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This indispensable guide from leadership guru John Adair, will boost your confidence levels, inspire you and help you on your journey to becoming a leader of excellence.Acknowledged as a world expert, John Adair offers stimulating insights into recognizing and developing individual leadership qualities, acquiring personal authority and, most importantly, mastering core leadership functions such as planning, communicating and motivating. This 5th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to improve or develop your leadership skills, this guide distils the essence of John Adair's teaching and provides a framework for becoming an effective leader.The Creating Success series of books... Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

Learn how to work remotely or at home effectively, nurture professional relationships, measure performance and productivity and avoid potential challenges and career pitfalls.

Gain essential skills for career development with this concise and comprehensive guide to determining goals, prioritizing tasks and managing your time effectively.

Develop the techniques and insights you need to find solutions, spark creativity and confidently make the right decisions.

Communicate effectively with employers, co-workers and colleagues with this practical guide to getting your message across to your audience, whoever they may be.

Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business. How to Write Reports and Proposals provides practical advice on how to impress, convince and persuade your colleagues or clients. It will help you: improve your writing skills; think constructively before writing; create a good report; produce persuasive proposals; use clear and distinctive language; present numbers, graphs and charts effectively.Full of checklists, exercises and examples, How To Write Reports and Proposals is essential reading and will help you to put over a good case with style.

Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips and techniques to help you review and assess you time management and adopt new work practices to improve it. It includes great time-saving ideas, practical solutions and checklists, plus advice on: controlling paperwork; organizing your e-mail inbox; delegating and working with others; prioritizing to focus on key issues; getting and staying organized.Now in its thrid edition, this essential guide will help you minimize time-wasting and interruptions, and focus on the priority tasks that will lead to success in your job and career.

From Michael Armstrong, HR expert and best-selling author, comes this new edition of the business staple, How to Manage People. Providing valuable insight into the functions and skills required to be an effective manager - from how to manage teams to successful recruitment - it will help you get the best from your staff through motivation, reward and leadership. With three brand new chapters on managing virtual teams, enhancing employee engagement and managing conflict, it is full of easily applicable advice as well as practical tools and checklists. Essential reading for anyone who wants to get the best from their teams, How to Manage People distils the essence of good management into one handy book.

Understand the essence of marketing through a thorough explanation of the core concepts, theories and principles, presented in a practical and accessible way.

Managing Successful Teams addresses the everyday issues faced by team managers and leaders. It provides helpful, straightforward advice for improving team performance in a variety of different situations and environments.

Develop Your PR Skills covers strategic PR, PR and the internet, working with the media, dealing with different stakeholders and customers, dealing with a crisis, using internal communications, using research to get a competitive edge, evaluating the success of your PR, and ethics and sustainability.

Get advice on handling social or workplace situations to improve your chances of keeping or getting a new and better job, from learning how to get along with others to improving personal effectiveness.

Gain essential skills for career development and attain the techniques and insights you need to find solutions, spark creativity and confidently make the right decisions.

How to Understand Business Finance provides a quick and effective course from the perspective of the pursuit of business growth, and describes a business proceeding from initial set-up through its first year of trading

Gain essential skills for career development, improve your confidence and nail your presentations with this pocket guide to preparing and delivering them well.

How to Motivate People reviews the principles of motivating staff to maximise performance, stimulate enthusiasm and achieve results

Gain essential skills for career development with this pocket guide to handling the hardest kinds of people, including tricky customers, challenging co-workers and bad bosses.

Gain essential skills for career development with this practical guide to help you communicate effectively with employers, co-workers and colleagues in every business context.

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Gain essential skills for career development with checklists, exercises and real-life examples that will help you perfect your skills at writing winning reports and persuasive proposals.

Develop Your Assertiveness is an easy to follow guide with a range of self-assessment tools and exercises that will help you become more confident.

Gain essential skills for career development and craft a winning business plan to secure the support you need with this one-stop guide to producing the most professional and convincing plans possible.

Gain essential skills for career development with this concise and comprehensive guide to determining goals, prioritising tasks and managing your time effectively.

Gain essential skills for career development with practical advice on how to manage performance, deal with difficult people and maintain a successful team.

Gain essential skills for career development with this distilled pocket guide by world leading leadership expert John Adair.

How to Deal with Stress, 3rd edition, takes a psychological approach to stress, enabling you to build your own plan, gain control and improve your well-being.

How to Manage Meetings analyses every aspect of holding a meeting and provides reliable advice on how to get it right.