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SMART Objective Setting for Managers by Irial O'Farrell

September 19, 2021 By Book Review Matchmaker Leave a Comment

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

September 16, 2021 By Book Review Matchmaker Leave a Comment

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

August 7, 2021 By Book Review Matchmaker Leave a Comment

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.

Short Introduction to MS Office Excel by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

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Short Introduction to MS Office Excel by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

This book is part of a series that include MBA Core & Elective coursework taught at prestigious universities like Harvard and Wharton. The series consist of Core & Elective courses that stemmed from more than ten years of professional experience in Wall Street and Startups. The elective courses introduce Machine Learning, Python, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Communications skills, R language, Excel advanced features, PowerPoint advanced features, interview questions, and more.

Automate The Boring Tasks Using Microsoft Office VBA by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

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Automate The Boring Tasks Using Microsoft Office VBA by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

he book is part of a series that include MBA Core & Elective coursework taught at prestigious universities like Harvard and Wharton. The series consists of Core & Elective courses that stemmed from more than ten years of professional experience in Wall Street and Startups. The elective courses introduce Machine Learning, Python, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Communications skills, R language, Excel advanced features, PowerPoint advanced features, interview questions, and more.

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

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Blockchain and Cryptocurrency by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

If you are a student of management or business management, you must have come across the term ‘blockchain’ and ‘cryptography’. Have you ever thought about why businesses all over the world are going crazy about this technology?
No one wants to miss the bus, and every business is looking forward to gaining a lot from this. Why is it becoming so important for everyone all of a sudden? How it is going to affect our daily lives or the lives of business professionals in different sectors like banking? How does it bring immense opportunities for future business leaders and aspiring students?
All these questions are countered effectively in this book.

Short introduction to MS Excel & Tips you must know about Word & Python by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

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Short introduction to MS Excel & Tips you must know about Word & Python by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

The bundle is part of a series that includes MBA Core & Elective coursework taught at prestigious universities like Harvard and Wharton. The series consists of Core & Elective courses that stemmed from more than ten years of professional experience in Wall Street and Startups. The elective courses introduce Machine Learning, Python, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, Communications skills, R language, Excel advanced features, PowerPoint advanced features, interview questions, and more

Introduction to Econometrics by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

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Introduction to Econometrics by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi

Econometrics is the application of statistical techniques to comprehend economic issues and test theories. Without evidence, economic theories are mere ideas and might have no bearing on reality. Econometrics is a set of tools that can be used to prove a theory with real-world data. Econometrics is a specialized branch of statistics that focuses on measuring quantities arising in economics. So, the primary goal of econometrics is to prove a prediction.

The Art and Science of Real Estate Negotiation by Gabrielle Dahms

May 19, 2021 By Book Review Matchmaker Leave a Comment

The Art and Science of Real Estate Negotiation by Gabrielle Dahms

The Sky’s the Limit!

The Art and Science of Real Estate Negotiation addresses a practice that is indispensable to real estate success: negotiation. Negotiation principles and fundamentals affect real estate buyers’, sellers’, and investors’ results.

Read this book and be(come) a powerful real estate investor who nets results and dollars. Improve your everyday communications along the way.

The Art and Science of Real Estate Negotiation is the third volume in The Real Estate Investor Manuals.

It draws upon the author’s knowledge base and her 20-year experience as a real estate professional and a real estate investor.

So why not hone your skills with knowledge and experience captured in this book written by an industry veteran?

Topics include:

* Real estate-specific negotiating.
* Negotiation principles.
* The real estate negotiation process.
* How to establish rapport.
* Discerning the other party’s motivation.
* Solve problems. Get results.
* Negotiation strategies and tactics.
* Avoiding negotiation traps and pitfalls.
* And much, much more…

Whether you want to be a better negotiator, close more real estate deals, or increase your bottom line, this book is for you!

Read it now!

SMART Objective Setting for Managers: A Roadmap by Irial O’Farrell

April 15, 2021 By Book Review Matchmaker Leave a Comment

SMART Objective Setting for Managers: A Roadmap by Irial O'Farrell

Objective-Setting season is fast approaching. There’s a knot in the pit of your stomach. As time ticks closer to having to set objectives with your team, you can feel the knot pulsing, getting bigger. It has to be done but what’s the point?

Unfortunately, this is how many managers feel about objective-setting. Often due to lack of training or through their negative experiences with their own manager. It often feels like a box-ticking exercise. It doesn’t have to be this way. Actively developing each team member has huge benefits, of the individual, the team, their manager, the company and clients.

SMART Objective Setting for Managers has been written specifically for managers. It sets out the relationship between job description and objectives. It deconstructs the SMART framework. It then works through practical examples of how to design objectives that will really deliver the desired outcomes. It focuses on both target-driven “what” objectives alongside behavioural “how” objectives. It also takes some time to explore both the employee’s perspective and the manager’s mindset, in relation to performance and their role.

Summaries and prompts, at the end of each chapter, recap on each chapter’s main points and allow you, the reader, to think about the points in relation to your own team. Free template downloads are also available, to help you apply the learning.