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From the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), this essential guide is updated with new insights, tips, and tools to help organizations get the most out of 360-degree feedback.
This is a hands-on guide for implementing effective 360-degree feedback systems as part of leadership development initiatives in organizations. Written for professionals who work inside organizations and external consultants working with clients, the book draws on over twenty...
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Untreed Reads
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2021.
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English
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Laura's situation is dire. She and her little daughter are being evicted from their home. Her husband has committed suicide and her house is now the property of the next male heir. When her godmother offers her a position at Chiltern Hall, Laura leaps at the chance. The new Earl of Chiltern is representing England at the Congress of Vienna, and his home and his nieces cannot be left to the care of the servants. Laura accepts the position of chatelaine...
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Uncover the six blind spots that derail women's career paths and learn strategies to effectively overcome them for an impactful, sustainable career. Professional women are subject to blind spots-obstacles that can minimize career potential, impact, or advancement. Some women end up drifting instead of driving through their careers, going it alone instead of building a posse, and leaving their reputationality (that special something we are known for)...
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AMACOM
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[2000]
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English
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"Just as you can lead a horse to water, but it won't necessarily drink, so you can give an employee training, but he may not actually learn... unless, of course, the trainer uses this insightful new book. Turning Training into Learning provides a specific, tested method for making sure training equals real learning. Written for anyone who must train others, this step-by-step guide shows exactly how to create a program that engages trainees and ensures...
6) Blue Skies
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From the bestselling author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River
Three friends journey to discover the value of family, second chances, and choosing to live your best life in this fan-favorite romance by #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr.
Nikki survived a terrible marriage and a worse divorce, but now suddenly has custody of her kids again. Dixie is through with looking for love when all she gets are expensive gifts and heartache....
7) Topper
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"The Jazz Age comedy of manners about a straitlaced banker and two bon vivant ghosts that inspired the classic film starring Cary Grant. Bank manager Cosmo Topper has settled into a stable, respectable, and thoroughly boring life. In need of a little adventure, he decides to buy a secondhand car -- a detail he neglects to tell his staid wife, Mary. But Topper's little secret turns into an unexpectedly wild ride when he discovers the automobile is...
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AMACOM
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[2012]
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English
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What's a rookie manager to do? Faced with new responsibilities, and in need of quick, dependable guidance, novice managers can't afford to learn by trial and error. The First-Time Manager is the answer, dispensing the bottom-line wisdom they need to succeed. A true management classic, the book covers essential topics such as hiring and firing, leadership, motivation, managing time, dealing with superiors, and much more. Written in an inviting and...
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Sourcebooks
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2007.
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The Honest Truth about Managing Managing people is one of the toughest jobs in business. Make the right choices, and there is no limit to how you and your business can grow. Make the wrong choices, and there is sure to be trouble ahead. The problem is, no one ever tells you this up front and helps you avoid the pitfalls. Learn from the experiences of real managers just like you, who have faced the same problems and devised smart solutions. Through...
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HarperCollins Leadership
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[2019]
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English
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"This second edition of the bestselling guide by top human resources author Paul Falcone provides guidance for managers, including sample dialogues for how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues. Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues... these are just a few of the uncomfortable topics bosses must sometimes discuss with their employees. 101 Tough Conversations...
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JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
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[2014]
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English
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There is a world beyond the world It figures. Just when Bradfordian bookshop clerk, Toby Dexter, finally works up the nerve to talk to his secret crush, she darts into an open door. Toby follows, and in that second, everything changes. Though it still looks like Bradford-on-Avon, the town's suddenly chatty ATM and river mermaids are the first clues that something is quite out of place--namely, Toby. The moment he stepped through that door, Toby entered...
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Harlequin
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2021.
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Allison Leigh asks if you can feel true love without knowing the whole truth in the latest entry of The Fortunes of Texas: The Hotel Fortune! The truth is about to come out! From the first time Jay Cross met Arabella Fortune, he has longed to tell her everything. The Stetson-wearing Texan and hotel employee has been hiding a secret, and it's a biggie. The closer he gets to sweet Bella, however, the harder it becomes...
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The Lilliput Press
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[1993]
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English
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"A hundred years ago sevants underpinned middle- and upper-class life in Ireland, and domestic service was the major source of employment for women before social conditions changed utterly after the First World War and labour-saving appliances took their place. Two generations on, the domestic servant is an almost extinct species. This book examines an area of life which has never been adequately reflected in Irish literature, labour or social history....
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Jumpingdude Media
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2015.
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English
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Knock Em DeadÑHiring The Best, Proven Tactics For Employee Selection & How To Build winning Teams. Management requires getting work done successfully through others and if you cannot first hire the right people, you can never manage productively. Hiring The Best has been in print for 25 years and continues evolve as the leading resource for to employee selection and productivity oriented team building.
15) Titus Groan
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As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent to power.
Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. The castle is peopled by dark characters in half-lit...
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A PRICELESS FIND John Callister and his brother had built a ranching empire in Montana.They'd made their fortune -- and they'd made Callister a household name. But now John wants something he can call his own. So he starts over -- without the Callister name -- vowing to polish a run-down spread in the small, sleepy town of Hollister into a jewel. But the jewel he uncovers isn't a ranch. Sassy Peale is pretty and shy with far too much responsibility...
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The Permanent Press
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[2016]
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English
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Toucan Whisper, Toucan Sing is a novel about modern Mexico, the conflicting goals of development versus ecological preservation, and the aspirations and struggles of the indigenous people who service tourists at a beachfront hotel. Central to this tale are two brothers: the ambitious twenty-two-year old Antonio, also known as "The Maestro," with his rippling abdomen and bursting biceps, is the favorite of many of the women at the hotel Oaxtepec where...
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Open Road Distribution
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[2016]
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English
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An acclaimed exploration of the ways in which success within our career culture can produce hidden emotional and value conflicts for men and women. Sheds new light on the path to success and personal fulfillment in today's workplace.
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AMACOM
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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To stay on top, companies need to do more than just tread water -- they need to grow. And that means that their employees need to develop and improve their skills at the same pace. More than ever, managers are being encouraged to improve employee performance through effective coaching, but so few of them have the time -- or the knowledge -- it takes to do it successfully. Brian Emerson and Ann Loehr have spent years showing some of the country's top...
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Virtual training and instruction has allowed students from different continents to learn simultaneously from a distinguished professor, as well as dispersed employees of a transnational company to participate together in training seminars. Because of this unprecedented flexibility it has provided for today's learning professionals, virtual training is undoubtedly here to stay -- which means designers and facilitators need to learn to adapt their programs...
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