Amacom The Management Training Tool Kit: 35 Exercises to Prepare Managers for the Challenges They Face Every Day

Great Book.

Loved this book. Informative, instructional, practical. Excellent reference when facilitating soft skill training with new managers. It is absolutely worth the purchase price. Additional materials available via Internet.

A very handy reference book

This book includes 35 case studies that you can use in management training to discuss different principles of effective management and challenging situations that managers face. It also includes a survey that you can use to help you analyze the needs of the managers at your organization. One thing that doesn't make sense to me is the copyright on this product. It seems like you're not supposed to make copies of the information. Without the ability to copy the case studies and integrate them into training sessions, this resource is not that helpful. Especially when it comes to the survey! If you can't send the survey out to many people in the organization without buying a copy of the book for each survey you send out, then the survey is only helpful as a guide you can follow in creating your own. Since the survey is well-written, it's too bad you can't reproduce it and use it as is. However, the book does have some good ideas about how case studies and what they should look like. There are also some guidelines about how to use them at the front of the book. I found this information useful.

My management textbook doesn't cover the material any better then this book at a great price.