This title explores the optimum level of pressure and how personality, attitudes and circumstances can lead to excessive stress. Delegates look at ways of reducing or limiting stress and focus on techniques they can use, such as maintaining a balance in life, coping with change, handling people assertively and considering how to look after themselves.
This title helps you look at what coaching is and how to get the best from it. Starting with some basic insight into what happens and how, in an effective coaching process, and then exploring the skills needed to make a planned approach work.
If you want to help other people to learn and develop then it makes sense to understand how to be an effective learner yourself. This title looks at a range of ways in which people learn and helps you to think through which learning styles you prefer. The second half will give you very practical hints on brushing up your study skills and on getting the most from open learning if this is the route you have chosen.
This title explores the optimum level of pressure and how personality, attitudes and circumstances can lead to excessive stress. Delegates look at ways of reducing or limiting stress and focus on techniques they can use, such as maintaining a balance in life, coping with change, handling people assertively and considering how to look after themselves.
This title helps you look at what coaching is and how to get the best from it. Starting with some basic insight into what happens and how, in an effective coaching process, and then exploring the skills needed to make a planned approach work.
Meetings are either a powerful way of making progress in a team or on a project, or else they are the greatest waste of time and energy invented. This text sets out some practical methods for turning the bad ones into successes, and for getting even more from the ones you already find worthwhile.
A manager's job is to get the best from individuals and teams, and knowing what makes people tick - collectively and individually - is the starting point for producing excellent results. This manual brings the topics of change and motivation together, demonstrating that they are not two different things but two sides of the same human situation. It takes the reader through the key points about what motivates people to work hard and produce results, and puts it in the context of change.
This newly revised book shows how to apply the pioneering idea of relationship writing- creating approachable letters that build a bond with the customer.
This text explains the issues involved in Human Resource Management and provides advice and skills to manage them. The book covers the role of the personnel department, human resource analysis, human resource planning and handling people.
Get your CV noticed - get "Successful CVs in a Week"! This practical book will help you to put together an effective CV. It goes through the writing process step-by-step and considers how to: analyse your own strengths and weaknesses; present your strengths in the most effective way; and match your CV to the job and the organisation.
Build strong and effective teams with the help of this insightful and accessible guide. It will help you to acquire the skills needed to create and develop successful teams. The steps covered include: the benefits of teams; setting common goals; developing an atmosphere of openness; and procedures for decision-making.
Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of 270,000 choruses in the US, representing more than 1:5 households. Similarly, recent European-based data suggest that more than 37 million adults take part in group singing. The Oxford Handbook of Singing is a landmark text on this topic. It is a comprehensive resource for anyone who wishes to know more about the pluralistic nature of singing. In part, the narrative adopts a lifespan approach, pre-cradle to senescence, to illustrate that singing is a commonplace behaviour which is an essential characteristic of our humanity. In the overall design of the Handbook, the chapter contents have been clustered into eight main sections, embracing fifty-three chapters by seventy-two authors, drawn from across the world, with each chapter illustrating and illuminating a particular aspect of singing. Offering a multi-disciplinary perspective embracing the arts and humanities, physical, social and clinical sciences, the book will be valuable for a broad audience within those fields.
The Busines gives a lively and contemporary overview of industry and commerce in society. It is designed for 16-19 year old students and is suitable for a wide range of courses including A level Business Studies and Advanced Business GNVQ. The book is written in a clear and accessible style and filled with relevant illustrations, photographs and activities. Every key business function is covered - marketing, design, information technology, finance, personnel, production, management and small business, with a final chapter on business integration for international success. The case studies, drawn from a range of businesses, are particularly relevant to students taking GNVQ as well as offering a wealth of information about business practice.
If you want to help other people to learn and develop then it makes sense to understand how to be an effective learner yourself. This title looks at a range of ways in which people learn and helps you to think through which learning styles you prefer. The second half will give you very practical hints on brushing up your study skills and on getting the most from open learning if this is the route you have chosen.
Assertiveness is an increasingly important skill for managers to master. This book highlights the skills, insights and techniques managers need to handle themselves with confidence for better results, outlining the differences between aggressive, passive, manipulative and assertive behaviour.
This is an important text for all students and practitioners of Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It provides a comprehensive resource for understanding and implementing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and BI solutions within the organisational context. It provides an in-depth coverage of all key areas relating to the implementation of ERP and BI systems. It provides unique practical guidance on implementing ERP and BI strategies as formulated by the author and a range of academic practitioners and industry experts. Importantly, it demonstrates how these systems can be implemented in a real-world environment and in a way that provides strategic alignment that is compatible with the strategic vision of the organisation. The author presents a “BI Psychology Adoption Model” which represents new and innovative thinking in relation to how employees within organisations react to the introduction of new technology within the workplace.
Since Britten's death in 1976, numerous articles and books have been written about his life and work. Much has been made of the strong influences of his pacifism and his homosexuality. It is often suggested that Britten felt himself to be an outsider from 'normal' society, and that this accounts for the his concern to portray the 'outsider' in his operas. There is no doubt that this is an important aspect of Britten's art, but the present work attempts to show that his music embraces much wider and more universal concerns, and in addressing those concerns there is a clearly defined pattern of spiritual influence. Part One of the book examines Britten's early life, and the strong presence which the Church had in his childhood and adolescence. It explores the way in which certain spiritual influences were first manifested, and how, like the more specifically musical 'themes' which Donald Mitchell has noted, they can be traced throughout Britten's life and work. The author was privileged to have conversations with two clergymen who were influential in Britten's life, as well as gathering valuable insights through a long series of conversations with Sir Peter Pears. Part Two examines a wide range of the composer's music in which a spiritual dimension can be traced. The specifically liturgical music has received rather less critical notice than Britten's larger works. The music is discussed here, and shown to possess musical characteristics in common with the larger works. Britten could not be described as a conventional Christian; still less is it true to describe him, as Eric Walter White has done, as 'keen, wherever possible, to work within the framework of the Church of England'. Nevertheless, his spirituality was rooted in the religious experience of his childhood. This book seeks to demonstrate that Britten retained a sense of the Christian values absorbed in childhood and adolescence, and that these - along with the specifically Christian heritage of plainsong - were strongly influential in his choice and treatment of themes.
The Miserere by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) is one of the most popular, oft performed and recorded choral pieces of late Renaissance/early Baroque music. Yet the piece known today bears little resemblanceto Allegri's original or to the piece as it was performed before 1870.
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