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"The Business Skills Express Series" covers a broad range of key business skills and topics in a fast, interactive format that should appeal to employees, managers, and trainers alike. These authoritative books deliver training and give readers new ways to increase productivity and career satisfaction. This book covers negotiating for business results.

Proven techniques for coming up with creative and profitable ideas every time!Everyone is naturally creative; the key lies in knowing how to tap into that inner creativity anytime, anywhere, and for any reason. Secrets from the Innovation Room explains how the creative process is learnable, just like any other skill. It debunks long-held myths and mysteries, replacing them with a step-by-step process for coming up with innovative, hero-making, and profitable ideas on demand.

The go-to guide to acing the Series 4 Exam! The Registered Options Principal Qualification Examination (Series 4) was designed to test a candidate's knowledge of the rules and statutory provisions applicable to the supervisory management of a firm's options personnel and options accounts. After passing the exam, a registered person may supervise a FINRA member firm's options business and is qualified to oversee trades on all forms of options, from equity options to foreign currency options to op...

The first plain-English guide to solving real-world problems with Six Sigma So you're ready to improve your processes and products and satisfy your customers through Six Sigma--but you're not looking forward to navigating complicated statistics in order to get results. Now, Warren Brussee, a veteran Six Sigma manager who helped his teams generate millions of dollars in savings, explains how to use the powerful statistical tools of Six Sigma in easy-to-understand language. In this step-by-step...

Learn the Plays Make Your MoveBuild an IKEA-style global brand the way Ingvar Kamprad doesUse Hans Straberg's tactics at Electrolux to sweep in profitsBank on thinking locally like Citigroup's Steven FreibergKeep your company tuned in the way Judy McGrath does at MTVAnd get in the game with the Monday Morning strategies and inside plays of the world's top business champions. BusinessWeek Power Plays Leadership Power Plays Strategy Power Plays Game On. Visit businessweek.com/powerplays

From the co-author of Fish!, a powerful new management parable that gives you the secret to motivating peopleWhat happens when you, as a manager, discover that you're the cause of poor performance? Fish! Co-author Harry Paul teams up with renowned business psychologist Ross Reck to reveal techniques that will help you overcome common behavioural obstacles and reach ever-increasing levels of success in today's workplace. These techniques include ways to engage employees, control negative emotions...

Self-directed work teams. Task forces. Committees. Focus groups. Partnerships. ... These are the words of the '90s workplace. But once the teams are formed how do you turn these groups of individuals into effective, productive work teams? Managers and trainers are discovering that games and activities are the key to triggering team development. Games Teams Play provides everything you need to create a powerful team development session - whether in a half-hour meeting or a full day workshop the T...

At your fingertips is this valuable source of ideas, concepts, and step-by-step activities. Now you can effectively promote the HR training function within your organization. This unique guide shows you how to:* assess and tune up your department's image* promote HRD's added value to the business* appeal to diverse company groups* keep awareness high by staying visible* enhance relationships inside your organization* make sure administration doesn't tarnish your image* capitalize on work with ex...

A practical guide to delivering the best training in the world! Packed with examples of best practice and case studies from a wide variety of organizations such as Disney, Volvo, and Reckitt & Colman, World Class Training shows not only the best in action but demonstrates how both individual trainers and training departments can benchmark their performance against global leaders. Written in an easily accessible style, individual chapters focus on the role of the trainer, feedback, rewards, and v...

The new edition of this practical book gives an up-to-the-minute overview of using the broad range of training activities available - what they are, why and when to use them and what supporting activities are required. Part one deals with the features common to all activities. Part two considers the variations required in using specific sorts of activities, while a detailed appendix provides a useful listing of the activities available from a variety of sources. The book now features information...

Written by Joe Britto, The Six Attributes of a Leadership Mindset: Flexibility of mind, mindfulness, resilience, genuine curiosity, creating leaders, enterprise thinking carefully examines the six key attributes that make up a leadership mindset, and explores in detail how you can grow them for yourself. Foreword by Gill White. We can find a different way of leading by developing a different way of thinking. And the first step in growing a leadership mindset is taking responsibility for ma...

Practical Security Training is designed to help security departments develop effective security forces from the personnel screening and selection process to ensuring that proper ,cost-efficient training is conducted. Using the building block and progressive method approach allows security staff to become increasingly more effective and more confident. Flexible and practicle, these tools allow security practitioners to adapt them as needed in different environments. Considering hypothetical sit...

Most books start with the tools and techniques of needs assessment and assume that implementation will naturally bring success. This is not the case. This book begins with the concepts of front-end alignment, followed by the tools needed for positive, predictable, and measurable results. This book does not deal with specific data collection methodology or approaches. Rather, this book deals with the framework and alignment that will make such methodologies and approaches useful.

Creating web-based professional development video in-house has never been easier, faster, or more cost-effective. And as digital, web-based video assumes a more important role in professional development programs, corporate trainers and other development staff are increasingly being called upon to create training and instructional video themselves: in house, on time, and within budget. Still, many learning professionals lack the hands-on experience required to produce meaningful, high quality vi...

Are you responsible for bringing recently-hired employees on board and up to speed within your organisation? If you are a manager, trainer, corporate coach, or human resources executive in charge of developing the new hires in your company, 90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance provides you with the knowledge and tools required to grow these recruits into engaged, confident team members during the course of the standard three-month probationary period. With a strong fo...