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Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Reveals the art of negotiation and helps you get the skills needed in becoming a master negotiator in today's business environment. The first part of the book outlines the fundamentals of negotiating, while the second part is devoted to getting the reader to understand their opponent's interests and tactics during the negotiation process. Finally, you get the opportunity to learn how to strategize successfully.
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Researchers and practitioners have devoted substantial time and effort over many years to develop satisfactory performance appraisal systems that impart useful information to employees about their job performance. Nonetheless, problems continue to arise, principally because managers often find it difficult to provide feedback on performance to their employees. We offer a Communication- Centered Approach (CCA) to performance appraisal that is focused...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Surfing Tsunamis gives organizational leaders, coaches, and other change agents a field-tested holistic approach for coaching and integrating transformation efforts across all levels of any organization that seeks to thrive in a radically changing world. Through transformational coaching, people learn to unleash and align the largely untapped spirit--the creative energy--in themselves, other individuals, teams, and organizations, thereby eradicating...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The surge of motivational titles flooding bookstore shelves amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is evidence of our society's growing obsession with self-improvement. Recently two areas of growing interest among academics have been positive organizational behavior and psychological capital. While books on these subjects have led to a new understanding of motivation, they have limited their focus to two ends of a continuum. On...
5) Effective interviewing and information gathering: proven tactics to improve your questioning skills
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
This book is an invaluable, instructional field manual for any professional who needs to obtain and interpret information gathered directly by and from people, without recourse to a technological intermediary, such as online search. In the role of interviewer, interrogator, or evaluator, there are many opportunities to get it wrong. Good information can go bad ... bad information can go good, but for the wrong reasons. Either way, without an understanding...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Expatriation is a big topic and is getting bigger. Over 200 million people worldwide now live and work in a country other than their country of origin. Tens of billions of dollars are spent annually by organizations that move expatriates around the world. Yet, despite the substantial costs involved, expatriation frequently results in an unsatisfactory return on investment (ROI), with little or no knowledge as to how to improve it. Why is this so?...
7) Creating a pathway to your dream career: designing and controlling a career around your life goals
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What do you want your life to be like when you're 25? 35? 55? Do you want a job that will feed you and your family or do you want a career that will be an integral part of your life--a career that will feed your passions, enable the lifestyle you choose, and be a continual source of engagement and pride? But do you really have the luxury of even considering your dream job in an era in which more than 40 percent of college graduates can't even get...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The focus of this book is how to maximize your creative potential both professionally and personally. A central theme of this book is that successful creative expression is a function of hard work and discipline rather than innate talent or genius. Reaching your creative potential requires an open mind. To begin, we discuss some of mental models that facilitate or impede your development as a creative person. The book also identifies specific ways...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Equips readers to understand, build, and implement competency models as a foundational and integrating element in talent management systems. Readers will understand how competency models have evolved to be the current best practice in defining criteria for all talent management applications such as selection interviews, promotion panels, assessment centers, job descriptions, and learning objectives. Specific guidance is provided in the steps needed...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Followers dominate all organizations, but a preoccupation with leaders hinders the consideration of the importance of followers and the relationship between followers and leaders. The topic of this book is how to become a better leader by becoming a better follower. The book includes chapters on the topics of: leadership theory, followership theory, preparation for the job, understanding what is required for the job, communication, initiative, positive...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Most individuals who move into leadership positions experience the modern day version of trial by ordeal. It's sink or swim. To reduce the learning curve and create a more effective process, Leader Evolution describes a road map for leadership development, a series of four stages that expand personal competence as well as create a broader impact on the organization or business. Each stage requires unique changes in thinking, perspective taking, and...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This book gives you the keys to survival and success as your career progresses from one job to the next in the same organization or in different organizations--be they for-profit, nonprofit, government, or volunteer. It can help you to avoid the many traps and pitfalls you will encounter along your career path and guide you toward increased personal effectiveness during all three stages of the job cycle--when you are interviewing for a new job, as...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Marketing your value is relevant for professionals from recent college graduates to senior executives. Today's chaotic global marketplace presents new challenges with each passing day that only the most savvy of professionals will be able to navigate. Global unemployment and underemployment, the digital revolution, and technological advancements are just three of the many dynamics driving today's economy where we have to rethink how we live, work,...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The book is geared to those interested in doing the right thing the right way in spite of organizational roadblocks. The book is a "how to" book to assist management and operations personnel to analyze their operations in a program of continuous improvements and on-going search for best practices so that each entity operates most economically, efficiently, and effectively--tied into why the entity is in existence in the first place. Best practice...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
If you want to be good at any art form, you have to master the craft. Artists spend years mastering their craft and then their whole lives working on that craft. The same is true for professional athletes. If you want to practice the art of leadership really well, you have to master the craft of leadership. What is the craft of leadership? The simple answer is that in the same way that woodworking is the craft of working with wood in order to make...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A recent Gallup Study estimated that 7 in 10 American workers are "actively disengaged" or "not engaged" while at work, costing the economy between $450 and $550 billion per year. This book has been written to increase employee engagement and optimize workplace performance. By harnessing the power of engagement and nurturing people's innate desire to be captivated by the activities in which they are involved, Employee LEAPS has the potential to transform...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
We may say we want to be inclusive, but what if we really don't? What if our brains are hard-wired for selfishness and similarity and not for diversity and altruism? What if our vision of ourselves as well-intentioned people is at odds with the reality of who we really are and what we really think? Having a diverse workforce is no guarantee that the work environment is inclusive and engaged. Companies hire for diversity and manage for similarity....
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship have begun to have an impact on the enterprise. It is important for organizational leaders at all levels to understand this powerful new framework. This volume brings together a wide range of organizational scholars who have derived implications from positive research for the modern enterprise. Engaging topics from leadership, to self-esteem, and to conflict resolution, this book provides...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A daunting aspect of management is the performance appraisal. It has become a byword for unfairness and irritation among employees. Some management writers are even proposing in doing away with it. We agree that the current method of appraisal is unsustainable and counterproductive. In this book, we discuss Performance Leadership--the idea of leading employee performance, which should be the focus of management. Just doing appraisal or evaluation...
Author
Publisher
Business Expert Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
For 70 years, psychologists, wellness experts, and physicians have been teaching people that they can manage the stress in their lives. They have been wrong. Over the past 15 years, there has been a revolution in how business, communities, and governments around the globe address challenge and adversity. Their goal has shifted from trying to manage these events to instead recognizing that we have to build resilient systems that help us prepare for...