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World-renowned business strategists and authors of several international best-selling books on management. Neil is a sought-after keynote, conference and motivational speaker and Jarvis is the award-winning founder and editor of Australia's best known magazine for school administrators.

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How to Make New Staff Members Feel Part of the Organisation

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For new employees, those early days in your organisation can be more of a test of survival than a time of growth and development. Often new staff members are thrown into the workplace and expected to succeed with little support and it’s no wonder many of them become disillusioned.

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How to Sell your New Idea to other People

Neil Flanagan | Jarvis Finger | Plum Press

As a manager, you'll often have to persuade people to believe in your views and to accept your ideas. If you're good at selling your ideas to employees and colleagues, then you'll go further, faster, in your career. Unfortunately, good ideas must first be sold to staff and, if you can't get your proposals across the way you envisaged, then they may well go the way of many other good ideas—into oblivion. So, here are some simple rules that will help you sell your ideas more effectively in the future…

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How to Conduct an Effective Overhaul of your Business

Neil Flanagan | Jarvis Finger | Plum Press

You must provide customers with quality products and services otherwise they’ll go elsewhere. To keep ahead of your game, you may have to abandon outdated notions about how your organisation does its work and start afresh. This is the essence of reengineering—a process of improving the old ways of doing business and seeking to create new and better ways. Here’s how to help your business benefit from an effective overhaul.

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How to get Started on a Strategic Plan

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There’s more to strategic planning than arranging for a select few to lock themselves away for a couple of days each year to develop a document they hope will lead their organisation to new levels of profitability. Preliminary deliberations and detailed preparation involving a range of people are required. Among the issues for your consideration during this preparatory phase are the following.

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How to Prepare for a Meeting

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Meetings have become an unavoidable aspect of a manager's role. Fortunately, it is possible to eliminate unnecessary meetings and to make the remaining ones more effective. An important ingredient is planning and preparation, as the following points reveal…

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How to Begin each Month on a Positive Note

Neil Flanagan | Jarvis Finger | Plum Press

If you want to change your professional or personal life for the better, you must start with resolve and determination, and the following resolutions are provided to help you improve the way you function as a leader. Refer to them at the start of each month, photocopy and decide which you will focus on. How determined are you to improve?

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How to Maintain Improved Performance

Neil Flanagan | Jarvis Finger | Plum Press

Improving the performance of staff is hard enough; maintaining and building on that improvement present even greater challenges for managers.

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How to Help an Employee whose Career has Plateaued

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Plateauing is a normal phase in many careers. Usually coinciding with mid-career, employees (and managers) can experience a leveling out of their progress as a result of downsizing, restructuring, or plain old boredom. Previously high-achievers seem to lose their zest, sparkle, and enthusiasm. They become disenchanted, frustrated and, over time, their morale and productivity decline. What can you do to revitalise the career of a stuck-in-a-rut employee?

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How to Gain Staff Commitment

Neil Flanagan | Jarvis Finger | Plum Press

High levels of staff commitment to individual projects or to the organisation as a whole are considered to be indicators of an organisation succeeding in its purpose. Commitment, however, cannot be assumed. Rather, it requires continuing, credible and confident actions that result in employee trust and support. Although there is no one way of gaining commitment, there are, however, some key considerations.

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How to Learn to Live with Change

Neil Flanagan | Jarvis Finger | Plum Press

As a manager, you are in a position to influence others. Take change, for example. The way you personally relate to change and cope with it will have a lasting impact on your employees. But before you can help others, you must be able to help yourself. When they see how effectively you cope with change, your staff, too, will see change for what it really is—an opportunity to lead a much fuller and productive life. Here’s what you must do to survive in an age of ongoing change…

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