http://www.reportbuyer.com/rss.htmlThis selection of professional and practical books will provide you with more precise insight and aid you through the various Business Skills thatyou will need throuhout your career.en-gbReportbuyerservice@reportbuyer.comenquiries@redwiredesign.comhttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/gower_handbook_internal_communication.htmlA comprehensive guide to managing communication within organizations, the Handbook recognises Internal Communication's continued growth as a management discipline. It is aimed at leaders who want insight into IC techniques for use in both day-to-day operational and change situations, for example, and also at the communication specialist seeking shared wisdom and new ideas. Early chapters examine changes in the strategic context in which today's IC departments are operating. 6c5d9e4c708ad098e08dac3c6d8c0445Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/practical_schedule_risk_analysis.htmlProject scheduling is required for good project management, and the schedule represents the project plan under a specific set of assumptions, often that it will avoid new risks or even those that have occurred on previous occasions. The typical Critical Path Method (CPM) schedule assumes that the project team knows how long the scheduled activities will take. Yet, the experienced project manager knows that duration values so precisely stated are actually only estimates based on assumptions that could be wrong. 1e976d7e9a679b0c02047939f0a3079eTue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/managing_market_relationships.htmlSole reliance on traditional marketing practices can cost a lot of money for little gain. That's why establishing, developing, and maintaining market relationships with customers and other stakeholders is often hailed as an effective means to achieve a sustained competitive market advantage. Despite this, the benefits of relationship marketing remain uncertain, and efforts in this arena often fail. ce8f76b9287741fea2276a15c1fb8909Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/navigating_government_procurement.htmlNavigating Government Procurement is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the strategic thinking behind drafting and negotiating government contracts with vendors. Featuring state and municipal directors of procurement as well as procurement attorneys from across the country, this book provides a broad yet comprehensive overview of the challenges unique to purchasing goods and services on behalf of government agencies and entities. These leaders articulate the finer points of the procurement process and the best practices required for working with government contractors, from soliciting bids and complying with regulatory requirements to setting enterprise-wide standards for frequently purchased commodities. ae5d2cd11ddef33e6ccb7b86240d2d35Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/teaching_learning_business_schools.htmlBusiness schools are facing ever increasing internationalization: students are far less homogenous than before, faculty members come from different countries, and teaching is carried out in second (or even third) languages. As a result business schools and their teachers wrestle with new challenges as these changes accelerate. Teaching and Learning at Business Schools brings together contributions from business school managers and educators involved in the International Teachers Programme; a faculty development programme started by Harvard Business School more than 30 years ago and now run by a consortium of the London Business School, Manchester Business School, Kellogg, Stern School of Business, INSEAD, HEC Paris, IAE Aix-en-Provence, IMD, SDA Bocconi Milan and Stockholm School of Economics. 968a1b4d563426ab81bed195f5d904d3Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/action_learning_managers.htmlAction Learning for Managers is a clear, concise and straightforward guide to this well-established approach to problem solving and learning in groups that enables change in individuals, teams, organisations and systems. 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Lloyd Davies puts forward a new way of looking at experiential learning; a model that identifies the elements, and points to some of the dynamics. c4019fabae7274eb9f93609ffef4f037Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/floor_yours.htmlThis DVD, The Floor is Yours, Now demonstrates techniques for planning and preparing for a presentation and takes away some of the fear connected with communicating to a larger audience. Sooner or later all managers will have to undertake some sort of presentation. 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With help from two colleagues they experience and learn how to prepare, debate, propose and bargain their way to a win-win solution. a5ae46c38407c8e205cee9384f7cbeedThu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/appraisal_skills.htmlThis DVD is an in-depth demonstration of staff appraisal showing the most productive way to plan, conduct and follow-up an appraisal interview. The opening sequence illustrates the all-too-common manager-led appraisal, where the appraisal is more like a meeting - controlled and dictated by the manager. We are then taken back over the interview step-by-step, stage-by-stage, and shown ways of making the appraisal interview a productive process for appraiser and appraisee. 6960f2ce8d762048828887716c973325Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/no_going_back.htmlManagement and staff at Brookdale Electronics are working flat out to fulfill a large order for a new Japanese client. Everyone's under pressure; corners are cut and established safety procedures ignored. The result: a serious accident that leaves a young office worker crippled for life. 7c33839662ad07d324cdb2c036071594Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/remember.htmlDVD version of the worldwide bestseller that in 10 minutes delivers a message guaranteed to have big impact on customer service attitudes in your organization. Follow the experience of Frank who, although let down by his garage, his bank, the airline he flies with, the hotel he stays in - even his dry cleaners - remains calm and uncomplaining throughout. Because he knows he will win in the end. 3faec3e0eff86067b980526ac0149211Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/commoditization_strategic_response.htmlOrganizations and those who work within them are under attack from the increasingly pervasive impacts of commoditization. With little to distinguish one company's products and services from another or one person's skills and capabilities from the next, organizations and workers alike are finding themselves trapped in the me-too hell of commoditization. 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The scale and context of these negotiations requires a level of strategic awareness because the interests of the parties are more complex, the options more numerous, and the outcomes more critical than at a tactical level. cb0e96e51a8029c749fd8e3aa6d116f8Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/10_powerful_networking_skills.htmlThe TakeAway Training Film Series comprises short, practical training films providing managers, supervisors and staff with techniques, advice and ideas on some of the key areas of their job. The series which features 'talking head discussion' between psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry, is designed for learning resource centres and management self-development. Learn how to become more successful with your networking by implementing ten powerful skills. 82ff526d42ffa206f5bf13175c8a8ebcFri, 01 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/staying_happy_positive_throughout_life.htmlThe TakeAway Training Film Series comprises short, practical training films providing managers, supervisors and staff with techniques, advice and ideas on some of the key areas of their job. The series which features 'talking head discussion' between psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry, is designed for learning resource centres and management self-development. We all want to be happy, yet this simple goal often feels so hard to achieve. 2beda261298efe7883e9a0ee8c7253e2Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skillshttp://www.reportbuyer.com/business_books/business_skills/psychology_saying_sorry.htmlThe TakeAway Training Film Series comprises short, practical training films providing managers, supervisors and staff with techniques, advice and ideas on some of the key areas of their job. The series which features 'talking head discussion' between psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry, is designed for learning resource centres and management self-development. Find out why people have such difficulty apologizing when something has gone wrong. 0286febee3a5656ffba2dfc238967f7aFri, 01 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GBBusiness Books/Business Skills