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This text provides a practical plan and roadmap to help the reader begin the knowledge mananagement process. The stages of assessment, planning, deployment, and evaluation are explored and steps for putting it all together to expand core competencies and win competitive advantage are discussed.

One of the keys to becoming a true leader is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence quotient (or EQ) encompasses qualities that go beyond general intellectual intelligence and technical competency. EQ includes self-awareness, self-control, self-confidence, motivation, empathy, and competencies in the social environment. These hallmarks of a true leader can be learned. The activities in this guide will help strengthen the reader's EQ skills, resulting in a more successful career and a more satisfying life.

E-mail, voice mail, conference calls, and video conferences have revolutionized communication. Companies are dependent on technology to link personnel across cities, states, and countries, especially as virtual teams become more a part of our business environment. Yet, companies rarely provide formal training on how to manage these resources. This book provides guidelines for communicating effectively through e-mail and voice mail, suggestions for getting the most out of your conference calls and video conferences, and creative and practical suggestions for communicating with, building, and managing your virtual team.

Today's organizations are in the learning business. Employees must take in a constant supply of new information and apply it to their work regardless of their position.

This complete guide to effective meetings will show you how to prepare for success and end with results. It includes structured activities that keep everyone focused on your issues, practical techniques for dealing with unproductive participants, and essential considerations for high tech meetings. If you hold meetings, this book is a must!

Use this guide to unleash the creative potential in others by understanding the key enablers and barriers to creativity. Directed creativity is possibly the most important problem solving skill.

Ideal for team leaders or managers who must form and manage teams, this guide provides helpful guidelines for turning the principles of team management into day-to-day actions. Covers steps in forming and managing natural, ad-hoc, and standing teams.

Your organization's survival depends on employee training - to brush off the importance of upgrading the skills of your employees is a dangerous strategic mistake. Based upon the STEM model, this book will show organizational decision-makers and human resource practitioners how to make quality employee training an integral part of the strategic planning process - and ensure the competitiveness of the organization.

Provides a practical plan and roadmap for the reader to begin the knowledge management process. It gives a practical plan and roadmap of the stages of assessment, planning, deployment, and evaluation. It then puts it all together to expand the reader's core competency to win competitive advantage.

This book is full of new ways to overcome the barriers created when people work in different locations: How to create a forum for idea-sharing, solve problems among people from multiple functions, keep everyone in the "virtual loop," prevent things from slipping through the cracks, keep members up-to-date on changes and decisions, and much more.

Makes a compelling case for the strong connection between organizational soul and productivity, innovation and results. It demonstrates how to create soul in business, social service agencies and education, and includes many examples of exemplary fast-growing companies, large companies, small businesses, not-for-profit organizations and universities that are stepping up and making a difference.

Presents information that helps readers to become good leaders to those they lead. This book helps readers learn how their goal should be to earn the confidence of others, how to become a better leader by learning from the mistakes of others, and how to handle their responsibilities and prioritize them correctly.

This pocket guide will expose the business opportunity that underpins the support of diversity in today's organizations. Learn how to improve workplace productivity by bridging organization goals with diversity imperatives in areas like recruitment, retention, team building, and service.

This pocket guide is an ideal primer for new supervisors or management candidates. It introduces tools and techniques for empowering, building trust, communicating effectively, coaching, motivating and using participative management techniques

This book is an indispensable reference for managers and executives who find themselves in the unfamiliar and often frightening position of having to give a public presentation. It is a compendium of tips that will help any manager learn the survival tactics of public speaking. A simple, quick read, based on the accepted theory and practice of rhetoric, it is also a confidence builder that will help any manager begin to overcome anxiety over public speaking.

This step-by-step guide will help you document and change unwanted work behaviors before they become issues leading to termination. It is presented in a format that is easy to understand and apply. The guide presents specific measures for accurate performance documentation that will protect your organization against discharge litigation.