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Fast Track Management E-books
What are they?
In the form of handy and instantly accessible e-books, each one is designed to give you a quick, effective low down on a key management discipline. Filled with tips, strategies advice and case studies, the guides will both act as an introduction for those new to the subject and as a refresher and pointer towards best practice for the more experienced. Priced at just £6.99 each, we are so confident that they offer great value, we'll give you a full refund if not completely satisfied!
The catalogue
The catalogue includes the following six titles:
In the pipeline
We are currently working on other titles covering communication skills, problem solving, team building and much more!
The 10 Golden Rules Of Not - for - Profit Marketing
Identify your markets, define your marketing goals and develop an affordable appropriate strategy. This guide will show you how to get the most from your annual review, write clearly and with impact about your work and address your organisation's key marketing challenges. The guide is action oriented - A Marketing Strategy Creation Template adds value and the whole kit and caboodle is packed into 30 easily digestible, very accessible pages. The needs of non profit agencies are kept at the front of the author's mind at all times, yet at the same time the best practice from the private sector is referred to and transposed seamlessly into a non-profit context.
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21 Techniques To Improve Your time Management And Transform Your Personal Effectiveness
This Fast Track E-book will help you to establish your most important goals, learn to manage competing priorities, manage your time effectively, delegate purposefully, cope with stress and tackle procrastination. And that's not all. Individual sections also examine how to say 'No', how to spend less time in, (yet get better results from) meetings, deal with interruptions and manage a chaotic working environment. No longer do you need to be a duck! (calm on the surface - paddling frantically underneath). You can be an elegant Roseatte Tern, effortlessly riding the thermals of success! 50 pages of life changing advice and hot time management tips!
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An Introduction to Project Management
Every year in the UK, thousands of village hall committees, community centre trustees and charitable managers sit down to plan and organise fundraising events, marketing campaigns, open-days and service delivery plans. Some will work, some will overcome crises to become ultimately successful and some will be abject failures. This Fast Track Management E-book is designed to give you the tools and approaches you need to get it right first time, avoid problems on route deliver beyond expectations. It will:
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demonstrate how even the most complex projects can be broken down into 3 key steps.
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show how risk can be managed and successful outcomes achieved
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show you how to get clarity right from the outset on who must do what and by when if you are to succeed.
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suggest how to evaluate and cost the project
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show you how the Project Management professionals timetabling, scheduling and sequencing projects to finish on time and within budget.
There are also chapters on managing quality, managing change and managing the team as well as an expensive reading list on project management sources of information.
‘An Introduction to Project Management’ is an invaluable resource designed to help you succeed, no matter how challenging your project.
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Strategic and Business Planning for Non-Profits
The Magic Circle is a simple yet powerful planning method which will allow you to:
- address the most pressing challenges faced by your organisation
- choose the right direction for future development
- increase sustainability
- eliminate key organisational weaknesses
- improve outcomes for clients
- spot key strategic opportunities and take appropriate action
This Fast Track Management E-book uses simple and jargon free language to describe the method. You will work through 9 key exercises to help you apply the theory to your own organisation and produce a draft strategic plan.
In addition there are chapters on important management tools to improve your planning and a section on the management of change to ensure that the whole organisation ‘buys in’ to changes that have to be made.
The Magic Circle Fast Track Management E-book will vastly improve your organisation’s ability to compete in a competitive world and will hugely improve your own planning skills.
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Negotiating and Influencing
Identify the key principles of influencing others, create rapport, build relationships and get results! This Fast Track Management E-book will show you how to improve and progress your negotiating skills, focusing on key areas such as body language to influence others and effective ways of getting the best results for your organisation. It will show you how to apply negotiation tactics to gain an advantage in difficult situations and teach you how to counter them if and when they arise. This guide breaks down each area into simple chunks with realistic solutions and helps you to development your own individual skills which will in turn benefit your organisation.
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High Impact Presentation Skills
The purpose of this guide is to give you the tools you need to develop high impact presentation skills. Using these tools regularly, you should be able to reach the point where you can always perform confidently, without fear, demonstrating control and the ability to communicate effectively and with clarity. The guide will give you useful tips and techniques to overcome nerves and be assured in delivering a confident performance. It will cover a range of areas including how to use language, involvement and humour to engage the audience, and the problems and preparation you will need to take into consideration to be successful.
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Peak Performance - Becoming the Best You Can Be
The 6th of May 1957 is an important day in the world of athletics. On this day Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. The world’s top athletes had been striving to break this barrier for decades – Bannister was the first.
The date is even more of a Red Letter Day in the history of neuroscience because of what happened immediately afterwards. Thirty seven runners were able to emulate Bannister in the next 6 months. And over 300 did it within a year! So what had happened that allowed these runners to so suddenly go faster after years of failure? The answer lies in the power of the subconscious.
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson
You do not need to wait for another record breaker or role model to find your potential... With this book you are going to find different ways of unveiling your hidden potential, learn about that the difference between the success and failure lies in ... yes, you. There is nothing that can stop you from buying this guide and start performing at your best.
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Leading your team
What have the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Great Wall of China, William the Conquerers landing at Hastings; and the creation of a successful community project got in common? Leadership! None would have happended without effective leadership. The ability to lead people to a shared goal has always been essential to the successful creation of a functioning civil society, the building of great works and the organisation of healthy communities. And all without a management consultant in sight!
'Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
leadership determines that the ladder is leaning against the right wall’.
Peter Drucker
Our Leading your team guide based on the experience of the best leaders around, gives you tips on how to become a great leader and helps you to find the best leadership style appropriate to your team's situation.
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Fundraising
The first job of a successful fundraiser is to understand what the goals or interests of certain donor may be, and this question is complicated of course by the fact that there are different types of funders - each with their own particular agenda. A charitable trust might want you to help them change the lives of disadvantaged people or bring public art into the community. A business might want you to engage their staff in a morale boosting activity. A government department will want you to deliver the outcomes demanded by current government policy.
This is why a fundraising approach which works with one type of funder will not necessarily work with another. Nevertheless, the principle remains constant; funders will become committed to funding your organisation if, and only if, you can convince them that their interests are being addressed. The Fundraising e-book will give you all the necessary tools to prepare winning bids and find the best ways of fundraising from a variety of organisations.
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Achieve ! and Create
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Achieve! is aimed at not for profit managers and staff who are under pressure, juggling conflicting priorities,want to achieve more from their life and professional goals and want to perform at a consistently high level without burning out.
In a highly practical and interactive way, the book will help you to achieve your goals while enhancing your quality of life. With exercises, charts and case studies, the book provides a toolkit to help you to put into practice eight key principles:
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clarifying your goals in life and work
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focusing on things that make a real difference
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structuring your day for maximum effectiveness
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using your time profitably
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organising your work environment
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avoiding delay
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nurturing yourself
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believing in yourself
Use this toolkit and you will have a integrated programme to achieve personal success.
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Mark Butcher's latest book examines ways in which we can bring more creativity and innovation to our work. A must for managers, fundraisers, trustees and others who face difficult challenges, operational or planning problems, fundraising issues and so on, CREATE will:
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give you a 6 stage programme to bring more creativity to your work
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offer hundreds of problem solving tips, techniques and strategies which you can set to work for you straight away
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give team leaders a toolkit of problem solving (and team building) methods to use with other team members
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sets the reader a number of key challenges to help them maximise their own ability (and that of their colleagues) to be more creative
You can order these publications direct from the publisher, the Directory of Social Change, on 0207 209 4949 or by clicking http://www.dsc.org.uk/Publications .
Alternatively you can order online by clicking on the cover of your desired book (you will be redirected to the Directory of Social Change website).
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