The One Minute Manager
Kenneth Blanchard
Spencer Johnson
This book is like for management development training. It describes three simple techniques to manage your most important resource i.e. people. The one minute manager’s symbol (01) comes from the face of modern digital watch is intended to remind us to take one minute out of our day to look into the faces of the people we manage.The three secrets in this book are -
One Minute Goals
One Minute praising
One Minute reprimand
One minute Goal setting is simply - Agree on your goals, write out each of your goals, take a minute each day to see that you are working towards your goals and see where you stand.
One minute praising - taking a minute to tell people what they did right and be specific, praise people immediately, encourage them to do more of the same .
One minute reprimand - taking a minute to tell people what they did wrong and how you feel about it, remind them of how much you value them, reaffirm that you think well of them but not of their performance’s in this situation.
