Management Extra: Management Training Workbooks
About the Book Series
Stuck for ideas, inspiration or just want to work differently? Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package. The books are practical and well structured to provide an in depth treatment of these management topics.
The series fuses key theories and concepts with applied activities to help managers examine how they work in practice. The books are created with individuals in mind. They are designed to help you improve your management skills. Management Extra can also be used in conjunction with management programmes of study aligned to standards.
Each of the books has case studies, self assessments and activities all underpinned by knowledge and understanding of the frameworks and techniques required to improve performance. Management Extra provides managers and trainers with a handbook for action and development.
Financial Management: Revised Edition
1st Edition
By Elearn
January 25, 2008
To gain competitive advantage all parts of an organisation must be able to talk to one another. It follows then that all managers must be, in some sense, financial managers who are able to speak the common language of finance. This book aims to provide learners with the necessary understanding to ...
Quality and Operations Management: Revised Edition
1st Edition
By Elearn
January 25, 2008
This book considers the associated concepts of quality and operations and places customers at the heart of a quality business operation. It explains how organisations that are focused on delivering quality products and services continuously improve the design, planning and control of their ...
Project Management: Revised Edition
1st Edition
By Elearn
August 22, 2007
This book focuses on the activities involved in initiating, planning, implementing and completing a project successfully. As well as covering the tools and techniques of project management, it also pays attention to the soft issues involved - how to manage the people side of project management....
Change Management Revised Edition: Revised Edition
1st Edition
By Elearn
August 20, 2007
This book explores change from the perspective of the organisation and from the individual manager. It considers how change affects organisations; how they respond to changes in the business environment, influence that environment and use change processes to gain competitive advantage. It explores ...
Leadership and Management in Organisations
1st Edition
By Elearn
August 16, 2007
John Kotter of the Harvard Business School is one of a number of experts who believe that organisations are over managed and under led, at least partially because people do not appreciate the differences between management and leadership. We start this book by challenging mental models of ...
Making Sense of Data and Information
1st Edition
By Elearn
August 16, 2007
Managers need to be able to make sense of data and to use it selectively to answer key questions: Why has quality fallen in the last week? Should we subcontract or employ more people? What will consumer demand be in the future? They need to be able to assess the value of data and to detect what is ...
Effective Communications
1st Edition
By Elearn
March 29, 2007
What makes communication exciting in our age is the application of new media and the individual empowerment that comes with blogs, wikkis, and mobile technology, in other words our sense of connectedness. These don’t come without their difficulties, but they present very interesting ...
Reaching Your Goals Through Innovation
1st Edition
By Elearn
March 29, 2007
This book explores the concept of spotting good ideas, linking them to the business context and making them work. In doing so you will be reaching, achieving and even exceeding your goals. Key objectives are: to use objectives and goals to help you set direction and monitor outcomes for you and ...
Facilitator's Guide
1st Edition
By Elearn
August 05, 2005
Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package. These are practical training suitable for Diploma level qualifications in management. They are ideal for delivering management development workshops courses at a range of levels. This Facilitator's Guide fully details...