English for Meetings teaches students the skills and language they need to participate in a meeting with confidence. The course gives students techniques and strategies to help them communicate in business meetings, using appropriate vocabulary, key expressions, and phrases. Each unit of English for Meetings addresses a different scenario which students may come across in a meeting. The course is suitable for those chairing the meeting, as well as for other participants. English for Meetings also covers other important topics surrounding the meeting itself, such as initial small talk, and how to follow-up on action points.
Sales planning is a key skill that all salespeople need to master. This book takes you through the key planning principles, producing your personal sales plan, planning for meetings with customers, managing your time, planning to negotiate and planning your cold calling time and activities.
Paul Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. In the grand "Whig" tradition, the parliaments of Henry VII were a disappointing retreat from the onward march towards parliamentary democracy. The king was at best indifferent and at worst hostile to parliament; its meetings were cowed and quiescent, subservient to the royal will. Yet little research has tested these assumptions.
The Personal Efficiency Program: How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Win Back Control of Your WorkIncrease Your Productivity, Reduce Stress, and Get Home on Time at Last!
In my experience, one of the biggest obstacles to success is procrastination. Much of this book was written to help you overcome any tendencies you have to put things off.
Readers will learn how to stop procrastinating, stop feeling overwhelmed, and start feeling good about their work lives. This new edition contains new chapters on e-mail and meetings, as well as new content on portable communications and how best to utilize tools like cell phones and Blackberries.
Too many of us live our lives trying to shoehorn our many activities and responsibilities into too few time slots available. Increasingly for business people, fathers and mothers, even kids—(ineffectively) managing the myriad of activities has become an all-consuming chore. And we're so stressed that our relationships and job performance suffer.
Why? Because we organize our time and our lives poorly: We spend five years of our lives waiting in lines, three years in meetings, and two years playing telephone tag! We get interrupted 73 times per day, interfering with our productivity...
