The successful career toolkit : your quick-fire guide to mastering business skills / Patrick Barr.
A helpful survival guide to keep on hand no matter where your career takes you. With focused, skill-based topics in three broad areas - managing yourself, managing tools and processes, and managing others - this book uses tried-and-trusted coaching techniques to help you face any imaginable workplac...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Kogan Page,
[2019]
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| Edition: | 1 Edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 210 pages ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Managing self
- Communication skills
- My curriculum vitae
- Career planning
- Induction (as an employee)
- Building good relationships
- Why mindset matters
- Personal work¿life balance
- Managing stress
- Dealing with disappointing news at work
- Resilience
- Managing your personal brand
- Effective networking
- Leadership
- Managing others
- How to disagree
- How to handle a difficult boss or peer
- Leading teams
- Supporting a team's work-life balance
- Performance discussions (as a manager)
- Impact and influence
- Challenging the status quo
- Building a culture of innovation
- Bringing about behavioural change
- Overcoming resistance
- Managing the task
- How to interview (as a candidate)
- Performance discussions (as an employee)
- One-to-one meetings with your boss
- How to ask for a pay rise
- Negotiation skills
- How to handle an unethical request
- How to resign
- How to interview (as the hiring manager)
- New employee induction
- Succession planning
- Breaking disappointing news to an employee
- Decision making
- Starting your own business
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 sample CV 1
- Appendix 2 sample CV 2
- Appendix 3 induction review matrix
- Appendix 4 stakeholder map for employee inductions
- Index.