Aiming to make Early Years management ideas easy to grasp, this series breaks down the jargon and provides accessible practical advice.As the role of a manager in Early Years becomes ever more complex and demanding, leaders must try to adapt and respond to the different pressures that constantly bombard them. Managing People and Teams in the Early Years Sector: An activity-based book helps managers and aspiring managers to explore a range of ideas and approaches to aid con...

Making management ideas easy to grasp and providing practical advice on management theory and practice, this book focuses on how to make policy work in practice:providing comprehensive advice on managing resourcesincluding advice on Health & Safety and promoting a healthy environmentclear explanations of how to measure cost, incomes, ratios and effective efficiencySuggestions on how to bring about change and improvement.

Part of the Managing in the Early Years series, this book provides practical advice about management theory and practice. Tracking the career development of a nursery nurse into a managerial role, this book:Clearly identifies and explains the managerial roles of team leader, senior supervisor, deputy and managerFocuses on the sudden change that takes place as you transcend from colleague to bossOffers advice on what is expected from you as you mov...

Now there is a text that provides students with a comprehensive blueprint for supervisory practice in the field of education. In Supervision in Education Bernadette Marczely draws on her expertise in both law and education to fully explain different methods of supervision and to carefully identify the legal issues that drive each approach. The book presents the information future educational administrators need to know, plus it offers helpful pointers on what they need to do. Students will...

In The Art and Science of Dealing with Difficult People, David Brown pinpoints the seven principles of relationship building that are crucial to creating a successful working environment. Brown breaks down each principle by providing easy to understand instructions and universally applicable management skills.Brown’s philosophy is to approach work place discord as a problem from both a managerial and lower level perspective. He offers advice on how to treat employees, whil...

Mind Maps at Work takes a fresh and exuberant look at how Mind Maps can keep you one step ahead of your colleagues at work. Full of practical tips, exercises and inspiring casestudies of people from all career backgrounds, it will help you unlock your reservoirs of creativity and find the fulfilment at work you know you deserve.Tony Buzan is the world-renowned inventor of Mind Maps who has helped hundreds of highly successful international businesses and organisations. In this insp...

The second book in the Essential Tools For series… on the topic of Management ConsultingBased on Simon Burtonshaw-Gunn's successful The Essential Management Toolbox, this book focuses in greater depth on the topic of Management Consulting. This second book looks at how a management consultant needs to think, view and analyse the workings of an existing organisation in order to efficiently and effectively work to improve the issues facing a busines...

Every manufacturing business operates a Sales and Operations Planning process of some sort. Somehow we decide which customers to pursue, what promises we should make to those customers, how much product to produce, what people and other resources we need, how much inventory to hold and how we will operate our factories. Most businesses agree that they could do this much better.Many companies have made at least one unsuccessful attempt to formalize and improve their Sales and Operat...

This book is a guide to the PTLLS Award (which has been replaced with the Award in Education and Training) and is a comprehensive introduction to teaching in a variety of settings. This includes further education, adult and community learning, work-based learning, the forces and offender learning and skills. It is easy to read with plenty of practical activities and examples throughout and the content is fully linked to the Teacher Training Standards.Please note: This book has since...

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - How to Prepare Your BudgetPlanning and preparing your budget helps you toset out the financial targets for your business. Budgeting will help you to prepare in advance for any cash flow problems and helps in comparing your expectations with the actual performance of the business.In 30 minutes, learn how to: (a) Prepare your sales and expenditure budget, (b) Prepare financial projections and (c) Review your budget

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - Procrastination, i.e. putting off important tasks again and again, affects a lot of people. Although some people are able to take control of their procrastinating habit, others end up never fulfilling their commitments and ruining their careers. Steps to control procrastination include recognizing when you start to procrastinate, understanding why it happens and eventually managing your time in a better way.In 30 minutes, learn how to: (a) Understand pro...

The secrets that experts and top professionals use to get things done.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Getting Things Done.Includes how to:• Get more done in less time• Manage upwards, downwards and sideways• Under-promise and over-deliver• Overcome difficult people and issues• Deliver projects on time and on budget