Product Description: Broad, practical coverage of team skills offered in a conversational tone that encourages reader participation.   Teams offer us many advantages as an organized way to accomplish tasks — but what are the best methods and practices for harnessing the full power of a team successfully? In its second edition, Learning Team Skills offers insight into how both those in a college and corporate environment can use teambuilding skills as well as their individual strengths to create, participate in, and lead successful working teams...read more

Product Description: For courses in Career Development, Job Search Strategies, and Group Dynamics. This brief primer teaches which specific skills matter most for those assuming a leadership role. Readers begin by measuring their current leadership experience and follow a step-by-step method through the chapter sequence which helps extend and refine their leadership insights and techniques...read more

Product Description: Finally business professionals will be able to learn how to communicate effectively. This book builds the essential writing, speaking, and listening skills needed to succeed. An entire section is devoted to helping non-native speakers of English in their efforts to produce readable, well-edited work...read more

Product Description: Beat the fear of public speaking forever--with no sweat! Speaker’s nerves. For many of us, these words spell disaster. Whether it’s giving a speech to a conference room filled with hundreds of colleagues or simply socializing with a group of strangers at a party, the churning stomach and sweaty palms that come with speaker’s nerves can be uncomfortable at best and career-damaging at worst...read more

Product Description: Although deception has become commonplace in the corporate world, its consequences can have crippling effects. Bell and Cohn address how employees are pressured to conceal criticisms and deny mistakes. They follow the effects of false excuses from the ground up, revealing how these lies can infect management systems at the highest levels...read more

Product Description: Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again!  Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests...read more

Product Description: You can get thereWhere do you want to go? You might already be working in a business setting. You may be looking to expand your skills. Or, you might be setting out on a new career path.Wherever you want to go, Business Communication will help you get there...read more

Offers techniques and exercises designed to increase reading speed dramatically and to comprehend and retain important information more easily.

Product Description: You Can't Talk to Me That Way! Stopping Toxic Language in the Workplace stands up to verbally abusive bosses, co-workers, and others and says, "Enough!" It shows readers exactly what to say and do to end the humiliation and torment...read more

Product Description: More than half of all Americans suffer from one or more phobias at some time during their lives. This book draws upon the extraordinary wealth of current scientific and clinical research on phobias, including Dr. Gardner's own experiences with patients, to answer six pressing questions for anyone who suffers from phobias and for the friends and relatives of such sufferers:* What is a phobia? What are its typical symptoms? How do I know if I have a phobia? * What causes phobias? Are they inherited or learned? * Who is vulnerable to phobias? Do phobias indicate mental illness? * How can phobias be diagnosed, managed, and overcome? What therapies have proven most successful in treating phobias? * What can I learn about my specific phobia? Does it have a name? Do others suffer from it? * What resources are available to help me overcome my phobias or help a friend with phobias? This book is a hands-on guide to recovery from the bondage of phobias...read more

Product Description: Titles in Barron's Business Success series are quick reads for busy people. They advise career-minded men and women on how to succeed at all levels of management, marketing, and other business undertakings, with emphasis on survival in the corporate environment...read more

Product Description: The authors point out twelve difficult personality types that can be found in business environments, then offer tips to help readers understand what makes them tick and how the rest of us can best cope with them. Advice includes methods for transforming potential problems into "getting-ahead" advantages...read more

Product Description: This small but impressive book has been expanded to include hundreds more alphabetically arranged entries, each of them followed by an ample list of synonyms. The book’s size makes it an ideal fast-reference source for high school and college students preparing term papers or essays, and seeking out alternate words having similar meanings...read more

Product Description: This unique book gives the latest information on how to succeed in the interview process, whether as an interviewee or an interviewer. Both verbal and nonverbal skills crucial to interview success are discussed in detail in this informative and clearly written book, and many sample questions from typical interviews are provided...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written in an interest-grabbing, person-to-person style, this brief, unique step-by-step guide/workbook explores both the classic and most recent theories and applications of human motivation, showing readers how to come to terms with personal motivators and use them for higher levels of achievement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Measuring and Managing Knowledge provides a framework for managing and maximizing the return on intellectual capital. Like any emerging field, knowledge management has so far been hobbled by a lack of clarity on key questions: What do we mean by "knowledge"? How can it be measured and managed? How can return on knowledge (ROK) be maximized? To answer these questions, the authors avoid the obtuse language of sociology and economics in favor of plain talk...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores the chemical and non-chemical approaches to common forms of anxiety, panic disorders, and depression, explaining the difference between specific and social phobias and panic and generalized anxiety disorder.

Product Description: This volume emphasizes the importance of understanding rules of social and business etiquette in other cultures, and points out how intercultural knowledge--or lack of it--can make or break a business deal. Other topics covered in this book include using social occasions to promote intercultural business, and training employees in intercultural business skills...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Are leaders born or made? How can I become a more successful leader in my organization? What do I need to do to meet the challenges of the new workplace? Dayle M. Smith, Ph.D., answers these and other crucial questions for every aspiring leader...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses voice, layout, clarity, expressing ideas, preparing reports and proposals, revision, and handling specific situations, and provides examples (view table of contents)

Discusses how to obtain a job abroad, preparing for an international job interview, work permits and visas, and using the Internet to find jobs abroad, and lists potential jobs and employers (view table of contents)