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EGO vs. EQ: How Top Leaders Beat 8 Ego Traps with Emotional Intelligence
Author Jen Shirkani
As leaders climb the corporate ladder of success, the risk of falling into “ego traps” increases, which in turn can hurt business and threaten hard-won success. In EGO vs. EQ, author Jennifer Shirkani presents ways of honing Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to eliminate ....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Effective Communication and Soft Skills
Author Mamta Bhatnagar , Nitin Bhatnagar
Effective Communication and Soft Skills provides a clear understanding of the attributes of good communication vis-a-vis soft skills and hard skills. It offers practice and assessment modules to sharpen learning, while covering all the four tenets of language learni....
Release Date 2011/08 -
ACE Programmer's Guide, The: Practical Design Patterns for Network and Systems Programming
Author Umar Syyid , James CE Johnson , Stephen D. Huston
If you're designing software and systems that must be portable, flexible, extensible, predictable, reliable, and affordable, this book and the ACE toolkit will enable you to be more effective in all of these areas. Even after spending over a decade developing ACE a....
Release Date 2003/11 -
Hot-Wiring Your Creative Process: Strategies for Print and New Media Designers
Author Curt Cloninger
Design philosophies can be useful, but inspiration, creative strategies, and efficient work habits are what really get the job done. Designer, instructor, and author Curt Cloninger provides a multitude of strategies, tools, and practices that readers can use to inje....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
Author George Penston
The fully updated Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium software (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat) is a unified design environment. The Creative Suite 2 enables you to realize your ideas anywhere–in print, on the Web, or on mobile devic....
Release Date 2005/12 -
The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It * How to Deliver It
Author Richard Dowis
Splashy slides, confident body language, and a lot of eye contact are fine and well. But if a speech is rambling, illogical, or just plain boring, the impact will be lost. Now everyone can learn to give powerful, on-target speeches that capture an audience's attent....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Writing Information Security Policies
Author Scott Barman
Administrators, more technically savvy than their managers, have started to secure the networks in a way they see as appropriate. When management catches up to the notion that security is important, system administrators have already altered the goals and business p....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Widening Higher Education Participation
Author Erica Southgate , Anna Bennett , Mahsood Shah
Governments have introduced policies to widen the participation of disadvantaged students in higher education. Widening participation policies are also introduced to ensure that higher education contributes to social and economic outcomes. This book includes import....
Release Date 2015/10 -
The Truth About Managing Change: The Essential Truths in 20 Minutes
Author William S. Kane
Praise for The Truth About Thriving in Change“Although we know that change is constant, we are always surprised by it. Bill provides a roadmap to successfully navigate corporate change. Being conscientious to follow the ‘Truths’ will enable people to successfully fa....
Release Date 2008/04 -
The Cultural Intelligence Difference
Author David LIVERMORE
IQ, EQ, and now…CQ! A proven way to measure cultural intelligence, with strategies for pushing the score higher. The CQ Self-Assessment is not available in this electronic edition of The Cultural Intelligence Difference. You can purchase the assessment at www....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Author Paul Hellman
Every day at work, people do three things: talk, listen, and pretend to listen. That’s not surprising—the average attention span has dropped to 8 seconds. To get heard, says high-stakes communications expert Paul Hellman, you need to focus your message, be slightly....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Author Derek Lewis , Matthew Pollard
An introvert? Great at sales? YES.Sales is a skill anyone can learn and master — and introverts are especially good at it once they learn how to leverage their natural strengths.Introverts aren’t comfortable with traditional tactics like aggressively pushing a prod....
Release Date 2018/01 -
The 7 Non-Negotiables of Winning: Tying Soft Traits to Hard Results
Author David K. Williams
How to spot employees' true game-changing character traits for creating a winning cultureContrary to most conventional management wisdom, The 7 Non-Negotiables of Winning looks beyond employee skills and background and to identify the true game-changing character t....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Author Nick Tasler
Leading change just got a whole lot easier.Think you need awe-inspiring visions, complicated plans, and fist-pounding speeches to inspire change? Think again. A rising tide of real leaders ranging from banking executives and heads of multinational manufacturers to....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Eric Williams
In The Screenwriters Taxonomy, award-winning screenwriter and educator Eric R. Williams offers a new collaborative approach for creative storytellers to recognize, discuss and reinvent storytelling paradigms. Williams presents seven different aspects of storytellin....
Release Date 2017/09 -
The Nikon Creative Lighting System, 3rd Edition
Author Mike Hagen
With the new and rapidly evolving technology, flash photography (especially advanced light modeling with modern iTTL flash systems) has become an art in itself and should be mastered by all aspiring photographers-amateurs as well as professionals-who are often helpl....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals
Author Ruth Colvin Clark
Trainers, instructional designers, e-learning professionals, and the entire cadre of Workplace Learning & Performance practitioners are busy working to meet tight deadlines, shrinking budgets, and increasing demands for top results. Relying on more than 20 years....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Winning Government Business, 2nd Edition
Author Steve R. Osborne
Get the edge over the competition for government contracts! In the battle for government contracts, seize the competitive advantage with Winning Government Business: Gaining the Competitive Advantage with Effective Proposals, Second Edition. Includes complimen....
Release Date 2011/02 -
Author Erika Darics
Online writing plays a complex and increasingly prominent role in the life of organizations. From newsletters to press releases, social media marketing and advertising, to virtual presentations and interactions via e-mail and instant messaging, digital writing....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Emotional Intelligence Training
Author Karl Mulle
When it comes to reaching peak performance, emotional intelligence is key. Research shows that emotional intelligence is more important to performance than ability and technical skill combined. But is EI a skill that can be developed in others? Absolutely. Trainer....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Broadband Connection: The Art of Delivering a Winning IT Presentation
Author Alan Carroll
It's no secret that many IT professionals hate presenting and are often very bad at it. Focusing on technical details and speaking in monotone, they can quickly lose their audiences' attention and interest. Effective presentation skills are critical to the careers....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Getting Your Message Right: Communicating Effectively with Employees
Author Jane Shannon , Alison Davis
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.Employee communication solutions that work: three ....
Release Date 2011/03 -
John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Brilliant Communication
Author John Adair
Everything You Need to Communicate Effectively. . .in an InstantJohn Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Brilliant Communication is all you need to master the skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading, from one of the world's best-known and moist sought-after ....
Release Date 2011/06 -
500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers
Author Marlene Caroselli
Make your teaching and their learning fun, fast-paced and functional. This toolkit of 500 tips and techniques is designed for trainers at all levels of experience who enjoy experimenting, discovering and evolving. 500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and T....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Author Bernard S. Mayer
Find the roadmap to the heart of the conflictThe Conflict Paradox is a guide to taking conflict to a more productive place. Written by one of the founders of the professional conflict management field and co-published with the American Bar Association, this book ou....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Terrence V. Lillard , Chris Happel , Brian Barber , Graham Speake
Eleventh Hour Linux+: Exam XK0-003 Study Guide offers a practical guide for those preparing for the Linux+ certification exam. The book begins with a review of important concepts that are needed for successful operating system installation. These include compu....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Mastering openFrameworks: Creative Coding Demystified
Author Denis Perevalov
openFrameworks is the doorway to so many creative multimedia possibilities and this book will tell you everything you need to know to undertake your own projects. You’ll find creative coding is simpler than you think.Create cutting edge audio-visual interactive proj....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author LID Editorial
If you want practical advice that will help you to find the right job, then you’re in the right place. Whether you’re looking for your first job or just want a better job, whether you’re employed or have been out of work for some time, Job Hunting for Rookies will a....
Release Date 2014/06 -
Author Tom J. Kopas , Joe D. Turner , Martin J. Pring
Are You Prepared for Another Lost Decade?Don’t let the secular bear eat you. Prepare to earn steady profits in another decade of volatile and disappointing market returns.For more than four decades, Martin Pring has been a leading innovator and practitioner of finan....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Skills for New Managers, 2nd Edition
Author Morey Stettner
PROVEN TIPS TO HANDLE EVERYDAY MANAGEMENT SITUATIONS --ALL IN A FAST-MOVING, EASY-TO-REFERENCE FORMATManaging people is one of the most demanding yet career-enhancing and rewarding skills you can have. Skills for New Managers, Second Edition, provides everything yo....
Release Date 2013/10