The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivational Leadership

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivational Leadership
Author: Scott Snair
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781592576791

You're no idiot. You know that motivating groups to work together is no easy task. This is true whether you're leading a group of Little Leaguers or a project team of professionals. Yet you're often left wondering what you could do to really show them how to blow away the competition or what others have that you don't. Never fear! While leadership may come easier to some than to others, it's definitely a skill that can be learned. And now The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivational Leadership can show you how!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivating People

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motivating People
Author: Michael Ramundo
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780028632001

This "Idiot's Guide" shows how to pump up trainers, managers, and leaders of all kinds to inspire the people who work for them.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Team Building

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Team Building
Author: Arthur R. Pell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2003-02-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0786542268

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Team-Building shows first-time managers and employees how to work together as a smooth, well-oiled machine. The book shows how to: -- Avoid and manage conflict. Inspire creativity. -- Coax employees to help team members who aren't performing. -- Get everyone to pitch in. -- Gain unprecedented results and make the team enjoy going to work.

The Complete Idiots Guide to Business Management

The Complete Idiots Guide to Business Management
Author: Hap Klopp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780028617442

Managing cash flow, keeping employees happy and productive, complying with employment laws, and fighting back competition are all problems any manager must face daily. Now there is step-by-step help for everything from how to maximize the success of your products to how to solve the problems that sap a business' productivity. Included are anecdotes from the author about his successes in business, the problems he faced, and how he overcame them.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Difficult Employees

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing with Difficult Employees
Author: Robert Bacal
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780028633701

Provides managers techniques such as intervention and arbitration to maintain a productive working environment despite problem employees, and discusses ways employees can effectively communicate with difficult bosses and co-workers.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Recruiting and Managing Volunteers

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Recruiting and Managing Volunteers
Author: John L. Lipp
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101140615

Advice on the unique challenges of managing a volunteer workforce Volunteers provide vital services to millions of people each year. However, because of their work's special nature, they're one of the most challenging work forces to manage and retain. Lipp has managed these workers for over 20 years and shares his experience in recruiting, balancing paid and volunteer staff, creating schedules that work, addressing the transient nature of volunteers, motivation, and retention. • Expert author in the field • There is a growing need for volunteer workers as budgets are cut • Most current book on the subject • Clear, jargon-free text full of anecdotes and step-by-step advice

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

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Working Less, Earning More
Author: Jeff Cohen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1440636656

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 Leadership

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Leadership
Author: Andrew J. DuBrin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780028639543

Describes how to project charisma, inspire confidence, develop the ability to read people, ask the right questions, and regroup after crises.

People Follow You

People Follow You
Author: Jeb Blount
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118094018

Discover the secrets to influencing the performance of the people you lead Managers don't get paid for what they do but rather for the performance of their people; therefore, a manager's most important job is coaching behaviors in order to improve performance. In People Follow You managers will learn five easily understood and implemented levers critical to influencing the performance of the people they lead. Ultimately, people follow people that they like, trust, and believe in. Understand how to build stronger relationships with direct and indirect reports that lead to loyalty, higher productivity, and long-term development. Relevant to middle and high level managers, People Follow You provides a foundation for managing people. Practical lessons help managers employ winning interpersonal skills to move others to take action. Learn how to leverage the basics of interpersonal relationships to inspire others to take action Get a simple and actionable formula for connecting with employees and indirect reports and gaining their buy-in through the use of personal power vs. the power of authority Discover the fundamental on-the-job coaching skills that deliver instant performance improvement Author Jeb Blount is the most downloaded sales expert in iTunes history; his Sales Gravy and Sales Guy audio programs have been downloaded more than 3 million times When all else is stripped away, people don't work for companies, paychecks, perks, or slogans, people work for you. Become a manager people will follow, and lead your team to greater achievements and measurable gains.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to European History, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to European History, 2nd Edition
Author: Nathan Barber
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101558563

• Fascinating, fact-filled writing that delivers hundreds of years in the life of the European continent • Terrific supplementary reading for AP History students