The 4 Dimensional Manager: Disc Strategies for Managing Different People in the Best Ways (Inscape Guide)

By Julie Straw

Book Overview

The 4-Dimensional Manager will help you learn to manage different people in the best ways. Through a simple yet powerful self-discovery tool called DiSC, you can become a 4-dimensional manager, able to manage anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Discover your usual managerial style: Dominance, Influence, Supportiveness, or Conscientiousness

Manager: "We have a problem here."
Person 1: "Let's find a quick solution."
Person 2: "I know just how we can solve this problem by working together."
Person 3: "I need to think about the problem before I can offer you a solution."
Person 4: "I'm going to consider this problem from every angle."

Asked to solve the same problem, four people responded four different ways. If you were their manager, your challenge would be to help each individual find an effective, timely solution to the problem. Most managers would do what comes naturally and use the managerial style that is their "first dimension." This will work some of the time - but not all the time.

One managerial style can't help people with four different working styles make the most of their different strengths and overcome their different limitations and roadblocks. In managing others, one style does not fit all.

The 4-Dimensional Manager will help you:
-Read the work styles of the people you manage
-Improve communication and reduce destructive conflict
-Find out how the style of your organization affects you and those you manage

Whether or not you have the formal title of manager, if you provide work direction to others, this book will answer pressing questions you have every day, such as:
-When I delegate, how much information should I give, and when and how should I follow up?
-How can I increase this person's motivation?
-What kind of compliment or reward would this person most value?
-How can I give feedback so it will be understood, accepted, and effective?

The 4-Dimensional Manager provides fascinating insights into individual work styles, practical suggestions, checklists and planners, and a research-based DiSC discovery tool.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157675135X
• ISBN13: 9781576751350
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Great resource

This book is great. I took the DiSC profiler and been improving the way to deal with daily situations. This is practical in job and in life.

DiSC users reference

This is a great little book both for those new to DiSC and old time users of this tool. Great tips for Managers who want to adapt their management style to better communicate with their employees. Tips on giving feedback, problem solving, delegating etc. Well worth the money.

Interesting reading

The book is short and very good. It basically outlines common different behavioral models and focuses on the best approach to communicate with people belonging to each model profile. Of course it all revolves around your willing to adapt your style when dealing with others, especially if you manage a team. So try to put these suggestions in practise otherwise it remains only an interesting leisure book.