Is Your Job Making You Fat? not only identifies and analyzes all of the central sources of weight gain associated with work, but also provides highly effective steps to control this ever-expanding problem and help you lose weight. Authors Ken Lloyd and Stacey Laura Lloyd offer a new approach where you apply your businesslike mindset and skill-set to weight management. After all, at work, you have a plan that includes objectives, benchmark dates, strategies, priorities, deadlines, and measurable results. This book shows you how to use this same methodology to take charge of your weight.

Whether you're a manger looking to implement employee appraisals for the first time, concerned with improving the quality and effectiveness of the appraisal process, or simply trying to save time and mental anguish Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies provides the tools you need to save time and energy while presenting fair and accurate evaluations that foster employee growth.

This convenient, portable package includes a full-length appraisal phrasebook featuring over 3,200 spot-on phrases and plenty of quick-hitting expert tips on making the most out of the process. You'll also receive online access to writable, customizable sample evaluation forms other timesaving resources.

This is the ultimate book on dealing with jerks at work. Rather than the standard fare of pontification and fluff, this book is based totally on real work situations, real people, and real jerks. Jerks can show up anywhere in the workplace, and there are proven strategies that work best in each case. Those strategies are all in this book. Here are the ways to deal with jerks who are bosses, co-workers, subordinates, customers, vendors and more.

The book has hundreds of questions and the answers you need to deal with jerks of all kinds. In a readable question-and-answer format, there’s no question that you’ll learn how to deal with those special jerks in your work life. There’s a strategy for each of them, including how to deal with the Nonstop Talker, the Practical (or Impractical) Joker, the Screamer, the Know-It-All, the Bragger, and many, many more.

Today’s most effective bosses have a new attitude. Modern managers seriously consider what their employees deserve from them, not just what they deserve from their employees. With this new perspective, a manager’s ability to generate and sustain employee productivity, loyalty, motivation, and teamwork is sure to increase greatly.

In many respects, this book shows a manager how to avoid being a jerk, and how to avoid bringing out jerk-like behaviors from his or her employees. This book will take you through the entire process of building a work environment that is exactly what your employees want, need, and deserve. You’ll get all the information you need to implement the most compelling forms of communication, motivation, and recognition, and you’ll greatly increase the likelihood of increasing your employees’ commitment, morale, and performance, while decreasing the likelihood of having them morph into jerks.

A great deal had changed since Dr. Ken Lloyd and Dr. Donald Moine wrote their best-selling book, Unlimited Selling Power.  This new book contains more than a decade’s worth of research on the best strategies used by the most powerful sales professionals in the world.  It reveals how average salespeople in a variety of industries can create amazingly successful careers by using many of these powerful newly-developed sales and marketing techniques.

This is the newest generation of selling strategies, and it is already available in a number of languages. Like Unlimited Selling Power, these techniques translate into countless work situations and yield dramatic results whenever and wherever persuasion is needed.

This book is part of DK Publishing’s “Keep It Simple Series,” described as “the greatest guides ever!” The book covers every aspect of selling and persuasion, including managing your time, setting goals, and building a rapport with others. It’s the perfect guide to practical techniques that can be used before, during, and after any session where you want to persuade or influence others.

The book has an easy-to-read format and includes numerous illustrations, examples, key points, and summaries. It’s a complete toolkit that provides a foundation for neophytes in the persuasion process, while serving as a valuable resource to fine-tune and update persuasive skills for those who are more experienced in the process. This book can take your persuasive skills and multiply them many times over with one quick reading, and it can clearly give you an extra edge when faced with jerks at work.