37 eBooks on these skills: productivity, leadership, appraisal, communication, meeting, project, finance, strategy, coaching and people. Each eBook is about 30 to 50 pages. 12 eBooks available later.
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Alphabetical List of eBook Titles from Website
01) Accounting Principles Explains all of the basic accounting concepts and terminology you will need to understand financial statements.
02) Active Listening Explains how to plan any presentation as quickly and effectively as possible.
03) Ansoff Matrix Describes this strategic planning tool that helps managers to devise their product and market growth strategies.
04) Appraisal Meeting Gives you practical advice on how to prepare for and conduct a productive and stress free appraisal meeting.
05) Boston Matrix Describes the Boston Matrix, an approach to product portfolio planning based on relative market share and market growth.
06) Cash Flow Analysis Helps you to understand how cash flows are generated and how this can help you to make sound financial decisions.
07) Chairing a Meeting Explains how to chair each stage of the meeting to ensure that your meetings are both productive and popular.
08) Coaching Skills and Models Describes the seven key skills that are needed for successful coaching. It also explains popular coaching models including GROW, TGROW, OSKAR and solution focused coaching.
09) Conference Calls Explains how to overcome the problems associated with conference calls, one of the most often cited pet hates of employees.
10) Delivering a Presentation Explains how to deliver your presentation in a way that will keep the audience engaged from the beginning to the final conclusion.
11) Developing Competencies Explains how to develop the competencies of your team member and add value to the whole organization.
12) Effective Communications Explains how to plan any presentation as quickly and effectively as possible.
13) Effective Goal Setting Explains how to use the theory of goal setting to set practical targets for you and your team members.
14) Evaluating Performance Describes how to collect, evaluate and record comprehensive high-quality performance data during the appraisal cycle.
15) Financial Performance Explains how to use Key financial ratios to help you to make informed management decisions about the financial status of other organizations.
16) Five Forces Framework Describes Porter’s Five Forces Framework, which provides a model for industry analysis and strategy development.
17) Income Statements Gives you a thorough understanding of the income statement, a powerful decision-making tool.
18) Managing Interruptions Explains how to protect yourself from interruptions and still maintain a good relationship with your colleagues.
19) Negotiating Workload Limits Explains how to negotiate your workload to a manageable level and avoid becoming snowed under.
20) Overcoming Procrastination Explains how to overcome the obstacles that prevent you from starting difficult high-priority tasks.
21) Performance Management Explains the principles behind performance management and describes each stage of the appraisal process.
22) PESTLE Analysis Describes the PESTLE Analysis, a method you can use to identify the external factors that influence an organization.
23) Planning a Presentation Describes a simple four-step process that you can use to create a presentation plan, whether you are making a formal presentation to senior management or a routine presentation to your own team.
24) Preparing a Presentation Follows on from ‘Planning a Presentation’ and explains how to create a complete presentation based on your aim, audience, key message statement, and the key points you have identified.
25) Preparing Visual Aids Explains how to produce compelling visual aids and how to avoid inflicting 'Death by Powerpoint' on your audience. Available Feb 2014.
26) Principles of Coaching Gives you an understanding of the principles behind a successful coaching program. It also details the advantages and disadvantages of internal, external, formal and informal coaching.
27) Principles of Project Management Helps you to understand the principles of project management and how the processes detailed in the PMBOK® Guide support them.
28) Productivity Tools Explains how to choose the best productivity tools and describes how to use them to get more work done.
29) Project Communications Management Describes the Project Communications Management knowledge area. Available Sep 2014.
30) Project Cost Management Describes the Project Cost Management knowledge area. Available Jun 2014.
31) Project Human Resource Management Describes the Project Human Resource Management knowledge area. Available Aug 2014.
32) Project Integration Management Describes the Project Integration Management knowledge area. Available Mar 2014.
33) Project Management Process Groups Helps you to identify the appropriate project management process to apply at any point in your own project.
34) Project Procurement Management Describes the Project Procurement Management knowledge area. Available Nov 2014.
35) Project Quality Management Describes the Project Quality Management knowledge area. Available Jul 2014.
36) Project Risk Management Describes the Project Risk Management knowledge area. Available Oct 2014.
37) Project Scope Management Describes the Project Scope Management knowledge area. Available Apr 2014.
38) Project Stakeholder Management Describes the Project Stakeholder Management knowledge area. Available Dec 2014.
39) Project Time Management Describes the Project Time Management knowledge area. Available May 2014.
40) Reading a Balance Sheet Explains how to read a balance sheet and the role it plays in providing a picture of the financial status of a company.
41) Setting an Agenda Explains how a well-written agenda will keep your meeting on track and ensure that attendees are properly prepared.
42) Successful Delegation Explains the ten rules of successful delegation that will motivate and empower your team.
43) SWOT Analysis Describes the SWOT analysis, a technique that you can use when deciding on the best strategy for achieving future growth.
44) Taking Meeting Minutes Explains how to take notes during the meeting and how to turn them into professionally presented minutes.
45) Team Building Explains the core principles of team building that will help you get the best out of any team that you find yourself managing.
46) Team Development Provides a practical guide to understanding team development to help you with practical day-to-day team building.
47) Team Leadership Uses three real-life examples to illustrate how different leadership styles can be applied to suit different types of team.
48) Why Teams Underperform Explains why teams underperform and provides practical advice about how to identify and fix performance problems.
49) Written Communications Helps you to produce effective written communications that get results. Available Mar 2014.