TY - BOOK AU - Charney,Cyril TI - The portable mentor : your anywhere, anytime career coach and problem solver SN - 9780814472125 U1 - 650.14 PY - 2004/// CY - New York : PB - AMACOM, American Management Association KW - Success in business KW - Mentoring in business N1 - "A previous edition of this book was published in Canada in 2000 by Stoddart Publishing Co., Ltd."; Absenteeism -- Accident prevention -- Anger -- Assertiveness -- Attitude Survey -- Benchmarking -- Career -- Career planning -- Change -- Change -- Coaching your teammates -- Commitment -- Communicating -- Conflict -- Counselling interview -- Creativity -- Customer service -- Decision-making -- Delegation -- Difficult people -- Disciplinary interview -- Diversity -- Empowering -- Empowerment -- Ethical and moral behaviour -- Etiquette in the office -- Exit interview -- Feedback -- Goal-setting -- Harassment -- Health and wellness -- Hiring -- Influencing people -- Influencing senior management -- Leadership -- Learning -- Listening -- Measuring your performance -- Meetings -- Mentor -- Mentoring -- Mistakes -- Money -- Negotiating -- Networking -- Paperwork -- Performance review -- Planning -- Politics in the office -- Presentations -- Problem-solving -- Productivity -- Project management -- Re-engineering work processes -- Relationships -- Safety -- Self-confidence -- Self-development -- Selling your ideas -- Speeches -- Stress -- Teamwork -- Time management -- Training -- Vision -- Voice mail -- Working at home -- Writing skills N2 - Deals with critical concerns, from goal-setting, decision-making, and project management to self-development and career planning. This title helps readers to: be productive and make better decisions; build better relationships with peers and supervisors; enhance skills like writing, speaking, listening, time management, and negotiation; and more; You're a savvy, up-and-coming professional, but you're smart enough to know you don't have all the answers. Even if your boss or another colleague could qualify as a mentor, he or she is just as busy as you are and doesn't have the time to address even half your questions. But you're in luck, because you've got The Portable Mentor, a one-stop resource jam-packed with hundreds of bite-sized tips and strategies for dealing with all your concerns. From goal-setting to decision-making, project management to career planning, this "24-7" coach, adviser, and problem solver will help you: be more productive; build better relationships with peers and supervisors; enhance crucial skills like writing, speaking, listening, time management, and negotiation; take better care of yourself---physically and mentally; get ahead more quickly, and set the stage for further advancement. Looks like you've got a mentor after all! ER -