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Managing teams

A collection of books, articles and guides to help managers get the best from their teams – whether they're experienced leaders or first-time managers.
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ICAEW accountant stars in Team GB Olympic rugby
  • Article
  • 14 Aug 2024
Heather Cowell, Team GB rugby sevens forward and ICAEW Chartered Accountant, explains how playing hard and working smart paved the way for her success both on and off the field.
Why humour is a valuable workplace tool
  • Article
  • 24 Aug 2023
From recruitment and retention to team spirit and relieving stress, laughter is a seriously powerful motivator, says communication expert and comedian Neil Mullarkey.
Managing mental wellbeing in remote teams
  • Article
  • 15 Jun 2023
With one in eight people now working exclusively from home, the director of one fully remote business shares his tips for prioritising wellbeing for remote teams.
What does the changing face of insolvency work look like?
  • Article
  • 25 Aug 2022
Emerging roles are shifting the insolvency profession’s emphasis towards digital skills, back-office team building and empathic listening, says Mazars Partner Rebecca Dacre.
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Allyship must start with the senior leadership team
  • Article
  • 15 Mar 2022
Creating a culture of allyship is vital to building an inclusive organisation; senior leaders have an important role to play.
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How to be an ally: managing neurodiverse teams
  • Article
  • 15 Mar 2022
Neurodiverse team members can bring unique skills to an organisation. Simple daily actions will support these employees and allow managers to demonstrate allyship, as shown by a winning partnership in easyJet’s finance team.
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A strategic focus: how ICAEW is championing D&I in accountancy
  • Article
  • 10 Feb 2022
Ensuring the chartered accountancy profession is diverse and inclusive is a key part of ICAEW’s 10-year strategy.
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We all have a role to play in creating an inclusive culture
  • Article
  • 18 Jan 2022
Chartered accountants from a wide range of backgrounds discuss how they can make a difference at work and throughout the profession.
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Reports

Exclusive SR72 The aspiring CFO
  • Report
  • 2021
  • PDF (1,950kb)
A practical, realistic, hands-on and immense learning opportunity of all you need to know to become the CFO
Exclusive Special Report 69: Effective collaboration
  • Report
  • 2020
  • PDF (2,073kb)
Collaboration has been a trendy buzz word in business lexicon for some time now, but, as the pandemic has done with many other ‘nice-to have’ skills, it has now become absolutely necessary to master. With your colleagues, business partners, suppliers and all other stakeholders more than likely working from home, and maybe even across different locations and time zones, effective collaboration is essential
Special report - Managing people
  • Report
  • 2019
Managing people is one of the most important skills needed to successfully navigate your way to the top of the corporate ladder. This report provides practical tips and advice on topics such as team management, dealing with difficult people and the effect of technology on recruitment.
Exclusive Special Report 64: Managing People
  • Report
  • 2019
  • PDF (1,487kb)
Managing people is one of the most important skills needed to successfully navigate your way to the top of the corporate ladder. This report provides practical tips and advice on topics such as team management, dealing with difficult people and the effect of technology on recruitment.
Exclusive Special report 60: Communication skills
  • Report
  • 2018
  • PDF (2,459kb)
This report seeks to assist with some of the more pertinent reporting needs for busy finance executives at all levels.
Exclusive Special Report 56: Soft skills that FDs need
  • Report
  • 2017
  • PDF (5,953kb)
A special report looking at the soft skills that FDs need to succeed
Exclusive Special Report 52: People and skills
  • Report
  • 2016
  • PDF (4,295kb)
This quarterly report deals with recruiting and retaining the right staff with good practical tips and advice from a variety of specialists.
Exclusive Special report 43: 21 years - a celebration
  • Report
  • 2013
  • PDF (1,092kb)
This quarter's special report is a 21 anniversary special, reproducing some of the best articles that we've published since our inauguration in 1992.

Webinars

Building an innovative team
  • Webinar
  • 05 Jul 2021
This webinar from the Business and Management Faculty will explore what is meant by innovation, and the expectations from an innovative team.
Motivating your team: A three-pronged approach
  • Webinar
  • 19 Mar 2021
This webinar explores three aspects of motivation that need to come together to get the most from your staff.
Leading resilient teams
  • Webinar
  • 07 Oct 2020
Learn practical tools and techniques to help you manage stress and build a resilience management framework.
Team leadership and management
  • Webinar
  • 14 Nov 2018
Richard Jenkins talks us though the best approach to adopt and how to work to create effective teams.
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eBooks

The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides full text access to a selection of key business and reference eBooks from leading publishers. eBooks are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users. If you are unable to access an eBook, please see our Help and support advice or contact library@icaew.com.

Exclusive Concise Adair on teambuilding and motivation, The
  • eBook
  • 2004
  • John Adair, Neil Thomas
  • Thorogood
A guide to team building and employee motivation for managers and leaders.
Exclusive Effective people management
  • eBook
  • 2011
  • Pat Wellington
  • Kogan Page
A short guide to team management and leadership.
Exclusive First time manager: the first steps to a brilliant management career, The
  • eBook
  • 2005
  • Michael Morris
  • Kogan Page
Introduction to management topics and skills.
Exclusive Growing your business: making human resources work for you
  • eBook
  • 2008
  • Robert A. Baron, Scott Shane
  • Business Expert Press
This book provides the information needed by an entrepreneur starting a new venture to choose your initial team of cofounders and employees. It gives detail of selecting, recruiting and retaining high-performing talent and motivating employees.
Exclusive How people tick: a guide to difficult people and how to manage them
  • eBook
  • 2005
  • Mike Leibling
  • Kogan Page
A guide for general readers on dealing with difficult behaviour.
Exclusive Leading and managing the lean management process
  • eBook
  • 2012
  • Gene Fliedner
  • Business Expert Press
Management strategy from a US perspective.
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You are permitted to access, download, copy, or print out content from eBooks for your own research or study only, subject to the terms of use set by our suppliers and any restrictions imposed by individual publishers. Please see individual supplier pages for full terms of use.

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Business press

The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides access to leading business, finance and management journals. These journals are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users subject to suppliers' terms of use.
Exclusive Why leadership teams fail
  • Article
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • Thomas Keil, Marianna Zangrillo
Drawing on interviews with more than 100 CEOs and senior executives, this article outlines three main patterns of dysfunction within leadership teams. The authors aim to help leadership teams to diagnose their failings, and find ways to improve.
Exclusive Teamwork at the top
  • Article
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • Gregory LeStage, Sara Nilsson DeHanas, Pete Gerend
This article sets out a four-step process to help leaders to promote beneficial patterns of collective behaviour within their teams. The authors point to five key behaviours — direction, discipline, drive, dynamism, and collaboration — as being crucial to the effectiveness of leadership teams.
Exclusive Managing (and surviving) in a high-intensity workplace
  • Article
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • Erin Reid, Lakshmi Ramarajan
After interviewing hundreds of professionals in many fields, the authors have concluded that total selfless dedication to work is often unnecessary and harmful. It has dysfunctional consequences not only for individuals but also for their organizations. The authors discuss three typical strategies (Accepting, Passing and Revealing) for coping with demanding workplaces, and the risks associated with each style. Managers can help by enforcing reasonable work hours, requiring vacations, and taking steps to protect employees’ personal lives.
Exclusive What management style are you?
  • Article
  • 01 Jan 2024
  • Scott Greenberg
A quiz is presented that managers can take to determine their dominant management style, which falls into one of four categories: Top Dog, Collaborator, Chillaxer, or Visionary. Excerpted from the book 'Stop the Shift Show: Turn Your Struggling Hourly Workers Into a Top-Performing Team' by Scott Greenberg.
Exclusive Why diverse teams reduce errors
  • Article
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • Heidi Grant, David Rock
Recent studies, including mock juries and simulated markets, reveal that diverse teams improve discussion, reduce errors, and excel in decision-making. Diverse teams promote constant re-examination of facts, objectivity, and careful information processing, preventing biases and errors. Gender and cultural diversity in leadership also correlate with increased innovation and new product development.
Exclusive Leading remote or hybrid teams
  • Article
  • 01 Nov 2023
  • David J.Elrod
Leaders need to take special care to communicate effectively with remote or hybrid team members, says David J.Elrod. The article runs through useful methods of communication and emphasises the need to provide clarity on strategic plans and priorities and give regular feedback.
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Online magazines

Some online journal titles are available only to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users. To view the full range of titles available to you, please log in.
Employee Benefits
  • DVV Media HR Group Ltd.
Online magazine covering developments around various kinds of employee benefits, including pensions, health insurance, and company cars.
Personnel Today
  • DVV Media International
News resource for HR professionals. Its website includes an archive of articles published since January 2000.
Training Journal
  • Political Holdings Limited
Online magazine for the UK's training and learning and development industry. Until 2020 it was a print magazine; the Library provides online access to issues published between 2008 and 2020 via its premium databases.

Articles and books in the ICAEW Library collection

The collection of the ICAEW Library & Information Service includes a range of articles, books and reports on managing teams. Use the links below to see what we have available to request in our Library catalogue (Libcat).
The essential manager: 30 core elements of leadership
  • Library book
  • 2013
  • E.Larkin
  • Dublin : Chartered Accountants Ireland
Aims to encourage the reader to reflect upon, and perhaps consider changing, how they currently respond to some common trials and tribulations of managerial life. Divides "the 30 essential building blocks for management success" into three parts: about you; about employees; and about business.
Management in 10 words
  • Library book
  • 2012
  • Terry Leahy
  • Random House Business
Written by the former CEO of Tesco, this book draws on the author's experience and expertise to pinpoint the ten vital attributes that make successful managers and underlie great organisations. Chapters are headed: truth; loyalty; courage; values; act; balance; simple; lean; compete; and trust.

To find out how you can borrow books from the Library please see our guide to borrowing books.

You can obtain copies of articles or extracts of books and reports through our document supply service.

External resources - Acas guidance

Advice, guidance and practical resources on a wide variety of recruitment topics for both employers and employees, produced by the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, Acas. Acas is the employment relations service for England, Scotland and Wales offering practical, independent and impartial advice to employers, employees and their representatives.
Challenging conversations and how to manage them
  • Website
  • Acas
Acas guide for line managers, providing practical steps for dealing with difficult conversations with their team members.
Managing people - Acas guidance
  • Website
  • Acas
Acas guide aimed at both new managers and experienced managers looking to refresh or develop their knowledge.
Measuring staff performance
  • Website
  • Acas
Acas guidance on considerations to make when setting performance measurements, setting objectives and performance conversations. A draft record of performance is included.
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External resources - Guides and factsheets

Investors in People leadership articles
  • Website
  • Investors in People
Knowledge base of articles on leadership from Investors in People, covering topics such as motivating and empowering your team, democratic leadership and improving team wellbeing.
Management development
  • Website
  • Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
This factsheet considers what management development is, the challenges of developing managers, the relationship between management and leadership, and the link between management development and business strategy. It then explores techniques used to identify development needs, including management competences and performance management.
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ICAEW accepts no responsibility for the content on any site to which a hypertext link from this site exists. The links are provided 'as is' with no warranty, express or implied, for the information provided within them. Please see the full copyright and disclaimer notice.

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