Bøger af Anne Bruce

One of the first books in McGraw Hill's NEW Business Essentials Series-providing a how-to guide to develop powerful, engaging, and effective presentations for today's new world of work.Presentation Essentials covers the skills you need to feel totally confident in your presentation development and delivery. Organized in three easy-to-digest sections-The Essentials, The Essentials Applied, and Beyond the Essentials-this book provides feedback tools and assessments, a thorough explanation of key presentation topics including structure and storytelling, and is sprinkled with stunning illustrations throughout. You'll walk away feeling fully prepared to put your sharpened skills into action right away.Whether you are in a one-on-one meeting with your supervisor or pitching a new idea to a packed conference room of peers and leaders, knowing how to craft and deliver engaging presentations is an essential skill in every line of business. Confidence is key in every presentation-and sharpening your skills is the most direct route to building it.Presentation Essentials includes:Lessons including how to build your signature style, structure a powerfully engaging presentation, unleash the power of storytelling, and understand the different type of presentations"Essential Takeaways" at the end of each chapter ensure you walk away remembering special key pointsPart I includes everything you need to know about crafting powerful presentations, memorable catchphrases, one-liners, and visually stunning slidesPart II begins with a presentation skills self-assessment and guides you to apply the essentials in various presentations including speeches, training, information delivery, persuasive talks, and morePart III includes a skills feedback tool, information on delivering presentations for a living (as a speaker, trainer, coach, or consultant), and more

A proven, do-it-yourself formula for greater professional and personal successSuccessful career and life coach Anne Bruce knows how you can find happiness, fulfillment, and success at work and in life-and it's not by hiring a coach! Be Your Own Mentor delivers a unique, do-it-yourself process for identifying your hidden talents, abilities, and passions and developing them on your own.Bruce's four-part approach empowers you to get where you want in life by adopting a free-agent mindset, taking intelligent risks and building self-esteem, setting a course for balance in work and life, and discovering and developing your personal strengths.

This roadmap for turning problem employees into productive team players provides specific directions, advice, and real-world examples for quickly evaluating and managing employee performance

Think about the managers who influenced your career. They were successful because they infused employees - and organizations - with passion for work and motivation to achieve. This title provides two dozen creative and ready-to-use tools and techniques for ensuring that same enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale.

This revised and expanded edition of Speak for a Living offers updated strategies for navigating the public-speaking business, providing new material on social media and website marketing, and showing you how to diversify your services in an increasingly globalised industry.

Offers a guide to recruit and onboard top talent. This book provides the tools and strategies you need to select, recruit, interview, and onboard every kind of employee - from Next-ers and Millennials to baby boomers and nontraditional workers.

A guide to inspiring employees to work at peak performance - to improve organizational culture and help meet the bottom-line. It provides entertaining case studies and examples of how readers can create an environment in which employees feel passionate about their jobs and put the best of them in everything they do.

Helps you discover your own "true north." This book provides exercises and insights to help you find the true compasses that have always existed within you - and that point to what you truly want out of life. It also helps in learning how to make the critical choices that move life forward, and pinpoint your emotional and intellectual strengths.

Employees with high morale perform at significantly higher levels. So how can you, as a manager, ensure consistently high enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale? This book shows you how to create a fun, synergistic work environment, one designed to inspire superior employee commitment and performance.

A guide which helps managers identify performance issues and prepare documentation of those problems. It is suitable for new managers who need to find ways to document performance problems and then be able to offer feedback to those individuals.