The Complete Idiot's Guide to Five-minute Managing


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An indispensable companion for any manager, new or experienced, this guide features five-minute-or-under responses to such contemporary management problems as hiring and firing, promotions, delegating, giving and taking criticism, negotiating office politics, and more.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project Management


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This fully updated edition features new templates, forms, and examples and complies with official PMI and PMBOK standards for project management.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Human Resource Management


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You’re no idiot, of course. You know that your employees are essential to your company’s success. But when it comes to training, motivating, hiring, and firing them, you feel like a few of the many hats you wear don’t fit as well as they should. Don’t outsource your HR function just yet! The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Human Resource Management will simplify everything you need to know about the people business. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you learn: --How to locate, hire, and retain the most qualified people for positions. --What you need to know about the law and regulations to avoid costly legal battles. --How to organize and administer an effective compensation and benefits plan. --Training tools and techniques to boost employee motivation and performance.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Money


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Offers advice on creating a long-term financial plan, shopping for insurance and mortgages, managing credit card debt, and establishing a good credit rating.




The Complete Idiot's Guide To Managing People, 3e


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Tap the talent and get the most from your team. The solution to every new manager's problems, this fully updated and revised guide shows how to get the most and the best from one's staff and covers leadership, team management, delegation, reward/discipline systems and more. New to this edition: updated information on working with employees on goal and career management, downsizing and laying off employees, sexual harassment and EOE, interviewing techniques, and more. Updated and revised with updates on layoffs, sexual harassment, interviewing, and more. Pell is an expert in his field, with 50 years in HR and teaching experience.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time


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With this guide, readers will discover the basics of how to manage time and prioritize, with solid advice on how to say "no" when a responsibility just can't be handled. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Managing Your Time includes: • Quick and easy techniques for getting the most from every minute • Idiot-proof steps for controlling how you spend your time • Valuable tips for getting paperwork into shape




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Brand Management


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Whether you are the manager of a large corporation or the owner of a small business, you need to know how to build and maintain powerful brands. This book will help you make decisions about the products and services your company develops or sells. It explains how to develop your target market, how to understand your brand's core values, and how to develop a brand positioning statement.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cold Calling


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Does this sound familiar? 'If I could get in front of the prospect, the rest of the selling process becomes easier. It's just getting in front of them that's the challenge'. The fact is most cold-calling efforts are doomed from the start. Salespeople lose sales not due to a lack of effort but because they lack a prospecting system they are comfortable with, and can trust to generate greater, consistent results. If you are feeling the same way you have been for the last several years (including the 'calling to check in, touch base or follow-up' approach) or haven't been prospecting at all, you're simply making it easier for your competition to take away the new business you are working so hard to earn. So, if you love to sell but hate (or don't like) to prospect, this book is your opportunity to maximize your cold calling potetnial and boost your income by learning how to get in front of the right prospects in less time and create greater selling opportunities without the fear, pressure or anxiety associated with cold calling.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Working Less, Earning More


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A down-to-earth resource for a more-for-me life. Through practical information from an author who works about three days a week, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Working Less, Earning More will help readers get more time and more money by learning how to: • Think about the modern-day work ethic in a new way. • Set income-focused goals—and achieve them. • Build—and maintain—powerful relationships and networks. • Round out skill sets to be more marketable. • Maximize technology to minimize time spent on minutia. • Avoid time-wasters and efficiency traps.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Journalism


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Never has the world of journalism been so explosive, so global, and so competitive. Forget hourly news flashes; we live in a world of 24-hour breaking news with radio and TV stations and Internet sites updating stories by the minute and newspapers adjusting to stay fresh, in-depth, and relevant. While the number of newspapers and TV and radio stations has dropped over the last half century in the United States, instant, free-access Internet news portals have grown precipitously to not only fill any gaps in coverage but to force Big Media to change its game plans or risk losing readership. But in no way does this suggest any aspect of journalism is heading for the garbage heap-especially newspapers. Never before have Americans been so engaged in their world, and many mediums are needed to satiate that collective appetite for knowledge.