Free Management Library
Since 1995Whether you are looking to improve yourself, how you work with others or how you work with groups, here are 1,000s of free, well-organized and online resources to do that!
Or, if you are thinking about starting a new organization, or wanting to improve how you lead and manage in your current organization, then you've come to the right place. Learn consulting? Do that here, too.
- You might start by reading How to Use the Library.
- Then scan down the following six sections to notice the many categories of topics. Remember that all topics reference numerous, free online resources.
- You might also use some of the assessments to the right in most of the sections to identify which topics that you want to work on.
- Then pick which topics you need to master.
So where do you want to start? How to:
How to Improve Yourself
Reading
Writing
Building Blocks
Writing Process
Types and Styles
Types of Correspondence
- Advertisements
- Bad News Letter
- Business Plans
- E-mail vs. Voice
- Email Writing
- Evaluation Reports
- Final Report
- Fundraising Proposals
- Journaling
- Memo - Sample
- Meeting Minutes
- Meeting Report
- Newsletters
- Netiquette
- Policies
- Procedures
- Questionnaires
- Resumes
- Sales Proposals
- Strategic Plans
- Surveys
- Trip Report
- Work Plan
Thinking
Learning
- Adult Learning
- Concentrating
- Continuous Learning
- Learning in Courses
- Group Learning
- How to Study
- Key Terms in Learning
- Improving Your Learning
- Improving Your Thinking
- Learning Styles
- Memorizing
- Mindsets
- Online Learning
- Reading
- Self-Assessments
- Self-Reflection
- Taking Tests
- Types of Learning
- Thinking
- Using Study Guides
- Writing
Decisions / Problem Solving
Planning and Organizing
Managing Yourself
Personal Wellness
Career Advancement
How to Work With Others (Soft Skills)
Communicating to Others
Understanding Others
Getting Along With Others
Persuading Others
Helping Others
How to Work With Groups (Team Skills)
Types of Groups
Developing Teams
Managing Teams
Facilitating Meetings
Group Evaluating and Learning
How to Lead and Manage in Your Organization
Entrepreneurship
Leading Organizations
Managing Organizations
- Basic Terms
- Business Data Analysis
- Business Ethics
- Business Law
- Communications (Interpersonal)
- Communications (Writing)
- Coordinating
- Current Theories
- Historical Theories
- Facilities Management
- New Paradigm
- Operations Management
- Organizing
- Product Development
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Quality Management
Planning
Human Resources
Financial Management
Customers and Products
Sales and Marketing
Risk Management
Organizational
- Capacity Building
- Cost Cutting (Sustainability)
- Organizational Alliances
- Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Change
- Organizational Communications
- Organizational Culture
- Organizational Design
- Organization Development
- Organizational Evaluation
- Organizational Performance
- Organizational Reorganizing
- Organizational Sustainability
How to Improve Your Organization
1. Organizational Performance Cycle
Performance Management
2. Organizational Purpose and Goals
Strategic Planning
3. Organizational Structures and Design
Strategy Toward Goals
- Overview
- Description
- What is an Organization?
- Each is a System
- What Makes Each Unique?
- Management Activities Are Systems
- Organizational Life Cycles
- Organizational Culture
- Forms and Structures
- New Paradigms
- Emerging Structures
- Designing Structures
- Current Trends (video)
- Grasping Big Picture (video)
- QUIZ
4. Organizational Behavior
Strategy Toward Goals
5. Organizational Evaluation & Diagnosis
Status Toward Goals
- Overview
- Description
- Benefits of Assessments
- Guidelines for Evaluation
- Adjust for Personal Biases
- Do Not Evaluate Alone
- Design Evaluation Plan
- Role of Diagnostic Models
- Implement Evaluation Plan
- Example Diagnostic Model
- Issues in Organizations
- Types of Recommendations
- Free Tools for For-Profits
- Free Tools for Nonprofits
- QUIZ
6. Organizational Change
Adjustment Toward Goals
- Overview
- Description
- Nature of Change
- Types of Change
- Why Change is Difficult
- Requirements for Change
- Principles for Change
- Change Models
- Roles During Change
- You as Change Agent
- Most Change Efforts Fail?
- Strategies for Change
- Types of Strategies
- Change Agents Skills
- Foundations of Change (video)
- Planning Your Change (video)
- Focusing Your Change (video)
- QUIZ
Organization Development Practitioners
Experts in Change
How to Solve Complex Problems (Internal/External Consulting)
1. Foundations of Internal/External Consulting
Professionalism
Various Approaches
2. Consulting for Performance, Change and Learning
Collaborative Consulting Cycle
- Overview
- Description
- What is Collaborative Consulting?
- Dynamics of Cycle
- Benefits of Cycle
- How Much Client Involved?
- Responsibilities in Cycle
- Nature of Cycle
- Phases in Cycle
- QUIZ