Although there have been military, social, and labor histories examining sailors, this book employs the methods of cultural history to systematically integrate Jack Tar, the common seaman, into larger narratives about British national identity. If, as it has been argued, "Britishness" was defined in terms of one's contribution to military efforts, why did sailors experience so much difficulty winning acceptance as Britons? Why was that acceptance delayed until the mid-nineteenth century? In pursuit of this aim, Land develops a new approach to sailors that moves beyond earlier historical work on maritime culture.

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Technically speaking, a business plan is a documentation that would reflect the mission and vision of a business venture. Chalking out an effective business plan involves a regimented approach through an advanced process of preparation, delegation and most importantly, refinement as and when demanded by the changing situation of the business and the market. This is to ensure that the plan forces those at the helm of an organization into a disciplined and meticulous process of thinking to ensure an intellectually candid business. Chalking a business plan is never an easy process. If you are looking to write the plan down in a single attempt, good luck to you. Remember, it is a continuous process that never comes to an end. So long you are continuing with your business, you need to make run-time changes to your plan in order to keep your business afloat and relevant. A business plan is nothing but a set of living documents which changes from time to time as and when the situation of the market changes. The rate of change may be weekly as well as monthly depending upon the nature of business and its volatility and the scenario prevailing in the market. However, these are surely not drastic changes but certain modifications and alterations here and there as and when needed by the business.

Every day, whether or not you notice it, you are engaged in negotiating and reading other people's body language. When done in a casual setting with family or friends, it's usually a quick, easy, and enjoyable process. However, when you engage in negotiating and reading other people's body language in the work place, it can be a completely different situation because these situations usually have higher stakes. In the workplace, not being able to negotiate efficiently or not being able to read other people's body language will, can, and does have adverse consequences. At best, it may lead to disruption in the workplace. At worst, it could lead to you losing your benefits, your rank, or your job altogether. Being a good negotiator as well as a good body language reader will enable you become a more efficient, more pleasant, and altogether, more productive employee, co-worker, or boss. In this book, you will be able to discover and understand the art of negotiations, as well as how you can benefit from being able to conduct a proper negotiation. You will also know what qualities a good negotiator should possess, as well as how to properly prepare for a negotiation so that you can put yourself in the position to get the best outcome possible. Also, you will discover what to avoid doing and saying in order to avoid negotiations gone bad, and if worse comes to worst, how to be able to salvage a negotiation that has gone sour. Most importantly, you will learn what it takes to be able to close a negotiation on your own terms. In relation to the aforementioned topic, you will also learn the importance of being able to read, understand, and adapt to body language in the workplace and in negotiations. You will learn the importance of body language in everyday communication, and how to read positive and negative indicators in other people's body language. You will also discover what to look out for when it comes to body language to be able to gauge how well (or bad) a negotiation is going. By understanding these two things separately and in relation to one another, you will be able to place yourself in a situation wherein you can become a successful negotiator as well as an adapt reader of body language, and thus, be able to come out on top when it comes to your relationships in your personal and business life.

Self-Management can simply be described as a set of skills, strategies and tactics that can be used to achieve the desired personal and professional outcomes. This book provides an approach for self-management that can well be summarized as a 'Focus-Analyze-Alter'. In order to achieve any desired outcome, you must set the right objectives and keep focus on them. Once you know your destination, it's time to find the right path to your destination. You can find this path by analyzing Goal setting and identifying objectives, personal or professional, is central to our existence. However, fulfillment of the same often remains questionable. Self-management is a set of strategies that can be highly instrumental in helping you set the right goals and work in an organized and decisive manner towards fulfilling the same. Organization, in this context, includes several facets like management of time and resources to facilitate a smooth and focused path to success. It cannot make your path to success shorter, but it can surely make it easier. Decision making and choosing the right options is integral to effective management. This facet can certainly shorten your path to success. With decision-making comes inevitable stress, which can lead you to uncertainty and indecisiveness. This makes it essential to manage this stress, frustration and anger, which may arise as an outcome of the aforementioned. Therefore, self-management has been identified as a smart balance of resource management, time management and personal management. This book gives you an insight on the three main aspects of self-management namely, time management, life management and personal management. Self-Understanding the criticality of time management in our daily lives, a task-based approach for the effective administration has been provided. Besides this, the different facets of life personal management, like self-confidence, anger and stress have been considered. Environmental factors also have a significant role in self-management. The approach for self-management that has been followed, described and prescribed in this book is based on the thought "You are your biggest help " The book suggests strategies and techniques that can be implemented at a personal level without interference or intervention of a third party. This helps you in more than one way. This works towards building a positive attitude and energy in your life. This positivity will motivate you to change yourself for better. Once you are able to observe positive outcomes, you will be encouraged, and this is a key motivator. Secondly, the human psyche is such that we tend not to do things that we are asked to do. This book works on a two phase basis, preparation phase and implementation phase. The chapters on 'Building Self-Confidence and Courage' and 'Developing a Positive Attitude' work towards building a belief in you that you can break this chain and become a pioneer of change in your life. This is a preparation phase, which mentally prepares you for a change. The rest of the chapters suggest real life implementations that can bring about the required change. The chapter on 'Plan and Organize' suggests techniques that can help you in organizing your resources while the chapters on 'Time management' and 'Anger and Stress Management' provides suggestions for management of time and personality respectively. Any 'do-it-yourself' approach is incomplete without discussing the pitfalls that you may face in your path to successful implementation. Although, every human is different, and so are their responses. We have a knack of making unique mistakes and falling into the same trap in unique different ways. The chapter on 'Common Mistakes' warns you of the traps to ensure speedy implementation of the suggested techniques. This book provides a comprehensive approach towards overall management and improvement.

So, what gets you up in the morning? What keeps you going? Why do you keep on going? These are just some of the questions that may pop in your head as you think about motivation. Every person on the planet has their own motivation in life, enabling everyone to go through the different life areas and phases and get the most out of it. It is also sad to say that there are people who don't have any. It has been said that the difference between a person who is constantly developing and growing and the person who does not, is motivation. Motivation plays a key role in a person's outlook in life, achievements, and level of satisfaction and happiness. On the same note, motivation is a very important factor of success. A person who lacks motivation has no enthusiasm, ambition, and zest, and is generally unhappy and unsatisfied. Because of that, he gets no results, or when he does, he only gets mediocre ones. On the other hand, a motivated person is very energetic, successful and happy, as he achieves his goals and gets great results in his endeavors. Certainly, nobody wants to do something for nothing. There is always that something we hopefully want in return for an effort and sacrifice. The life and blood of motivation is reward. It is that thing that inspires us and entices us to take necessary action. The reward can come in different kinds, such as material rewards, recognition, and personal satisfaction or gratification. The reward is regarded as the end of every means. Motivation in itself is fueled by ambition and desire. The strength of motivation largely relies on the clearness of the mental picture of the goal or the reward, as well as the intensity of the desire to achieve it. No matter how great, attractive, beneficial or enticing a certain reward may be, if the person has no ambition or no desire to have it, motivation will also be absent. There may also be instances where you may have the desire to take action or to achieve something, but if that desire is not strong enough, no work will ever get done and achievement will only be just a wish on a star.

With workdays becoming hectic and several tasks from different sections of life looming around, managing time efficiently has become a priority. There are many benefits of managing time. It enhances the quality of work done, gives your workday schedule clarity, avoids unnecessary rush, increases productivity, is a great stress buster and also makes one feel self satisfied. Therefore, putting together an effective time management plan should be a priority. To create a workable time management plan, one has to define goals clearly and then outline all executable jobs to get to these goals. Then, all activities and tasks should be defined, listed, prioritized and scheduled. But, several hiccups and challenges arise even after a sound time management plan has been sketched. Things aren't always smooth sailing and finishing jobs on time is a tough task. This is where time management techniques, tips and tricks come into play. There are so many things that you can do to save time and manage it proficiently. Moreover, assessing your personality and understanding how you respond to time bound challenges also helps with time management. One of the most fundamental ways to manage time is to create a schedule or a planner in which you chart out timelines. Creating a to-do list also helps tremendously. Self management and increasing personal productivity will also help you manage time effectively. Keep a track of your energy level, manage your emotions, improvise decision making strategies, stay motivated and maintain an enthusiastic attitude towards work. Additionally, learn skills that will enhance your productivity like typing and reading quickly and get acquainted with computer based shortcuts and macros. In fact, there is a lot you can do if you are not very good at time management. Changing habits and transforming personal organization style makes one better at time management. You can wake up earlier, learn effective decision making techniques, avoid over committing to tasks and go slow while making changes. Additionally, you can also implement tips and tricks that will help you save time. Some of these are multi-tasking, making a daily work routine, automating tasks, bunching similar work together and keeping your workspace organized. Inculcating habits that will help with time management is also a good idea. Track progress of tasks and keep tab on the time passing by. Take breaks and develop a technique to work around challenging tasks. Learn to handle interruptions and emergency situations and always include buffer time slots as well as spare time in your schedule. Additionally, apply some time tested techniques to get through the workday. Such as pomodoro, pickle jar, 80-20 rule, time boxing, backward planning and try to apply the urgent-important matrix in everyday life. But one thing that will help the most is preparing your mind for time management. Loads of robust time management techniques like these have been discussed in this book. Rad through them and give time management a shot. iland business publishing specialises in the area of reference guides for readers seeking practical information to improve themselves in careers, finance, and other related core business topics.We bring our readers the information they need to stay in step with required skills and techniques. Our authors are experts in their fields and deliver well-written, easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive books that inform, advise, and educate.

If you look for a book dealing with soft skills with a difference, here it is Yes, you are at the right place for the right material. This special book deals with not only the importance of soft skills, also the use of it both at your workplace and at your homes. The concern is that you are going to make a difference not only in your workplace also in your family. As the book emphasizes the importance of soft skills for making your professional career highly on demand, it also shows ways to make your family life more pleasant and happy - A search for a 'homely relationship' with your wife, and children. Soft skills are interpersonal and intra-personal skills and they objectively refer to a term relating to a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence Quotient). This is a 'package' of skills related to personality development that including social skills, communication and language skills, interpersonal habits, assertiveness, friendliness and optimism that demonstrate the relationship with the other. Soft skills remain essential to any person who wants to demonstrate the maturity of thinking and responding to the people and situations. Soft skills are personal skills, which make a person more polished and more successful. Soft skills are part of interpersonal and intra-personal skills that play a crucial role in demonstrating the characterized relationship with the other. Soft skills differentiate a person from the other based on his/her interpersonal relationship within the group or outside of it. Behavioral experts say that there are many soft skills, which need to make our interaction with people or the environment friendly and productive. Another reason for training ourselves in soft skills is that they are not taught in schools or colleges to an extent comparable to the regular academic studies. Soft Skills make you assertive in your approach to your peers or customers. Assertiveness can be defined as the ability to express yourself without being rude or aggressive. The fine-tuning of character is done with the soft skills. Soft skills enable the employee to focus on real time problems and challenges that he/she faces ordinarily at the work place. Soft skills are not those, which are in demand only in work places or with colleagues, or with bosses. It is not that as an employee with a dream to go up on your professional ladder, you should not be demonstrating your soft skills professionally in your workplace or with your peers and superiors. Recognizing the individuality of the other and valuing their perspectives are important qualities of interpersonal relationship. However, it is also important to distinguish the difference between being assertively friendliness and submissive. It means, you should not permit the other to trample over you and crush your dignity. Strong interpersonal skills imply the ability to interact with confidence and soft skills make this possible for you in your life. This book is written keeping in mind the contemporary trend on soft skills and their importance in today's world. iland business publishing specialises in the area of reference guides for readers seeking practical information to improve themselves in careers, finance, and other related core business topics.We bring our readers the information they need to stay in step with required skills and techniques. Our authors are experts in their fields and deliver well-written, easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive books that inform, advise, and educate.

It is no doubt that the presence or the absence of our self-confidence can run our lives and attract our future circumstances. Unleash Your Confidence, Turn Your Life Around is going to help you conquer your inner fears, guide you in your journey towards realization of your potential, and ultimately help you win your life's victories. In this book, you will know the roots of your poor self-confidence, the binding chains that prevent you from getting what you want and prevent you from receiving what you are worth. You will get tips on how you can master your thoughts, improve your self-confidence in surprisingly very simple ways, as well as tips on how you can build self-confidence in key areas of your life - communication, relationships, and finances, all of which are major sources of conflict and dilemma. Building self-confidence is the key to getting anything you want and anything you want to achieve in life. Let this book accompany you in your quest to uncover everything life has in store for you. iland business publishing specialises in the area of reference guides for readers seeking practical information to improve themselves in careers, finance, and other related core business topics.We bring our readers the information they need to stay in step with required skills and techniques. Our authors are experts in their fields and deliver well-written, easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive books that inform, advise, and educate.

Have you ever had those moments when you complain you have so many things to do, but have so little time? Are you tired of having to do your work in a rush just to meet deadlines, because you are running on a very tight schedule? Are you frustrated about having very few accomplishments and advancements? Do you wish you had more than 24 hours in your day? On another note, do you wonder how some people are able to accomplish a lot of things? Are you wondering how great leaders are able to run an organization or a company of more than a thousand subordinates under them and nailing all their goals successfully while still having time for their passion and leisure? What is their secret? There is actually no secret at all. Delegation is the key that makes achieving anything possible. Yes, you may only have 2 pairs of arms, 2 pairs of feet, 1 brain, and only a maximum of 24 hours a day, but you can multiply yourself and your time, intelligence, skills, and ingenuity through delegation. That is the technique to get a lot of things done quickly and expertly. But if delegation has long been known to make miracles, how come a lot of people are not taking advantage of it? You might be having the same sentiment. In this book, you will know what delegation is all about, why its importance, why you may be holding back from it while your subordinates resist it, as well as the who, what, when factors of delegation, and most of all, how you can do it easily in a step by step approach. You will also know about the pitfalls of delegation, and how you can get over them. Lastly, you will hear of a great story that will inspire you to harness the power of delegation. iland business publishing specialises in the area of reference guides for readers seeking practical information to improve themselves in careers, finance, and other related core business topics.We bring our readers the information they need to stay in step with required skills and techniques. Our authors are experts in their fields and deliver well-written, easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive books that inform, advise, and educate.

Before we talk about Change Management, let us try this simple exercise: clasp your fingers together; now if you observe your clasped hands, you will notice that you have instinctively placed your right hand or left hand in the dominant position. Now consciously try doing it with the other hand in the dominant position. Don't you feel a little uncomfortable? That is why change is hard. We all know how difficult it is to effect change in an organization. Statistics indicate that 70% of all organizational changes fail. If we ponder the reason why it is such a difficult task to bring about change, and sustain it successfully, we will realize that we, the people are the reason. We people, by nature, tend to be resistant to change. The term Change Management refers to managing change successfully in any and all spheres of our lives, not just at work. Wherever the change happens, it is not easy to handle. Most often, the change that happens tends to complicate matters rather than simplifying them. Frequently, when we talk about change, it is in the organizational context, though there are personal and social changes that can be just as hard or even more difficult to handle. Like Gandhi said, "We should try to be the change we want to see."

"Leadership is defined by results not attributes" - Peter Druker. We all play the role of a leader in life at some point of time. Being a leader is something that drains out your energy and sometime leaving you with ostensibly an indispensable stress on your life. It is true, many who play the role of a team leader or a manager in a concern often look for ways to improve their inadequate skills with an aim to become a good team leader or manager. This book that you hold in your hand is not going to tell you what all about leadership, but it is surely a book that gives you what makes a good leader to be. It will show you how to be a good leader and cultivate those professional skills that you look for that become part of your professional life. If you frantically search for a guide / or a book to show you step by step and makes you understand what exactly leading a team means as a team leader or an individual, your search ends here. You will find this book full of information that meets the needs of any team leader or a manager to understand the group psychology and how to relate the each different individual uniqueness for a greater good of the company. This book will show how leaders develop entrepreneurial staff and create a corporate climate that encourages rule-breakers and outside-the-box thinkers. Experimentation by definition is a trial-and-error process, but experimentation is also the key to discovery. Every organization/establishment looks for talented and professional team members who are vital for the organizational success. A leader's capability is tested against his/her team members leading their own team when the situation demands in his/her absence.

This book hopefully, will help you achieve the very challenging goal of perfect work-life balance. Agreed, many tips and advices given here are easier to say than done; but none are impossible. Make up your mind that you will work towards achieving this goal, break it up into smaller bite-sized goals and go for it. Look up the SMART goals principle; use this method to achieve work-life balance. Do not be hard on yourself. It will be hard. This is an uphill task and you do not expect that that it will be easy. It will take time for you to manage your time as you want best. It will lots of effort; expect burnouts, frustration, and tough spots before you reach your goal. But stay on the path and it will happen. The rewards of finding that perfect work-life balance are huge; and worth every bit the effort you are putting in. Remember - where there is a will, there is always a way. Look for it and you will find it. If you find a way, great; if not, make one. Either way, you get to achieve your goal. When you do, you will find peace of mind for you will be able to enjoy the best of both worlds.

Don't think you need personal organization? You prefer your sloppy ways to keeping things spick and span? Are you sure? There is a lot that personal organization can do for you. Wondering what it can help you with. Actually, it can ease out a whole bunch of issues in your life. Such as better time management, boosting productivity and pepping up your energy levels. Moreover, it can also lower your stress and anxiety levels helping you maintain a relaxed state of mind. Personal organization involves budgeting time, spending your day wisely and incorporating habits that will impact your life positively. This type of self discipline will help you become more effective. You will be able to give each day your best shot if you stay organized. Most bigwigs swear by personal organization and take things in their work and personal life very seriously. One mistake people make is to think that self organization is limited only to office hours. But this is a false notion and it can also backfire. Staying organized at home also helps to save time and will help you to stay on top of things in office too. When you manage things and tasks at home, you will have more leisure time and therefore will be better equipped to handle the various jobs life throws at you.