The first book to introduce to the business world the proven skills and techniques that have worked for years in other professions to help people manage change, THE SOLUTIONS FOCUS defies conventional wisdom that suggests that searching for the cause is a sure path to uncovering a solution. Instead, in the spirit of such change management models as Appreciative Inquiry and NLP, Jackson and McKe…
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Creative Time Management: An Introduction 2 The 7 Principles of Creative Time Management 3 Overcoming 10 Key Obstacles to Managing Your Time 4 Emotional Blocks to Time Management 5 Becoming Organized and More Effective 6 Improving Your Time at Work 7 Applying Time Management 8 Improving your Personal Time Management 9 125 Top Time-Saving Ideas Selected Bibliogr…
This book can help you become more effective in today's competitive, fast-paced world. This book goes beyond the usual time management books to bring you a broad range of strategies and tactics to gain the personal productivity boost you so desperately need. And also shows how to maximize your time by setting priorities, creating useful schedules, and overcoming procrastination. Robert Bly des…
Expands on three main keys to empowering others, focusing on the idea that empowerment is simply a way of releasing the power people already have inside them. Hands-on guide for managers to create a culture of empowerment in the workplace, providing a set of actions and issues that arise during all stages of the quest for empowerment.(barnesandnoble.com)
Creativity expert Ken Robinson has carved out a niche for himself in the self-help genre. In his latest title, a sequel to the bestselling The Element, Robinson puts forth a strategy for self-analysis and introspection designed to bring about personal transformation. A British native now living in the United States, Robinson, with his conversational tone and relaxed cadence, seems to go out of …
Companies today stand or fall, not by the efficiency of their processes and systems, but by the talent of their people. Organizations are realizing the need for leadership and creativity to underpin future success. Leaders and managers are seeking ways to get the best out of people, and the available solutions are varied and diverse. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is one of the most advance…
New York Times best-selling authorJohn C. Maxwell shows that talent is just the starting point for a successful impact in any organization. It's what takes you beyond your talent that matters. People everywhere are proving him right. Read the headlines, watch the highlights, or just step out your front door: Some talented people reach their full potential, while others self-destruct or remai…
Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. Marcus Buckingham, …