The experts' guide to how to manage the most important person you are responsible for: yourself. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to your personal performance as a manager, on such topics as: Starting a new job; Fitting in and getting on; Handling workplace relationships; Developing your network; Making an impact; Succeeding as a new manager; Handling the politics; Testing for personal effectiveness; Personal development planning; Working out a career plan; Writing your CV; Managing your time effectively; Handling information and avoiding overload; Solving problems; Stress management, and putting yourself first; Emotional intelligence; Marketing yourself; Managing (your relationship with) your boss; and Networking. It is all here, from the basics to the more nuanced and difficult to get right, and included among the essential checklists are profiles of leading management thinkers on key topics.
The best operations management ensures that a business's infrastructure and processes balance efficiency with effectiveness, using the right resources to maximum effect. Using the series' trademark mix of checklists and thinker profiles, CMI experts guide the reader through the fundamentals of some key operational issues: quality control and management; change and project management; the supply chain and monitoring and control. Topics covered include: getting TQM to work, benchmarking, project risk assessment, outsourcing, inventory and purchasing, strategic risk management. business continuity planning and much more.
This book contains checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to the processes behind how you get the most from those you have to manage and work with, and how you deal with them when things go wrong. The checklists include: Planning the recruitment process; Managing staff turnover and retention; Managing part-time employees; Performance management; Using 360 degree feedback; Evaluating training and learning; Talent management; Training needs analysis; Succession planning; Devising a coaching programme; Understanding organisational culture; Employee engagement; Managing creativity; Implementing flexible working hours; Implementing a diversity management programme; Redundancy: managing the survivors; and Enabling work-life balance. It is all here, from the basics to the more nuanced and difficult to get right, and included among the essential checklists are profiles of leading management thinkers on key topics.
The experts' guide to how to manage and work with the people and teams you are responsible for. Here are the checklists compiled by the CMI's experts on the aspects that are most crucial to getting the most from those you have to manage and work with, on such topics as: Getting the right people and getting the people right; Team briefing; Effective verbal communication with groups; Facilitating; Developing trust; Empowerment; Successful delegation; Setting SMART objectives; Motivating the demotivated; Managing the plateaued performer; Motivating staff in a time of change; Coaching for improved performance; Managing conflict; and Managing the bully. It is all here, from the basics to the more nuanced and difficult to get right, and included among the essential checklists are profiles of leading management thinkers on key topics.
Clear and effective communication within and beyond organisations has always been a crucial business driver, and as communication channels proliferate and the speed of communication increases, getting your message across has never been more important. Using the series' trademark mix of checklists and thinker profiles, the guide looks at different types of business communications - written, verbal and external - and also focusses on the challenges of cross-cultural and virtual communication, and websites and social media. Topics covered include: report writing, running meetings, presentations, negotiation, PR and media interview planning, influencing, crisis communications and much more.
Managing Strategy provides a series of checklists designed to help managers get to grips with analysing their organisations and developing and implementing strategic plans and options. It covers a range of topics, including: Understanding organisational culture Performing SWOT and PEST analyses Researching new markets Corporate mission and values Setting objectives Performance measurement and balanced scorecard Strategic options The combination of action-oriented checklists and handy pen-portrait profiles of key thinkers, including Charles Handy, Henry Mintzberg and Michael Porter, will help you master the crucial skills you need to further your career as a manager.
The checklists in Managing Finance focus on the financial side of running a business. Aimed at non-specialists, they are designed to help managers keep on top of their financial management responsibilities, advising them on how to interpret financial accounts and reports, budget and forecast, manage and monitor finances and make the right financial decisions. The guide covers a range of topics, including: * Company accounts and ratios * Budgeting * Working capital * Credit and debt control * Cash flow * Investment appraisal * Pricing and purchasing Included among the essential checklists are profiles of leading management thinkers on key topics. The action-oriented checklists include sample account formats and layouts, ratios and data sheets to help you master the crucial skills you need to further your career as a manager. The Checklist Series: step by step guides to getting it right.
There is no perfect marriage. In all relationships, there will be stages of fluctuations. Intimacy and understanding may not always remain at a high level. Couples may sometimes feel that they are living with strangers, their passion ebbing out like a receding tide, and they may feel trapped in the same old arguments over finance or kids. And it is normal too. Life may seem to go in a monotonously boring way with all its daily stresses propelling emotional distance between the partners and ushering in boredom in the bedroom. However, the problem arises when partners neglect or fail to address these fluctuations in a constructive and positive manner. This will lead them to coldness and distance, conflicts of interests, disagreements in decisions, aggressiveness and violence in communication, even to the point of physical aggression, and ultimately, to the degeneration and dissolution of marriage and family. EFCCP proposes a novel style of communication based on Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg and Emotionally Focused Therapy by Johnson. The program will teach the couples how to engage in a compassionate communication and how to relate to their own feelings and needs as well as to that of their partners in a constructive manner, leading to reconnection and healing.
In St. Thomas and India, renowned scholars trace the historical, religious, and cultural connections link India's Syrian Christian community with St. Thomas the Apostle. They use modern historiographical methods seek to corroborate the ancient tradition that tells of St. Thomas's missionary journey to India in the middle of the first century, in which he established seven churches in some of the major commercial centers of Malabar. From this first churches, Christianity spread throughout the region. St. Thomas in India also examines the legacy of the ancient Christianity on the Syrian community in India today, as well as exploring the various cultural and religious connections between the Syrian church in Indian and other ancient churches in the east.
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