Category: Prioritisation

Leadership, Management and Team Working in Nursing, 3rd ed

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ellis P
Pages: 216p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Learning Matters, (29 Nov. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1473997912

With all nurses expected to demonstrate leadership, management and team working skills it is vital that students engage with this aspect of their training as early as possible. As well as covering all of the core theory and knowledge, the authors encourage the reader to explore their own values and experiences when it comes to leadership that will help to develop emotional intelligence and a solid understanding of what good leadership and management practice looks like and why it matters to them.

Key features:

  • Written with the needs of student nurses firmly in mind with activities and case studies that bring theory to life
  • Linked to the 2018 NMC standards of proficiency for registered nurses
  • Provides practical guidance on the immediate challenges that the new nurse will face

Essentials of Management for Healthcare Professionals

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Singh H
Pages: 186p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: CRC Press, 15 Dec. 2017
eISBN-13: 13: 978-1-315-09920-0

Medical care is an industry and private providers and hospitals are the major service providers. They operate on business principles. Hospitals are getting highly specialized and complex. The diagnostics and therapeutics are technology intensive. Private establishments have to compete with one another to remain in business. They strive to induct the best talent and latest technical know-how, resulting in ever-increasing costs to patients. Patients, who pay high charges, demand quality as a matter of right. To meet the challenge, hospitals are constrained to bring in professionalism in their systems and services. They appoint qualified professional managers to manage their clinics and hospitals with a view to sparing health professionals to focus on clinical care. Whether right or wrong, ‘management’ is often associated with authority and power. As a result, the medical professionals are reduced to secondary level in some organizations. To retain commanding positions in medical organizations, it has become necessary for the healthcare professionals to learn ‘management’, at least its basics.

On the other hand, non-medical managers while managing healthcare services do not get the required cooperation from the medical professionals, as the latter are often secretive and not willing to share medical knowledge. If medical knowledge is demystified, non-medical managers can perform many functions in healthcare organizations proficiently. Both medical and non-medical managers can complement each other in providing quality healthcare services.

The book aims to orient clinicians (including physicians and nurses) and other healthcare professionals on the essentials of business management and to familiarize them with management terms and jargon. They can learn to be effective managers besides being health professionals. Similarly, non- medical managers can get familiarized to nuances of clinical care and special managerial requirements of healthcare facilities. They all will be able to relate processes in healthcare settings with the concepts of business management. They can develop expertise on patient relationship management

Leading with dignity: How to create a culture that brings out the best in people

Posted onAuthorJames Ryan

Author: Hicks D. Page: 224
Publisher: Yale University Press
21/08/2018
eISBN-13: 9780300240856

This landmark book from an expert in dignity studies explores the essential but under-recognized role of dignity as part of good leadership. Extending the reach of her award-winning book ‘Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict,’ Donna Hicks now contributes a specific, practical guide to achieving a culture of dignity. Most people know very little about dignity, the author has found, and when leaders fail to respect the dignity of others, conflict and distrust ensue. She highlights three components of leading with dignity: what one must know in order to honour dignity and avoid violating it; what one must do to lead with dignity; and how one can create a culture of dignity in any organization, whether corporate, religious, governmental, healthcare, or beyond.

Supercharged Teams: 30 tools of great teamwork

Posted onAuthorJames Ryan

Author: Hamilton P. Pages: 247 Format: PDF
Publisher: Pearson Education
18/01/21
eISBN-13: 978-1292334660

Great teamwork is crucial for any high performing team, but being in a team is harder than ever before. Work is faster, leaner and more digital, and teamwork can be last on our list of priorities. Supercharged Teams will boost the way your team works together, whether you lead a team or belong to one.
With 30 powerful tools for teamwork, supercharge your team to:
•Reset your team to work better together
•Adapt your team to new challenges, whether they are in the same office, working remotely or collaborating across different departments, organisations and locations
•Learn from high performing teams across the world with case studies and examples
•Develop the skills and approaches that work effectively in today’s working environment

Find Your Work-Life Balance: Stop Your Work From Taking Over Your Life

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 0 Size: 1.62 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 28 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9782806269904

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about work-life balance with this practical guide. With the growth of technology and increasing expectations at work, it can be difficult to draw a distinct line between your personal life and your life at the office, leading to increased stress and difficulty coping. This helpful guide will give you all the advice you need to rediscover balance, enabling you to be a more efficient employee at the office and a more relaxed person at home! In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Discover your personal limits and how to set them, enabling you to feel happier and more fulfilled
  • Learn what drives and motivates you so that you can spend your time doing things you enjoy
  • Find a balance between your work and personal lives, allowing you to be more productive at work and more relaxed at home

Farewell Clutter, Hello Productivity!: Declutter And Organise Your Workspace To Maximise Your Productivity

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 23 Size: 1.81 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 03 July, 2017
eISBN-13: 9782806289025

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about decluttering your work life with this practical guide. Nothing is worse than a messy environment, whether professional or personal, to make you feel overwhelmed with work or chores. Decluttering and organising allows you to make your work and living spaces healthier and enables you to save time. This guide will tell you all you need to know to begin the process, stay organised and watch your productivity improve overnight! In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Start the decluttering and organising process you have always wanted to do
  • Keep on top of all your personal and professional commitments
  • Stay organised and productive after making the changes

Book Review: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 30 Size: 1.06 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 21 August, 2018
eISBN-13: 9782808010955

It can be hard for busy professionals to find the time to read the latest books. Stay up to date in a fraction of the time with this concise guide.David Allen’s 2001 book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity is one of the most influential guides to productivity and time management ever written. It offers a complete, accessible system for prioritising tasks, getting on top of your workload and making time for the things that really matter. Given the increasing role of technology in our professional and personal lives and the increased pressure employees find themselves under, the book has never been more relevant. Over 1.5 million copies had been sold worldwide by 2015, and it has inspired a host of training programmes, seminars and related software. This book review and analysis is perfect for:

  • Project managers, team leaders and executives
  • Busy employees who find themselves facing a constantly increasing workload
  • Anyone feeling overwhelmed by their professional and personal responsibilities

Personal Branding For Dummies, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: By Susan Chritton. Pages: 364 Size: 14.74 MB Format: PDF Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 25 June, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781118915578

The simple guide to managing your personal brand, a vital element of success in the professional world. Personal Branding For Dummies, 2 nd Edition, is your guide to creating and maintaining a personal trademark by equating self-impression with other people’s perceptions. This updated edition includes new information on expanding your brand through social media, online job boards, and communities, using the tried and true methods that are the foundation of personal branding. Marketing your skills and personality, and showing the rest of the world who you are, gives you a competitive edge. Whether you’re looking for your first job, considering changing careers, or just want to be more viable and successful in your current career, this guide provides the step-by-step information you need to develop your personal brand. Distinguishing yourself from the competition is important in any facet of business, and the rise of personal branding has evolved specifically to help candidates stand out from the global talent pool. Establishing a professional presence with a clear and concise image, reputation, and status is a must, whether you’re a new grad or an accomplished executive. Personal marketing has never been more important, and your personal brand should communicate the best you have to offer. Personal Branding For Dummies, 2 nd Edition, leads you step by step through the self-branding process. Includes information on how to know the “real” you Explains how to develop a target market positioning statement Helps you make plans for your personal brand communications Instructs you with ways to make your mark on your brand environment The book also discusses continued brand building, demonstrating your brand, and the 10 things that can sink your brand. A personal brand is more than just a business card and a resume. It should be exquisitely crafted to capture exactly the image you wish to project. Personal Branding For Dummies, 2 nd Edition provides the information, tips, tricks, and techniques you need to do it right.

Creative Personal Branding: The Strategy to Answer: What’s next

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Jurgen Salenbacher ; [edition: Vicky Hayward]. Pages: 195 Size: 3.01 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Bis Publishers
Published: 13 May, 2014
eISBN-13: 9789063693602

In this innovative book Jürgen Salenbacher shares his unique personal coaching method designed to develop creative thinking and innovation. The method, while it originated as a career management tool, it can be used by anyone who wishes to explore what they have to offer the world. In five succinct chapters Salenbacher reveals how to use brand positioning methodology to discover where to go next. Along the way he discusses the origins of today’s crisis, the keys to creative thinking, he examines the work of leading theorists in business culture, and sets readers 9 assignments designed to coach them towards realising their assets and skills. An invaluable professional resource, Creative Personal Branding is a fascinating and very practical tool for anyone interested in positioning themselves in the creative economy.

The Pareto Principle for Business Management: Expand your business with the 80/20 rule

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 22 Size: 1.33 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 17 August, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782806265869

Expand your business with the 80/20 rule!. This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing Pareto`s Principle, providing you with the essential information and saving time.. In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Understand Pareto`s Principle and how to identify the 80/20 ratio in any area of your life or business.
  • Identify the most important 20% and focus on the main factors that result in the majority of your results.
  • Use Pareto`s Principle to manage your business more efficiently, increase revenue and get organized.

Parkinson’s Law: Master time management and increase productivity

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 18 Size: 624 KB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 02 September, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782806266217

Master time management and increase productivity. This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing Parkinson`s Law, providing you with the essential information and saving time. In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Understand the three statements that Parkinson used to develop the law and assess whether they apply to your staff.
  • Use Parkinson`s formula to calculate the growth rate of your organization and analyze the rate compared to the workload.
  • Avoid employing staff unnecessarily and learn how to better control the time they spend completing set tasks.

Managing Your Priorities and Deadlines: Simple steps to prioritise your workload and reach your goals

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 0 Size: 1.62 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 10 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9782806279330

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about managing priorities and deadlines with this practical guide.Whatever your profession or stage in your career, you will invariably have deadlines to deal with on a regular basis. The key to professional success and career progression is being able to handle your priorities so that you get everything done to your satisfaction in the allotted time. This handy guide will give you tips on how to set your priorities and keep to your deadlines more effectively.In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Identify the bad habits that waste your time and how you can eradicate them
  • Learn how to create a detailed schedule before starting a project, and why this is a skill that will benefit you in all future projects
  • Discover how you can boost motivation at work with the perfect workspace and good habits, in order to get tasks done and achieve your objectives

Management by Objectives: The key to motivating employees and reaching your goals

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 18 Size: 927 KB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 17 August, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782806265852

The key to motivating employees and reaching your goals. This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing Management by Objectives, providing you with the essential information and saving time.. In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Work with employees to set clear objectives.
  • Motivate your employees to reach their objectives.
  • Boost performance and employee satisfaction in your company.

Six Sigma: Constantly improve your business processes

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 21 Size: 1.06 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 02 September, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782806265913

Constantly improve your business processes!. This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing Six Sigma, providing you with the essential information and saving time.. In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Follow the DMAIC methodology to successfully implement Six Sigma in your company
  • Focus on the three most important factors: customers, employees and processes
  • Form a strategy that focuses on product quality improvement according to the expectations of your customers

Stop Procrastinating – Right Now!: Beat your procrastination habit once and for all

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 0 Size: 1.53 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 21 June, 2017
eISBN-13: 9782806288981

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about beating procrastination with this practical guide. If you suffer from a problem with procrastination, no matter what your situation, you are not alone. Many people struggle with time management and motivation, but this can harm professional development and personal fulfilment. This guide will help you to organise your time and stop procrastinating, helping you to become more productive and, eventually, happier. In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Find the motivation to reduce your procrastination and improve your productivity
  • Organise your time so that you can do everything you need and want to do
  • Increase efficiency and observe significant professional development

Beat Procrastination For Good

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Size: 2.05 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 11 August, 2017
eISBN-13: 978280629478

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about overcoming procrastination with this practical guide. Ever find yourself staring at a constantly growing to-do list that you just can’t bring yourself to start? Procrastination could be holding you back and stopping you from working to your full potential. Fortunately, there are a few simple steps that will enable you to finally stop putting things off and unlock new levels of productivity, both at work and at home. In 50 minutes you will be able to:

  • Identify the underlying causes of your tendency to procrastinate • Effectively prioritise and organise the tasks on your to-do list
  • Finally accomplish the tasks you have been putting off

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gary Keller With Jay Papasan. Pages: 166 Size: 2.51 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Bard Press
Published: 01 April, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781885167804

YOU WANT LESS. You want fewer distractions and less on your plate. The daily barrage of e-mails, texts, tweets, messages, and meetings distract you and stress you out. The simultaneous demands of work and family are taking a toll. And what`s the cost? Second-rate work, missed deadlines, smaller paychecks, fewer promotions-and lots of stress. AND YOU WANT MORE. You want more productivity from your work. More income for a better lifestyle. You want more satisfaction from life, and more time for yourself, your family, and your friends. NOW YOU CAN HAVE BOTH-LESS AND MORE. In The ONE Thing, you`ll learn to

  • cut through the clutter
  • achieve better results in less time
  • build momentum toward your goal
  • dial down the stress
  • overcome that overwhelmed feeling
  • revive your energy
  • stay on track
  • master what matters to you

The ONE Thing delivers extraordinary results in every area of your life-work, personal, family, and spiritual. WHAT`S YOUR ONE THING?

Lean Six Sigma For Dummies

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: By John Morgan And Martin Brenig-Jones. Pages: 371 Size: 6.26 MB Format: PDF Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 08 October, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781119073802

Maximise the quality and efficiency of your organisation with Lean Six Sigma Are you looking to make your organisation more effective and productive? If you answered “yes,” you need to change the way it thinks. Combining the leading improvement methods of Six Sigma and Lean, this winning technique drives performance to the next level and this friendly and accessible guide shows you how. The third edition of Lean Six Sigma For Dummies outlines the key concepts of this strategy and explains how you can use it to get the very best out of your team and your business. The jargon-crowded language and theory of Lean Six Sigma can be intimidating for both beginners and experienced users. Written in plain English and packed with lots of helpful examples, this easy-to-follow guide arms you with tools and techniques for implementing Lean Six Sigma and offers guidance on everything from policy deployment to managing change in your organisation and everything in between.

  • Gives you plain-English explanations of complicated jargon
  • Serves as a useful tool for businesspeople looking to make their organisation more effective
  • Helps you achieve goals with ease and confidence
  • Provides useful hands-on checklists

Whether you want to manage a project more tightly or fine-tune existing systems and processes, the third edition of Lean Six Sigma For Dummies makes it easier to achieve your business goals.

Lean Six Sigma Business Transformation For Dummies

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: By Roger Burghall, Vince Grant, John Morgan. Pages: 332 Size: 20.27 MB Format: PDF Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 31 July, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781118844885

Use Lean Six Sigma to transform your business. Lean Six Sigma is a powerful method for improving both the efficiency and quality of projects and operations. In this new book, the team that bought you Lean Six Sigma For Dummies shows you how to take Lean Six Sigma to the next level and manage continual change in your organization. You`ll learn to design a roadmap for transformation that`s tailored to your business objectives; develop and implement processes that eliminate waste and variation across the company; synchronize your supply chain; and successfully deploy Lean Six Sigma over time. Lean Six Sigma Business Transformation For Dummies shows you how to:

  • Define your transformation objectives and create a bespoke `Transformation Charter` for your organization.
  • Assess your company`s readiness for transformation.
  • Establish a `Transformation Governance System` to help you manage the transformation programme effectively.
  • Bring your people with you! Plan and achieve the cultural change needed to make the transformation process successful.
  • Join up the dots between planning and effective execution with Strategy Deployment.
  • Deploy a `Continuous Improvement` toolkit to achieve everyday operational excellence.
  • Sustain the transformation programme and widen the scope across the organization (including deploying to the supply chain).
  • Adopt a `Capability Maturity Approach` to drive business improvement – recognizing that change is a continuous transformational journey, just as pioneers like Toyota have done.
  • Use a range of Lean Six Sigma Tools – using the right tools, at the right time (and in the right order!) enables continuous improvement by eliminating waste and process variation.

Lean For Dummies

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: By Natalie Sayer And Bruce Williams. Pages: 411 Size: 17.24 MB Format: PDF Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 01 March, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781118224465

Take charge and engage your enterprise in a Lean transformation Have you thought about using Lean in your business or organization, but are not really sure how to implement it? Or perhaps you`re already using Lean, but you need to get up to speed. Lean For Dummies shows you how to do more with less and create an enterprise that embraces change. In plain-English, this friendly guide explores the general overview of Lean, how flow and the value stream works, and the best ways to apply Lean to your enterprise. This revised edition includes the latest tools, advice, and information that can be used by everyone — from major corporations to small business, from non-profits and hospitals to manufacturers and service corporations. In addition, it takes a look at the successes and failures of earlier Lean pioneers — including Toyota, the inventors of Lean — and offer case studies and hands-on advice.

  • The latest on the Six Sigma and Lean movements
  • The role of technology and the expanding
  • Lean toolbox Case studies enhance the material

Lean For Dummies gives today`s business owners and upper level management in companies of all sizes and in all industries, the tools and information they need to streamline process and operate more efficiently.

The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gerald J. Langley … [et Al.]. Pages: 515 Size: 2.53 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jossey Bass Ltd
Published: 13 May, 2009
eISBN-13: 9780470430880

This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational companies as well as in different industries such as healthcare and public agencies. This edition includes new information that shows how to accelerate improvement by spreading changes across multiple sites. The book presents a practical tool kit of ideas, examples, and applications.

The Checklist Manifesto

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Atul Gawande. Pages: 223 Size: 751 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Published: 10 February, 2010
eISBN-13: 9781847651877

The bestselling author of “Better” and “Complications” explores the significance of the lowly checklist, and how it has revolutionised medical practice and saved lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands of the most highly skilled and hardworking people. Yet avoidable failures are common, and the reason is simple: the volume and complexity of our knowledge has exceeded our ability to consistently deliver it to people – correctly, safely or efficiently. Atul Gawande makes a compelling argument for the checklist, which he believes to be the most promising strategy in surmounting failure. He looks at how the checklist has allowed pilots to fly airplanes with more power and range than possible before; and how taking this idea to the complicated world of surgery produced a 90-second checklist that reduced surgical deaths and complications in eight hospitals around the world by more than one-third. Along the way, he will show how checklists (which cost next to nothing) actually work, and why some make matters worse while others make matters better. “The Checklist Manifesto” is a fascinating exploration on the nature of complexity in our lives – and how we can best overcome it.

Lifehacker, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Adam Pash, Gina Trapani. Pages: 506 Size: 18.72 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: 09 June, 2011
eISBN-13: 9781118133446

A new edition, packed with even more clever tricks and methods that make everyday life easier Lifehackers redefine personal productivity with creative and clever methods for making life easier and more enjoyable. This new edition of a perennial bestseller boasts new and exciting tips, tricks, and methods that strike a perfect balance between current technology and common sense solutions for getting things done. Exploring the many ways technology has changed since the previous edition, this new edition has been updated to reflect the latest and greatest in technological and personal productivity. The new “hacks” run the gamut of working with the latest Windows and Mac operating systems for both Windows and Apple, getting more done with smartphones and their operating systems, and dealing with the evolution of the web. Even the most tried-and-true hacks have been updated to reflect the contemporary tech world and the tools it provides us. Hacks include:

Hack 1: Empty Your Inbox (and Keep It Empty).
Hack 2: Decrease Your Response Time.
Hack 3: Craft Effective Messages.
Hack 4: Highlight Messages Sent Directly to You.
Hack 5: Use Disposable Email Addresses.
Hack 6: Master Message Search.
Hack 7: Future-Proof Your Email Address.
Hack 8: Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses with Gmail.
Hack 9: Script and Automate Repetitive Replies.
Hack 10: Filter Low-Priority Messages.
Hack 11: Organize Your Documents Folder.
Hack 12: Instantly Retrieve Files Stored on Your Computer.
Hack 13: Overhaul Your Filing Cabinet.
Hack 14: Instantly Recall Any Number of Different Passwords.
Hack 15: Securely Track Your Passwords.
Hack 16: Tag Your Bookmarks.
Hack 17: Organize Your Digital Photos.
Hack 18: Corral Media Across Folders and Drives.
Hack 19: Create Saved Search Folders.
Hack 20: Create a Password-Protected Disk on Your PC.
Hack 21: Create a Password-Protected Disk on Your Mac.
Hack 22: Encrypt Your Entire Windows Operating System.
Hack 23: Set Up 2-Step Verification for Your Google Account.
Hack 24: Design Your Own Planner.
Hack 25: Make Your To-Do List Doable.
Hack 26: Set Up a Morning Dash.
Hack 27: Map Your Time.
Hack 28: Quick-Log Your Workday.
Hack 29: Dash Through Tasks with a Timer.
Hack 30: Form New Habits with Jerry Seinfeld`s Chain.
Hack 31: Control Your Workday.
Hack 32: Turn Tasks into Game Play.
Hack 33: Send Reminders to Your Future Self.
Hack 34: Take Great Notes.
Hack 35: Organize Your Life with Remember the Milk.
Hack 36: Organize Your Life in Text Files.
Hack 37: Set Up a Ubiquitous Note-Taking Inbox Across Devices.
Hack 38: Off-Load Your Online Reading to a Distraction-Free Environment.
Hack 39: Limit Visits to Time-Wasting Websites.
Hack 40: Permanently Block Time-Wasting Websites.
Hack 41: Reduce Email Interruptions.
Hack 42: Split Your Work Among Multiple Desktops.
Hack 43: Build a No-Fly Zone.
Hack 44: Set Up Communication Quiet Hours.
Hack 45: Clear Your Desktop.
Hack 46: Make Your House a Usable Home.
Hack 47: Sentence Stuff to Death Row.
Hack 48: Drown Out Distracting Sounds with Pink Noise.
Hack 49: Search the Web in Three Keystrokes.
Hack 50: Command Your Windows PC from the Keyboard.
Hack 51: Command Your Mac from the Keyboard.
Hack 52: Reduce Repetitive Typing with Texter for Windows.
Hack 53: Reduce Repetitive Typing with TextExpander for Mac.
Hack 54: Automatically Fill in Repetitive Web Forms.
Hack 55: Batch-Resize Photos.
Hack 56: Bypass Free Site Registration with BugMeNot.
Hack 57: Speed Up Web Pages on a Slow Internet Connection.
Hack 58: Securely Save Website Passwords.
Hack 59: Become a Scheduling Black Belt with Google Calendar.
Hack 60: Set Up an Automated, Bulletproof File Back Up Solution.
Hack 61: Automatically Back Up Your Files to an External Hard Drive (Mac).
Hack 62: Automatically Clean Up Your PC.
Hack 63: Automatically Clean Up Your Mac.
Hack 64: Automatically Reboot and Launch Applications.

Getting Things Done and Staying Organized – Increase productivity and banish procrastination

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: 50minutes.Com Pages: 27 Size: 1.94 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: 50 Minutes
Published: 17 September, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782806269751

Increase productivity and banish procrastination. This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the key to staying organized at work, providing you with the essential information and saving time.. In 50 minutes you will be able to:.

  • Identify the obstacles that prevent you from effectively organizing your work and learn how to eradicate them.
  • Control your stress at work by understanding the causes and sorting your responsibilities into three different zones of impact.
  • Optimize your time and prioritize your tasks according to urgency and importance to fight against procrastination.

Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Brian Tracy. Pages: 128 Size: 1,008 KB Format: EPUB Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 17 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781626569430

There just isn’t enough time for everything on our to-do list–and there never will be. Successful people don’t try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done. They eat their frogs.
There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re done with the worst thing you’ll have to do all day. For Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task–but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Eat That Frog! shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively.

In this fully revised and updated edition, Tracy adds two new chapters. The first explains how you can use technology to remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important. The second offers advice for maintaining focus in our era of constant distractions, electronic and otherwise.

But one thing remains unchanged: Brian Tracy cuts to the core of what is vital to effective time management: decision, discipline, and determination. This life-changing book will ensure that you get more of your important tasks done–today!

Boost Your Productivity: 30 Minute Reads: A Shortcut to Getting Things Done and Getting Your Life Sorted

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Nicholas Bate Pages: 67 Size: 484 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Capstone Publishing Ltd
Published: 11 December, 2014
eISBN-13: 9780857085085

The average commute is 30 minutes. Use yours to learn how to be more productive.
Everybody has too much to do, Nobody has enough time, a lot of people are worried and simply can’t say no.. Relax, help is at hand. Thoughtful, yet pragmatic. Practical and easy. Home and work. Boost Your Productivity is a primer for getting your life sorted, getting everything back on track and doing what is really important to you, not just who or what is shouting at you loudest. It will help you:

  • Identify the problem/what doesn’t work/what goes wrong
  • Discover the 10 Big Strategies
  • Q&A
  • Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.

The Idea-Driven Organization

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Alan G. Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder. Pages: 138 Size: 2.46 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 31 March, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781626561250

Most companies, if they solicit employee ideas at all, essentially just set up a suggestion box, which employees know from experience is where ideas go to die. So nothing happens. But innovation is not an option – it’s the key to survival. And innovation needs new ideas. So where are those ideas going to come from? Using numerous examples, Robinson and Schroeder argue that the employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services are in the best position to see where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. Robinson and Schroeder explain how leaders can build the kind of idea-driven company capable of implementing 50 to 100 or more ideas per employee per year. Drawing on their work with companies world-wide, they show what’s needed to put together a management team open to grassroots innovation and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that encourage – and those that discourage – employee ideas. They detail exactly how high-performing idea processes work and how to design one customized for your organization – including advice for teaching people how to come up with new ideas. The best ideas may come from the bottom, but they have to be systematically solicited from the top.

Summary The Idea-Driven Organization – Review and Analysis of Robinson and Schroeder’s Book

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Businessnews Publishing Pages: 25 Size: 1.35 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Must Read Summaries
Published: 01 July, 2015
eISBN-13: 9782511036068

The must-read summary of Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder`s book: “”The Idea-Driven Organization””.This complete summary of the ideas from Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder`s book “”The Idea-Driven Organization”” details how the best ideas to improve a business often come from the front-line. According to Robinson and Schroeder, you should listen to these ideas and apply them. This is exactly what an idea-driven organisation does. For this concept to work, organisations must have systems in place to push and pull these ideas.There are five steps to building an idea-driven organisation:1. Understand the power of front-line ideas2. Realise this needs different leadership3. Align your strategy and management4. Implement your front-line idea system5. Use these ideas to innovateAdded-value of this summary:

  • Save time
  • Understand the power of front-line ideas
  • Build an idea-driven organisation and benefit from innovative ideas

To learn more, read ”The Idea-Driven Organization’ and start listening to those that know your business the best!

When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bernardo Zacka Pages: 353 Size: 2.88 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 18 September, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780674981423

One of Nesta’s 8 best books on innovation in which Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats—the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield significant discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives.

Measurement Madness: Recognizing and Avoiding the Pitfalls of Performance Measurement

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Author: Dina Gray, Pietro Micheli, Andrey Pavlov. Pages: 240 Size: 1.01 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: 20 November, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781118464519

A clearer, more accurate performance management strategy Measurement Madness presents a level-headed approach to performance management, helping leaders avoid the often-bizarre unintended consequences of KPIs. Using real life examples of measurement gone wrong, this book details how each particular behaviour could have been foretold, and demonstrates what a manager needs to consider when creating measures and performance measurement systems. Each chapter explains the behaviour in terms of management and organisational theories, concluding with guiding principles to help readers avoid the many pitfalls of well-intended performance management. With cases drawn from the archives of the world-leading Centre of Business Performance at Cranfield University, this useful guide confronts the issues in detail and provides clear, practical solutions that make performance management work. Examples of poor management via measurement are increasingly showing up in the press, from the UK`s MP expenses scandal to the demise of the banking sector. Although targets and rewards have long resulted in bizarre behaviours, these recent examples have moved measurement, reward, and behaviour to the forefront of business management once again. This book provides managers with clear guidance toward a new strategy.

  • Take a close look at how performance and measurement are being misused * Measure what`s useful, not just what`s easy to measure
  • Learn how over-emphasising targets can hinder progress and performance
  • Set the right targets and reward the right behaviour

With a unique mix of examples from the UK, the US, and around the world, this book provides theoretical and practical help in addressing the issues and concerns surrounding performance management. For the manager longing for useful metrics and more accurate reports, Measurement Madness contains key information and strategy.

The outstanding middle manager: how to be a healthy, happy, high-performing mid-level manager

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Author: Gordon Tinline And Cary Cooper. Pages: 208 Size: 1.25 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd
Published: 03 September, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780749474676

Recent research shows that the number of people in senior specialist and middle management positions is growing. As organizations continue to flatten, the middle becomes the place where many will spend the majority of their careers. The Outstanding Middle Manager is the new guide to dealing with those pressures specific to the role and maximizing the opportunities to forge a fulfilling and balanced career in the middle. Drawing on the latest research into workplace trends, strategic management and work-life balance, Tinline and Cooper focus on middle management as an opportunity level. Readers can discover: strategies for managing upwards as well as downwards, how to deal effectively with generational differences and an evolving workplace, influencing, empowerment and team-building skills, and stress- and life-management strategies that bring clarity and purpose. With a focus on lateral development and progression as a career choice, The Outstanding Middle Manager empowers readers to take control of their mid-level career to become more fulfilled, more resilient and more satisfied.

Managing in Health and Social Care

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Author: Vivien Martin, Julie Charlesworth And Euan Henderson. Pages: 380 Size: 2.46 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd – M.U.A.
Published: 25 February, 2010
eISBN-13: 9780203856932

Managing in Health and Social Care is about developing skills to manage and improve health and social care services. The focus throughout is on the role that a manager can play in ensuring effective delivery of high-quality services. Examples from social care and health settings are used to illustrate techniques for managing people, resources, information, projects and change. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated, and includes many new case studies and examples, as well as a new chapter on motivation. It covers topics such as:

  • interorganisational and interprofessional working
  • leadership
  • responding to the needs of service users
  • the service environment
  • accountability and risk
  • working with a budget
  • standards and quality
  • managing change.

The authors explore how managers can make a real and positive difference to the work of organisations providing health and social care. They consider what effectiveness means in managing care services, the values that underpin the services, the roles of leaders and managers in developing high-quality service provision, and the necessary skills and systems to enable service users to contribute to planning and evaluation. Managing in Health and Social Care is a practical textbook for students of management in health and social care, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It includes case studies with textual commentary to reinforce learning, activities, key references and clear explanations of essential management tools and concepts.

Management and Organisational Behaviour

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Author: Laurie J. Mullins With Gill Christy. Pages: 851 Size: 16.76 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 08 April, 2013
eISBN-13: 9780273792734

The essential introduction to management and organisational behaviour – over half a million students worldwide have used Management and Organisational Behaviour to help them learn. Written in an engaging style and packed with contemporary references to management research and practice, this book continues to be the Organisational Behaviour text of choice for today`s students. A range of real life examples and case studies illustrate the theories of human behaviour at work, and the influence of individuals, leaders and groups on organisational performance. Using frequent questions and exercises, a clear layout, and additional online resources, this book will enable students to

  • think critically about topical issues and debates.
  • develop personal and professional skills for work and study.
  • reinforce and assess knowledge and understanding.
  • navigate through the text efficiently and effectively.
  • succeed in project work, research and exams.

Leadership for Sustainability and Change

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Author: Scott, Cynthia;Esteves, Tammy Pages: 87 Size: 1.1 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 08 September, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781351275200

Leadership for Sustainability and Change is a concise, practical and energizing distillation of what is working for today’s most successful sustainability leaders. It provides a clear set of actions you can take to generate transformation, with results yielding market advantage, eco-efficiency, product or service innovation, personal resilience and engaged communities.

Learn from the experience of successful sustainability leaders how to: build personal resilience and agility to lead change for the long-run; sustain innovation that is released in bursts of focused “energy for good”; draw attention to what is working by focusing on the power of small differences; decrease resistance and increase motivation with a change acceleration model; identify stages of individual and organizational readiness for change; use rapid prototyping to increase group engagement; tell compelling stories to encourage teams to initiate action.

Leadership for Sustainability and Change offers guidance for leaders who are shaping the future of sustainability within their organizations. The book includes a simple framework for assessing your progress, so that you can revisit the tools and processes you need most.

Leadership and Nursing Care Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Huber, Diane Pages: 546 Size: 9.53 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 26 July, 2017
eISBN-13: 9780323449021

Features the most up-to-date, evidence-based blend of practice and theory related to the issues that impact nursing management and leadership today. A fresh, conversational writing style provides you with an easy-to-understand, in-depth look at these prevalent issues. Key topics include the nursing professional’s role in law and ethics, staffing and scheduling, delegation, cultural considerations, care management, human resources, outcomes management, safe work environments, preventing employee injury, and time and stress management.

Evaluating the Impact of Your Library

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Author: Sharon Markless And David Streatfield. Pages: 288 Size: 997 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 23 December, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781856048941

Assessing impact is increasingly critical to the survival of services: managers now require comprehensive information about effectiveness, especially in relation to users. Outlining a rigorously tested approach to library evaluation and offering practical tools and highly relevant examples, this book enables LIS managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning. The 2nd edition is fully updated to include international approaches to qualitative library evaluation, new international research, and current debates on the evolving nature of evaluation, as well as reflections on the importance of involving stakeholders and of evaluation to guide advocacy. Key topics include:

  • The demand for evidence
  • Getting to grips with impact
  • The research base of this work
  • Putting the impact into planning
  • Getting things clear: objectives
  • Success criteria and impact indicators: how you know you are making a difference
  • Making things happen: activities and process indicators * Thinking about evidence * Gathering and interpreting evidence
  • Taking stock, setting targets and development planning
  • Doing national or international evaluation
  • Where do we go from here?

Readership: Practising library and information service managers and policy makers in the field. LIS policy shapers and managers in public, education (schools, further and higher education), health and special libraries and information services working in any country or internationally and people engaged in professional education in the field such as lecturers or students.

Managing For Dummies

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Author: By Bob Nelson And Peter Economy. Pages: 388 Size: 4.8 MB Format: PDF Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 03 June, 2010
eISBN-13: 9780470881156

The fast and easy way to learn how to manage people, projects, and teams. Being a manager can be an intimidating and challenging task. Managing involves teaching new skills to employees, helping land a new customer, accomplishing an important assignment, increasing performance, and much more. The process of management can be very challenging at times, but it can also bring you a sense of fulfillment that you never imagined possible. Gives practical advice on the most important aspects of managing, such as delegating as opposed to ordering, improving employees’ performances, getting your message across, understanding ethics and office policies, team building and collaboration, and much more.

  • Tips and advice for new and experienced managers
  • All-new chapters on employee encouragement and corporate social responsibility
  • Guidance on managing employees by leveraging the power of the Internet

Understanding and Managing Change in Healthcare

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Author: Jaqui Hewitt-Taylor. Pages: 259 Size: 1.06 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Palgrave Higher Ed M.U.A.
Published: 30 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781137022776

Healthcare practice is always changing. Whether it is because of new evidence, new structures, or new policy, it is essential that professionals understand, evaluate and adapt to change effectively. This book offers a unique exploration of change specifically in healthcare, under the microscope of day-to-day practice. Illustrated with scenarios, case studies, and work examples, you`ll find it to be an exemplary guide to:

  • understanding reasons for change
  • adapting to change
  • planning, managing, and implementing change
  • exploring readiness, resistance, and barriers to change
  • dealing with setbacks or alterations
  • maintaining new ways of working
  • the multidisciplinary aspects of change
  • evaluating change
  • learning from change
  • disseminating new evidence derived from changed practice.

Whether you are a newly qualified practitioner, experienced professional, long-term manager, or policy-maker, this book has something for you.

Transforming Health Care: Virginia Mason Medical Center’s Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience

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Transforming Health Care: Virginia Mason Medical Center’s Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience Author: Charles Kenney ; Foreword By Donald M. Berwick. Pages: 240 Size: 3.07 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Productivity Press – M.U.A.
Published: 19 April, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781439863091

A chronicle of one of the most unusual series of events in the history of medicine, this book tells the story a group of men and women — clinicians, administrators, frontline workers, trustees, and leaders — blessed with vision, courage, and a relentless determination to improve. It is the story of a medical center transformed. Ultimately, it is the story of a new and possibly better way to take on the challenge we face in the United States today to provide superb medical care to our people while at the same time controlling costs.

Lean Organization: from the Tools of the Toyota Production System to Lean Office

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Author: Andrea Chiarini Pages: 175 Size: 8.16 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2013
eISBN-13: 9788847025103

This book covers implementation of Lean Thinking in manufacturing and service industries, covering `Hoshin Kanri,` the Value Stream Mapping Tool, Toyota Production System tools, lean metrics and Value Stream Accounting. Includes photos, diagrams and tables.

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate At Scale

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Author: Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, And Barry O`Reilly. Pages: 341 Size: 6.48 MB Format: PDF Publisher: O`Reilly
Published: 04 December, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781491946558

How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale – and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization, rather than with just one department or team. Through case studies, you`ll learn how successful enterprises have rethought everything from governance and financial management to systems architecture and organizational culture in the pursuit of radically improved performance. Adopting Lean will take time and commitment, but it`s vital for harnessing the cultural and technical forces that are accelerating the rate of innovation. Discover how Lean focuses on people and teamwork at every level, in contrast to traditional management practices Approach problem-solving experimentally, by exploring solutions, testing assumptions, and getting feedback from real users Lead and manage large-scale programs in a way that empowers employees, increases the speed and quality of delivery, and lowers costs Learn how to implement ideas from the DevOps and Lean Startup movements even in complex, regulated environments

A Leadership Journey in Health Care: Virginia Mason’s Story

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Author: Kenney, Charles Pages: 184 Size: 2.71 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Productivity Press – M.U.A.
Published: 22 June, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781482299694

Since adapting the principles of the Toyota Production System to health care in 2002, Virginia Mason Health System has made enormous leaps forward in quality, safety, patient experience of care, and affordability. It has achieved world-class levels of patient satisfaction and has been honored as one of the safest hospitals in the country. A Leadership Journey in Health Care: Virginia Mason`s Story supplies an inside look at process improvement from the world leader in applying Lean methods to health care. It presents key lessons learned as well as the best practices developed at Virginia Mason during its 12-year process improvement journey. Just as important, Virginia Mason`s culture of leadership at all levels sets it apart from others in the health care universe. Describing why it`s critical for leadership to be actively involved in any process improvement initiative, the book illustrates exactly what leadership looks like at all levels within Virginia Mason. In the book, bestselling author Charles Kenney introduces breakthrough new work at Virginia Mason that most health care audiences have yet to read about. He details the reasons why governance has played such a big role in Virginia Mason`s success and discusses a game-changing initiative concerning respect for people. After reading this book, you will better understand the active leadership style that has propelled Virginia Mason`s success. By following the best practices and lessons learned, you will be prepared to teach, coach, and encourage your team to achieve streamlined and standardized work, sustained improvements, and increased patient satisfaction. Foreword by Carolyn Corvi, Virginia Mason Health System/Virginia Mason Medical Center Boards of Directors; Retired Vice President and General Manager, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Healthcare Management

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Author: Edited By Kieran Walshe And Judith Smith.
Pages: 619 Size: 9.81 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 September, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780335243822

This popular book is amongst the most comprehensive textbooks on healthcare management available. Written with healthcare managers, professionals and students in mind, it provides an accessible guide to healthcare systems, services, organisations and management. Key areas include: Allocating resources for healthcare: setting and managing priorities; health technologies, research and innovation; and, internationalisation of health systems and policies; Healthcare services: structure and delivery; and, chronic disease and integrated care; Healthcare leadership and networks: incentives, governance and performance. The new edition features an updated structure to support teaching and learning and thirteen new chapters which draw upon a wealth of experience from leading international experts in the field. This includes references to practical policy and case study materials, chapter summaries focusing on key points, self-assessment learning exercises, further reading and links to useful web-based resources. “Healthcare Management” is valuable reading for students and healthcare professionals involved in management, research and health policy making. The links between the theory and practice of healthcare management are skilfully explored and the authors show how best practice within healthcare systems can be maintained.