Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business. This book provides practical advice on how to impress, convince and persuade. This fully updated 6th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips that will help you to write succinctly and with impact across different media. How to Write Reports and Proposals will give you the tools to put over a good case with style. The Creating Success series of books... Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips, tools and techniques to help you review and assess your time management and adopt new work practices to improve it. This book includes great time-saving ideas, practical solutions and checklists, plus advice on: controlling paperwork, organizing your emails, delegating and working with others, prioritizing to focus on key issues, getting and staying organized. This fully updated 6th edition features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips to help you minimize time-wasting and interruptions, and focus on the priorities that will lead to success in your job and career. Successful Time Management will give you the tools to become more efficient and effective. The Creating Success series of books... Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

Getting a message across on paper and presenting a proposal in a clear and persuasive form are vital skills for anyone in business. This book provides practical advice on how to impress, convince and persuade. This fully updated 6th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips that will help you to write succinctly and with impact across different media. How to Write Reports and Proposals will give you the tools to put over a good case with style. The Creating Success series of books... Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

This book reviews a variety of aspects of the specific task of selling successfully as it applies to those working in the property sector. It provides guidelines and approaches that will enable one to sharpen their sales skills and maximise the results they produce.

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How does this scenario sound? You have an area of expertise. You can offer sensible and authoritative advice to others. They pay you. You go home feeling fulfilled.

Sound too simple? Well with some enthusiasm and some Smart advice to help you along the way, Patrick Forsyth, successful entrepreneur and leading consultant, will show you everything you need to know about starting and maintaining a successful consultancy.

"Smart Things to Know About Consultancy" will give you the foot-up you need; from deciding your service range and fee scale, through targeting prospects and brand management, to writing winning proposals and working styles. You need to be a jack of all trades and, more importantly, master of many. Patrick Forsyth reviews these topics and many more: The nature of consultancy a what do consultants actually do?

• Marketability - any consultant must decide exactly what it is that he or she is going to actually do for their clients. OK, so youve got a great area of expertise, but is there a market for it?

• Setting fees and fee policy - consultancy may be inseparable from the word advice, but there is a difference. Advice can be freely given, but consultancy needs to be paid for. You need to decide how exactly you will charge and, in due course, get the money thats due to you.

• Target market - once you have your business up and running you need to decide where your clients are going to come from. With whom do you communicate? You need to decide who and how many to approach, and, equally important, who to ignore.

• Promotion a so now you know who to communicate your message to, but whats the best way to go about it? And how does one manage that processat the same time as juggling the other twenty things that are just as important?

• Career options a what does the future hold?

Consultancy can be extremely rewarding work a financially and emotionally. Whether you have already decided to take the plunge or its just a dream, "Smart Things to Know About Consultancy" offers inspiring and practical advice.

SMART QUOTES:
'The best way to predict the future is to invent it' Dennis Gabor

The sales function is the front--line of any business. Keeping up with the latest sales techniques is essential, as well as ensuring you have a motivated, incentivised and focused sales team well--versed in the basics of selling, from identifying new prospects and getting repeat business to closing the deal. This module gives essential insight into all the key sales drivers such as account management, handling complex sales, selling services, FMCG selling, customer relationships and self--development for sales people.

The sales function is the front-line of any business. Keeping up with the latest sales techniques is essential, as well as ensuring you have a motivated, incentivised and focused sales team well-versed in the basics of selling, from identifying new prospects and getting repeat business to closing the deal. This module gives essential insight into all the key sales drivers such as account management, handling complex sales, selling services, FMCG selling, customer relationships and self-development for sales people.

Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips, tools and techniques to help you review and assess your time management and adopt new work practices to improve it. This book includes great time-saving ideas, practical solutions and checklists, plus advice on: controlling paperwork, organizing your emails, delegating and working with others, prioritizing to focus on key issues, getting and staying organized. This fully updated 6th edition features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips to help you minimize time-wasting and interruptions, and focus on the priorities that will lead to success in your job and career. Successful Time Management will give you the tools to become more efficient and effective. The Creating Success series of books... Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

Book 6 of the Smart Skills series: practical guides to mastering vital business skills and techniques. Using proven strategies from business experts, these essential smart skills can empower anyone with the tools to get ahead. Maximise your opportunities by mastering the art of persuasion The underappreciated skill of persuasion is vital not just for negotiations, but in every aspect of business life. Taking on more responsibility, motivating your team, getting that big promotion: everything is possible once you've mastered the art of convincing people. By following these simple steps you can learn first how to recognise your power in any professional situation, and then how to harness that power to your advantage. The key persuasive tactics covered in this concise Smart Skills guide include: Mastering persuasive language Personalising your pitch: "the tailored approach" Conveying credibility Handling and overcoming objections Dealing with "maybe" Take advantage of every opportunity, starting today.

Fast track route to effective channel management
Covers key channel management techniques, from deciding the mix and ensuring customer focus monitoring performance and channel innovation
Examples and lessons from benchmark companies, including Sharp and Sanwa and ideas from the smartest thinkers
Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide
ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.
ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:
01 Innovation
02 Enterprise
03 Strategy
04 Marketing
05 Finance
06 Operations and Technology
07 Organizations
08 Leading
09 People
10 Life and Work
ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.

Communication is one of the most basic functions in any organization. It transmits ideas, thoughts, information, opinions, and plans between various parts of an organization as well as to external customers or businesses - Its vital importance can never be over emphasized. Yet it can be difficult and communication breakdown is not uncommon. There are several essential elements to making business communications work; these include structure, clarity, consistency, medium, and relevancy and our guide covers those areas within the below chapters: Essential foundations of success Preparation Face-to-face communication Putting it in writing Electronic Communication On your feet Being persuasive Negotiating Our Smart Skill guide will enable you to target and convey your information through software, telephone or in-person methods. Regardless of what medium you use, effective communication means your message is received clearly and is understood entirely.

Part of the Smart Skills Series Meetings offers all you need to know to get the most out of meetings - from setting meetings up, leading them, to how to make the most out of them once the meeting is over. A must for any employee, manager, freelancer of business owner. The book offers proven, practical advice on: setting objectives and creating practical agendas; deciding who should attend and when and where; effective chairing and effective participation - the communications skills necessary - listening, observing, questioning and getting your points across; dealing with problems; follow up after the meeting to prompt suitable action.

Fast track route to mastering all aspects of sales management
Covers the key areas of sales management, from techniques for managing sales people at a distance to sales planning, and from assembling a top-flight team to staying market focussed
Examples and lessons from benchmark companies in hotel management, financial services and pharmaceuticals
Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide
ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.
ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:
01 Innovation
02 Enterprise
03 Strategy
04 Marketing
05 Finance
06 Operations and Technology
07 Organizations
08 Leading
09 People
10 Life and Work
ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.

"Work hard, play hard" is the maxim for today's successful manager. This module takes an holistic look at executive life, offering strategies that will help maintain the career-meter needle at "success," while keeping the stressometer at "manageable" This is essential information for anyone coping with the demands of modern life, whether it involves working from home or jetting around the globe.

ExpressExec is a unique 12 modular resource of current business practice. Each module contains 10 individual titles that combined cover all the key aspects of business practice globally today.

Written by leading experts in their field and commissioned specifically for ExpressExec the knowledge imparted provides an executive with the tools and skills to increase their contribution to an organisation. Each title gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.

The 10 books in the ExpressExec Life and Work module are:

1. Life and Work Express

2. Working Globally

3. Career Management

4. Travel

5. Flexible and Virtual Working

6. Lifelong Learning

7. Body Care

8. Free Agency

9. Time Management

10. Stress Management

ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.

This is the fast track route to understanding and deploying a key personal communications skill that affects success in both job and career. This book includes powerful methods, concepts and techniques that promote confident negotiations and successful outcomes. It offers tips and techniques from gurus such as Chester Karras and detailed verbatim examples of actual negotiations.

Fast track route to rock-solid business plans

Covers key areas of business planning from understanding why a plan is necessary and what issues it should address to compiling the plan and using it to direct the business and ensure goals are met.

Includes the low-down on key planning aids such as swot analysis, the Boston and Ansoff matrices, and practical examples and advice drawn from banks and accounting firms as well as business practitioners and gurus such as Philip Kotler

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

Who else wants to make money from being a writer? You would need to be living on Mars not to realise there was a financial crisis. This means there has never been a better time to want to start a new career and make some extra, much needed money. This book shows you how to do so, as a writer. Magazines still need copy, publishers still need books, tv and radio companies still need drama and someone has to write those words down, why not you! This book will give you insider secrets so that YOU CAN MAKE MONEY FROM YOUR WRITING! Market - All creative writing enthusiasts. - All university and WEA creative writing students. - Secondary school and sixth-form libraries. - Teachers, tutors and lecturers responsible for creative writing and English teaching. - College/university central and departmental libraries. - Older, retired but active people, who may be more interested in past events than younger readers and writers.

Book 3 of the Smart Skills series: practical guides to mastering vital business skills and techniques. Using proven strategies from business experts, these essential smart skills can empower anyone with the tools to get ahead. Gain a competitive edge at work with your business writing skills Effective business writing skills can help you win that million-pound contract, earn a promotion, resolve a dispute or generate a significant increase in business leads. Our Smart Skills book offers proven, practical advice on how to put over a clear and impressive message in a style that's deceptively simple and even enjoyable to read. These guidelines will teach you how to: Write and format business reports, proposals or presentations Recognise the dangers of poor writing Write effectively under time pressure Use persuasive techniques and structures Deal with all types of documentation from a "simple" email to a long report Accessibly written, it includes checklists, templates and exercises to help you work through even the most basic building blocks of good writing. Business Writing provides an antidote to the dangers of 'gobbledegook' and 'business-speak' and allows you to generate any kind of document with confidence. After reading this guide, your writing will be effective, engaging and memorable- a vital skill for all professionals. *** Contents Preface: The dangers of poor writing and the opportunities of good 1. Introduction: Good writing is the business equivalent of an open goal 2. Getting it down right 3. Making language work for you 4. Making it persuasive 5. Horses for courses: linking style to method 6. The brief, the very brief and the ubiquitous email 7. At length: reports and proposals Postscript