This quick reference guide will provide provide fast answers to manager's key questions. Managing Smart guides even experienced managers through the minefields of today's corporate environments - where managers must improve performance and reduce costs, as well as maximize worker productivity. In an era of downsizing, companies expect more from employees, and managers face tough personnel, financial, and organizational challenges.

Among many other topics, Managing Smart will provide useful tips on:

• Interviewing, hiring, and firing

• Training and motivating employees

• Managing conflicts

• Disciplining and evaluating employees

• Communicating with employees

• Writing employee benefits and policies

• Preparing presentations

• Negotiating

• Understanding legal and financial issues

About the Author
Matthew Treger specializes in the management of growing organizations, strategy development, implementation and assessment, organizational change, and ISO quality management systems. Matt combines his passion for experiential education with his work in both biology and business to create innovative training programs with real-word applications. By using problem solving scenarios and the outdoor world as powerful metaphors, teams and individuals alike gain valuable insights into how they face day to day life and work.