COMBO: MASTERING BUSINESS SERIES

Save 30% on best-selling business classics, now available in one must-have collection.

Receive Mastering Business Finance, Mastering Business Negotiation, Mastering Office Politics and Mastering Business Etiquette & Protocol all for one low price!

DIFFICULT PEOPLE AT WORK

Discover how to identify and manage the 24 most challenging personality types.

Working with underhanded, self-centered and troublesome people can be infuriating. Difficult People at Work gives you proven, practical strategies you can use immediately to restore the balance of power, improve your own working environment and put problem people in their place.

EMPLOYER'S PRACTICAL LEGAL GUIDE: PLAIN LANGUAGE ABOUT CURRENT EMPLOYMENT LAW

Prevent costly, damaging employee lawsuits.

Protect your company with the comprehensive and easy-to-understand instructions in Practical Legal Guide. Prepared by top employment attorneys—then translated into plain language for business people—this must-have manual has everything you need to know to stop trouble before it starts … and limit the damage from innocent mistakes. More than 80 checklists and self-audit questionnaires help you target your company’s weak spots and correct them quickly.

FIRE AT WILL

Make your company “sue-proof.”

One of our top-selling guides, Fire at Will helps bosses reassert their right to fire incompetent employees—at will. Jam-packed with 60 pages of valuable advice, it shows simple techniques that will give you a concrete legal position in almost any situation.

HIRE AT WILL

Hire workers legally, effectively, inexpensively.

Not long ago, employers never needed to question their ability to hire whomever they wanted. No more. Today every boss must cut through a thicket of laws and regulations before he dares to hire. Our top-selling book, Hire at Will, will guide and advise you on what you can do legally to hire the people you want without fear of being sued.

HIRE AT WILL/FIRE AT WILL COMBO

Hire and fire with the law on your side.

Once upon a time, bosses could hire or fire as they pleased. That was their job. Now a manager can’t even fire a hopelessly incompetent worker without worrying about being sued.

That’s why the National Institute of Business Management has mounted a campaign to show business owners and managers how to reassert their rights to hire and fire. With these two special reports, Fire at Will and Hire at Will, you and your staff will be able to tell lazy, ineffective workers to shape up or ship out - without winding up in court. So order this money-saving combo package for yourself and your management team today.

MASTERING BUSINESS ETIQUETTE & PROTOCOL

Learn the critical connection between protocol and profit.

Learn the “how” of it all, including making introductions, writing letters, winning back disgruntled customers, handling meetings and special events properly — and much more!

MASTERING BUSINESS FINANCE

Learn how to crunch the numbers like a Wall Street pro!

If you want security—not to mention job advancement—you need to know the numbers that drive your company. This practical guide strips away the fear and intimidation surrounding a complex subject.

MASTERING BUSINESS NEGOTIATION

Enjoy a whole new level of persuasive power.

This step-by-step guide is for everyone (even the nervous, pushy, impulsive or tongue-tied) who wants a better deal at home, at work ... and in life! Packed with practical pointers, Mastering Business Negotiation can show you how to negotiate with forcefulness and grace by building skills in four critical areas: listening, clarity of purpose, confidence and emotional control.

MASTERING BUSINESS PRESENTATIONS

Walk into any spotlight knowing you’ll walk out a winner!

No matter where or when you’re in the spotlight, you’ll be cool, clear and persuasive with tactics that make your points come alive, distill your best message and tenderize the toughest audience. Use the methods perfected by legendary speakers such as FDR and Abraham Lincoln and by high-profilers Steve Jobs and Jerry Seinfeld. Then enjoy the applause!

MASTERING OFFICE POLITICS

How often have you heard that the only way to win at office politics is with dirty tricks?

The truth is that getting ahead is really about subtlety, finesse and the artful orchestration of your agenda. Mastering Office Politics is divided into six concise sections:

• advancement
• removing roadblocks
• teamwork
• leadership
• change and managing difficult employees

PERSONNEL RECORDS: WHAT TO KEEP, WHAT TO TOSS (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, 16 PAGES)

Learn answers to critical retention and disposal questions for personnel records.

Get rules for developing records-retention policy for disciplinary documentation, performance evaluations, workplace investigations and medical data.

If you keep everything, you could be liable for not complying with the Federal Trade Commission’s "disposal rule," which requires you to dispose of paper and electronic records used in applicants’ credit checks in a reasonable way. If you keep nothing, you’re virtually guaranteeing that you'll lose every legal battle.

• How long to retain job applications, résumés, job descriptions, disciplinary letters, attendance records, leave requests, medical-related data, employment agreements, payroll records, salary information, benefits information and more.
• Electronic storage requirements and how they differ from paper storage.
• Which documents you should maintain in separate files.
• How to handle medical records, and who should — and should not — have access to those files.
• Legally smart documentation for performance reviews, investigations and discipline.
• What to do when an employee (or lawyer) asks to review their personnel file. Best practices for safely destroying records.

THE BLACK BOOK OF EXECUTIVE POLITICS, BY ‘Z’

An infighter’s guide to winning the political game.

Written by ‘Z,’ a 25-year veteran of the corporate battlefield who has climbed the ranks to head a $100 million information services company, this priceless volume contains 43 street-smart hints, tips, shortcuts, ploys, strategies and approaches for surviving—and making it big—in the company political arena. Learn how to double your chances of persuading someone to see things your way and how to leapfrog across the company’s formal salary structure and arrange an immediate 35 percent raise for yourself. We keep Z’s identity secret in return for his promise to hold nothing back.

THE MANAGER’S GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE, LEGAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

Make your performance appraisals work for you—not against you!

How you conduct an employee’s performance review can have a major impact on how that employee behaves. Many books offer general suggestions for improving performance, but few discuss specific ways to make reviews more effective. Effective, Legal Performance Reviews shows you how to conduct appraisals with clearly established expectations and no misinterpretation.

THE TRUTH ABOUT LEADERSHIP

Reveal your hidden leadership abilities and spur your team to victory with The Truth About Leadership.

Learn that elusive ability to unite individuals and propel your organization beyond all expectations.  Boost your leadership abilities with The Truth About Leadership.   You will discover:

• 6 ways to boost your persuasive power
• how to lead through a crisis
• why "prudent paranoia" will serve you well
• best ways to take on a titan
• the right time to burn bridges
• and much more!

TROUBLESOME PEOPLE AT WORK: HOW TO COACH, COUNSEL AND TURN AROUND PROBLEM EMPLOYEES

Solve Your Troubled Employees’ Problems – and RECLAIM YOUR TIME. Learn the secrets to coaching and counseling your most difficult workers – and send their productivity (and YOURS) skyrocketing.

Discover how to quickly “fix” your “broken” workers so that you can focus on your own career. Getting more done in less time is probably your #1 goal – and troubled workers are your #1 obstacle to achieving it. That’s why we’ve developed the perfect resource to help you do both. Introducing Troublesome People at Work: How to Coach, Counsel and Turn Around Problem Employees.

YOU'RE ADMITTED

A 4.0 average won’t win your child a spot at today’s top colleges — but “You’re Admitted!” can!

This concise guide turns even the busiest parents into experts ready to guide teenagers through today’s hotly competitive college admissions process. Here’s everything you can do to help your child combine “get the edge” strategies, plus little-known admissions secrets, into an application that knocks the socks off college decision makers.

TIMELINE: step by step from 8th grade through 12th grade.

SECRETS: learn how to edge out the competition by turning the high school guidance counselor into a personal advocate for your child.

PRACTICAL STRATEGIES: from a filing system that simplifies the process, to writing a short résumé that wows admissions officers.