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How to Be a Great Manager

By: Rachel Pacheco, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Rachel Pacheco
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We all have had an experience where the difference between a job we loved and a job we hated came down to the manager. So, if you find yourself in a managerial position, you may feel like there’s a lot of new pressure put on you. Managers have a significant impact not only on their team’s ability to do their jobs successfully, but also on their team’s overall well-being. What if your working style doesn’t mesh with your employees? What if you don’t communicate in the same way? What is the best way to provide annual reviews or constructive feedback?

Rachel Pacheco, professor of management at Georgetown University’s McDonough Business School and a former chief people officer, will give you tools and tips that will immediately and positively affect how you manage people, despite differences in communication styles or personalities. With seven research-backed lessons, including suggested exercises, this course will help you develop and practice the skills to ultimately make you more fulfilled, competent, and successful in your role.

Rachel starts by providing tips on how to give constructive feedback and have difficult conversations, how to motivate and inspire your team members, and how to help them find a deeper sense of meaning in their day-to-day jobs. She will take you step by step through recruiting, hiring, and retaining employees and show you how to build an effective team that thrives. She’ll even help you manage your own shifting identity as you take on new roles and grow in your company.

By becoming a great manager, you are ensuring that your team members are contented, motivated, and excited to be part of your organization.

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Rachel Pacheco, PhD

About the Creator and Performer

Rachel Pacheco, PhD, is an award winning author, start-up advisor, and faculty member at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Rachel is deeply passionate about ensuring that leaders, executives, and managers have the practical tools required to build thriving teams and develop inclusive and resilient cultures. A former chief people officer, Rachel serves on the board of directors and board of advisors for numerous start-ups and high growth organizations, primarily in the digital health space. Her first book, Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers, focuses on translating academic research and data into immediately useable tools for practitioners in fast-growing startup environments. Rachel’s second book, currently underway, will explore how managers bring meaning, authenticity, and their own self-discovery into the workplace.
Prior to her role at Georgetown, Rachel was on the faculty of the Management Department at the Wharton School, and was a founding faculty member of the Entrepreneurship Education Program at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her BS in mathematics from Georgetown University and her MBA, MPhil, and PhD in business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Michael and their son, Benji.

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This book teaches techniques that are essential tools for life. Most of these techniques are the opposite of what I have been taught yet make more since. I will implement some of these techniques to see if I have better results.

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Opened my eyes to some of the things that I am not doing that I probably should be doing

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Straightforward content. I struggle with a lot of leadership books that drag the material out for hours. This was to the point.

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Great for early managers as well as seniors

Great for early managers as well as seniors. Simple concise gets to the issue and suggestions directly.

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Informative

I enjoyed this audible book because it provided great information regarding management practices that can improve business efficiency.
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Informative Guide

Clear and to the point guide! Informative with essential tools and techniques to improve work results. Will listen again!!

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Clear and Concise

I enjoyed the clear and concise points presented by the author. Also, the examples supporting the points of each lecture were great.

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great starting ideas

To get better remind yourself of the basics. great quick listen. definitely worth it

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Helpful overview for a newcomer to the subject

Easily digestible book that provoked plenty of food for thought. The review noting "socialist DEI BS" is utterly absurd. There are facts and mentions of studies about how bias works in this book. Anyone dismissing this and railing against the basic tenets of unbiased hiring as BS is clearly not fit for leadership.

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Provides good information on management. Enjoyed the concise delivery. I plan to listen to it again.

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