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IQ and Personality Tests: Assess and Improve Your Creativity, Aptitude and Intelligence (Testing Series)
by Philip CarterAptitude tests assess a person's abilities or intelligence, often as part of an IQ test, whilst personality questionnaires help to reveal an individual's characteristics or personality traits. Both are of equal value to employers as they can indicate a candidate's suitability to a particular position.IQ and Personality Tests contains hundreds of practice questions from both these vital areas of assessment. The personality questions look at attitudes and values, often in an entertaining way, whilst the aptitude questions are organised into two IQ tests which assess verbal, numerical, logical and spatial reasoning skills. They are typical of the type and style of question candidates are likely to encounter in actual IQ tests. Answers and a simple analysis of scores are also given, so that readers can assess their performance.Whilst providing entertainment, the questions in IQ and Personality Tests are also a great source of practice material for those faced with the real tests.
Preparing the Perfect Job Application: Application Forms and Letters Made Easy (Career Success)
by Rebecca CorfieldApplication forms are designed to filter out unsuitable applicants and to ensure candidates for interview can be assessed objectively. How do you make sure that you pitch yourself properly and ensure your job application is more successful than those of others in the candidate pool? This book holds the answer.Preparing the Perfect Job Application is written for today's candidate, seeking success in an ever-competitive and more unforgiving jobs market. The book brims with focused, pertinent and insightful advice designed to help you highlight your real talents and demonstrate how they would be useful to your prospective employer on your application form or letter.Online supporting resources for this book include downloadable sample application forms.
Preparing the Perfect Job Application: Application Forms and Letters Made Easy (Career Success)
by Rebecca CorfieldApplication forms are designed to filter out unsuitable applicants and to ensure candidates for interview can be assessed objectively. How do you make sure that you pitch yourself properly and ensure your job application is more successful than those of others in the candidate pool? This book holds the answer.Preparing the Perfect Job Application is written for today's candidate, seeking success in an ever-competitive and more unforgiving jobs market. The book brims with focused, pertinent and insightful advice designed to help you highlight your real talents and demonstrate how they would be useful to your prospective employer on your application form or letter.Online supporting resources for this book include downloadable sample application forms.
Succeed For Yourself: Unlock Your Potential for Success and Happiness (Personal Development Ser.)
by Richard DennyIn Succeed for Yourself, Richard Denny shows how you can transform your individual dream of success into reality. Crammed with common-sense advice and inspiring ideas, Succeed for Yourself will take you on a journey of self-discovery that will help you seize your self-belief, set goals and achieve them, overcome setbacks and rejection, become highly motivated and find happiness at home and at work.Richard Denny believes that everybody has the potential within them for achieving success, wealth and happiness. The power of his message resonates with people from all walks of life, and Succeed for Yourself gives you the opportunity to put his ideas into practice.
Succeed For Yourself: Unlock Your Potential for Success and Happiness
by Richard DennyIn Succeed for Yourself, Richard Denny shows how you can transform your individual dream of success into reality. Crammed with common-sense advice and inspiring ideas, Succeed for Yourself will take you on a journey of self-discovery that will help you seize your self-belief, set goals and achieve them, overcome setbacks and rejection, become highly motivated and find happiness at home and at work.Richard Denny believes that everybody has the potential within them for achieving success, wealth and happiness. The power of his message resonates with people from all walks of life, and Succeed for Yourself gives you the opportunity to put his ideas into practice.
Motivate to Win: Learn How to Motivate Yourself and Others to Really Get Results
by Richard DennyIn Motivate to Win Richard Denny shows how you can transform your dreams of success into reality by becoming more motivated.Motivation is essential for business survival as well as a rewarding personal life, so learning the skills and techniques to improve it is never time wasted. This stimulating book covers every aspect of this important life-skill including, how to become highly motivated and achieve goals, understanding what motivates others and inspiring them, and avoiding the pitfalls of de-motivation.Richard Denny defies anybody not to attain greater achievements by following the techniques in this book. For anyone who wants to motivate themselves or those around them, this book is the key to great results.
Motivate to Win: Learn How to Motivate Yourself and Others to Really Get Results
by Richard DennyIn Motivate to Win Richard Denny shows how you can transform your dreams of success into reality by becoming more motivated.Motivation is essential for business survival as well as a rewarding personal life, so learning the skills and techniques to improve it is never time wasted. This stimulating book covers every aspect of this important life-skill including, how to become highly motivated and achieve goals, understanding what motivates others and inspiring them, and avoiding the pitfalls of de-motivation.Richard Denny defies anybody not to attain greater achievements by following the techniques in this book. For anyone who wants to motivate themselves or those around them, this book is the key to great results.
How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions (Kogan Page Ser.)
by Paul SloaneDo you want to have great ideas? Do you want to break out of the rut of conventional thinking? Would you like to be a genius? Would presenting brilliant ideas help in your job, career and social life?How to be a Brilliant Thinker will help you to achieve all these ideals, by helping you to think in powerful new ways. It shows you how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation and other areas so that you become much more creative. You will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve your memory, sell your ideas and win arguments. It is packed with practical methods that you can put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics and illustrations.
How to be a Brilliant Thinker: Exercise Your Mind and Find Creative Solutions
by Paul SloaneDo you want to have great ideas? Do you want to break out of the rut of conventional thinking? Would you like to be a genius? Would presenting brilliant ideas help in your job, career and social life?How to be a Brilliant Thinker will help you to achieve all these ideals, by helping you to think in powerful new ways. It shows you how to harness techniques in lateral thinking, analytical thinking, problem analysis, idea generation and other areas so that you become much more creative. You will be able to conceive, evaluate and implement great ideas as well as improve your memory, sell your ideas and win arguments. It is packed with practical methods that you can put to immediate use, backed up by exercises, puzzles, quizzes, graphics and illustrations.
Understanding Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Boosting Your EQ and Using it in the Workplace (Kogan Page Ser.)
by Frances Kay Neilson KiteEmotional intelligence, more than IQ and technical know-how, gives a valuable competitive edge to organizations and is crucial to the success of individuals. Used to its full advantage, emotional intelligence can improve relationships with vital business contacts to achieve your desired outcomes, help you perform better at interview and job applications and improve your decision making on a day to day basis.By applying the principles of emotional intelligence to the working environment and describing familiar situations in jargon-free language, Understanding Emotional Intelligence will show you how to negotiate more effectively, develop leadership skills, develop an emotionally aware organisation, use EQ as a management strategy, manage relationships with colleagues and develop your self-confidence.Featuring ten traits of emotionally intelligent people and including advice on social networking and communication, Understanding Emotional Intelligence provides clear and realistic guidance in a common sense way, helping you to make radical changes in the way you approach people, life and work.
Understanding Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Boosting Your EQ and Using it in the Workplace
by Frances Kay Neilson KiteEmotional intelligence, more than IQ and technical know-how, gives a valuable competitive edge to organizations and is crucial to the success of individuals. Used to its full advantage, emotional intelligence can improve relationships with vital business contacts to achieve your desired outcomes, help you perform better at interview and job applications and improve your decision making on a day to day basis.By applying the principles of emotional intelligence to the working environment and describing familiar situations in jargon-free language, Understanding Emotional Intelligence will show you how to negotiate more effectively, develop leadership skills, develop an emotionally aware organisation, use EQ as a management strategy, manage relationships with colleagues and develop your self-confidence.Featuring ten traits of emotionally intelligent people and including advice on social networking and communication, Understanding Emotional Intelligence provides clear and realistic guidance in a common sense way, helping you to make radical changes in the way you approach people, life and work.
Understanding CBT: Develop Your Own Toolkit to Reduce Stress and Increase Well-being
by Kasia Szymanska Stephen PalmerCognitive Behavioural Therapy is not just useful in therapeutic and mental health settings, but is now widely recognised as a valuable tool in the workplace. Understanding CBT introduces the basics of cognitive behavioural therapy and provides insights into how you can change the way you think, stand up to anxiety, face fear, develop assertiveness defuse anger and develop new beliefs and attitudes. It offers practical workplace change techniques that can help you to transform stressful situations by changing the way you think and behave. Packed with real life examples and helpful tips, this jargon-free guide is for anyone who wants to know more about CBT and what it can do for them.
Understanding CBT: Develop Your Own Toolkit to Reduce Stress and Increase Well-being
by Kasia Szymanska Stephen PalmerCognitive Behavioural Therapy is not just useful in therapeutic and mental health settings, but is now widely recognised as a valuable tool in the workplace. Understanding CBT introduces the basics of cognitive behavioural therapy and provides insights into how you can change the way you think, stand up to anxiety, face fear, develop assertiveness defuse anger and develop new beliefs and attitudes. It offers practical workplace change techniques that can help you to transform stressful situations by changing the way you think and behave. Packed with real life examples and helpful tips, this jargon-free guide is for anyone who wants to know more about CBT and what it can do for them.
101 Learning and Development Tools: Essential Techniques for Creating, Delivering and Managing Effective Training
by Kenneth Fee101 Learning and Development Tools is your practical guide to all the most up-to-date training techniques, organized around the classic learning and development cycle. Whether you need a quick, ready solution or some guidance on where to go for in-depth information, this is your essential reference guide. It picks up from where you are in the process of managing learning, and helps you place it in a broader context. Each chapter is a mini guide to each tool with: a description of the tool analysis resources needed cost implications cross-references to help you identify alternative or related tools for further study or investigation101 Learning and Development Tools is the indispensable, all-in-one-volume reference book for both professionals in the field and students learning about the subject.
101 Learning and Development Tools: Essential Techniques for Creating, Delivering and Managing Effective Training
by Kenneth Fee101 Learning and Development Tools is your practical guide to all the most up-to-date training techniques, organized around the classic learning and development cycle. Whether you need a quick, ready solution or some guidance on where to go for in-depth information, this is your essential reference guide. It picks up from where you are in the process of managing learning, and helps you place it in a broader context. Each chapter is a mini guide to each tool with: a description of the tool analysis resources needed cost implications cross-references to help you identify alternative or related tools for further study or investigation101 Learning and Development Tools is the indispensable, all-in-one-volume reference book for both professionals in the field and students learning about the subject.
Winning New Business: Essential Selling Skills for Non-Sales People
by Richard DennyWinning New Business is for anyone who needs to know the skills of winning new customers but lacks the training - or the courage - to sell effectively. Richard Denny, one of the world's most renowned sales gurus, takes the fear out of selling and shows you just what to do and how to do it. In true Denny style, Winning New Business motivates and inspires from the first page to the last, giving you the ability and confidence to succeed. Each key topic is covered, including making a winning presentation; how to make an appointment; how to beat the competition and how to provide excellent customer care.Bursting with insight and ideas Denny gives you the techniques and tactics you need to help you maximize your ability to win, whatever your role in the company.
Winning New Business: Essential Selling Skills for Non-Sales People
by Richard DennyWinning New Business is for anyone who needs to know the skills of winning new customers but lacks the training - or the courage - to sell effectively. Richard Denny, one of the world's most renowned sales gurus, takes the fear out of selling and shows you just what to do and how to do it. In true Denny style, Winning New Business motivates and inspires from the first page to the last, giving you the ability and confidence to succeed. Each key topic is covered, including making a winning presentation; how to make an appointment; how to beat the competition and how to provide excellent customer care.Bursting with insight and ideas Denny gives you the techniques and tactics you need to help you maximize your ability to win, whatever your role in the company.
Test Your Emotional Intelligence: Improve Your EQ and Learn How to Impress Potential Employers (Testing Series)
by Philip CarterEmotional Intelligence is the ability to be aware of one's own emotions and those of other people. In today's workplace more and more companies are using emotional intelligence tests to vet job applicants and assess staff as they recognise that positive behaviours are just as important as technical expertise. Test Your Emotional Intelligence will help you to think about various aspects of your personality and identify your strengths and weaknesses. Each test is followed by analysis and assessment that will help you to develop your potential, build on your strengths and improve on areas of weakness. It will help you to think about your social intelligence, self-confidence, your level of assertiveness as well as your ability to cope under pressure. There are no right or wrong answers, but practising the types of questions you may face will calm nerves and equip you with self knowledge you need to always be one step ahead.
Test Your Emotional Intelligence: Improve Your EQ and Learn How to Impress Potential Employers (Testing Series)
by Philip CarterEmotional Intelligence is the ability to be aware of one's own emotions and those of other people. In today's workplace more and more companies are using emotional intelligence tests to vet job applicants and assess staff as they recognise that positive behaviours are just as important as technical expertise. Test Your Emotional Intelligence will help you to think about various aspects of your personality and identify your strengths and weaknesses. Each test is followed by analysis and assessment that will help you to develop your potential, build on your strengths and improve on areas of weakness. It will help you to think about your social intelligence, self-confidence, your level of assertiveness as well as your ability to cope under pressure. There are no right or wrong answers, but practising the types of questions you may face will calm nerves and equip you with self knowledge you need to always be one step ahead.
You.com: Manage Your Online Self for Profit, Image and Business Success
by Cresta NorrisThe internet is vast and can be an inhospitable place for organizations and individuals trying to make their mark. To stand out in the crowd, you need to learn how to be creative online and get your various profiles on different websites working in tandem to promote your brand and your business.You.com gives vital advice on how to manage your online image using tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to your best advantage. It shows how you can stay connected to the things that matter (via RSS feeds, news feeds, netvibes, etc) and includes essential tips on using online networking to find a better job, recruit staff or identify new people to work with. Illustrated by fascinating international case studies from businesses and individuals such as Richard Sambrook, former Director of BBC World Service and Global News, Nancy William of Tiger Two, Gill Carrick of executive search firm Odgers Berndtson and Dulce Merritt of Barbican Consulting, this book tells you all you need to know to improve your visibility online and ensure a high ranking on search engines.With illuminating examples of how an online image can go wrong, and invaluable advice on how to put it right, You.com will help you to get control, get noticed and get the results you want from your online profile.
You.com: Manage Your Online Self for Profit, Image and Business Success
by Cresta NorrisThe internet is vast and can be an inhospitable place for organizations and individuals trying to make their mark. To stand out in the crowd, you need to learn how to be creative online and get your various profiles on different websites working in tandem to promote your brand and your business.You.com gives vital advice on how to manage your online image using tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to your best advantage. It shows how you can stay connected to the things that matter (via RSS feeds, news feeds, netvibes, etc) and includes essential tips on using online networking to find a better job, recruit staff or identify new people to work with. Illustrated by fascinating international case studies from businesses and individuals such as Richard Sambrook, former Director of BBC World Service and Global News, Nancy William of Tiger Two, Gill Carrick of executive search firm Odgers Berndtson and Dulce Merritt of Barbican Consulting, this book tells you all you need to know to improve your visibility online and ensure a high ranking on search engines.With illuminating examples of how an online image can go wrong, and invaluable advice on how to put it right, You.com will help you to get control, get noticed and get the results you want from your online profile.
Understanding NLP: Strategies for Better Workplace Communication.. Without the Jargon
by Neilson Kite Frances KayHave you ever wondered how some people constantly achieve success in the workplace and in everyday life? Do you wish you knew more about how they think and behave? Understanding NLP will take you a step closer to sharing their success by showing you how to achieve personal and organizational goals. By applying the principles of NLP to the working environment and describing familiar situations in jargon-free language, it provides insights into interpersonal differences, selling and negotiation, influencing skills and the use of language. Further simplifying the key concepts of NLP and with greater emphasis on the differences between rapport and relationship and how both can be better developed and managed, Understanding NLP provides even more clarity and guidance in a simple and common sense way, helping you to make radical changes in the way you approach people, life and work.
Understanding NLP: Strategies for Better Workplace Communication.. Without the Jargon
by Neilson Kite Frances KayHave you ever wondered how some people constantly achieve success in the workplace and in everyday life? Do you wish you knew more about how they think and behave? Understanding NLP will take you a step closer to sharing their success by showing you how to achieve personal and organizational goals. By applying the principles of NLP to the working environment and describing familiar situations in jargon-free language, it provides insights into interpersonal differences, selling and negotiation, influencing skills and the use of language. Further simplifying the key concepts of NLP and with greater emphasis on the differences between rapport and relationship and how both can be better developed and managed, Understanding NLP provides even more clarity and guidance in a simple and common sense way, helping you to make radical changes in the way you approach people, life and work.
Adaptability: The Art of Winning In An Age of Uncertainty (Kogan Page Ser.)
by Max McKeownAdaptability is the key human trait. The ability to adapt faster and smarter than the situation is what makes the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. Our history is a story of adaptation and change. And in this time of brutal competition and economic uncertainty, it has never been more important to understand how to adapt successfully. In a series of powerful rules, Max McKeown explores how to increase the adaptability of you and your organization to create winning positions. Fascinating real-world examples from business, government, the military and sport bring the rules of adaptability to life - from the world s most innovative corporations to street-level creativity emerging from the slums. Adaptability is a powerful, practical and inspirational guide to success in uncertain times.
Adaptability: The Art of Winning In An Age of Uncertainty
by Max McKeownAdaptability is the key human trait. The ability to adapt faster and smarter than the situation is what makes the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win. Our history is a story of adaptation and change. And in this time of brutal competition and economic uncertainty, it has never been more important to understand how to adapt successfully. In a series of powerful rules, Max McKeown explores how to increase the adaptability of you and your organization to create winning positions. Fascinating real-world examples from business, government, the military and sport bring the rules of adaptability to life - from the world s most innovative corporations to street-level creativity emerging from the slums. Adaptability is a powerful, practical and inspirational guide to success in uncertain times.