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Time Management in an Instant

Views: 434
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Views: 434
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From:Career Press
Date: 09/04/09
Pages: 161
Language: English

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In today’s hurly-burly work environment, many businesspeople find it challenging to avoid distraction, stay focused, use their time and energy to maximum benefit, and gain ground on important goals and outcomes. One study by the Families and Work Institute found that one third of Americans are overworked and more than 50 percent of those surveyed say they are either doing too many tasks at the same time or are frequently interrupted during the workday - or both. In short, we are overloaded! Time Management In An Instant helps the reader overcome this feeling of overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. It offers field-tested time habits and expert advice based on the latest research that will help the reader better manage, create, and spend their time with more satisfaction and results. The book outlines the best practices for improving everyday work situations including: • Harnessing the power of completion. • Linking your core values to key projects. • Finding the power of mini-tasks. • Playing the 80/20 game of accomplishment. • Getting a procrastination inoculation. The In An Instant series is a new brand of user-friendly, engaging, and practical reference guides on core business topics, which capitalizes on the authors’ extensive experience and knowledge, as well as interviews they have conducted with leading business experts. Written in an upbeat and engaging style, the series presents 60 tips and techniques with anecdotes, examples, and exercises that the reader can immediately apply to make their work life more efficient, effective, and satisfying.
How to Sell Yourself, Revised Edition

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Views: 1338
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From:Career Press
Date: 09/04/09
Pages: 257
Language: English

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How to Sell Yourself explains in clear, simple, easy-to-understand terms the skills you need to get your message across in any speaking situation. The secret of winning communication is likability. Some people call it warmth. Some call it charm. Some call it charisma. But whatever name you give it, it can be learned. This book is about how to use your mind, your face, your body, and your voice to win, because, in the end, likability wins. Arch Lustberg, acclaimed public speaker, teacher, and coach, has filled this book with practical skills. He demonstrates how you can sell yourself, your ideas, and your organization. The elected officials he coaches learn that you can’t sell your issues unless the voters like you. The Merrill Lynch financial consultants he trains learn that no one buys your product unless they like you. The National District Attorneys Association members he addresses learn that attorneys have a better chance of winning in court if they and their witnesses are liked by the jury. How to Sell Yourself is the last “how-to” you’ll need to win over a boss, jury, voter, legislator, friend, colleague, family member, or any group to which you’re talking.
Leadership Styles

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Views: 495
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From:DocstocPremium
Date: 09/30/09
Pages: 0
Language: English

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PowerpointPresentation describing different leadership types. The presentation goes over the three types of leadership styles, leadership vs. management, theories of leadership, and job performance.
Profit Building

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From:Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Date: 09/22/09
Pages: 177
Language: English

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Improving profit is the number one objective of business leaders, yet most do not truly understand how to move beyond the basics when it comes to cost reduction for profit improvement. Typically, a company's response to reducing cost is to reduce the workforce. People are laid off in large numbers and dollars are saved-or so it seems. This is a mistake, a short-term solution. Profit Building provides a better approach, one that focuses on profit improvement as a stand-alone process, demonstrating how an organization can achieve its goals to improve profitability and reduce cost through a proven method based on team innovation management.Perry J. Ludy offers a hands-on guide that shows managers how to move profit-and-loss financial reviews beyond the basics to creative solutions and genuine action plans. Using the author's four-step Profit Building Process (PBP), Profit Building shows how to organize teams with the specific purpose of improving profit-while providing an opportunity for employees to participate in developing cost reduction strategies so that profit improvement is perpetual.A system of step-by-step activities designed to produce immediate and continuous results, the PBP shows managers how to apply concepts from prior learning-such as teams, innovation management, and performance improvement planning-to create tailor-made strategies for any organization. And it introduces "Questions Brainstorming," a new twist to traditional brainstorming that fosters avid group participation resulting in better solutions.
The Power of Purpose

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Views: 141
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From:Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Date: 09/22/09
Pages: 177
Language: English

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Can there be more to life than just going to work everyday and doing your job? Is there work that is unique to you? Is there a job that you are uniquely called to do? In The Power of Purpose, Richard Leider provides a practical process for answering these questions and creating a life filled with meaning and passion.We all possess a unique intelligence, a unique ability to do the work we were made for. The Power of Purpose is a remarkable tool to help you discover your calling. Concise and easy to read, based on many interviews with people of all ages, and including numerous stories of people living on purpose, The Power of Purpose is an original guide to discovering the work you love to do.Leider examines the critical importance of a sense of purpose in achieving a full, productive, and contributory working life, and offers a detailed, practical process for finding your calling."Purpose" and "Calling" seem, at first glance, grand words, best reserved for a gifted few. But we all posses an ability to do the work we were made for. The Power of Purpose is an original guide to discovering your unique calling.Bestselling author and career counselor Richard Leider offers a thoroughly relevant discussion of the call to work. He provides a practical process for creating meaning in your life and work. He focuses on living and working from the inside out, grounding the common sense of soul work in the common practice of everyday life.If you've ever wondered why you get up on Monday morning, The Power of Purpose will help you find the answer to that question and integrate it into the whole of your life.
Creating Passion-Driven Teams

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Views: 317
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From:Career Press
Date: 09/04/09
Pages: 225
Language: English

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Can passion be taught? Can it be fostered? The answer is yes. But perhaps more accurately, a team leader must create the right conditions for passion to emerge. Those conditions must be nurtured, not unlike a gardener creating the right conditions for his plants to flourish. Make your job easier. Get the inside scoop on the secrets of success that motivate teams to top performance. In the matrix of workplace roles and responsibilities, managers are pivotal to corporate success. Yet a manager is often the unsung hero who must adapt to demands from all sides—and do so with little or no training, and without mentorship for the role. Learn from Dan Bobinski, who draws from 20 years of consulting experience, extensive studies of best practices, and the latest in neuroscience research. You’ll learn the principles and methods top managers use to develop passionate, engaged employees who are dedicated to success. You’ll be able to: • Motivate without manipulating • Turn mistakes into a fervent drive for quality • Equip teams to enthusiastically adapt to change • Create environments in which people strive for excellence—and more Today’s workforce requires managers to be more than just a person in charge. Creating Passion-Driven Teams show you how to tap your team’s natural motivations and achieve consistent, sustained top performance.
Top 10 Do's and Dont's in Writing a Business Plan

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Views: 211
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Date: 10/19/09
Pages: 26
Language: English

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A PowerPoint presentation that details the top ten do’s and don’ts of writing a business plan.
The Connect Effect

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Views: 145
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From:Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Date: 09/22/09
Pages: 209
Language: English

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Networking is not mere socializing—it is a vital personal and professional development skill. An effective network can make you more knowledgeable, help you address critical issues, accelerate your career, and even improve your health and well-being. As a recent article in MIT’s Sloan Management Review reports, “What really distinguishes high performers from the rest of the pack is their ability to maintain and leverage their networks.” Networking is simply too important to be left to chance.In this book, Michael Dulworth shows how to take a conscious, systematic approach to networking. After a short quiz to measure your “networking quotient” (NQ), The Connect Effect identifies three distinct kinds of networks: personal, professional, and virtual. Dulworth examines their specific characteristics and offers strategies, tools, and resources for building up and making the best use of each one. Stories from Dulworth’s twenty years of experience running networks, as well as interviews with top executives, researchers, and thought leaders, provide insights and advice about how networks function in the real world.
Lift

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Views: 187
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From:Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Date: 09/22/09
Pages: 265
Language: English

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Just as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally achieve the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and experience to demonstrate how we can elevate ourselves and the situations and people around us to greater heights of integrity, openness, and achievement—the psychological equivalent of aerodynamic lift.Solidly based in the social science literature—with special focus on recent advances in the study of positive psychology and strengths-based leadership, as well as Robert Quinn’s groundbreaking work on organizational effectiveness—Lift identifies four mindsets that will enable us become a consistently positive influence in every aspect of our lives: being purpose-centered, internally-directed, other-focused and externally-open. Separate chapters explore each of these components in depth, analyzing the psychological and social factors that keep people from applying them and what we can do to overcome those obstacles.
Marketing Plan Template

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Views: 12068
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From:DocstocPremium
Date: 09/12/08
Pages: 13
Language: English

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This is an marketing plan example. This document is useful for creating marketing plan.
Porter's Five Competitive Force Analysis

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Views: 1089
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Date: 10/19/09
Pages: 10
Language: English

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A comprehensive worksheet that explains Porter’s 5 competitive force analysis.
151 Quick Ideas to Inspire Your Staff

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Views: 382
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From:Career Press
Date: 09/04/09
Pages: 209
Language: English

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For most businesses, attracting new employees and getting your existing employees to succeed is a never-ending task. It’s often rooted in inefficient hiring practices, misunderstood motivational techniques, inadequate training, and high employee turnover. The results: Low productivity and poor performance, leading to lower revenue, unhappy customers, and endless management headaches. Jerry Wilson’s 151 Quick Ideas to Inspire Your Staff takes the mystery out of motivating employees to achieve personal and business success. The basic concept: Inspire your employees to create and maintain delighted repeat customers! This book demonstrates that business owners don’t have to constantly replace employees or use artificial incentives and harsh methods to get employees to help the business succeed. Wilson shows business owners and managers how to do it themselves without the pain and suffering. And you don’t have to invent any new approaches, concepts, or buzz words to do it! Just follow some of Jerry Wilson’s 151 proven ideas and discover amazing results…fast! Jerry Wilson has spent more than 25 years researching what his clients–businesses large and small–need to do to be successful in today’s marketplace by hiring and motivating the right employees. These powerful ideas work! Each is presented in a bite-sized package that allows instant execution. No long chapters with endless justifications, pontifications, philosophy and personal stories. Just 151 great, practical ideas any business manager and owner can use to make an immediate difference in his or business success.
Competency-Based Performance Reviews

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Views: 1556
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From:Career Press
Date: 09/04/09
Pages: 257
Language: English

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Managers working in today’s organizations often focus more on results than on the people who achieve those results. But regularly evaluating the performance of your employees is critical to improving the efficiency and output of your organization. Performance reviews have changed significantly in the past few years. Companies today are looking for the key characteristics, known as competencies, that help the most successful people in their field to be so successful. Managers and employees need to focus on those competencies, especially during performance review discussions. Competency-Based Performance Reviews offers you a new and more effective way to handle performance reviews and to coach your employees to emphasize the knowledge, skills, and abilities that they have and the organization needs. Most sophisticated U.S. and international employers are using competency-based systems to select, interview, and evaluate the performance of employees. Fortune 500 corporations such as American Express, Anheuser Busch, Coca-Cola, Disney, Federal Express, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer are all looking for specific competencies. This book will give you the guidance you need to: • Perform competency-based reviews on your employees. • Help your team get the recognition they deserve in division meetings by providing the evidence to justify higher performance rankings. • Develop your own competencies—and those of your employees. • Coach employees to recognize competency-based accomplishments and advocate for themselves throughout the year. • Write smarter, targeted competency-based accomplishment statements to use on performance review forms. By putting these competency-based performance reviews into practice, managers can strengthen their organziations, their careers, as well as the careers of their employees. Competency-Based Performance Reviews includes sample phrases to use on reviews, as well as sample accomplishment statements to guide
Keeping Good Employees On Board

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Views: 53
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From:MorganJames Publishing
Date: 01/29/10
Pages: 0
Language: English

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Employee Retention: A crucial business priority Why do employees leave? More importantly, what makes them stay? These are the questions that business veteran and author Dawn McCooey has been asking for decades. This book is the culmination of that curiosity. There are examples and resources here for you to help increase employee engagement which, of course, increases productivity, reduces turnover, and ultimately increases your bottom line. Take the helm, keep your good employees on board, and have some fun on this journey. Bon Voyage!
Top 10 Do's and Dont's in Writing a Business Plan

Views: 211
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Views: 211
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From:DocstocPremium
Date: 10/19/09
Pages: 26
Language: English

Document Overview:

A PowerPoint presentation that details the top ten do’s and don’ts of writing a business plan.
Personal Financial Statement

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Views: 7964
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From:DocstocPremium
Date: 09/17/08
Pages: 2
Language: English

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This is an example of personal financial statement. This document is useful for creating personal financial statement.