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Leading Teams
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
214 kr
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Leading productive teams requires laying the groundwork for success and following through effectively. This guide offers immediately actionable advice on how to choose the right team members; clarify goals, rules, and responsibilities; foster trust, creativity, and risk taking; and resolve conflicts and maximize productivity. The Pocket Mentor Series offers immediate solutions to common challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.
Running Meetings
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
99 kr
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"Running Meetings" will be the essential guide to meetings that mobilise people toward constructive action. It covers everything from meeting location and etiquette to effective planning, facilitation, and follow-up; from dealing with problem behaviours to getting closure on key issues. It explains what effective meetings entail - and shows how to make them happen. Packed with ideas and applicable tools, "Running Meetings" is every manager's portable meeting advisor. It instructs readers how to: plan and run effective meetings; set agendas that work; handle problem behaviours and keep meetings on track; energize participants to take action; and, close meetings and identify key next steps.
119 kr
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"Managing Time" delivers proven advice on how to get the right things done - faster, smarter, and more efficiently. From setting goals and breaking them down into tasks to creating a manageable schedule and putting it into action, this user-friendly guide outlines proactive ways to focus on mission-critical tasks, eliminate or delegate non-priority projects, control interruptions, and avoid distractions. It is the essential guide to maximizing every manager's most valuable commodity. It instructs readers how to: set goals and focus on high-priority tasks; organise their space and save their time; use scheduling tools that really work for them; avoid distractions and control interruptions; delegate effectively; and, get more done in less time.
Managing Projects
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
99 kr
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"Managing Projects" provides proven strategies for making sure any size task achieve its goal - on time and on budget. Covering the gamut of tasks involved in managing any project, this portable guide develops ideas about planning, team building, motivation, mid-course assessment and correction, and after-project review. It helps managers determine whether and how to make the critical tradeoffs between time, cost, and quality that are the essence of project management. Managers at any level can use this portable guide to become more efficient and effective multi-taskers. It instructs readers how to: scope out a project and identify resources needed; develop schedules and set deadlines; monitor budgets and keep projects on track; communicate progress and problems to stakeholders; and, overcome some typical project snags.
113 kr
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Most managers coach employees by giving them feedback and evaluating their performance, right? Wrong. Coaching differs markedly from other managerial functions. With its wealth of tips, worksheets, and self-assessments, this handy guide shows managers how to use coaching--not only to strengthen direct reports' skills but also to rev up their performance to unprecedented levels.
Giving Feedback
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
147 kr
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Good feedback is essential to helping employees perform better at work. It lets people know when they are meeting or exceeding expectations, and when they need to get back on the right track. This practical guide shows managers how to develop and refine this necessary skill. The books in this series offer immediate solutions to the challenges managers face every day. Each book is packed with handy tools, checklists, and real life examples, including a Test Yourself section to help identify strengths and weaknesses. For all readers eager to address the daily demands of work, these books are ideal.
Leading People
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
165 kr
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Today's leaders don't use command-and-control. Instead, they leverage their communication, collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills to inspire employees to ever higher levels of performance. Packed with practical tools and expert advice, Leading People shows managers how to bring out the best in their team.
Writing for Business
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
99 kr
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Effective business writing rests on a foundation of basic principles. Master them, and you'll know how to handle the many different writing tasks that come your way. This book will help you organize and edit your message for maximum impact. "The Pocket Mentor" series offers immediate solutions to common challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests and real life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at you desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.
Giving Presentations
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
99 kr
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Making persuasive presentations isn't just a matter of charisma and fancy charts: it requires concrete skills that are vital to keeping your audience engaged and involved. This handy guide contains key information on how to customize your presentations to keep people focused and produce the results you want.
Negotiating Outcomes
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
99 kr
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Negotiation is the process by which people resolve their differences. Whether those differences involve the purchase of a new automobile, a labor contract dispute, the terms of a sale, or a complex alliance between two companies, resolutions are typically sought through negotiations. This guide will help you prepare, conduct, and close a negotiation successfully
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Stress in the workplace can't ever be completely eliminated, but it can be managed so that you can function in a healthy and effective way. Managing Stress will give you practical, hands-on suggestions for managing workplace stress, from short term fixes to long-term methods for changing the situation and or changing your response to the situation.
Shaping Your Career
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
127 kr
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Your career is not a one-time decision made early in life. Rather, you refine or redefine it as you grow professionally. This volume helps you: * Recognize when it's time for a change * Articulate the business activities that interest you most deeply * Assess your skills and values * Update your skills to remain competitive in the workforce * Spot and seize advantage of career-development opportunities
Delegating Work
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
99 kr
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Is your in-box always full? Are you constantly working overtime on tasks that "only you" can do? If so, you could benefit from delegating some of your workload. This volume shows you how to: * Identify which tasks to delegate * Decide whether to delegate based on employee, task, project, or function * Identify the skills required for each delegated assignment * Make an assignment and monitor the work * Address problems with delegated assignments
Dismissing an Employee
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
123 kr
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While no one likes to be the bearer of bad news, managers are sometimes faced with the difficult task of having to dismiss an employee. In this book, you'll learn how to effectively manage a dismissal--including making key decisions before, during, and after the critical event. Handled skillfully, dismissing an employee can set your team--and your company--on a positive new path.
Creating a Business Plan
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
99 kr
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Every business needs a business plan, a plan to meet the expected and unexpected opportunities and obstacles the future holds. Preparing a business plan is part of the process of preparing for a business. This book will show you how to take a long, hard look at each element of the plan and then how to communicate the right message to the right people to maximize the chances of getting your business venture launched. "Creating a Business Plan" covers the kinds of information that need to be contained in a successful business plan as well as how to present that information so that your readers get what they need and understand quickly what you're asking of them.
Persuading People
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
99 kr
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Persuasive people generate real value for their companies by turning ideas into action. But persuasion isn't easy: It takes practice, patience, and psychological savvy. That's where this new volume comes in--by enabling you to: * Build your credibility * Adapt your pitch to your audience * Win your listeners' minds and hearts * Overcome resistance to your proposals * Leverage the forces that move people to embrace new ideas
Managing Crises
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
123 kr
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Crises--anything from a natural disaster to a data-security breach to the defection of your best employee--can prevent you from carrying out your business operations. But with good planning, you can minimize the impact of a potential disaster. This book shows you how to: * Avoid a crisis entirely * Lay the groundwork for managing a crisis * Know when a crisis is imminent * Contain and resolve a crisis * Learn from each crisis you've resolved
Managing Up
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
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Managing up is not political game playing. Rather, it's a conscious approach to working with your supervisor toward goals that are important to both of you. Through managing up, you build a productive working relationship with your boss and create a way to use the complementary strengths of you and your boss to deliver value to your company. This volume helps you: * Understand the business results you produce by learning how to manage up * Cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship with your manager * Communicate effectively with your boss about priorities and problems * Negotiate win-win solutions to on-the-job challenges with your supervisor
Becoming a New Manager
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
169 kr
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You've just been promoted to a managerial position for the first time -- congratulations! But beware: the managerial role differs markedly from the individual contributor role. Go into the job with mistaken assumptions about what to expect, and you just may be blindsided by surprising realities. This book helps you lay the foundation for succeeding in your new role, explaining how to: * Discard the "doer" role of the individual contributor for the orchestrating role of the manager * Adjust your leadership style to maximize your team's performance * Balance conflicting expectations from your boss, peers, and direct reports * Deal productively with the stresses and new emotions that come with being a manager
Hiring an Employee
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
123 kr
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Your hiring decisions can make or break your team. Hire the right employees, and your team's performance will soar. Bring the wrong ones on board, and you're likely to see productivity and morale plummet. How to hire right? Understand and master the many steps in the hiring process. This book helps you get started. You'll discover how to: * Identify the skills and personal qualities needed in a new hire * Recruit a diverse pool of qualified candidates * Prepare for and effectively conduct a job interview * Make a job offer correctly
Making Decisions
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
99 kr
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As a manager, you make countless decisions every day. Some are straightforward, such as assigning a team member to a project. Others are far more complex, such as determining how to handle an under-performing product line. How can you boost the odds of making the best decisions for your organization? Treat decision-making as a process. This volume reveals key strategies for handling each step in the process. You'll find out how to: * Generate a diverse set of alternative courses of action for the decision at hand * Assess the feasibility, risks, and ethical implications of each alternative * Select the best course of action * Communicate your decision and carry it out
Managing Diversity
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
123 kr
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The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness. Many organizations encourage diversity because providing equal opportunity for everyone is the right thing to do. A diverse workforce can also yield such important competitive advantages as a higher level of profitable innovation, a better understanding of market opportunities, and stronger employee productivity and commitment. But as people with different backgrounds, beliefs, and values interact in the workplace, conflicts can arise. How can you foster diversity on your team and surmount the challenges that can come with it?This book teaches managers how to: - Recruit a diverse team - Foster an inclusive environment by replacing common misconceptions with facts - Handle diversity-related conflict - Tap the business value generated by the team?s diversity
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The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness. Ideas are not enough: successful innovation requires people to pick up where the creative process leaves off. These people must take the creative idea and apply it to a real-life problem to design a new product, service, or process. They must construct a carefully articulated vision for the project, draw up a feasible financial plan, and advocate the project over the whole course of its development and implementation.This book teaches you how to execute an innovation from start to finish: - Develop a vision statement that stands up to evaluation criteria - Build a strong business case to the stakeholders who will be affected - Manage both explicit and hidden resistance to change - Sustain the passion around your idea and keeping its momentum going
123 kr
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A budget is a financial action plan for an organization. "The Pocket Mentor Series" offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self tests, and real life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.
96 kr
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The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness. Managing employee growth is critical to your organization's success. But to develop your employees effectively, you must have certain skills, such as the ability to seek out opportunities, set goals, and provide feedback. This volume teaches you to: * Assess developmental needs * Understand and take into account differences between your employees * Use a Performance and Potential grid to determine next steps * Conduct a career development discussion
99 kr
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How do you lead a team scattered across the globe? How do you keep members you can't see organized, communicative, and productive? In this book, you?ll find valuable advice on forming virtual teams, assessing their communication and technology needs, and ensuring that they produce high-quality work. You'll learn how to: - Understand the benefits and challenges of virtual teams - Build a virtual community that promotes collaboration and ongoing communication - Utilize technology to enhance your virtual team?s focus, motivation, and output Meet Your Mentors Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps are CEO and Chief Scientist, respectively, of the Boston-based consulting firm NetAge and authors of many books and articles on networked organizations, including Virtual Teams."
214 kr
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Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, concise guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with speed, savvy, and effectiveness. The latest volume in the series: Executing Strategy That strategy you've defined for your group is brilliant--promising better market share, higher profits, or some other impressive business result. But your strategy won't deliver the expected outcomes if you and your group don't execute it that is, if you don't put it into action by implementing the right strategic initiatives. This volume helps you master the challenging art of strategy execution.You'll learn how to: -Craft action plans for the strategic initiatives required to meet your goals -Keep your action plans on course despite the inevitable setbacks and surprises -Cultivate employees' sense of ownership and accountability for your plans -Create a group culture in which everyone views strategy as their job
Setting Goals
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
170 kr
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Setting goals is a key part of any manager's job. Through goal setting, you define business outcomes that you and your team will accomplish collectively and individually. Managed effectively, the goal-setting process creates a long-term vision that motivates you and your employees to reach even the most challenging objectives. Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, concise guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with speed, savvy, and effectiveness.
Understanding Marketing
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
123 kr
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The latest volume in the series: Understanding Marketing Businesses soar when everyone in the organization adopts a marketing mind-set?an awareness of who the company's customers are, what they want, and how the organization can serve them profitably. But marketing's a big subject. How might you demystify it for yourself and your group if you don't have a marketing background? This volume provides the concepts and examples you need. You'll learn how to: -Define a target market -Identify and understand your toughest competitors -Develop a marketing strategy that lays out "the four Ps": product, promotion, pricing, and "place" (distribution) -Test new product or service ideas with customers -Get the most from relationship marketing
123 kr
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Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, concise guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with speed, savvy, and effectiveness. The latest volume in the series: Fostering Creativity To survive in today's hypercompetitive climate, businesses must innovate constantly. Innovation hinges on creativity--generating novel and useful ideas. By fostering creativity in your team, you help unleash your company's innovative powers. But this requires a disciplined process for leveraging employees' unique experiences, thinking styles, and expertise.