Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Training

Drawing on the key concepts of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(c) tool and her 20 years of experience working with personality type, Donna Dunning presents a start-to-finish process and toolbox of hands-on, interactive resources that tie personality type to performance improvement. TLC at Work explores the core practitioner competencies that lay the groundwork for a trust-based working relationship and for learning effective techniques to create, coach and monitor a development plan with others. Dunning then turns the spotlight on the five core competencies every worker needs to succeed in...

Convertible securities, combining aspects of both stocks and bonds, truly create a -best of both worlds- investment. This instructive book uses everyday terms and illustrations to explain types of convertibles, reveal high-return investment strategies, and decode pricing, hedging, and risk/return considerations.

"Migs Damiani has come up with a winner. Here is a book you can open to almost any page and get useful information. You can spend a few minutes reading a chapter and get some profound thinking and solid advice. Creative Leadership gives specific, clear-cut directions not just for those who are in leadership positions, but those who want to be more, do more, and have more. He ties it all together in an interesting and informative way, and hits major points with bullet-like precision, effectively using "nuggets" of information that you can use in your personal, family, and business life."

The quality of corporate leadership is often the key factor that determines success - or failure - in the fiercely competitive business world. Offering a fresh perspective and practical advice, Coaching Competencies and Corporate Leadership explores how coaching executives can use a competency-based approach to become more effective leaders. The authors show you how to be an active partner in the coaching process and how to develop current and future leaders for your organization.

Getting executives to maximize their leadership potential requires sustained behavioral change. The authors...

While security is generally perceived to be a complicated and expensive process, Zen and the Art of Information Security makes security understandable to the average person in a completely non-technical, concise, and entertaining format. Through the use of analogies and just plain common sense, readers see through the hype and become comfortable taking very simple actions to secure themselves. Even highly technical people have misperceptions about security concerns and will also benefit from Ira Winkler's experiences making security understandable to the business world. Mr. Winkler is...

A guide to getting the most out of on-the-job learning for human resource practitioners and managers in organizations of all sizes.
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Exploring Culture brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life. Gert Jan Hofstede and his co-authors Paul Pedersen and Geert Hofstede introduce synthetic cultures, the ten "pure" cultural types derived from the extremes of the five dimensions. The result is a playful book of practice that is firmly rooted in theory.

Part light, part serious, but always thought-provoking, this unique book approaches training through the three-part process of building awareness, knowledge, and skills. It leads the reader through the first two components with more than 75...

CAN A SEMINAR SELL YOUR PRODUCT, SERVICE OR IDEA?

Seminars or workshops can achieve your goals on a wholesale basis, as compared to a one-on-one approach. But, you have to be really good at it, or you risk turning people off or even putting them to sleep.

"Another outstanding learning experience" - Bob Tessler - Entrepreneur

"Great material - pragmatic, well-organized and clearly presented." - Peter Cohan, author of "Great Demos"

"Len Sklar brings a dry sense of humor, an attention to detail for the customer's experience, and an understanding of the economics of putting on a...

Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century. This new revised and expanded version of Tough Choices or Tough Times includes:

• An updated Introduction
• A summary of the Commission's proposals
• Commentaries on the proposals by Denis Doyle, Lawrence Mishel, Michael Petrilli, Diane Ravitch,...

Repair, remodel, resell-and get your top investment dollar

The current real estate market is ripe for rehabbing. Based on decades of successful flipping experience, this Revised and Expanded edition of the real estate classic Fix It and Flip It will help you buy the right property at the right price and use professional estimating tools to plan the project and control costs. Katie and Gene Hamilton also include

• Worksheets and checklists to evaluate, coordinate, and supervise the job
• New strategies for down markets, including how to use renting as a...

An updated edition of Robert Irwin's popular, practical guide to the basics of investing

How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing presents a step-by-step system that walks you through your first purchase and helps you build on that success. Updated to reflect today's market realities, this second edition is the reliable, hands-on guide every first-time investor needs.

Human Capital Management (HCM) has recently been described as a high-level strategic issue that seeks to analyze, measure and evaluate how people policies and practices create value. Put simply, HCM is about creating and demonstrating the value that great people and great people management add to an organization.

Perfect Phrases for Landlords and Property Managers arms readers with quick and easy phrases to deal with the countless challenges, decisions, and day-to-day responsibilities of being a landlord or property manager. it offers practical, need-to-know advice on everything from dealing with tenants and co-op boards to developing and executing a management plan. Each chapter includes several key principles and advice on the topic and provide hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for readers to go to no matter what the situation.

Written for students who have chosen a career in the world of entertainment - theatre, television and film - who need to learn the basic skills of theatrical and media make-up and wig-making.

Higher standards of schooling and of vocational training are now widely recognized as essential in Britain if benefits are to be gained from advanced technology, and if unemployment rates are to be reduced. The continuing development of automated production methods, combined with increasing competition from low-wage developing economies, is likely to reduce even further the scope for the employment of low skilled and inexperienced personnel in advanced economies. This book provides a realistic analysis of what needs to be done, based on visits over the past ten years by expert teams to...

An examination of the whole of the hospitality industry and the ways in which it operates, this text is divided into two parts. The first examines the accommodation industry: hotels of all shapes and sizes, guesthouses, hospital services, residential care, hostels and halls of residence. The second part focuses on the foodservice industry: restaurants, hotel foodservice, licensed trade, fast food, employee feeding, welfare catering, travel catering and social catering.

Field-proven presentation tips and communication skills, from two of today's top corporate coaches

Every business situation is both a presentation and a chance to leave a positive impression. In Talk Your Way to the Top, corporate communications gurus Kevin Daley and Laura Daley-Caravella give readers the know-how to recognize and maximize the opportunities they face throughout the day.

Each chapter represents a specific situation, from running a meeting to disagreeing with the boss, and outlines the steps needed to handle it with poise, skill, and success.

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The aim of this book is to examine the economic effects of education and training, as determined by a proper match between education and jobs or under- and overeducation, the choices made in education, the quality of schools, the general or the specific nature of the training taken, technology innovation and the obsolescence of knowledge.