Chet Matterson's Total Management Series: For Leaders at Every Level: CEO, Managers and Supervisors
Clear standards. Fair expectations. Steady leadership.
This is the foundation of Chet Matterson’s Total Management Series, a traditional, no-nonsense approach to real-world supervision.
Today’s workplaces often drown in trends, gimmicks, and shifting theories. But supervisors, managers, and leaders at every level know the truth: order, stability, and consistency are what keep a team functioning. This handbook restores those essentials with a direct, time-tested system anyone can apply.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
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Set expectations that employees actually follow
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Teach the job clearly and consistently
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Correct behavior early—without drama or conflict
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Communicate with confidence across generations
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Lead protected or difficult employees while maintaining fairness
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Resolve workplace disagreements calmly and professionally
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Build routines, structure, and standards people can depend on
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Document issues correctly and protect your organization
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Coach employees for growth without lowering expectations
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Think like senior leaders and prepare for future roles
Whether you oversee a small team or an entire department, this handbook gives you the tools to create a stable, respectful, productive environment—one where employees know what’s expected, managers lead with confidence, and work gets done the right way.
For Leaders at Every Level: CEOs, Managers, and Supervisors
If you want a clear, traditional system that still works in today’s workplace, this book is your blueprint.
Managing Your Retirement Years: Building a Steady, Purposeful Life After Full-Time Work
Retirement isn’t an ending. It’s a new season that still needs direction, purpose, and steady hands.
After fifty years in the workforce, Chet Matterson discovered that stepping away from full-time work brings relief—but also questions no one prepares you for.
What should your days look like now?
How do you stay useful without overcommitting?
How do you care for your health, your marriage, your family, and your own peace of mind?
And how do you finish life with purpose, faith, and dignity?
Managing Your Retirement Years is a clear, practical guide for anyone entering the quieter years of life after a long, busy career. Written in straightforward language and grounded in traditional values, this book helps you manage the years after work with the same steadiness that guided you during your working life.
Inside you’ll learn how to:
• Build a healthy daily rhythm without losing purpose
• Care for your body and mind as the years change
• Strengthen your marriage and reconnect with adult children
• Be a wise, present grandparent
• Make new friends and stay connected to your community
• Serve others without burning out
• Handle money, possessions, and simplicity with confidence
• Prepare important decisions
• Make peace with regrets, grief, and life’s unfinished business
• Leave behind a meaningful legacy
• Face the future—with less fear and more faith
Whether your retirement came by choice, surprise, or necessity, this book offers calm guidance for the road ahead. It speaks to the real challenges of aging—loneliness, shifting identity, changing health—while reminding you that these years can be rich with purpose, peace, and quiet blessing.
For anyone who has worked hard, carried responsibility, and now wonders what comes next, Managing Your Retirement Years is the companion you need—steady, practical, and encouraging to the very last page.
Your working years may be behind you. But your meaningful years are not.