Business Books

SMART Objective Setting for Managers by Irial O'Farrell

Are you ready for goal-setting season?

We’re hurtling towards the end of the year, which means it’s planning for 2022. As part of that planning you, as a manager, need to start thinking about how your team members have been doing in 2021 and what they need to experience and develop in 2022. Looking forward to it?

If you answered a resounding “No”, then SMART Objective Setting for Managers is the book for you. Starting with contextualising objective setting within performance management, you’ll come away with a clear understanding of the different drivers and objective types, why the usual SMART theory isn’t fit for using with another person, and how to design behavioral objectives that really enhance performance.

Want to feel comfortable and confident in objective setting this year? Then pick up a copy of SMART Objective Setting for Managers today.

The Manager’s Dilemma by Irial O'Farrell

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The Manager’s Dilemma by Irial O'Farrell

As a manager, do you find issues regularly landing on your desk? Issues that you know, in your heart of hearts, the team member does, or should, know how to sort out themselves? Is your own work regularly hijacked by team members interrupting you, to deal with their issue? Irritated? Frustrated? At the end of your tether?

If so, The Manager’s Dilemma – How to Empower Your Team’s Problem-Solving is the book for you. Understand the dilemma every manager faces. Discover the valid and invalid reasons for escalation. Explore the steps of problem-solving. Join Lisa, as she identifies the potential step each member of her team is getting stuck on. Follow Lisa, as she designs coaching options, to empower each team member. Consider your own problem-solving mindset. Plan how you’ll introduce the new approach.

Read this book and you’ll unlock your team’s potential and free yourself up and all of you will benefit.

The Flight to Excellence by Captain William "T" Thompson

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The Flight to Excellence by Captain William "T" Thompson

The Flight to Excellence makes a great gift for entrepreneurs and anyone running or starting a business.

Attaining the Unattainable Is Within Our Reach.

Captain William ”T.” Thompson’s accomplishments are many: US Air Force pilot, Delta Airlines captain, lawyer, award-winning businessman, and professional speaker.

But Thompson did not start out in life with any special advantages. In fact, being born and raised in segregated South Carolina meant that the difficulties he faced growing up were many. But realizing his aspiration to become a pilot and becoming the first African American from the state to be accepted into the prestigious United States Air Force Academy was just the beginning of a pattern of successes in a life that extended far beyond its origins.

Thompson uses his life’s challenges and his personal story to prove that we can all accomplish much more than we previously considered possible-and that we should strive for things that we have even considered unattainable. It doesn t take special gifts or talents either, the author insists. He credits his P4 System (Principles, People, Flight Plan, and Performance) as the foundation that enabled him to literally pilot his way to success and ultimately become a multimillionaire in the process.

With an attractive and distinctive aviation motif, The Flight to Excellence inspires and instructs executives, entrepreneurs, and anyone with a strong desire to reach extraordinary heights on how we can each build a ”Culture of Excellence” in our own professional and personal lives by applying his methodical process and concepts and our own discipline and hard work.

The proof is in the captain’s own successes.