Product Description: Instant Creativity is a collection of tried and tested techniques to encourage individuals and groups make the most of their creativity. It offers over seventy quick and simple exercises to help find fresh ideas and solutions to problems...read more

Product Description: * Crash Course Series books offer rapid, structured introductions to key managment skills

Product Description: * Crash Course Series books offer rapid, structured introductions to key managment skills

Product Description: Organizations nowadays are realizing the power of coaching, and managers are having to develop new skills rapidly in order to make use of coaching techniques at work. But being a coach isn't the same as being a teacher. Successful coaches help to improve performance by drawing out and developing key strengths; they question and guide; they help people to focus and achieve more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides a tool kit of creative techniques that cover all stages of the creative problem-solving process. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This lively inspirational guide will help anyone improve his or her skills in leadership. With advice on all aspects of managerial leadership, the book has as its core a series of over 70 exercises that individuals can use to hone leaderships skills - quickly! Each exercise focuses on developing a particular essential skill whether involving: motivating others, developing a business plan, using stress as a positive tool, improving meetings and organizational systems, target settingEach exercise is rated in terms of usefulness for personal development, inspirational leadership, maintenance, change leadership and creative leadership - helping readers to develop the particular skills they require when then need them...read more

Product Description: This lively inspirational guide will help anyone make the most of their creativity. Packed with techniques to release creativity, the book offers a broad range of techniques that readers can apply whether:

Product Description: The ""instant"" in the title is no accident. Unless these exercise are very quick, they are self-defeating. They get in the way instead of helping. Similarly, they should be available at a moment's notice. You can predict that you will need an ice-breaker at the start of a session with a new team, or that you might need to warm up a group after lunch, but often the best use of these exercises is reactive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In a rapidly changing marketplace, with new challenges emerging all the time, it can be hard to establish a sensible strategy. There may not be an obvious route forward, but to stay still would be suicide. DisOrganization provides a guide to recreating your organization creatively, using specific techniques and skills to give the company a new sense of direction and purpose...read more

Product Description: This concise yet comprehensive text provides a coherent and practical framework for the study and practice of land restoration and reclamation. It sets out the fundamental workings of the natural environment - terrestrial ecosystems, nutrient cycling and soil structure and gives an account of how these may be assessed, how they become degraded and the variety of processes available for reclamation and restoration; ranging from agro-forestry to the re-establishment of fully self-sustaining ecosystems...read more