Powerhouse
How to Speak so People Listen
The Influence Agenda
How to Manage a Great Project
The Yes/No Book
Smart to Wise
Brilliant Project Leader
Risk Happens!
Brilliant Stress Management
Brilliant Influence
Brilliant Time Management
The Management Models Pocketbook
The Handling Resistance Pocketbook

Thirteen books published up to end of 2014

How to do less... and achieve more
Published by Pearson, 2012

The Yes/No Book

Turbo boost your effectiveness and start making a serious impact, Published by Capstone Wiley, december 2014.

Powerhouse

How to Speak So People Listen In a busy world of noise, how do you get your message across? Everyone knows how vital good communication is in any business. But what's the point if no-one's listening to you? How to Speak so People Listen shows you how to make sure that what you're saying is being listened to and making a difference. Using proven techniques from the world's most successful communicators, debaters and conversationalists, you'll discover how to: * Always be heard by speaking in a compelling, persuasive and powerful way * Seize attention, make an impact and leave a memorable first impression * Think fast and quickly adapt your message to suit your audience * Stand out at me...

How to Speak So People Listen: Grab Their Attention and Get Your Message Heard

Brilliant Time Management: What the Most Productive People Know, Do and Say (Brilliant Business)

Whether it's getting on top of your workload, finding the time to start something new or simply making more time to relax, Brilliant Time Management will help you to get there. Based on over 20 years of managing time effectively, Mike Clayton shares with you winning principles that helped him launch two successful businesses, lead and manage teams of people, juggle a busy family life with a demanding career, and much more. Discover how to take control of your time and achieve more than you ever thought possible with time to spare!

Brilliant Influence: What the Most Influential People Know, Do and Say (Brilliant Business)

How to Manage a Great Project: On budget. On target. On time.

Brilliant Stress Management: How to Manage Stress in Any Situation (Brilliant Lifeskills)

The Yes/No Book: How to Do Less... and Achieve More!

Brilliant Project Leader Many people struggle to lead a project with a successful outcome and they fail to keep them to budget, deliver on time and motivate a team. This book combines practical tools, personal tips and psychological insights to that you can: - Realistically plan not only your time and resources but everyone else's - Understand your team's strengths and weaknesses - Monitor everyone's work and review their progress - Ensure your communication skills and feedback inspire and encourage your team - Successfully meet project initiatives and objectives

Brilliant Project Leader: What the Best Project Leaders Know, Do and Say to Get Results, Every Time (Brilliant Business)

Powerhouse: Turbo Boost Your Effectiveness and Start Making a Serious Impact

The Influence Agenda: A Systematic Approach to Aligning Stakeholders for Driving Change

Project management has become a big part of how all organizations get things done. Managers at all levels need to take on and deliver projects. The scope of these projects range from small projects lasting days to multi-million dollar projects taking years. All of these projects have one big thing in common: RISK. Risk happens! Things go wrong. As many of us have learnt recently, the real world does not respect your hopes, plans or expectations. It moves according to its own, if unexpected, agenda. So you need to respond with a practical approach to managing project risk. This book, by an expert in project management, provides the necessary understanding and tools for any level manager charged with leading projects, staying on budget and remaining on schedule. The essence of that is managing the risk associated with the project.

Risk Happens!

Smart to Wise: The Seven Pillars for True Success

Get off to a flying start as a new manager, with the help of this time-saving ebook.   Each chapter can be read in five minutes or less (ideal for reading in your coffee break or on the train) yet the tips you’ll pick up can benefit you throughout your whole career. The short chapters are structured so that you can read them in any order, dipping into your chosen topic as the need arises.  Topics include: assertiveness, career development, decision making, handling difficult conversations, interviewing (and being interviewed), learning, listening, managing meetings, negotiating, NLP, organising yourself, persuading, presenting, rapport, report writing, self-confidence, stress  management, time management and transactional analysis. Each comes with an exercise to help you put your newly-gained know-how into action straight away. Now you don’t need to search through numerous lengthy management books trying to unearth the gems that will actually be of use in your everyday work  Mike Clayton has done that hard work for you, distilling some of the most helpful business models and presenting you with the essence: clear, succinct summaries of the techniques that will serve you best.   Quick Tips For Managers will be helpful to experienced managers too, as a concise refresher.

Quick Tips For Managers: Personal Skills: How to  communicate well and be effective at work

If you need to be in the know in no time at all, Business Express will get you from beginner to brilliant in the blink of an eye. This fast, focused and carefully crafted eBook will help you pick up all the essential knowledge you need about the skills that matter most at work, all in the shortest possible time.  Learn just when you need to or well in advance; read it at your desk or on the move; dip in and out or start from scratch – it’s all up to you. But however you use it, you’ll quickly feel more confident, competent and better equipped to make things happen and keep moving ahead;Save time - it’s quick and easy to read;Get smart - just the essential knowledge you need;Feel good - watch your confidence grow. Business Express - know how in no time!

Business Express: Developing your influencing skills: Make people listen to and be persuaded by what you are saying

Business Express: Managing your time productively: Organise yourself and use your time efficiently

Business Express: Managing upwards successfully: Build a successful and effective working relationship with your boss

Business Express: Persuasive Communication: Convince your audience to consider your ideas and suggestions

Business Express: Delegating effectively: Develop a simple and practical process for delegating successfully

Resistance, with its unproductive cycle of challenge and conflict, frequently stifles new ideas and holds back change. The Handling Resistance Pocketbook looks at the reasons why people resist, how you can identify the level of their resistance and, vitally, the tactics you can adopt to handle the resistance in a positive, respectful and productive way. To engage positively with resistance and manage it effectively you must first understand it. Author Dr Mike Clayton's innovative 'onion model' gives readers a clear and succinct insight into the different layers of resistance and for each 'layer' he suggests practical steps for tackling the issues. For the trainer there are tips on handling resistance to learning, for the salesperson there is advice on overcoming objections to sales pitches and for the team leader there are strategies for implementing change and gaining acceptance of new ideas. From the author of the Management Models Pocketbook.

Handling Resistance Pocketbook

The range of models described, 10 in total, includes John Adair's action centred leadership model, Bruce Tuckman's team development and behaviour model, Eric Bern's parent-adult-child theory of transactional analysis and John Boyd's OODA decision-making model. There are models too covering delegation, motivation and communications. For each model described, author Mike Clayton outlines the problem that the model addresses, explains how it works (first an overview followed by a more detailed explanation) and uses examples to demonstrate how it works in practice. A diagrammatic view of each model and references to related models add to the practical approach.

Management Models Pocketbook

Mike - a business author and speaker - is a founder of two training businesses and formerly a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting in London, where he specialized in program management and the integration of complex change.

His books include best-sellers: The Yes/No Book, Brilliant Time Management, and Brilliant Stress Management, alongside four books that harness his expertise in project management. His latest books include How to Speak so People Listen, and The Influence Agenda. Winter 2014/15 sees the publication of what he expects to be his biggest book to date: Powerhouse.

Now Mike offers a range of educational, insightful, thought-provoking and entertaining seminars and talks, covering management and leadership, communication skills and personal effectiveness.

Risk Management

Personal Effectiveness

Project Management

Communication

How to Manage a Great Project

How to Speak so People Listen

Smart to Wise

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How to get things done
. . . from the simplest task, to a full-size project.
Practical Project Management will give you an effective five-step process that takes you from the first concept for your project; through to day-to-day delivery; to finish with the essential tasks needed to close your project.

Practical Project Management

Martyn Morgan  

Senior Partner

Nick Alcock

Corporate Learning and Organisational development Manager

Andy Thorn

EMEA Key Account & Inncom Business Channel Leader

Cryss Mennaceur

HR Manager

The five step stakeholder engagement process that forms the foundation of The Influence Agenda, the book by Mike Clayton. 

www.theinfluenceagenda.co.uk

Five Steps for Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholders will determine the success - or not - of your project. Mike Clayton, author of How to Manage a Great Project, describes his simple, but powerful, way of quickly analysing your stakeholders and determining your basic engagement strategy. In the book, Mike sets this in the context of the wider stakeholder engagement process.  By the way, keep an eye out for Mike's forthcoming book, describing stakeholder engagement in detail, with a wealth of tools and psychological insights. It will be called 'The Influence Agenda'.

Take a look at www.manageagreatproject.co.uk.

How to Manage a Great Project - Stakeholder Triage

What are the four stages of a basic project? Mike Clayton, author of How to Manage a Great Project, describes them. In the book, Mike sets out in detail, when to add to them and how they interact with his eight steps.

Take a look at www.manageagreatproject.co.uk.

How to Manage a Great Project: Four Project Stages

People will listen to you when they get the 'what's in it for me' factor.  This tip will show you how to make your message relevant and also memorable.  Learn more at www.speaksopeoplelisten.co.uk or buy the book, How to Speak so People Listen.

How to Speak so People Listen - One minute tip. Number 5: The 'What's in it for me?' Factor

This extract from my popular Practical Project Management seminar shows me talking about the meaning of Scope in project management.  Scope is a vital part of defining your project at the early stages.  This is fully described in my book, Brilliant Project Leader.

Scope management is also is also an essential component of project risk management, so this is covered in Chapter 2 (Planning out Risk) of Risk Happens!

More about this and my other project management seminars at http://mikeclayton.co.uk/a-choice-of-vibrant-seminars/project-management/

Project Scope

Three video testimonials, following my Practical Project Management seminar at RIBA in London, November 2012.

More about this and my other project management seminars at http://mikeclayton.co.uk/a-choice-of-vibrant-seminars/project-management/ 

For all of my seminars, see http://mikeclayton.co.uk/a-choice-of-vibrant-seminars/

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Thirteen books published up to end of 2014

The Yes/No Book

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Corporate Learning and Organisational development Manager

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