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Creating business plans - 2014

A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success—whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to:
Present your idea clearly - Develop sound financial plans - Project risks—and rewards - Anticipate and address your audience's concerns

Delegating work - 2014

You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do. Delegating Work quickly walks you through the fundamentals of:
Establishing a productive environment
Assigning the right work to the right people
Conducting an effective hand-off meeting
Monitoring without micromanaging

Finance basics - 2014

Intimidated by corporate finance? The numbers (and the jargon) can feel overwhelming—but you have to understand them to manage effectively. Finance Basics explains the fundamentals simply and quickly, introducing you to key terms and concepts such as:
How to navigate financial statements
How to weigh costs and benefits
What's involved in budgeting and forecasting
How to gauge a company's financial health

Giving effective feedback - 2014

Whether you're dealing with a problem employee or praising the good work of a colleague, you need to communicate in a way that promotes positive change in others. Giving Effective Feedback quickly walks you through the basics of delivering feedback that gets results, including:
• Choosing the right time to talk
• Engaging in productive dialogue
• Helping both star and struggling performers
• Developing a plan for effective follow-up

Managing up - 2014

Manage your most important workplace relationship.
Your boss plays an important role in your career. So how do you navigate this delicate, significant professional relationship without playing political games or compromising your character? Managing Up offers concise, expert tips on:
- Understanding your manager's priorities and pressures
- Setting a positive tone for the relationship
- Managing expectations--and egos
- Earning trust and respect

Presentations - 2014

Feeling stressed about your upcoming presentation? Whether you're nervous about how you'll organize your thoughts or how you'll articulate them on the big day, Presentations provides the quick guidelines and expert tips you need to:
Craft your message
Prepare and rehearse effectively
Engage your audience
Manage Q&A sessions|
Feeling stressed about your upcoming presentation? Whether you're nervous about how you'll organize your thoughts or how you'll articulate them on the big day,...

Running meetings - 2014

Whether you’re new to running meetings or a seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (and even pleasant!) meetings is a must. Running Meetings guides you through the basics of:
• Crafting a useful agenda
• Inviting the right team members
• Making sure everyone’s voice is heard while avoiding conflict 
• Capturing decisions, ideas, and follow-up tasks

Innovative teams - 2015

Don't leave creativity up to the “creatives" in your organization. Fostering creativity within your team can help your organization solve problems, create innovative products, break out into a new market, and even communicate and collaborate more effectively. Innovative Teams shows you how to:
Create the right environment for inventive thinking
Build a diverse team
Generate a wide array of new ideas
Manage disagreements

Performance reviews - 2015

Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations are critical to your employees' development, allowing you to formally communicate with them about their accomplishments relative to their goals. Performance Reviews guides you through the basics. You'll learn to:
• Gather and analyze the right information
• Document your assessment
• Address performance problems
• Set challenging goals

Leading virtual teams - 2016

Leading any team involves managing people, technical oversight, and project administration, but leaders of virtual teams perform these functions from afar. Leading Virtual Teams walks you through the basics of:
Connecting your people to each other—and to the team's mission
Surmounting language, distance, and technology barriers
Identifying and using the right communication channels.

Running virtual meetings - 2016

From crackly conference lines to pixelated video, virtual meetings can be problematic. But you can host a productive conversation in which everyone participates. Running Virtual Meetings takes you through the basics.

Virtual collaboration - 2016

Working remotely gives you flexibility and independence. But it can pose challenges when you need to team up with colleagues or coworkers. Virtual Collaboration covers the basics of working productively—and collaboratively—from anywhere. You'll learn to:
Communicate clearly over a variety of media
Bond with colleagues across the wires
Keep others—and yourself—accountable
Avoid and mitigate tech glitches