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The Essentials of Business Etiquette: How to Greet, Eat, and Tweet Your Way to Success
Author Barbara Pachter
The Definitive Guide to Professional BehaviorWhether you’re eating lunch with a client, Skyping with your boss, or meeting a business partner for the first time it’s all about how you present yourself.
Release Date 2013/07 -
Grab Your Audience’s Attention: First Impressions Set the Presentation On—or Off—Course
Author Mark Magnacca
This Element is an excerpt from So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience (ISBN: 9780137158263) by Mark Magnacca. Available in print and digital formats.Create an irresistible “Positioning Statement” that will make everyone want to know more ....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Making Better Sense: How Your Mental Models Define Your World
Author Yoram Wind , Colin Crook
This Element is an excerpt from The Power of Impossible Thinking: Transform the Business of Your Life and the Life of Your Business (9780131425026) by Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Colin Crook with Robert Gunther. Available in print and digital formats.Understand the menta....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Writing Clear and Simple HR Messages
Author Alison Davis , Jane Shannon
This Element is an excerpt from The Definitive Guide to HR Communication: Engaging Employees in Benefits, Pay, and Performance (9780137061433) by Alison Davis and Jane Shannon. Available in print and digital formats. Five simple steps for great HR writing that empl....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Credibility: I’ve Lost It—Can I Rebuild It?
Author Sandy Allgeier
This Element is an excerpt fromThe Personal Credibility Factor: How to Get It, Keep It, and Get It Back (If You’ve Lost It) (ISBN: 9780132082792) by Sandy Allgeier. Available in print and digital formats.A complete, realistic, and proven process for rebuilding lost ....
Release Date 2010/02 -
Author Peter Frederick
Developed from powerful techniques consistently proven in the world of multi-million pound commercial bid writing, Persuasive Writing reveals the most efficient and effective ways to make your words work, time after time.Discover how to:Transform any document i....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author Jonathan Herring
Save time, energy and life-sapping stress with this gloriously simple, clever and highly effective guide to painless and efficient decision making. This light-hearted and practical guide will help you turn your indecision into positive, assertive action. Guiding you....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better
Author Gina Trapani
Whether you're a Mac or Windows user, there are tricks here for you in this helpful resource. You'll feast on this buffet of new shortcuts to make technology your ally instead of your adversary, so you can spend more time getting things done and less time fiddling....
Release Date 2008/03 -
The Optimism Advantage: 50 Simple Truths to Transform Your Attitudes and Actions into Results
Author Terry L. Paulson
Sharpen your skills and shape attitudes to achieve high levels of success personally and professionallyThe Optimism Advantage offers tangible, proven techniques for turning life's obstacles into opportunities with confidence and competence. Today's economy offers ....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Photographing Washington, D.C.: Digital Field Guide
Author John Healey
The ideal companion guide for capturing awe-inspiring photos of Washington, D.C.!Whether using a compact camera or a high-end dSLR, this companion guide provides you with detailed information for taking spectacular shots of some of the most recognizable architecture....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Communication Skills for Managers, Fifth Edition
Author Janis Fisher Chan
The ability to communicate clearly is the critical core competency for successful managers at all levels and in all industries. This self-study course is your guide to business communication that delivers the message?whether written, spoken, in person or via e-mail....
Release Date 2002/08 -
Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, 3rd Edition
Author Sam Kaner
Unleash the transformative power of face to face groupsThe third edition of this ground-breaking book continues to advance its mission to support groups to do their best thinking. It demonstrates that meetings can be much more than merely an occasion for solving a p....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Success as an Introvert For Dummies
Author Joan Pastor
Thrive as an introvert in an extrovert worldBill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and author J.K. Rowling have more in common than being highly successful. They're also introverts. Success as an Introvert For Dummies identifies common misunderstandings about introverts and ....
Release Date 2013/12 -
The Personal Business Plan: A Blueprint for Running Your Life
Author Stephen Bruyant-Langer
Find your life ambition and plan for success!You'd never think to embark on a business venture without a thorough and coherent plan. So why do so many people stagger through life with no real strategy—just going with the flow, seeing what happens? It's time we gav....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Ten Essential Skills for Electrical Engineers
Author Barry Dorr
Engineers know that, as in any other discipline, getting a good job requires practical, up-to-date skills. An engineering degree provides a broad set of fundamentals. Ten Essential Skills applies those fundamentals to practical tasks required by employers. Written i....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Service-Learning Essentials: Questions, Answers, and Lessons Learned
Author Jeffrey Howard , Barbara Jaco
Service-Learning Essentials is the resource you need to help you develop high-quality service-learning experiences for college students. Written by one of the field's leading experts and sponsored by Campus Compact, the book is the definitive work on this high-impa....
Release Date 2014/11 -
Business Writing For Dummies, 3rd Edition
Learn how to write for the results you want every time, in every medium!Do you wish you could write better? In today’s business world, good writing is key to success in just about every endeavor. Writing is how you connect with colleagues, supervisors, clients, partners, employees, and people you’ve.... -
Documentary Storytelling, 4th Edition
Author Sheila Curran Bernard
Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the growing global documentary marketplace: storytelling. This practical guide reveals how today’s top filmmakers bring the tools of n....
Release Date 2015/12 -
The Presentation Book, 2/E, 2nd Edition
Author Emma Ledden
Make the next presentation you do, the best you’ve ever done. The Presentation Book shows how you can easily put your nerves behind you and calmly and confidently deliver a clear, sharp and very influential presentation. Show and hide more
Release Date 2017/01 -
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done
Author Jeff Davidson
The secret to getting more checks on that to-do-list As companies and workers are being pressured to do more for less, new ways of becoming more time-productive are essential. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done gives readers the tools they need to i....
Release Date 2005/12 -
Author Erica J. Keeps , Harold D. Stolovitch
When the first edition of Telling Ain t Training was published in 2002, its practical, learner-focused approach quickly became a favorite with learning and development professionals, as well as school teachers, parents, professors, and anyone else who trains, educat....
Release Date 2011/06 -
Leadership in Action: Assessing Emotional Intelligence - A Talk with Cary Cherniss
Author John Alexander
Cary Cherniss has long been interested in emotional intelligence—a set of personal and interpersonal competencies that determine how people manage their feelings, interact, and communicate—and how it works in leaders.
Release Date 2000/12 -
Intercultural Communication for Managers
Author Michael B. Goodman
People have always found a way to trade with one another, overcoming enormous barriers. Business and trade relationships are often the foundation for nations to thrive in peace. This book will help you learn about building a successful global relationship for your c....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Frederick Gilbert
If you are in middle management, you live with daily ambiguity, lack of control, and even chaos. To get anything done, you must present your ideas to decision makers, and those presentations can be brutal. Careers and projects can come unwound in a matter of minutes....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Excellence in Internal Communication Management
Author Shannon A. Bowen , Rita Linjuan Men
This book integrates theories, research insights, practices, as well as current issues and cases into a comprehensive guide for internal communication managers and organizational leaders on how to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders. Important topics....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Off-The-Shelf IT Solutions - A practitioner's guide to selection and procurement
Author Martin Tate
Despite the sophistication of modern off-the-shelf IT products, most organisations find they don't get the benefits they expected. This practical book presents a proven decision-making process to help IT and business managers select the off-the-shelf software produ....
Release Date 2015/03