The benefits of networking are many - improving the chances of keeping a job, getting a new one, career progression, learning how to get along with others and improving personal effectiveness and company performance.Successful Networking is designed to remove the fear factor and encourage people to make the effort to 'network for success'. It gives you advice and guidance on handling any social or workplace situation that could be awkward. People are compl...

This simple Three Steps to Success guide, a digest of Frances Kay’s acclaimed book, Presentations, details the basic information required for anyone to get the most out of presentations. The guide is a must for any employee, manager, freelancer or business owner.Good presentation skills are essential for any person to succeed in business whether to secure new clients, showcase new projects, staff motivation or business planning. Getting them right can make or break your career and ...

Dr Dorothy Broadhurst is a biologist living in 1950s Central Africa to study the local ape population. When civil war erupts and the rest of her team flees, she's left alone in the jungle. Dorothy may think she understands the apes she has studied for so long, but she could never have predicted what they are about to do . . ."Strange Creation" is a short story.

Part of the Smart Skills series, Working with Others offers all you need to know to work successfully with colleagues and business associates, whether you are an employee, manager, freelancer or business owner. Many of the most successful business ideas and projects spring from collaboration between people, so making sure you work effectively with others can be the making or breaking of a business.

Part of the Smart Skills SeriesWorking with Others offers all you need to know to work successfully with colleagues and business associates, whether you are an employee, manager, freelancer or business owner.Many of the most successful business ideas and projects spring from collaboration between people, so making sure you work effectively with others can be the making or breaking of a business

The Good Non Retirement Guide is essential reading for anyone looking to make the most of their retirement. It combines invaluable advice on how you can plan for a secure future with suggestions for creative and fulfilling activities - whether you want to start a new business or just relax. There is vital information on: MONEY: maximising your income, pensions, investments, tax, financial advisors WORK: looking for paid work, voluntary work and starting your own business HEALTH: keeping fit, ...

Book 2 of the Smart Skills series: practical guides to mastering vital business skills and techniques. Using proven strategies from business experts, these essential smart skills can empower anyone with the tools to get ahead.Everything you need to know about presenting- a must have for any employee, manager, freelancer or business ownerDespite being one of the most dreaded professional tasks, public speaking is an inc...

At the order to fire, they fired. Real bullets, it would seem. The politicians crumpled, twitched, and sagged to the ground, in a manner familiar to devotees of leftwing arthouse movies. Then the eyes of the squad turned towards me.' After the plague, most of us are dead, and some of the survivors aren't behaving very well. But we can still have a laugh, can't we? Letting go is for softies. I'm alone - delightfully and comfortably alone. I don't do crying... That's the wonky philosophy of ...

This guide offers all you need to know in order to work successfully with colleagues and business associates, no matter what title you hold within the company. Many of the most successful business ideas and projects spring from collaboration between people, so making sure you work effectively with others can make or break a business.

Emotional intelligence, more than IQ and technical know-how, gives a valuable competitive edge to organizations and is crucial to the success of individuals. Used to its full advantage, you can learn to improve relationships to achieve your desired outcomes, perform better at interview and develop your decision making on a day-to-day basis. Understanding Emotional Intelligence will show you how to:negotiate more effectivelyreduce conflict at workd...

This book is for all those seeking to maximise the effectiveness of their professional relationships in order to reach the top of the property or construction industries. It is written to help young professionals at the early stages of their careers increase their understanding of others and to help more experienced practitioners gain additional skills on their way to the top.It guides you through the intricate steps of professional relationship building – internally for positive s...

The issues explored in The Feminist Classroom are as timely and controversial today as they were when the book first appeared six years ago. This expanded edition offers new material that rereads and updates previous chapters, including a major new chapter on the role of race. The authors offer specific new classroom examples of how assumptions of privilege, specifically the workings of unacknowledged whiteness, shape classroom discourses. This edition also goes beyond the classroom, to ex...