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PART III

Building on Your

Foundation

Creating a solid departmental
foundation is a good start toward fulfi lling your responsibilities
as a professional manager. But it is only a start. Now that you
have learned how to lay the groundwork for a positive, productive
department consisting of staff members who are engaged, eager
to take risks, and work well together, you need to learn how to
successfully build on that foundation.
In this part, you will learn how to hire “value-adding” people
to your department. Your department’s effectiveness depends
on the quality of the people who compose it. With sound prepa-
ration and practice, you can recruit personnel who are ready,

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