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The Complete Guide to Property Development for the Small Investor provides detailed information on identifying the best investment properties, dealing with contractors and letting a property - as well as new information on finding the best financing deals, and spotting potential bargains, in a volatile property market.

Helps you to understand how partnerships function and how you can manage them more effectively and efficiently. This title also helps you to understand the problems that affect partnering and how to make effective management decisions to improve both the relationship and productivity.

Project governance is the framework within which decisions are made on projects. This book will provide the practical information necessary to establish and implement a project governance framework for a project or across an organisation.

This text examines four key areas of teacher education. These are: theories, models and ideologies of teacher education; the control of teacher education by the state, and the role of schools and HE; cultural perspectives and the education of teachers; and continuities in teacher education.

Part of the well-known Staff and Educational Development Series, this practice oriented book brings together leading research and evaluation approaches and supporting case studies from leading educational researchers and innovative teachers.With much emphasis on change, innovation and developing best practice in higher education, it is essential that those involved in actually developing, researching or implementing approaches to teaching, learning or management, are informed by the experiences of others. The emphasis of this book is on changing practice in HE; how developments come about; what research underpins desirable development; and the impact of development of student learning, staff expertise and institutional practice and policy. Specifically, the book is developed in two themed parts: Part A, Supporting change within subjects and departments. Part B, Supporting change within institutions and the wider environment.

Crisis Communication advises organisations how to limit the damage of crises effectively by acting quicly and positively. Moreover, it explains how to turn a crisis into an opportunity and protect your corporate reputation by using PR strategies to communicate efficiently.

Brings together a range of expert tips and guidance for all those lecturing and teaching in higher education. With ideas on all aspects of HE teaching, it covers a range of issues that can crop up in daily working life, and is both a lifeline to new teachers and a handy sourcebook and refresher for more experienced educators.

This report synthesizes two approaches to a topical problem: the concern with social deviancy and crime which focuses on failure; and research on educational development which focuses on success. The book explores how environmental experiences (including parenting and bullying) play a role.

This handbook seeks to provide practical, realistic suggestions about how quality can be measured, maintained and improved in institutions. It is addressed to a cross-section of staff who make up colleges and universities, not just those responsible for quality audit.

Making the transition from student to newly qualified teacher can be a daunting prospect. Combining theory with practical advice, this book uses case-studies, examples and tips to provide a complete survival guide for the newly qualified teacher.

In The Art of Creative Thinking renowned expert John Adair offers clear guidelines for developing your full potential as a creative thinker. He helps anyone to overcome barriers to having new ideas and develop a true understanding of the creative process.

Based on the day-to-day realities of management, look at each fundamental aspect of leadership and get accessible guidance for the aspiring leader.

How to Grow Leaders analyses the nature of leadership and identifies the key principles of effective leadership development. It describes how to select, train and educate leaders at team, operational and strategic leadership levels.

Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services - the lifeblood of business success. John Adair identifies the characteristics of innovative organizations and describes how leaders can encourage new ideas.

The Inspirational Leader, a companion title to the best-selling Not Bosses But Leaders, investigates the nature and practice of leadership, and how to encourage and inspire others.

The Call Centre Training Handbook provides line managers, trainers and coaches with practical training and measurement techniques for improving call centre and contact centre performance around the world.

Examining the bridge between human resource management and business strategy, Human Capital Management is a practical guide for HR practitioners and managers who want to improve business performance through effective people management.

Go behind the scenes at Tesco and learn best practice from the successes and failures of their development of the world's most successful retail loyalty scheme.

The New Boss is a practical guide to advise newly appointed managers how to survive the first one hundred days in their new role.

How People Tick is about understanding and dealing with patterns of behaviour that annoy us, such as gossiping, back-stabbing and bullying, in order to make these 'difficult' people easier to live and work with.

Delivering E-Learning presents a complete strategy for training and development. From deciding when to use, how to design, tips on selecting suppliers, and how to measure its effectiveness.

The Training Design Manual is a step-by-step approach to designing and implementing a training programme.

Make an Impact with your Written English is an invaluable guide that focuses on writing English for international business for sales, PR, presentations, reports, minutes, manuals and the web etc.

Executive Writing Skills for Managers focuses on writing English for international business as a key business and management tool for native and non-native speakers alike.

Working With the Enemy aims to help anyone who is dealing with conflict at work. It includes10 essential survival strategies, descriptions of the 15 toughest types of enemy and tips on how to transform your enemy situation.

How the Global Financial Markets Really Work is an in-depth examination of the factors that shape international money flows, and the cross-border influences that impact on every economy in the world.

Offshoring, globalisation and the rise of China and India have been triggering unprecedented change in the communication sector. New channels of global communications are also being opened up by social media tools. This title talks about the cross-cultural challenges facing PR practitioners.

The Theory and Practice of Training is a practical guide providing a comprehensive outline of the major instructional and training concepts, and their relationship to training in practice.

Practical Business Skills for Driving Instructors provides solid, practical advice to help you set up your own driving instructor's business. Topics include preparing a business plan, financing the business, choosing and maintaining a car, book-keeping, sales and marketing.

The Essential Guide to Workplace Mediation and Conflict Resolution is a practical guide to help implement and succeed in workplace mediation and conflict resolution.