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Essential Time Management and Organisation is a new pocket guide that will help you transform the way you work and regain control of your working day.

	Essential Time Management and Organisation: A Pocket Guide by Sarah Cook Price: £9.95

Buy this pocket guide and be amazed at how much you can achieve!

This guide will help you:

• Accomplish more in a working day
• Reduce stress levels
• Get things done efficiently and effectively
• Transform your methods of working

Buy this pocket guide and be amazed at how much you can achieve!

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Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success. This comprehensive book will help you:

• Develop effective communication skills
• Inspire and enthuse your team
• Create a team vision
• Aim for realistic goals
• Ensure your team members perform to their full potential

IT professionals need to develop communication skills so that they can cooperate with the other departments of their organisation. This book is intended to help IT professionals develop their leadership skills.

Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success >>

	Leading for Success RRP: £24.95 Price: £19.95 You Save:£5.00 Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success >>

About the author

Sarah Cook is the Managing Director of The Stairway Consultancy. She has 15 years’ consulting experience in the field of team-building, leadership and culture change. She holds an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success >>

Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success. This comprehensive book will help you:

• Develop effective communication skills
• Inspire and enthuse your team
• Create a team vision
• Aim for realistic goals
• Ensure your team members perform to their full potential

IT professionals need to develop communication skills so that they can cooperate with the other departments of their organisation. This book is intended to help IT professionals develop their leadership skills.

Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success >>

	Leading for SuccessOur Price: Rs. 493.54 Whether you are new to leadership, or have been a leader for some time, this book will help you develop your leadership skills. It is designed to assist you in understanding the characteristics of an effective leader, to help you assess where your strengths and development areas are and to create a plan of action for realising your leadership potential.

About the author

Sarah Cook is the Managing Director of The Stairway Consultancy. She has 15 years’ consulting experience in the field of team-building, leadership and culture change. She holds an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success >>

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Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success. This comprehensive book will help you:

• Develop effective communication skills
• Inspire and enthuse your team
• Create a team vision
• Aim for realistic goals
• Ensure your team members perform to their full potential

IT professionals need to develop communication skills so that they can cooperate with the other departments of their organisation. This book is intended to help IT professionals develop their leadership skills.

Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success >>

	Leading for Success Price: €29.95

Develop your leadership skills with Leading for Success >>

About the author

Sarah Cook is the Managing Director of The Stairway Consultancy. She has 15 years’ consulting experience in the field of team-building, leadership and culture change. She holds an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

 Essential Time Management and Organisation is a new pocket guide that will help you transform the way you work and regain control of your working day. This clear and concise guide offers tried and tested techniques for organising your time and achieving your goals.

This guide will help you:

• Accomplish more in a working day
• Reduce stress levels
• Get things done efficiently and effectively
• Transform your methods of working

Manage your time more effectively with this pocket guide! >>

	Essential Time Management and Organisation: A Pocket Guide Price: €11.95

With the help of clear diagrams, checklists and models, this pocket guide will enable you to:

• transform your methods of working
• prioritise your tasks
• follow the 4D model for dealing with e-mails
• take full advantage of your most productive time of day
• manage interruptions
• eliminate timewasters
• delegate effectively – including upwards!

Manage your time more effectively with this pocket guide! >>

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Uncover the secrets of an award-winning IT function and apply them to your business with our latest ITG release!

Global management, technology and outsourcing company Accenture has achieved incredible results through the transformation of its IT function. It has doubled its revenues in ten years, significantly decreased its IT spending despite an increase in workforce of nearly 300%, and its number of satisfied customers is growing and growing. Discover how it has achieved this, and how you can realise similar benefits in your organisation.

	Running IT like a Business: Accenture’s Step-by-Step Guide by Robert E. Kress Our Price: £29.95
	Running IT like a Business will show you how your IT function can provide much more than products and services and add real value to your business. With clear strategies, helpful diagrams and real-life examples, this book will give you the keys to unlocking your IT function’s hidden potential.

This book will show you how your IT function can:

• use the latest technology developments to help your organisation to do things better, faster and more cheaply
• take advantage of communication and collaboration technologies to facilitate networking across the enterprise, leading to greater synergy and higher productivity
• identify and analyze business risks and apply measures to reduce these risks
• implement technologies to diversify and grow your business
• develop vital communication skills and techniques to facilitate the change process
• realise cost savings across the organisation

Buy this book and see how Accenture’s strategies will work for you, too! >>

Managing your time effectively could save you hours every single day but it’s easy to get distracted by interruptions and prioritising tasks can seem a daunting task.

Essential Time Management and Organisation is a NEW! pocket guide that will help you transform the way you work and regain control of your working day. This clear and concise guide offers tried and tested techniques for organising your time and achieving your goals.

By reading this book you will:

• Accomplish more in a working day
• Reduce stress levels
• Get things done efficiently and effectively
• Transform your methods of working

Pre-order for only €11.95!

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Manager: A person responsible for controlling or administering an organisation or group of staff

(Oxford Dictionary)

Being a manager in the IT field can be a fulfilling yet demanding role. You quite often need to be in two places at once, be firm but fair, inspire and encourage. You need to know how to communicate effectively, manage projects productively and be time efficient.

We’ve gathered 10 top tips together to seeing you well on your way to becoming a top manager.

1. Be effective

Understand the characteristics of being a high-performance manager. Assess where your strengths and development areas lie and create a plan of action for realising your management potential.

Recommended reading: The Effective Manager, by Sarah Cook

2. Lead for Success

There is no point leading for failure, so lead for success. Develop effective communication skills and inspire and enthuse your team. Create a team vision, shaping future goals by focusing on the team’s earlier successes and give the members of your team the sense of responsibility that will motivate them to achieve excellent results. This will help ensure your people perform to their full potential.

Recommended reading: Leading for Success, by Sara Cook

3. Presentation is Key

Deliver presentations that will engage your staff and make your ideas and arguments memorable. Your technical skills and professional expertise are evidence of your ability to accomplish difficult tasks.  The ability to present articulately to customers, management, peers and others can significantly enhance your credibility, clout, and professional status.

Recommended reading: Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals, by Naomi Karten

4. Communication is Crucial

Being able to communicate with your staff is crucial for you in building an effective team. You need transparency within your staff, so you always know what exactly is going on and who is doing what. The same applies with you – you need to be transparent with your staff. If you let your staff know what is going on behind the scenes (where appropriate) this will help build up trust  and respect between both parties.

 Recommended reading for project managers: Focus on Skills: Communication Skills for Project and Project Managers, by OGC

5. Time Management

Learn how to be more productive with your time. It can be all too easy to get distracted by a phone call or an email, rather than getting on with the job in hand. You, as a manager, will have a million and one things that need doing, so it is important that you prioritise your workload and organise your time effectively.

Recommended reading: Essential Time Management and Organisation: A Pocket Guide, by Sarah Cook