After getting your small business off the ground you may find that you have to employ staff just to keep up! Running a small business on your own is one thing but having to cope with staff is something else. This involves a learning how to be a manager, and implementing different management styles.

Can you motivate a team? How do you manage meetings? How can you be a charismatic leader? How do you pick the right person for a job?

Take a look at these books which will help improve your management skills and learn some best management practices.

Leadership and the One Minute Manager

Leadership and The One Minute Manager goes straight to the heart of management as it describes the effective, adaptive styles of Situational Leadership. In clear and simple terms it teaches how to become a flexible and successful leader, fitting your style to the needs of the individual and to the situation at hand, and using the One Minute Manager techniques to enhance the motivation of others.

Management Stripped Bare

This management guide is about business as it is and not as it should be. The author draws on his experience of global organizations to present real-life solutions and observations on the common challenges faced by management at all levels. He examines typical patterns of success and failure in the most common and frustrating situations that management face: bad meetings, boring presentations, political intrigue, difficult bosses and unhelpful staff.

Leading Change

This work provides advice for those confronting the challenge of leading organizational change. It examines the efforts of over 100 companies to improve their competitiveness. The most common mistakes made in attempting to create change are identified, and a process outlined to overcome obstacles.

Leading Quietly

Badaracco observes that the most effective leaders are rarely public heroes or high-profile champions of causes. His study of "quiet leadership," carried out over four years, presents a series of stories describing quiet leaders at work.

Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson Way

Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson Way, illustrates and analyses the leadership and management skills which Eriksson has successfully demonstrated by building a winning football team. Placing these skills in the context of business draws out the lessons managers or leaders can learn from Eriksson. These range from one-to-one coaching and building an atmosphere of trust and commitment to strong decision-making and handling talented  individuals.

Principle-Centred Leadership

A guidebook to personal fulfilment and professional success through "principle-centered leadership" based on timeless principles - showing how goals of excellence and total quality express an innate human need for progress in personal and organizational life.

Simply Brilliant

You need Fergus O'Connell's Simply Brilliant. Are you needlessly complicating your business decisions by paying too much attention to skill, management knowledge, experience or philosophies? None of these things, argues O'Connell, can hold a match to good old common sense. This is a manual of sorts: covering how to plan, how to prioritise, how to see projects through, how to remember the customer's needs. This is simple stuff, simply written.

The Richer Way

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A practical business book packed full of useful ideas to help businessmen and motivate their staff. In this book Julian Richer, owner of Richer Sounds, explains, his original thoughts and advice which have been used successfully in companies of widely differing types and sizes. Written from first-hand experience of running businesses, readers should find this a practical book full of useful ideas.

Richer on Leadership

A follow-up to the book "The Richer Way", this work draws on the author's 20 years of experience in running a wide range of businesses, to give his vision of leadership and the leader's task in organization today. It is packed with business ideas, and should be useful for all business leaders.

Leadership on the Line

This survival manual for leaders explains what they need to know to survive the professional and personal perils of leading, and how to exercise leadership in a way that reduces the chances of getting pushed aside. It addresses the common ways in which leaders are "taken out of action" and spells out how leaders should respond to these dangers. The book combines theory and practice, offering leaders ways of anticipating and handling those dangers in order to survive and thrive.

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