Make It Happen
How to Get Ahead and be Happy at Work
A&C Black Business Information and Development (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2009
282 pages
978-1-4081-0185-8 (ISBN)
Description
A one-stop shop for anyone wanting to improve their life at work, Make It Happen is the ultimate guide to making the best of your talents and building the career you want.
We spend over 70 per cent of our week at work, so being happy while we're there is a major priority. With practical and easy-to-read advice on how to deal with over 60 common career challenges, Make It Happen will help you to:
- Go to work with confidence: get the best from yourself
- Achieve your full potential: get the best from your career
- Manage successful teams: get the best from others
Make It Happen also features an exclusive introduction by Dena Michelli, bestselling author of Assertiveness in a Week, unique interviews with people who've survived the career mill, and essential Web links.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-0185-8 (9781408101858)
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How to Get Ahead and be Happy at Work
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Content
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Build Self-Confidence
- Manage Your Image: Make an Impact
- Develop Presence
- Manage Perceptions
- Become More Assertive
- Becky Leyland - Building Assertiveness at Work
- Understand Your Values
- Get Your Message Across
- Prepare Presentations
- Deliver Presentations
- Overcome Nerves
- Structure and Write Good Reports
- Write Great E-mails
- Negotiate with Confdence
- Deal with Stress
- Maintain a Healthy Work-Life Balance
- Manage Your Time
- Delegate without Guilt
- Cope with Information Overload
- Manage Your Inbox
- Manage Successful Projects
- Simon Stenner - Managing Projects
- Manage Meetings Effectively
- Solve Thorny Problems
- Make Sound Decisions
- Are You in the Right Job?
- Weigh Up the Pros and Cons of Looking for a New Job
- Create a Career Plan
- Know When It's Time to Move On
- Make the Decision to Take a Risky Career Move
- Enter an Entirely New Field
- Cope with Job Burnout
- Consider Taking a Career Break
- Manage Dual-Career Dilemmas
- Resign with Style
- Return to Work After a Career Break
- Survive Redundancy
- Reinvent Yourself
- Pete Maynard - Target Car and Van Hire Ltd
- Go Freelance
- Set Up and Maintain Your Home Offce
- Manage Working from Home
- Work as Part of a Virtual Team
- Martin Lee - Working from home at Acacia Avenue
- Apply for an Internal Vacancy
- Move Sideways: Beneft from a Lateral Move
- Make Yourself Promotable
- Get the Pay Rise You Deserve
- Learn How to Network
- Revitalise Your CV
- Write a Great Covering Letter
- Make an Impact in Interviews
- Prepare for Different Types of Interviews
- Get Your Head Round Psychometric Tests
- Negotiate the Best Deal in Your New Job
- Handle Offce Politics
- Cope with a Nightmare Boss
- Deal with Bullying or Harassment
- Helen Reed - Fighting back against workplace bullying
- Cope with Discrimination
- Transform Poor Performance
- Succeed As a New Manager
- Susannah Briggs - Learning the ropes as a new manager
- Build Great Teams
- Learn How to Appraise Others
- Give and Receive Feedback Well
- Understand Non-verbal Behaviour
- Develop Your Creativity
- Manage Others' Creativity
- Develop Your People
- Becky Leyland - Building Assertiveness at Work
- Simon Stenner - Managing Projects
- Viewpoint: Martin Lee- Working from home at Acacia Avenue
- Helen Reed - Fighting back against workplace bullying
- Susannah Briggs - Learning the ropes as a new manager
- Pete Maynard - Target Car and Van Hire Ltd
- Index
