Anne Bruce

Do you feel stuck and unable to create the future you want?In So What, Now What, you will learn innovative strategies to move forward with confidence and resilience. This book offers a roadmap to help you define your purpose, establish a vision, and commit to change. Benefits for you in this book include: - Gaining the clarity and confidence to navigate difficult decisions and unexpected changes - Achieving personal and professional growth with renewed enthusiasm - Transforming your future with a renewed sense of purpose What's included in this book: - Fundamental steps to create change - Guidance on how to adapt to a new future - Innovative strategies to help you move forward with confidence and resilience - Tools to help you define your purpose, establish a vision, and commit to change Don't miss this opportunity to create the future you want.

Must-know tips and tools for crafting and delivering powerful presentations—from the new Essentials Series for business professionalsFrom one-on-one meetings to pitching to a packed convention center, knowing how to craft and deliver engaging presentations is an essential skill in every line of business. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices, you’ll find what you need here in three easy to digest parts:PART I: THE ESSENTIALS delivers a thorough explanation of presentation types, structure, openers, narrative (storytelling), closers, and more.PART II: THE ESSENTIALS APPLIED teaches you how to effectively use images, improve your online presentation skills, developing your signature style, and more.PART III: BEYOND THE ESSENTIALS delivers guidance if you want to become a professional presenter and takes you through the ongoing journey of presenting.PLUS Presentation Structure Guidelines, a Presentation Development Worksheet, a Post Presentation Evaluation, and more!Packed with smart tips, effective tools, insights, and a skills self-assessment, Presentation Essentials ensures you'll walk away feeling confident of your abilities and prepared to put your skills into action right away.

The Quick Guide to Growing and Nurturing Top TalentIn a business world vastly transformed by technology and global competition, one fact hasn't changed: Those who do the best job developing talent are the industry leaders.This quick-access guide provides everything you need to develop the kind of engaged, self-reliant, mindful employees that make organizations great.Packed with strategies, tactics, and tips you can start putting to use right away, The Talent Assessment and Development Pocket Tool Kit gives you instant access to create a powerful workforce that will launch your company to the top.Talent Assessment and Development Pocket Tool Kit contains:Step-by-step development plansQuizzes and exercisesInformative tablesChapter summaries and takeaways

The Quick Guide to Recruiting and Onboarding Top TalentIn the war for talent, the last company standing is always the one that finds the best employees and integrates them quickly and effectively into the organization.This quick-access guide provides the tools and strategies you need to select, recruit, interview, and onboard every kind of employee--from Next-ers and Millennials to baby boomers and nontraditional workers.Packed with strategies, tactics, and tips you can start putting to use right away, The Talent Selection and Onboarding Pocket Tool Kit gives you instant access to create a powerful workforce that will launch your company to the top.Talent Selection and Onboarding Tool Kit contains:Step-by-step onboarding techniquesQuizzes and exercisesInformative tablesChapter summaries and takeaways

Leaders Start to Finish: A Road Map for Developing Top Performers focuses on developing effective leadership training programs that produce leaders with an engaged, “I can” leadership attitude. This book addresses the question of how to create high-performing, authentic leaders at all levels of an organisation, from front-line employees through senior management. In offering pragmatic, realworld solutions and detailed instructions on how to build a leadership training program from the ground up, Leaders Start to Finish will help you develop your staff into efficient, respected managers and leaders.

Briefcase Books: Manager’s Guide to Motivating EmployeesMore than 700,000 Briefcase Books sold! A manager’s guide to inspiring employees to work at peak performance—to improve organizational culture and help meet the bottom-lineAbout the BookManager’s Guide to Motivating Employees is the perfect primer for managers looking to jumpstart the work ethic, excitement, and company synergy by engaging and motivating their employees. This new edition provides entertaining case studies and examples of how readers can create an environment in which employees feel passionate about their jobs and put the best of them in everything they do.Written specifically for today’s busy manager, Briefcase Books feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step by step through everyday workplace situations.Key Selling FeaturesProven tactics for creating relationships and ensuring effective communication to get the optimal performance from employeesClear definitions of key terms and conceptsPractical advice for minimizing the possibility of errorExamples of successful managementSpecific planning procedures, tactics, and hands-on techniquesMarket / AudienceManagers of all levelsAbout the AuthorAnne Bruce (Sacramento, CA) is a nationally recognized speaker, workshop leader, and author. Her books include the Briefcase Books Be Your Own Mentor and Building A High Morale Workplace and Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance Problems.

Put every employee on the path to excellence!Solving Employee Performance Problems provides the tools you need to handle the most difficult employees—from the chronically late or distractingly dramatic to the disruptive, dishonest, or downright insubordinate.Taking a heavy-handed approach to such behaviors might make you feel good for a little while—but using the measured, proactive techniques outlined in this book will be better for you, your staff, and your business. With Solving Employee Performance Problems, you’ll learn how to take ownership of your employees’ behaviors, master conversations about poor performance, conduct productive follow-ups, and ultimately generate:Greater engagement and ownership of work Higher levels of collaboration and productivity Increased loyalty and retention rates Gainful ROI from everyone who works for youThere’s a direct link between growth of individual employees and organizational growth. Use Solving Employee Performance Problems to be someone who manages proactively. It’s the only way to make a positive difference in the life of your employee—and make a positive impact on the future of your company.

THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIMEThe secret to business success today is employee and talent development. Companies that invest in branding and creating smart, self-reliant, "upgradeable" talent are the ones that will lead their industries in the future.Perfect Phrases for Employee Development Plans has hundreds of ready-touse phrases for ensuring your employees stay motivated and competitive, develop teamwork and sound work ethics, and help meet organizationaltargets. Learn the most effective language for:Pinpointing an employee’s strengthsCreating long- and short-term goalsHelping teams form plans--and then work the plansGrooming people for advancementBranding and expanding your company's talent pool

A proven, do-it-yourself formula for greater professional and personal successSuccessful career and life coach Anne Bruce knows how you can find happiness, fulfillment, and success at work and in life-and it's not by hiring a coach! Be Your Own Mentor delivers a unique, do-it-yourself process for identifying your hidden talents, abilities, and passions and developing them on your own.Bruce's four-part approach empowers you to get where you want in life by adopting a free-agent mindset, taking intelligent risks and building self-esteem, setting a course for balance in work and life, and discovering and developing your personal strengths.

Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance Problems will be an easy access guide to help managers identify performance issues and prepare concise documentation of those problems. This quick-reference tool is perfect for new managers who need to find effective ways to document performance problems and then be able to offer practical, helpful feedback to those individuals. The book covers a wide variety of performance issues including:Communication SkillsPunctualityDecision MakingEmpowerment and DelegationTechnical Skill DevelopmentPeople Skills and Relationship-buildingCoaching OthersCustomer CareAttitudeHandling Personal ProblemsCreativity and InnovationMeeting DeadlinesLeadership SkillsNegotiation SkillsAppearanceSelf-esteem and ConfidenceEfficient Use of TimeProblem Solving and Conflict ResolutionTeamworkEmotional IntelligenceOverall ProductivityLoyaltyResistance to ChangeProject ManagementSafetyGoal SettingMotivation and Morale BuildingCommon Sense and Good JudgmentPersonal Growth and DevelopmentProfessional Growth and Intentional Learning

This book provides a powerful formula for successful living - starting now. Created by leading motivational speaker and corporate trainer Anne Bruce, this highly effective plan helps you discover your own "true north." This personal direction, or "Inner Guidance System," isn't dictated by what people think you should be or do, or even by what you were brought up to think your life was supposed to be about. Instead, "Discover True North" provides invaluable exercises and insights to help you find the true compasses that have always existed within you - and that point to what you truly want out of life. These exercises were developed from Bruce's work with thousands of workshop members and notable individuals and clients throughout the world - from Sprint and Ben and Jerry's to The American Red Cross, the London Institute of Management and the White House.This unique four-week formula helps unlock your personal potential immediately - today. As you find your true callings and navigate your way to a better life, you'll be learning how to: activate and rely on your inner compass to define life direction; make the critical choices that move life forward; pinpoint your emotional and intellectual strengths; focus on your self-development without abandoning others; also included are worksheets, real-world stories, inspirational quotations, and more. Once you have embarked on this life-altering program, you'll be just four weeks from making the most of yourself - and enriching the world around you.

This title provides 24 ways to motivate every employee. Think about the managers who most influenced your career. They were successful because they infused employees - and organizations - with passion for work and motivation to achieve. "24 Ways to Motivate Every Employee" provides two dozen creative and ready-to-use tools and techniques for ensuring that same enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale. Look to this concise but powerful book for workplace-tested techniques to: turn employees into partners; encourage intelligent risk taking; offer incentives and morale boosters; build trust; spread power around; encourage accountability; attack de-motivators; and, make employees want to stay."24 Ways to Motivate Every Employee" is filled with the employee-friendly, results-oriented strategies of Disney, Starbucks, Levi Strauss, and numerous other world-class companies. Let it show you how to build and maintain high employee spirits in your workplace and add measurable value to both your organization and your management career.

This book presents workplace-proven tips and tactics for building employee spirit - and accomplishment. Employees with high morale perform at significantly higher levels. So how can you, as a manager whose success depends on the performance of your employees, ensure consistently high enthusiasm, energy, and employee morale? "Building a High Morale Workplace" shows you how to create a fun, synergistic work environment, one designed to inspire superior employee commitment and performance, by: building quality, one-to-one relationships with your employees; giving - and getting - valuable feedback; helping employees regain lost morale during difficult times; and, employee morale is the wildcard in any management situation. And whether your organization is experiencing good times or bad, it is you - the manager - who is responsible for creating and maintaining superior employee morale."Let Building a High Morale Workplace", the latest value-packed guidebook in McGraw-Hill's popular "Briefcase Books" series, provide you with hands-on techniques and innovative strategies for keeping employee spirits high, and adding value to both your organization and your management career. "Briefcase Books", written specifically for today's busy manager, feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step-by-step through everyday workplace situations. Look for these innovative design features to help you navigate through each page: clear definitions of key terms, concepts, and jargon; sensible strategies for improving workplace morale; how-to hints for creating a high-energy environment; advice to keep you from inadvertently damaging morale; warning signs of things going wrong when dealing with employees; stories and insights from the managing experiences of others; and, specific steps for the implementation of morale-building procedures.