Here’s just a sampling of our new content for December. You'll find more dynamic content on each category’s home page.

Management

• Become a People Builder: How to Maximize Employee Performance
  Commenting on employees’ accomplishments costs you nothing, yet it can yield huge dividends. Start by praising your employees about 8 to 10 times more than you criticize them.

Professional Development

• Secrets of Multitasking: Slow Down to Speed Up
  Feeling stressed out and overworked? These strategies from a physician will teach you how to channel your energy efficiently so you can accomplish more in less time, with less stress.

Leadership

• C-Suite Hiring Forecast: The Ability to Innovate Will Be Key in 2007
  A steady economy and a stronger tech sector have set the stage for an increase in executive hiring. Those execs most in demand will be those who have proven expertise in managing a diverse work force and can innovate most successfully.

Sales & Marketing

• How to Overcome the Three Key Leadership Challenges to Your Sales Force's Success
  If you’re not getting the results you want from your sales team, think about how you’re dealing with three sales management challenges: the “80/20” rule, pricing pressure, and resistance to change.

HR/Training

• Faith at Work Is No Longer Taboo
  How should a company respond to requests for prayer breakfasts? How about e-mail sign-offs that quote Scripture? These are just two of the challenges presented by the burgeoning “faith-at-work movement.” Time will tell whether these issues will become a legal minefield or a source of competitive advantage.

Global Perspectives

• Gazing into the Global Future
  What does the future hold? For one thing, according to the director of the Trends Research Institute, although America owned the 20th century, China will own the 21st.

Small Business

• How a Peer Advisory Group Can Help You Grow Your Business
  The president of the Women Presidents’ Organization explains how women can find connections, confirmation, and success through peer advisory groups.

AMA Book of the Month

Future, Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What’s Next (AMACOM, 2006) by Eric Garland. Forget about tea leaves, wizard hats, crystal balls, and ESP. Predicting the future has nothing to do with them and everything to do with curiosity about the world around you, says professional futurist Garland. Exploring the future is about following a few trends that could change your world. Garland provides the tools to bring the future into focus.
Read a sample chapter from Future Inc.

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