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This volume is about personal competence and hence personal success for the supervisor or manager. It is designed for all those who think they want to "do things better", and gain more from both their job and life in general. Success at work, home or in the community is not just a matter of what you do, but how you do it; looking at the personal skills and competencies required to make a success of the ventures you are involved in. The "In charge" series as a whole looks at the competencies need...

Are you looking for: quality materials that produce outstanding results for your training programmes and detailed inside information from training experts on how to use games to achieve optimum results? Jeff Stibbard aims to meet both these needs with this guide. The book is intended to go much further than traditional games books, which often provide little more than endless lists of similar games with brief instructions for each game. Jeff Stibbard covers the how, why, where and when of using...

Based on a corporate crisis ripped from today's headlines, "Unleash Your BS (Best Self)" tells the tale of Fortune 500 managers who are suddenly facing a post-merger downsizing. With their careers hanging in the balance, they are dropped into a leadership and communications training program that will either leave them in charge . . .or leave them behind. JT Black, the independent consultant known for his entertaining style and powerful results, is assigned the task of developing their leader...

Presenting the first book that provides HR professionals with a context for understanding the importance of doing a proper job analysis together with a step-by-step guide to conducting such an analysis. This unique guide contains a series of eight ready-to-use templates that provide the basis for conducting job analyses for eight different levels of job families, from the entry-level to the senior manager/executive.

Examine innovative ways to educate managers to do business with the Chinese!Management education is a big business today in the Greater China countries of Hong Kong, China, Macau, Singapore, and Taiwan as well as in Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia where there is a considerable Chinese ethnic population. Management Education in the Chinese Setting explores the challenges and opportunities those countries offer to educators in program and course development, delivery of programs and...

This book provides an overview of the GLOWA-Danube research project from 2001 to 2011, a transdisciplinary initiative which explores the future of water resources in the Upper Danube Basin. It documents the purpose and unique approach, architecture, methodologies, scenarios and results of the project, creating a scientific knowledge base for the dialogue of stakeholders and scientists. The book offers a possible blueprint for successful global change science through integrative and transdiscipli...

This volume is the proceedings of a symposium entitled "Creating the Competitive Edge Through Human Resource Applications" which was held at Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island on Jtm.e 16-19, 1987. The meeting was sponsored by the Research Coomi ttee of the Human Resource Plarming Society (HRPS). In developing the agenda, the Research Committee built upon the format of the first HRPS research symposium on "Strategic Human Resource Plarming Applications" held at the University of Pennsyl...

Asking the old questions, according to authors Dick Whitney and Melissa Giovagnoli, means getting the same old answers. And that can be deadly for any group or company that wants to move ahead. Instead, they offer 75 outrageous, thought-provoking questions that clean out the corporate cobwebs and get workers' minds working in new and productive directions. Drawing from their own experiences as top international business consultants, Whitney and Giovagnoli provide field-tested "cage-rattlers" tha...