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STRESS AND WELL-BEING

Managing Stress for Mental Fitness
This positive guide helps you understand the basic ingredients of good mental health. Two new chapters on stress identification and management show how stress can affect both your physical and mental well-being. Exercise an activities help readers apply positive techniques for better mental fitness.
     200-3,    85 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-200-3 

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Preventing Job Burnout
Introducing eight proven strategies for beating job burnout, this newly revised edition also contains expanded information on networking, growing your social support system, and personal goal setting.
     357-3,   104 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-357-3 
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MANAGING: SUPERVISORY SKILLS

The New Supervisor
This best-selling performance-booster should accompany every supervisory promotion.  Written especially for new supervisors, the ready-to-use handbook smooths that often rocky adjustment period by equipping the “freshly promoted” with the skills they need to demonstrate authority, delegate effectively, show leadership ability, and use problem-solving techniques.  Makes the first months on the job productive and effective.
     120-1,    68 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-120-1 

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Stepping Up to Supervisor
Like a mentor-on-call, this best-selling book brings a wealth of wisdom and information to the new supervisor.  It’s clearly organized into four logical parts that focus on the biggest concerns: understanding the basics of supervisory responsibilities, developing personal effectiveness, managing many personalities, and working with groups. 
     112-0,   178 pages,     $20.95,    ISBN 1-56052-112-0 

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MANAGING: INCREASE EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY

Coaching and Counseling (A Practical Guide for Managers and Team Leaders)
Fine-tune your skills as a motivating manager, supervisor, or advisor with this proven self-study primer. Learn the differences between counseling and coaching–and when to apply each technique for the best results. Reader-involving chapters help you identify your weaker coaching and counseling skills and build upon your stronger ones.
     386-7,    87 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-386-7 

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Effective Performance Appraisals
Most managers flounder through performance reviews simply because they don’t have the skills to conduct productive , positive appraisals.  This hands-on workbook teaches you professional reviewing techniques that will foster high morale and motivation under any circumstances.  Learn how to plan constructive appraisals and how to follow up for results.  Before you review any employee, review this book!
     196-1,    79 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-196-1 

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MANAGING: MENTORING

Mentoring (How to Develop Successful Mentor Behaviors)
Is mentoring right for you? You’ll find this revised best-seller to be an insightful guide to better mentoring in today’s workplace.  This quickly read manual gives you the skills of a competent, inspiring teacher. Explains the many styles of mentoring, how to understand mentee needs and what types of behaviors to practice and avoid. Includes real-world, ready-to-use advice...with a special section for handling unique situations, including cross-cultural and gender issues.
     426-X,    89 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-426-X 

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MANAGING: MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Goals and Goal Setting   (Best Seller!)
When you set your goals for yourself that are realistic and reachable–you’ll attain them.  This reader-involving book teaches the fundamental process for effective goal setting, both organizational and personal. Exercises and activities help you put dreams and aspirations into concrete actions, leading you through all aspects of goal setting, managing, and achieving.
      476-6,   98 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-476-6 

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Delegating for Results    (Best Seller!)
What’s the biggest weakness of most managers? The inability to delegate effectively.  Get the basics of this essential skill in the newly revised hands-on best seller. Exercises and worksheets help you evaluate your current skills, easily identify the problems, and quickly find solutions.  You’ll discover how to develop your workers’ potential while getting the job done.  New sections on increasing positive exposure for your team and using delegation as a tool for managing organizational change.  Everything you need to know to delegate effectively you can learn in fifty minutes.
      455-3,   71 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-455-3 

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TEAM  BUILDING AND LEADERSHIP

Team Problem Solving    (Best Seller!)
Team dynamics often create their own set of problems.  Don’t try to find solutions alone–do it with the proven resolution techniques outlined in this easy-to-read, ready-to-apply program.  Step-by-step guide shows you how to rationally confront issues and how to systematically resolve them.  Real solutions prevent recurrent problems.
     314-X,   132 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-314-X 

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Facilitation Skills for Team Leaders    (Best Seller!)
Power up your facilitation skills and see an increase in productivity, a decrease in stalemates.  This all-you-need handbook gives every manger and trainer professional facilitation techniques in a simple six-step plan. Lean to deal effectively with everyone from a shy team member to a difficult participant.  Checklists and exercises test your “readiness.”
      199-6,   91 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-199-6 

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Team Building: An Exercise in Leadership (Best Seller!)
Reap the benefits of cohesive, goal-oriented teamwork.  This transforming reader-friendly book shows any manger how to be the great coach behind that winning team. Simple step-by-step plan outlines the methods that turn groups into highly productive teams and heighten performance. Leads you through planning, organizing, motivating, goal setting, building trust, resolving conflicts and emphasizing the positive.
      118-X,   77 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-118-X 

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Motivating at Work: Empowering Employees to Give Their Best (Best Seller!)
What is it that makes some employees give their “all” while others only “bet by?”–a motivating manager! This practical guide to managing for high productivity makes you a driving force behind your employees. Checklists and activities teach you how to step up performance with solid leadership and positive reinforcement.
      201-1,    97 pages,    $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-201-1 

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ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Managing Change At Work    (Best Seller!)
Become a motivating influence during times of change. This user-friendly guide provides the skills managers need for understanding the process of change and supporting people through it. Applicable advice teaches you how to rise to the challenge of mergers, takeovers, and downsizing to build a motivated workforce in any situation.
     299-2,    82 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-299-2 

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FINANCE

    The Basics of Budgeting   (Best Seller!)
    The title of this clearly written books says it all. Virtually every aspect of budgeting–from preparing
    income statements and company expense reports, to developing your own personal plan–is covered. Understanding the basics of budgeting will help your career and the organization you manage.
         134-1,   139 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-134-1 
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    Understanding Financial Statements    (Best Seller!)
    Everything you always wanted to know a bout those confusing financial statements but were too
    embarrassed to ask! This friendly primer of basic business finances takes you step-by-step through all the fundamentals from balance sheets to profit and loss statements–and translates them into meaningful, usable information. 
         022-1,   104 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-022-1 

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    PRESENTATION SKILLS

    Effective Presentation Skills: A Practical Guide for Better Speaking    (Best Seller!)
    Enhance your presentation skills and shine in any meeting with this friendly, concise best-seller. Includes everything you need to know to deliver a solid sales pitch or presentation with clarity, persuasiveness, and confidence.  You’ll learn how to organize your thoughts and data for maximum impact, develop eye-catching visual aids, and use effective body language. Also includes the how-tos of conducting effective question-and-answer sessions.
         202-X,    85 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-202-X 

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    VERBAL SKILLS

    The Art of Communicating   (Best Seller!)
    Master the art of face-to-face communication for successful meetings, sales calls, and more rewarding business relationships. Designed for professionals, this valuable guide teaches the nationally famous Decker system–a powerful communication tool that emphasizes the role of posture, gesture, dress, voice, and humor in making an impact. This newly revised edition provides proven techniques for getting and holding your audience’s attention, nine skills to enhance your credibility, and a discussion about how our habits affect our communication. Also included is a section on new theories about how the brain filters and processes information.
         409-X,   109 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-409-X 

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    The Business of Listening: A Practical Guide to Effective Listening(Best Seller!)
    It’s a fact–most of us use only one-third of our listening capability! Learn how to expand your listening abilities and become a more effective communicator with this concise self-study book. Easy step-by-step improvement program teaches you how to take in greater amounts of information, remember more, and “hear between the lines.” 
         286-0,    88 pages,     $12.95,    ISBN 1-56052-286-0 

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    TELEPHONE SKILLS

    Telephone Courtesy & Customer Service    (Best Seller!)
    Don’t let your phone skills hurt your business reputation. This best-selling handbook is guaranteed to earn your company outstanding marks in customer serv ice. The positive, motivating guide teaches the importance of effective telephone techniques and how to correctly identify customer wants and needs. Includes practical case studies, skills inventories, and personal action plans plus newly added exercises on how to manage difficult customers.  Ideal for receptionists as well as customer service reps.
         064-7,     68 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-064-7 

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    CUSTOMER SERVICE

    Calming Upset Customers   (Best Seller!)
    Learn how to deal effectively with angry customers, clients, or colleagues.  This carefully designed
    approach gives you the ability to work through conflicts and maintain calm in the work environment. You’ll learn how to distinguish between a disturbed and upset customer, and how to work with each toward a positive outcome.
         384-0,    87 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-384-0 

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    Customer Satisfaction: The Other Half of Your Job    (Best Seller!)
    Want to build trust and encourage repeat business? This highly motivating training book will show you how to quickly improve customer service skills inside your organization–and see a significant impact at consumer level. Gives employees the people skills they need to handle irate callers and clients, diffuse anger, avoid complaints, prevent burnout, and enhance communications. Essential for every business.
         084-1,    112 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-084-1 

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    Quality Customer Service    (Best Seller!)
    Enjoy fast turnaround training in customer service with this hands-on guide. Hits all the buttons that
    generate repeat business by teaching employees how to present a positive attitude, how to read customer needs, and how to fulfill those needs. Designed to be read with a pencil, the lively format includes exercises, quizzes, and case studies to reinforce the skills that will make every employee aware of the importance of excellent customer service.
         203-8,    89 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-208-8 

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    SALES AND MARKETING

    Direct Marketing Techniques
    This is the kind of hands-on book you expect from CPI–a jump-start on the topic with practical tools small business and service providers can use immediately.  It’s packed with hundreds of great ideas and proven direct marketing techniques that the author has used successfully in building a multimillion dollar business. This is a “quick start” approach that any entrepreneur can use to expand their business.
         474-X,     96 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-474-X 

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    Professional Selling: Practical Secrets for Successful Sales (Best Seller!)
    If you earn your living in sales, this income-boosting guide is a must-read. Practical exercises reveal the secrets of professional selling, including creative prospecting techniques, defrosting cold calls, strategizing and conducting successful face-to-face sales calls, and overcoming objections. It describes the attributes leading to sales success in a way that allows you to integrate them easily and comfortably into your own sales efforts.
         042-4,    91 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN  0-931961-42-4 

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    Closing: A Process Not a Problem   (Best Seller!)
    Closing the sale is one of the most difficult aspects of selling for most service professionals and sales representatives. This book shows how the process of demonstrating products and services is directly linked to achieving the sale.
         318-2,    90 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-318-2 

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    TRAINING

    Training Managers to Train   (Best Seller!)
    Use this newly revised best-seller to improve your bottom line with the most cost-effective, time-wise training methods available. This concise guide teaches managers how to efficiently prepare for, plan, present, and follow up on any size training program. The proven checklists, tips, and activities will strengthen the skills of any manager regardless of experience. Included are secrets for training adults effectively and a four-part plan for productive training. A must for managers and supervisors who want to train their staff to achieve greater productivity.
          411-1,    88 pages,    $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-411-1 

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    Delivering Effective Training Sessions (Best Seller!)
    Conducting an effective training program demands more than good public speaking skills. This book
    teaches the best techniques in training today, explaining ow to use ice-breakers, audio and visual aids, group interaction, and personal style to deliver an effective presentation.
        193-7,    121 pages,     $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052- 193-7 

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    HIRING AND MANAGING PERSONNEL

    Quality Interviewing   (Best Seller!)
    Avoid the seven unforgivable mistakes of interviewing. Use this concise, quick-read book to help you
    master the interviewing process–and make sound hiring decisions you won’t regret. You’ll learn how to easily assess strengths and weaknesses . . . and what to look for in a prospective employee. It’s just as invaluable for job seekers.
          262-3,    79 pages,    $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-262-3 

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    DIVERSITY

    Working Together: Succeeding in a Multicultural Organization
    The workforce today is increasingly diverse. This easy-to-use reference guide helps managers create a positive, productive work environment in a diverse workforce. Realistic case studies and reader-involving worksheets sensitize you to gender and cultural differences to help you enhance communication throughout your organization.
    292-5,    85 pages,    $14.95,    ISBN 1-56052-292-5 

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