Lifescripts for Managers,9780028626222

Lifescripts for Managers

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780028626222
ISBN10: 0028626222
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-03-05
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

This volume covers dealing with subordinates, peers, and superiors, including how to ask for a budget increase, turn down a raise request, deal with brown nosing, handle flirtation, and warn a superior of a potential problem. Includes 40 dialogue flowcharts.

Author Biography

Series editor Stephen M. Pollan is the author of fifteen books with Mark Levine, including the Lifescripts series and the best-sellers Die Broke and Live Rich. An attorney, financial consultant, author, and television personality, he was CNBC's on-air financial expert on several shows and is a frequent guest on the Today show and Good Morning America, has appeared twice recently on Oprah, and has written cover stories for New York and Worth magazines. The scripts for these books were written by Pollan and Levine, as well as a number of contributors under their guidance.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Introduction: The Magic of Lifescripts ix
PART ONE: LIFESCRIPTS FOR SUBORDINATES
Giving a Negative Performance Review
3(4)
Turning down a Subordinate's Raise Request
7(4)
Adding Responsibility to a Subordinate without More Pay
11(4)
Announcing a Salary Reduction to a Subordinate
15(4)
Telling a Subordinate to Watch His Drinking
19(4)
Turning down a Subordinate's Promotion Request
23(4)
Reprimanding an Alleged Sexual Harasser
27(4)
Stopping Backstabbing among Subordinates
31(4)
Insisting on Better Hygiene from a Subordinate
35(4)
Terminating a Subordinate
39(4)
Demanding Better Work Habits from a Subordinate
43(4)
Correcting Repeated Mistakes by a Subordinate
47(4)
Putting an End to a Subordinate's Gossiping
51(4)
Reducing the Size of a Subordinate's Staff
55(4)
Reducing the Size of Subordinate's Workspace
59(4)
Turning down a Subordinate's Request to Hire His Offspring
63(4)
Sending a Voluntary Termination Hint to a Subordinate
67(4)
Asking a Subordinate to Improve Her Appearance
71(4)
Suggesting a Subordinate Improve His Voice Manners
75(4)
Handling a Flirtatious Subordinate
79(4)
Suggesting a Subordinate Consider Psychotherapy
83(4)
Questioning a Subordinate's Expense Report
87(4)
Handling a Subordinate's Personal Use of Equipment
91(4)
Asking if a Subordinate Is a Victim of Domestic Abuse
95(4)
Dealing with a Brownnosing Subordinate
99(4)
Apologizing to a Subordinate for Your Own Behavior
103(4)
Turning down a Subordinate's Request for Time Off
107(6)
PART TWO: LIFESCRIPTS FOR SUPERIORS
Asking Your Superior for More Staff
113(4)
Asking Your Superior for a Budget Increase
117(4)
Warning Your Superior of Potential Client Problems
121(4)
Warning Your Superior of Potential Vendor Problems
125(4)
Apologizing to Your Superior for Your Own Backstabbing
129(6)
PART THREE: LIFSCRIPTS FOR VENDORS
Asking a Vendor to Lower Her Price
135(4)
Complaining to a Vendor about His Service
139(4)
Soliciting a Bid from a Vendor
143(4)
Asking a Vendor to Accelerate His Work
147(4)
Resisting a Vendor's Commercial Bribery
151(4)
Threatening Litigation against a Vendor
155(4)
Index 159

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