Leadership Library — Current titles



Lean Presentations

— Create outstanding presentations with Lean Six Sigma
  • Design principles for presentations, slides and visuals, and handouts.
  • How to create business stories using a story arc.
  • Designing engagement into presentations.
  • How to deal with rogue audiences.
  • Working with questions.
  • Avoiding the five presentation wastes. ...
So that you can design and deliver an outstanding presentation.
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Lean Leader's Guide to Effective Emails

— Writing and managing great emails.

Lean Six Sigma is a well-known collection of business improvement methods. Apply these same tools to create recipient-friendly emails.
  • Apply Lean principles to emails.
  • The toolkit for clarity — how to eliminate wasted words.
  • Subject lines and signatures — how to make them great.
  • The postcard principle — how much and how little.
  • Being kind with attachments — how to be a great net citizen.
Be well organised and gain a great reputation as a high-quality communicator.
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SWOT Analysis

— A guide to SWOT Analysis for business studies students. Undertaking a SWOT analysis is a popular strategy tool, and frequently the basis of an assignment for students of business studies.
This guide helps you with:
  • The critical theory.
  • Worked-examples and case-studies.
  • Where to look for the factors.
  • How to create strategic responses to a situation, using TOWS.
  • How to approach a swot assignment.
  • Avoiding the usual mistakes.
  • References
  • So you can hand in a great assignment.
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Recruitment and selection

— Recruitment and selection can be expensive; getting it wrong is even more so. Based on their real-world experiences, Eddie Lunn and Alan Sarsby guide you through the whole project to recruit and select the best person for the role.
Includes:
  • The benefits of a project oriented approach.
  • How to lead and manage the recruitment and selection project.
  • How to design assessments, questions, and interviews.
  • How an applicant centred approach brings out the best in candidates and makes the assessment easier for you.
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