With POWERFUL PERFORMANCE APPRAISALS, you'll get easy-to-follow instructions and abundant, real-life examples and situations that will help you: create a more positive and productive work environment; use appraisals to motivate employees to greater levels of performance; empower employees to take charge of needed improvements.
You can achieve performance levels once thought unattainableÐbut only when managers and workers establish clear lines of communication, and understand how their jobs contribute to the goals of both themselves and the organization. Performance Management is the comprehensive guidebook on how to establish a communication system to get top performance and value from each employee. It will show yo…
This guide provides business managers with 101 ways to make more profits.
Essays discuss communication with customers, market research, industrial selling, pricing, negotiation, sales management, and hybrid marketing systems
Readers are taken through every aspect of preparation, so that by the time they enter the appraisal meeting they are sufficiently organized and self-confident to ask the right questions and know what to say and how to say it.
Learn how to be positive and determined in setting and achieving your life goals. Achieving Excellence demonstrates how to improve your physical fitness and mental agility and shows how to increase personal productivity and become more effective allowing you to fulfil your ambitions and achieve success. This innovative series covers a wide range of management and personal development topics. Ea…
Learn all you need to know about successful team management from building up a team that functions effectively to achieving the desired results. Managing Teams not only shows you how to establish a productive environment and exploit group dynamics but also provides practical techniques for you to try in different settings. Power tips help you handle real-life situations and develop the first-cl…
Part of a series of pocket guides aimed at enabling the reader to learn a new skill in just 30 minutes, 30 Minutes to Boost Your Communication Skills is packed with ideas and advice on how to boost your oral and written communication skills.
Learning can confer a competitive advantage on organisations which aim for excellence through educating their staff, integrating the learning process into every activity. This book shows managers how to encourage lifelong learning in staff.
With more than 1,000,000 copies in print, "How to Make a Habit of Succeeding" sits among the canon of motivational books. Renowned motivational speaker and executive Mack R. Douglas presents his readers with the task of learning the power of purpose and cultivating that purpose into lasting success in all endeavors. It begins as a realization that there is something more to life than what you'v…
For the past five years, Arthur Andersen has been gathering, sorting, and condensing data from the world-class companies it works with to compile its Global Best Practices Database. Now, for the first time, Arthur Andersen shares its understanding of how more than forty best-practices companies focus on their customers, create growth, reduce cost and increase profits. Managers of any business i…
Offering guidance on all aspects of modern management, from effective time and stress management to interpersonal skills, this updated text includes 11 new chapters. It reveals how to develop an effective management style and master team building skills, as well as how to appreciate employees' work. There is an emphasis on the importance of moving beyond the organizational chart and witnessing …
First edition entitled Creating world class quality organisation: 10 essentials for business success, published 1995.
Intelligent Manufacturing explains how appropriate use of information technology underpinned by effective management techniques can simplify, integrate and automate the manufacturing process without necessarily requiring high investment of complex systems. An appropriate information strategy supported by innovative management is the key to continuous manufacturing improvement.
Part of a series of pocket guides that aim to enable the reader to master a new skill in just 30 minutes, 30 Minutes Before Your Job Interview provides tips to prepare and relax the reader before any job interview.
A guide for managers and supervisors in order to help them recognize and apply practical delegation skills. Preparation, employee selection and the role of management are subjects which the text considers. The author has also written Team Building.
Managing International Business is aimed at managers who require a guide to developing their business operations on an international scale. It draws on the experience of world class companies at the forefront of thinking in terms of international business and contains examples from real companies. Worksheets, summaries and exercises ensure that the theory is related to real life. Key features i…
This guide aims to help business managers assess their leadership potential. It indicates areas which require attention and demonstrates how to develop personality power, role power and knowledge power. The text is supported by questionnaires, checklists, exercises and case studies.