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Author Grant Mayberry
How to achieve positive outcomes using planning and conversational techniques.
Release Date 1993/07 -
LATEX Notes: Practical Tips for Preparing Technical Documents
Author Kenneth J. Shultis - Department of Nuclear Engineering , Kansas State University
Just a few years ago, LaTeX set TeX users free. LaTeX liberated them from mundane chores such as formatting and equation numbering, allowing writers to concentrate instead on the document content. Now, to help those who wish to take an extra step beyond the structur....
Release Date 1994/01 -
Practical Problem-Solving Skills in the Workplace
Author Pamela Helling , Rebekah Lashman , Judith Combes Taylor
Problem-solving skills to identify and resolve work-related problems and improve job performance. With the increasing emphasis on initiative in the workplace, it‘s essential to know how to recognize, define, and analyze problems and then develop workable solutions t....
Release Date 1994/02 -
Author Norman Walsh
TeX is a powerful tool for creating professional quality typeset text and is unsurpassed at typesetting mathematical equations, scientific text, and multiple languages. Many books describe how you use TeX to construct sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. Until now, ....
Release Date 1994/04 -
Better Grammar in 30 Minutes a Day
Author Florence Sacks , Constance Immel
Here’s help for anyone who has something to say or write but has difficulty doing so. Better Grammar in 30 Minutes features thorough coverage of key grammar skills, clear explanations with a minimum of grammatical terms and an abundance of exercises and activities t....
Release Date 1995/08 -
Secrets of Successful Grantsmanship: A Guerrilla Guide to Raising Money
Author Susan L. Golden
Susan Golden provides not just another book on proposal writing, but one which provides a realistic view of proposal writing with practical step-by-step guidance towards success -- useful for both novice and experienced grantwriters.Patricia F. Lewis, ACFR, presiden....
Release Date 1997/02 -
Measuring Affective and Behavioral Change—Evaluation & Research
Author James C. Robinson , Dana Gaines Robinson
This Info-line stresses the importance of laying the groundwork for measuring behavior and affective changes resulting from training programs. It concentrates on Kirkpatrick's third level of evaluation, behavior, and discusses specific techniques to track and measu....
Release Date 1997/04 -
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
Author John Wooden
NATIONAL BESTSELLER"I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs."--John Wooden Evoking days gone by when coaches were respected as much for their off-court performances as for their success on the court, Wooden presents the timeless wisdom of legendary basket....
Release Date 1997/04 -
Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement
Author Nido R. Qubein
Success is not a matter of good fortune or an accident of birth. It is a matter of decision, commitment, planning, preparation, execution, and recommitment. Nido Qubein's six-step program for personal and professional achievement will help you make the most of your....
Release Date 1997/04 -
More Productive Meetings—Business Skills
Author Cat Sharpe
This issue describes the different purposes of meetings and common characteristics of effective meetings. It outlines planning steps, meeting process steps, and activity guidelines for more efficient, productive meetings, and covers the special roles participants pl....
Release Date 1997/05 -
Listening to Learn; Learning to Listen
Author Diane Kirrane
The average employee spends 30-60 percent of his or her day listening, yet listening skills are rarely taught. This Info-line provides aids to understanding, speaking, and listening. Offers guidelines for giving feedback. Makes suggestions about what to include in a....
Release Date 1997/06 -
The Transfer of Skills Training
Author Richard L. Sullivan
This Info-line describes a model that can be used to determine that the transfer of skills training has occurred. The steps are: 1) conduct needs assessment, 2) standardize performance skills, 3) develop performance checklists, 4) transfer using demonstration, 5) co....
Release Date 1998/04 -
Author Janis F Chan
What does it take to impress an audience? No more boring presentations!
Release Date 1998/06 -
Planning Successful Meetings and Events
Author Ann J. Boehme
Planning a meeting or event is no easy task. Just ask any of the administrative staffers who are increasingly being asked to do it. One minor mistake -- a plane ticket that doesn't arrive on time, not enough vegetarian meals at the luncheon, the wrong kind of audi....
Release Date 1998/11 -
The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Writing
Author Steve Gladis
Written communication is prevalent at most levels of business, but especially at the managerial level. Your writing may be grammatically and logically sound, but is it effective? Is it conveying your message with the concision and accuracy that makes you an effectiv....
Release Date 1999/01 -
Icebreakers—Presentation Skills & Games
Author Robert C. Preziosi
This Info-line provides an overview of the types of icebreakers: openers, acquainters, games, and brainstorming. The issue offers guidelines for selecting icebreakers and for trainer behaviors while conducting icebreakers. Examples of ice breakers are given. ....
Release Date 1999/04 -
Author Tim Hindle
Learn all you need to know about coping with stress in the workplace, from identifying the causes and symptoms of stress to monitoring your response to pressure and implementing coping strategies. Reducing Stress shows how to reorganize your work practices and think....
Release Date 1999/04 -
Author Len Sherman , Jerry Colangelo
This is a story of passion and commitment and faith—qualities that drove one working-class kid to not only build a sports empire, but also to change the way the entire sports industry has done business. In How You Play the Game, Jerry Colangelo, in his ....
Release Date 1999/04 -
Powerful Conversations: How High Impact Leaders Communicate
Author Phil Harkins
"Phil Harkins has it exactly right. To be a leader is to communicate powerfully—as he does in this thoughtful book." - Robert B. Reich, Professor of Social and Economic Policy Brandeis University. Powerful Conversations breed a powerful organization. POWERFU....
Release Date 1999/06 -
The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It * How to Deliver It
Author Richard Dowis
Splashy slides, confident body language, and a lot of eye contact are fine and well. But if a speech is rambling, illogical, or just plain boring, the impact will be lost. Now everyone can learn to give powerful, on-target speeches that capture an audience's attent....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Author David Wood
The Internet's "killer app" is not the World Wide Web or Push technologies: it is humble electronic mail. More people use email than any other Internet application. As the number of email users swells, and as email takes on an ever greater role in personal and bu....
Release Date 1999/08 -
Author Simon Howard
Understand the role and importance of CVs and learn how to analyze and present your transferable skills. Creating a Successful CV will help you to plan and target your career search, and develop a CV that will give you the best opportunity of obtaining the job you d....
Release Date 1999/10 -
Designing Effective Work Groups
Author Paul S. Goodman
Provides ways to design, manage, and maintain more useful work groups--including labor-management committees, staff meetings, advisory groups, and policy committees. In eleven original chapters, reviews current knowledge about groups and explores new directions for ....
Release Date 1999/11 -
Successful Grants Program Management
Author David G. Bauer
As school districts struggle with decentralized management, the need to coordinate grant proposal development has grown dramatically. This indispensable resource contains all the practical tools that districts need to manage cross-curricular proposals for all their ....
Release Date 1999/11 -
Author Robert Heller
Learn all you need to know about creating and using a resume successfully, from summarizing your achievements to targeting potential companies and replying to job advertisements. Writing Your Resume not only shows you how to decide on your career objectives, but als....
Release Date 1999/11