Briefcase Books

Briefcase Books, written specifically for today's busy manager, feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step-by-step through everyday workplace situations. Look for these innovative design features to help you navigate through each page:

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Project Management provides a step-by-step, all inclusive introduction to the tools and techniques necessary to spearhead your next project and bring it home on time, on budget and at performance levels that will add directly to your company's bottom line. This book guides you to:

*Stay on top of all aspects of your project: Process, interpersonal and organizational

*Deal effectively with all the contingencies, foreseen and unforeseen, that always come up in any project.

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Budgeting for Managers starts with the basics of a simple expense budget and gives you everything you need to know to create, present, and track a budget with a spreadsheet or accounting package. From definitions of fundamental accounting terms to techniques for working within your budget and managing money with your team, it will take you through the basics and beyond so that you can:

*Negotiate for the money you need *Create budgets for growth or downsizing *Track your budget and measure work results throughout the year

This value-packed Briefcase Book will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to take charge of money, and work alone or with a team to bring success to both your company and your career.

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Design for Six Sigma shows decision makers at all levels how to implement Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) tools and techniques from earliest design through final production of virtually any product, service, or process.

DFSS is a business process focused on improving profitability. Properly applied, it generates the right product at the right time at the right cost. DFSS is a systematic methodology for designing or redesigning products and services according to customer requirements and expectations. By incorporating DFSS, you are virtually assured that your new product or service will perform well in the marketplace. It includes:

1.Specific functions and activities for each phase of the DFSS methodology
2.Important tools-and their uses-for ensuring DFSS efficiency and efficacy
3.Vital guidelines and tips for seamless,successful DFSS implementation

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Sigma for Managers is a step-by-step guidebook for understanding and managing every facet of this landmark quality initiative. It gives you the hands-on knowledge and skills you need to:

Six Sigma is the key to unlocking new levels of quality, performance, customer service and profit; as a manager, you are the key to unlocking the power of Six Sigma.

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Time Management provides you with the tools and techniques you need to make each minute count. Filled with workplace-tested strategies for either improving upon the systems you currently use or replacing them with methods that are proven to be more efficient and time-saving, this latest book will provide you with:

Discover how professionals from virtually every industry are getting more accomplished in less time, while lowering their minute-to-minute workloads and anxiety, with Time Management.

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Recognizing and Rewarding Employees gives managers the top-ten rewards most successful at motivating employees, tips for showing appreciation for work done well, ways to promote achievement through recognition, and more.

Finance for the Non-Financial Manager clears the confusion, helping you understand the information contained in essential financial reports and then showing you how to use that understanding to make informed, intelligent decisions. The book gives an immediate, working knowledge of:: * Basic Financial Reports *Cost Accounting *Operational Planning and Budgeting

Let Finance for the Non-Financial Manager show you how to understand the information found in everyday financial reports and use that information to drive the success of both your firm and your career.

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Manager's Survival Guide features proven tips and strategies for sensing imminent problems, formulating workable solutions, following up to ensure problems do not reoccur and more. This book contains:

*Move from problem to solution in four logical steps * Keep performance high-even morale is low *Take proactive steps to reduce the likelihood of mishaps.

Manager's Survival Guide gives you the tools you need to take charge of your surroundings and handle everyday management issues with leadership, diplomacy and result-based effectiveness.

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Customer Relationship Management brings it back to the foreground, providing easy-to-apply solutions and strategies for establishing meaningful bonds with your customers and turning them into reliable, lifelong partners. The book shows you how to design a CRM approach that is responsive, flexible and personalized to each customer. It provides:

* Practical advice for choosing and implementing a CRM strategy *A review of database tools for capturing and managing customer information *Proven techniques for translating an effective CRM strategy to the e-commerce environment

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The Managers Guide to Performance Reviews helps managers instead make reviews both positive and proactive. It provides a step-by-step process for administering an effective performance review, one that will meet the organizations needs for employee appraisal while giving employees an honest sense of how they are performing and where they could improve. Also examined are various approaches to performance reviews, different forms and techniques, and more. The book guides to:

Document performance fairly and objectively *Accurately diagnose and point out performance issues *Tailor reviews to help employees improve their performance.

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Skills for New Managers will show you how to succeed and flourish as a manager. This succinct, highly focused model for effective management will help you master topics including:

Effective management skills can be learned. Skills for New Managers will give you everything you need to create your own management style, use that style to promote solid performance in your employees and take the next critical step in your climb up the career ladder.

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Communicating Effectively provides hands-on, no-nonsense techniques and strategies for improving your ability to communicate—and manage conflicts—in today’s relentless and demanding business environment. Look to this easy-to-use book for:

*Proven methods to raise employee morale—and productivity—through everyday conversation and interaction *Guidelines and ground rules for conducting participative, results-driven meetings and presentations *The 5 fundamental factors of e-communications—how to use e-mail, voice mail, and others—and which method to use for specific situations

Learn the workplace-tested tools of communication, some seemingly obvious, others somewhat less apparent, but all crucial for day-to-day success—in Communicating Effectively.

Retaining Top Employees focuses on the specific strategies and tactics you can use to create and sustain competitive advantage by increasing your company's attractiveness to both current and potential employees. It includes:

* Retention-focused new employee orientation guidelines *Strategies for targeting recognition programs to top performers *Communication techniques that effective managers must know

Retaining Top Employees shows you how to make employee retention an integral part of your organizational culture, creating a work environment that will not only attract but retain your industry's top people.

Leadership Skills for Managers is a hands-on, systematic examination of the specific skills and tools—vision, problem-solving, communication, distribution of power, and others—that must be in place before one can climb the ladder from management to leadership. Let this no-nonsense guide show you how to develop the expertise, strategies, and courage to:

*Exhibit the poise and presence required to get others to march *Step outside the status quo—to visualize and implement true improvements
*Cultivate valuable professional bonds via benchmarking and community networks

Leadership Skills for Managers shows you how to achieve the skills and self-confidence of a leader—and maximize both your accomplishments and career success in today’s global corporate arena.

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Interviewing Techniques for Managers shows you how to master every aspect of the interview process to ensure that you always get honest, helpful and results-oriented answers, including:

*When and how to ask the key questions *Tips for getting a difficult interview back on track *Techniques for telephone, e-mail and other arms-length interviews *Separating fact from fiction when interviewing potential employees *Solving workplace problems *Uncovering how best to meet customer needs

Interviewing Techniques for Managers will help you conduct each interview with a solid plan and workplace-tested interviewing skills.

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The Managers Guide to Business Writing contains practical guidelines for writing business correspondence and materials with speed, precision, and power, giving your readers the most information in the least amount of time. Designed to provide maximum impact to your everyday work performance, this intense short course in persuasive writing contains examples of letters, memos, and e-mail written to grab your readers attention and make them take action. It shows how to put more force into your writing through use of visuals, white space, and headings. And it gives detailed instructions for handling difficult situations, including breaking bad news, handling angry customers, and using persuasion effectively.

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Manager's Guide to Strategy provides you with proven, up-to-date concepts, tools and insights for effective strategy formulation, along with myraid examples of successful and not-so-successful strategies from real companies. This book shows how to:

* Formulate long-term goals and create a plan to achieve those goals *Factor your best customers and their needs into every strategic decision *Evaluate and revise strategies to take advantage of new opportunities

Learn how to both think and act strategically - for the benefit of your organization, your customers and your career- in Manager's Guide to Strategy.

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Negotiating Skills for Managers provides the tools you need to understand and prepare for each negotiation, along with proven methods to subtly and skillfully guide it to a successful conclusion. Turn to this latest book for hands-on techniques you can utilize to:

Let Negotiating Skills for Managers show you how to negotiate with tact and skill, accomplishing your own personal and organizational objectives while creating non-adversarial agreements that will stand the test of time and the destructive pressures of the marketplace.

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The ability to give a great presentation can be a tremendous career booster, while the opposite can keep a manager on a dead-end path. Presentation Skills for Managers is a practical, advice-filled book on how to create and make compelling and persuasive presentations. Besides reviewing material on preparing and delivering effective presentations, it includes new special coverage of the development and use of Powerpoint slides, something not found in most books on presentations.