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Alamo Learning Systems has been providing Critical Thinking Skills (CTS), problem solving, decision-making, preventive action, and innovation training solutions to the corporate world for more than 35 years. They have been at the forefront of such movements in management as ISO 9000, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing.

Now, in Think Fast!, these CTS experts bring you an up-to-the-minute toolbox of strategies and tactics you can use to optimize your business. This useful and easy-to-read guide looks at real-world consumer issues, giving you top-level skills to address a wide range of practical business, professional, and life problems.

• Alamo's CTS solutions have been proven effective in major companies, including 200 of the current Fortune 500
• Uses real examples from outside the business world to make problems and solutions widely accessible

If you're a typical project manager, you're probably aware of the importance of planning but may not have the time or expertise to develop a full-blown strategy. Here's a quick and practical guide to applying the disciplines of proven planning practices without the rigor of complex processes.

Part of the Project Manager's Spotlight series from Harbor Light Press, this straightforward book offers solutions to real-life planning scenarios. Author Catherine Tomczyk highlights critical components of project planning and equips you with tools, techniques, checklists, and templates you can put to use immediately. By following a realistic case study from start to finish, you'll see how a project manager deals with each task. Ultimately, this book will help you accurately estimate time and resource requirements, enabling you to implement successful projects.

Project Manager's Spotlight on Planning teaches you how to

• Define project objectives, goals, scope, and requirements
• Draft plans to manage risk, quality, and procurement
• Build your dream team
• Finalize estimates and budgets
• Create the project schedule
• And much more!

This completely revised and updated 3^rd Edition brings you fully up to speed with the latest technological changes, interview strategies, and negotiation techniques to help you give a show-stopping performance and land the job of your dreams. You learn the secrets of successful Internet video interviewing and find out how to present yourself on a global scale. And, you’ll get plenty of expert advice on giving targeted responses, pinpointing the critical parts of questions, and following up on the interview. In this outstanding handbook of contemporary interview arts, you’ll discover how to:

• Out-prepare the competition
• Overcome your fear of interviewing
• Ask smart questions about the job and the employer
• Give the best answers to make-or-break questions
• Fit your qualifications to the job’s requirements
• Dress like an insider
• Survive personality tests
• Interview across cultures
• Deliver a show-stopping interview performance
• Evaluate a job offer
• Negotiate a better salary

Be More Confident: Teach Yourself brings the social networking strategies of the business and professional world to your personal life, allowing you to overcome shyness, win friends and make an impact in every social situation. It uses proven techniques, interactive tools, case studies and motivational advice to help you communicate, socialise and relate to others with real panache. If you've always been a little shy, it will give you step-by-step guides to becoming popular and confident, with practical tips on everything from body language to great conversation openers. Covering work, home, relationships and every other area of your daily routine, this is an aspirational but achievable manual that will help you to feel better not only about yourself, but about the way in which you talk to people, make friends, and make an impression.

NOT GOT MUCH TIME?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

AUTHOR INSIGHTS
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

TEST YOURSELF
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of confidence building.

THINGS TO REMEMBER
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

TRY THIS
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

We're all capable of acting with emotional intelligence. Most of us don't, because internal interferences - misguided beliefs and attitudes learnt in childhood - get in the way. Countering this, Applied EI attaches unique importance to the role of attitudes in developing and applying emotional intelligence. Tim Sparrow and Amanda Knight stress that EI isn't a synonym for personality; it's about managing personality. That's why knowing how to put EI into practice is essential. And that's why reducing EI to a single number or score misses the point, and serves only to give us another measure by which to judge ourselves and others.

* Illustrated
* Author Biography
* Interactive Table of Contents
* Free Audiobook Download

The Art of Public Speaking [ Free Audiobooks Download ]

The Art of Public Speaking, originally published in 1915.  This is what this landmark book will teach you. Learn the best methods to become a confident and effective public speaker. The pioneers in public speaking, Dale Carnegie and Joseph Berj Esenwein, will help you develop your personality and be a powerful public speaker. You will learn how to acquire confidence before an audience, avoid the sin of monotony, concentrate your delivery, utilize your voice and gestures, harness your power of imagination, improve your memory and loads more.