Employee Development Resources in the Carter Library & IRC

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Career Planning | Communication | Conflict Resolution | Customer Service |
Facilitation | Fundraising | Grant-Writing | Hiring | Leadership | Management |
Motivating Employees | Negotiation | Performance Reviews | Personal Development |
Presentation Skills | Project Management | Time Management |
Volunteer Management | Writing Skills

 

Career Planning

Who's running your career?. Caela Farren. Austin, Tex. : Bard Press, c1997.
Call Number: HF 5381 .F457 1997

Skills in life/career planning. Karl Bartsch, Louise Sandmeyer. Monterey, Calif. : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co., c1979.
Call Number: HF 5381 .B34 1979

Communication

How to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere: the secrets of good communication [Sound recording]. Larry King with Bill Gilbert. Abridged. [New York, NY] : Random House Audio Pub., 1994.
Call Number: BF 637 .C45 K56 1994

Transforming communication, transforming business : building responsive and responsible workplaces. Stanley Deetz. Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c1995.
Call Number: HD 30.3 .D44 1995

The springboard : how storytelling ignites action in knowledge-era organizations. Stephen Denning. Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, c2001.
Call Number: HD 30.3 .D46 2001

Conflict Resolution

Conflict resolution. presented by Marianne Melley. Mission, KS : SkillPath Publications, c1998.
Call Number: HD 42. C66 1998

Resolving environmental conflict : towards sustainable community development. Chris Maser. Delray Beach, FL : St. Lucie Press, c1996.
Call Number: HC 79 E5 M3 1996

Healing into action : a leadership guide for creating diverse communities. Cherie R. Brown & George J. Mazza. Washington, D.C. : National Coalition Building Institute, c1997.
Call Number: E 184 .A1 B868 1997

Customer Service

Raving fans : a revolutionary approach to customer service. Kenneth Blanchard, Sheldon M. Bowles ; foreword by Harvey Mackay. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c1993.
Call Number: HF 5415.5 B639R 1993

The conservation professional's guide to working with people. Scott A. Bonar ; foreword by Duane L. Shroufe. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2007.
Call Number: S 944.53 .C65 B66 2007

Facilitation

The skilled facilitator : practical wisdom for developing effective groups. Roger M. Schwarz. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1994.
Call Number: HD 30.3 .S373 1994

Fundraising

The funding process : grantsmanship and proposal development. by Virginia A. Decker and Larry E. Decker. Charlottesville, Va. : Community Collaborators, 1978.
Call Number: HG 174. D42

Securing your organization's future : a complete guide to fundraising strategies. Michael Seltzer. Rev. and expanded ed. New York : Foundation Center, 2001.
Call Number: HG 177 S45 2001

Grant-Writing

How to write reports and proposals : a self-paced training program. Diane Lutovich and Janis Fisher Chan. San Anselmo, CA : Advanced Communication Designs ; 1998.
Call Number: HF 5718.5 L88

Guidelines for preparing proposals : a manual on how to organize winning proposals for grants, venture capital, R & D projects, other proposals. by Roy Meador. Chelsea, Mich. : Lewis Publishers, c1985.
Call Number: HF 5718.5 M43 1984

The funding process : grantsmanship and proposal development. by Virginia A. Decker and Larry E. Decker. Charlottesville, Va. : Community Collaborators, 1978.
Call Number: HG 174 .D42

Hiring

The manager's book of questions : 751 great interview questions for hiring the best person. John Kador. New York : McGraw Hill, c1997.
Call Number: HF 5549.5 .I6 K33 1997

Hire the best -- and avoid the rest. Michael W. Mercer. New York : AMACOM, c1993.
Call Number: HF 5549.5 .S38 M47 1993

Leadership

Why leaders can't lead : the unconscious conspiracy continues. Warren Bennis. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1989.
Call Number: HM 141 .B434 1989

Organizational culture and leadership. Edgar H. Schein. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1985.
Call Number: HD 58.7 .S33 1985

Transforming leadership. John D. Adams, general editor. 2nd ed. Alexandria, Va. : Miles River Press, 1998.
Call Number: HD 57.7 .T73 1998

Leaders : strategies for taking charge. Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus. 2nd ed. New York : HarperBusiness, 1997.
Call Number: HD 57.7 .B46 1997

Building leaders : how successful companies develop the next generation. Jay A. Conger, Beth Benjamin. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1999.
Call Number: HD 57.7 .C658 1999

Healing into action : a leadership guide for creating diverse communities. Cherie R. Brown & George J. Mazza. Washington, D.C. : National Coalition Building Institute, c1997.
Call Number: E 184 .A1 B868 1997

Leading change : overcoming the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom. James O'Toole. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1995.
Call Number: HD 58.8 .O86 1995

Understanding leadership competencies : creating tomorrow's leaders today. Patricia Guggenheimer, Mary Diana Szulc. Menlo Park, Calif. : Crisp Publications ; c1998.
Call Number: HD 57.7 .G84 1998

Leading change toward sustainability : a change-management guide for business, government and civil society. Bob Doppelt. Sheffield, UK : Greenleaf, 2003.
Call Number: HC 79 .E5 D66 2003

Management

The one minute manager. Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson. Berkley trade paperback ed. New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books, 1983.
Call Number: HD 66 B55 1983

Putting the one minute manager to work. Kenneth Blanchard, Robert Lorber. New York : Berkley Books, 1985.
Call Number: HD 69 T54 B563 1985

Transforming work. John D. Adams, general editor. 2nd ed. Alexandria, Va. : Miles River Press, 1998.
Call number: HD 58.8 .T72 1998

Gemba kaizen : a commonsense low-cost approach to management. Masaaki Imai. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1997.
Call Number: HD 31 .I43 1997

The Deming management method. by Mary Walton ; foreword by W. Edwards Deming. New York, NY : Perigee, c1986.
Call Number: HD 38 .D439 W35 1986B

The empowered manager : positive political skills at work. Peter Block. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1987.
Call Number: HD 58.7 .B58 1987

The 2,000 percent solution : free your organization from "stalled" thinking to achieve exponential success. Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, Robert Metz. New York : AMACOM, 1999
Call Number: HD 53 .M58 1999

The fifth discipline : the art and practice of the learning organization. Peter M. Senge. A Currency paperback. New York : Doubleday/Currency, 1994.
Call Number: HD 58.9 F54

The Fifth discipline fieldbook : strategies and tools for building a learning organization. Peter M. Senge ... [et al.]. New York : Currency, Doubleday, c1994.
Call Number: HD 58.9 F469 1994

Driving fear out of the workplace : how to overcome the invisible barriers to quality, productivity, and innovation. Kathleen D. Ryan, Daniel K. Oestreich. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1991.
Call Number: HD 58.9 .R93 1991

Quality management for government : a guide to federal, state, and local implementation. V. Daniel Hunt. Milwaukee, Wis. : ASQC Quality Press, c1993.
Call Number: JF 1525 .T67 H86 1993

The power principle : influence with honor [Sound recording]. Blaine Lee. New York : Simon & Schuster Inc., c1997.
Call Number: BF 637 .S8 L42 1997

Motivating Employees

Don't fire them, fire them up : a maverick's guide to motivating yourself and your team. Frank Pacetta with Roger Gittines. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1994.
Call Number: HF 5386 .P134 1994

1001 ways to reward employees. by Bob Nelson. New York : Workman Pub., c1994.
Call Number: HF 5549.5 I5 N45

How to improve performance through appraisal and coaching. Donald L. Kirkpatrick ; foreword by James L. Hayes. New York, N.Y. : AMACOM, c1982.
Call Number: HF 5549.5 .R3 K54 1982

Negotiation

How to become a better negotiator. James G. Patterson. New York : American Management Assoc., c1996.
Call Number: HD 58.6 .P38 1996

Winning by negotiation. Tessa Albert Warschaw. 2nd paperback ed. [S.1.] : T.W.G. Publishing, 1991.
Call Number: HD 58.6 W37 1980

Performance Reviews

How to improve performance through appraisal and coaching. Donald L. Kirkpatrick ; foreword by James L. Hayes. New York, N.Y. : AMACOM, c1982.
Call Number: HF 5549.5 .R3 K54 1982

How to do a superior performance appraisal. William S. Swan with Phillip Margulies. New York : Wiley, c1991.
Call Number: HF 5549.5 .R3 S8 1991

Evaluation with power : a new approach to organizational effectiveness, empowerment, and excellence. Sandra Trice Gray and associates ; foreword by Michael Quinn Patton. 1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1998.
Call Number: HD 58.9 .G724 1998

Benchmarking : a tool for continuous improvement. C.J. McNair and Kathleen H.J. Leibfried. New York, N.Y. : Wiley, c1992.
Call Number: HD 58.95 .M36 1992B

Personal Development

The seven habits of highly effective people : restoring the character ethic. Stephen R. Covey. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1989.
Call Number: BF 637.S8 C873 1989

Introduction to type : a guide to understanding your results on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Isabel Briggs Myers. 5th ed.. revised by Linda K. Kirby & Katharine D. Myers. Palo Alto, Calif. : Consulting Psychologists Press, c1993.
Call Number: BF 698.8 .M94 M83 1993

Who moved my cheese? : an amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life. Spencer Johnson. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1998.
Call Number: BF 335 J69 1998

Who moved my cheese? [Sound recording]. Spencer Johnson. New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 1998.
Call Number: BF 335 J696

One minute for myself : how to manage your most valuable asset. Spencer Johnson. New York : Avon, 1987.
Call Number: HD 69 T54 B563 1987

Presentation Skills

High-impact presentation and training skills : proven techniques for captivating, motivating, and inspiring. by Micki Holliday. Shawnee Mission, KS : National Press Publications, c2000.
Call Number: HF 5718.22 H649 2000

Presentation skills for managers. Jennifer Rotondo, Mike Rotondo. New York, NY : McGraw-Hill, c2002.
Call Number: HF 5718.22 .R68 2002

Making successful presentations : a self-teaching guide. Terry C. Smith. 2nd ed. New York : Wiley, c1991.
Call Number: HF 5718.22 .S65 1991

Working woman's communications survival guide : how to present your ideas with impact, clarity, and power and get the recognition you deserve. Ruth Herrman Siress, with Carolyn Riddle and Deborah Shouse. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c1994.
Call Number: HF 5718 .S568 1994

Project Management

Measures of success : designing, managing, and monitoring conservation and development projects. Richard Margoluis and Nick Salafsky ; illustrations by Anna Balla. Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c1998.
Call Number: QH 75 .M328 1998

Time Management

The organized executive : a program for productivity : new ways to manage time, paper, people, and the electronic office. Stephanie Winston. Rev. and updated for the nineties. New York : Warner Books, c1994.
Call Number: HF 5547.15 .W56 1994B

First things first [Sound recording]. Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, c1994.
Call Number: BJ 1581.2 C5 1994

The one minute manager meets the monkey. Kenneth Blanchard, William Oncken, Jr., and Hal Burrows. 1st ed. New York : Morrow, c1989.
Call Number: HD 69 .T54 B56 1989

Volunteer Management

The (Help!) I don't-have-enough-time guide to volunteer management. Katherine Noyes Campbell and Susan J. Ellis. Philadelphia, PA : Energize, c1995.
Call Number: HN 49 .V64 C353 1995

The volunteer recruitment (and membership development) book. Susan J. Ellis. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA : Energize, Inc., 2002.
Call Number: HN 49 .V64 E444 2002

Volunteers : how to get them, how to keep them. Helen Little. Naperville, Ill. : Panacea Press, c1999.
Call Number: HN 49 V64 L58 1999

Writing Skills

Creating environmental publications : a guide to writing and designing for interpreters and environmental educators. by Jeffrey Zehr, Michael Gross, and Ron Zimmerman ; James Heintzman, consulting editor. Stevens Point, WI : UW-SP Foundation Press, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, 1990.
Call Number: Z 286 E3 Z44 1990

How to write reports and proposals : a self-paced training program. Diane Lutovich and Janis Fisher Chan. San Anselmo, CA : Advanced Communication Designs ; 1998.
Call Number: HF 5718.5 L88

Style : ten lessons in clarity & grace. Joseph M. Williams. Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman, c1981. Call Number: PE 1421 .W545 1981

Banishing bureaucratese : using plain language in government writing. Judith Gillespie Myers. Vienna, Va. : Management Concepts, c2001.
Call Number: JF 1525 .R46 M94 2001

Effective business writing : a guide for those who write on the job. Maryann V. Piotrowski. 2nd ed., rev. and updated. New York : HarperPerennial, c1996.
Call Number: HF 5718.3 .P56 1996

The bare-bones guide to better business writing : a quick and easy-to-use reference to clear, effective communication. by Sally Williams. Greenport, NY : Pilot Books, c1997.
Call Number: HF 5718.3 .W565 1997

The basics of business writing. Marty Stuckey. New York, NY : American Management Association, c1992.
Call Number: HF 5718.3 .S78 1992

Handbook of technical writing. Charles T. Brusaw, Gerald J. Alred, Walter E. Oliu. New York : St. Martin's Press, c1976.
Call Number: T 11 .B78 1976

Modern technical writing. Theodore A. Sherman, Simon S. Johnson. 3d ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Call Number: T 11 .S52 1975

The well-tempered sentence : a punctuation handbook for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed. Karen Elizabeth Gordon. New Haven : Ticknor & Fields, 1983.
Call Number: PE 1450 .G65 1983

 

 

 

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