your Values by Bill Sternbergh & Sloan R. Weitzel
- Three Keys to Development: Defining and Meeting Your Leadership Challenges by Henry Browning & Ellen Van Velsor
- Leadership Networking: Connect, Collaborate, Create by Curt Grayson & David Baldwin
- Return on Experience: Learning Leadership at Work by Jeffrey Yip
- Finding Your Balance by Joan Gurvis & Gordon Patterson
- Managing Leadership Stress by Vidula Bal, Michael Campbell & Sharon McDowell-Larsen
Communication
- Face-to-face communications for clarity and impact: a timesaving guide HBS Results-driven Manager Series
- On dialogue by D. Bohm
Sharing Vision
- Communicating Your Vision by Talula Cartwright & David Baldwin
Listening
- Active Listening: Improve Your Ability to Listen and Lead by Michael H. Hoppe
Inclusion
- Talking from 9 to 5: women and men in the workplace: language, sex and power by Deborah Tannen
- Communicating Across Cultures by Don. W. Prince & Michael H. Hoppe
Feedback
- Feedback That Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message by Sloan R. Weitzel
- Giving Feedback to Subordinates by Raoul J. Buron & Dana McDonald-Mann
- Ongoing Feedback: How to Get It, How to Use It by Karen Kirkland & Sam Manoogian
Performance Management
Motivation
- Motivating people for improved performance HBS Results-driven Manager Series
- Getting people on board HBS Results-driven Manager Series
- Retaining your best people HBS Results-driven Manager Series
Interpersonal Challenges
- Dealing with difficult people HBS Results-driven Manager Series
- Crisis management: master the skills to prevent disasters Harvard Business Essentials Series
- When good people behave badly Management Dilemmas Series
- Managing Conflict with Direct Reports by Barbara Popejoy & Brenda J. McManigle
- Managing Conflict with Peers by Talula Cartwright
- Managing Conflict with Your Boss by Davida Sharpe & Elinor Johnson
Teams
- Creating teams with an edge Harvard Business Essentials Series
- How to Form a Team: Five Keys to High Performance by Kim Kanaga & Michael E. Kossler
- How to Launch a Team: Start Right for Success by Kim Kanaga & Sonya Prestridge
- Leading Dispersed Teams by Michael E. Kossler & Sonya Prestridge
- Maintaining Team Performance by Kim Kanaga & Henry Browning
- Building Your Team’s Morale, Pride, and Spirit by Gene Klenn
- Critical Reflections: How Groups Can Learn from Success and Failure by Chris Ernst & André Martin
- Do You Really Need a Team? by Michael E. Kossler & Kim Kanaga
- Raising Sensitive Issues In a Team by Dennis Lindoerfer
Coaching & Counseling
- Coaching and mentoring Harvard Business Essentials Series
- Seven Keys to Successful Mentoring
- Using Your Executive Coach by E. Wayne Hart & Karen Kirkland
- Leadership Coaching: When It’s Right and When You’re Ready
Creativity & Innovation
Creativity
- Managing creativity and innovation Harvard Business Essentials Series
- Making Creativity Practical: Innovation That Gets Results by Stan Gryskiewicz & Sylvester Taylor
Innovation
- Creating breakthrough innovations HBS Results-driven Manager Series
- The innovator’s toolkit: 10 practical strategies to help you develop and implement innovation Harvard Business Essentials Series
- Winning through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal by O’Reilly and Tushman.
Change Management
- Managing change and transition Harvard Business Essentials Series
- When change comes undone Management Dilemmas
- Adaptability: Responding Effectively to Change by Allan Calarco & Joan Gurvis
- Building Resiliency: How to Thrive in Times of Change by Mary Lynn Pulley & Michael Wakefield
- Leading with authenticity in times of transition by Kerry A. Bunker and Michael Wakefield
Negotiation & Influence
Negotiation
- Winning negotiations that preserve relationships: a timesaving guide Results-driven manager series
Power and Influence
- Influence: the psychology of persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini.
- Influence: Gaining Commitment, Getting Results by David Baldwin & Curt Grayson
- Power, influence, and persuasion: sell your ideas and make things happen Harvard business essentials series.
- Selling Your Ideas to Your Organization by Harold Scharlatt
- Selling Yourself without Selling Out: A Leader’s Guide to Ethical Self-Promotion by Gina Hernez-Broome, Cindy McLaughlin & Stephanie Trovas
Decision Making
- Decision making: 5 steps to better results Harvard business essentials series.
