Developing Management Skills' teaches students the ten essential skills all managers should possess in order to be successful. These skills are grouped into personal skills, interpersonal skills and group skills, so students can see how certain skills are related to others.
This book explores how to develop critical negotiation skills using a very individual, personalized approach. It examines how personality and temperaments influence negotiation styles and techniques and provides numerous strategies proven effective with different personality types. Readers become more skilled in negotiations by understanding how conflict often begins the negotiation process.
Inspired meetings are the lifeblood of a strong, innovative organization. The Big Book of Meeting Games provides meeting leaders with challenging and entertaining activities that improve group dynamics, emphasize meeting objectives, and create an atmosphere conductive to both creativity and getting things done.
Whether you work in retail, high tech, manufacturing, health care, entertainment, or any other thype of profit, nonprofit, or government organization, The Big Book of Leadership Games will make you a better leader while having fun in the process. This book provides you with fifty games and activities designed to hone your management skills while forging better working relationships between you …
Would you like to lead meetings that everyone in your office actually looks forward to attending? Would you like to have the attention of every person in the room when you give a presentation? Would you like to turn a group of bored employees sitting passively around a conference table into active participants with an activity that teaches important business lessons? You can do all this--and mu…
The Entrepreneurial Process, one of Brown University's highest-rated courses, has empowered thousands of students to start their own ventures. You might assume these ventures started because the founders were born entrepreneurs. You might assume that these folks had technical or finance degrees, or worked at fancy consulting firms, or had some other specialized knowledge. Yet that isn't the cas…
How can a chopstick come in handy when you're making a pie? What is it about a colander that will ensure your next party runs more smoothly? Why in the world should you put holiday ornaments in your garden? Find these answers in 869 New Uses for Old Things, the latest book from the editor Real Simple. Paying homage to one of the most popular franchises in the magazine, this incredibly useful co…