Avoid costly litgation! You'll want to keep this user-friendly overview of legal issues on your desk at all times! This is the only complete "how-to" guide and overview of legal issues you face as a consultant. You'll learn how to make sense of legal jargon and a variety of contracts as well as learn when to seek out the advice of legal counsel and when to walk away from losing relationships. This book isn't intended to replace competent legal advice-rather it is a time- and cost-effective means to understand legal issues before pursuing legal. Includes a diskette with useful tools, sample forms, checklists, and links to technology-based resources. "I beg you, do not start your own consulting business without first reading The Consultant's Legal Guide. And if you already have, read it now! I assure you that when you put into practice the sound advice of Elaine Biech and Linda Byars Swindling you will save yourself the heartache and headache of needless legal hassels...The Consultant's Legal Guide will help you every day of your business life." --James M. Kouzes, chairman, Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems, co-author of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart "A great flight plan to avoid turbulence...Whether you are a consultant or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, this book should be on your desk for a reference in so many areas." --Howard Putnam, Former CEO, Southwest Airlines and Braniff International, author of The Winds of Turbulence "A well thought out, practical approach to dealing effectively with lawyers and other consultants. If followed, it should help all parties be better prepared and do a better job." --Rita Reuss, attorney, former vice president, Land O' Lakes "The Consultant's Legal Guide is better than an MBA in business relationships. Clear, concise, thoughtful and thorough. . .after reading this book, consultants will sleep better at night!" --Pamela J. Schmidt, vic

The Consultant's Legal Guide [A Business of Consulting Resource]

Business & Money

Biech, Elaine

Swindling, Linda Byars

Industries

Pfeiffer

Turn constant complainers into productive contributors Constant complainers take up resources, time, and mental bandwidth in the workplace. When you change a culture of complainers to one of contributors, you boost morale, increase productivity, and promote effective communication. In short, you get more done with less drama. In Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers, workplace communication expert Linda Swindling shares her expertise in negotiating tough situations in the workplace. Discover how to influence others to accomplish your purpose. Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers uses scenarios, engaging questions, and survey results to provide strategies that can be implemented immediately. <ul>
<li>Shows how to identify complainers and time drainers</li> <li>Provides forms to help prepare for discussions, suggested language to show up powerfully, and encouragement to apply strategies</li> <li>Offers concrete phrases and tactics to refocus a complainer and end unproductive conversations</li> </ul>
Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers is research-driven and focused on how to identify as well as manage conversations with "venters," complainers, whiners, and energy drainers. With these guidelines for communication, you'll see powerful results, improved relationships, and increased confidence.

Stop Complainers and Energy Drainers: How to Negotiate Work Drama to Get More Done

Management & Leadership

wiley

Not getting what you want or living with what someone else decides you deserve is exhausting and dispiriting. Linda Swindling suggests that instead of living with such restrictions we should ask outrageously. And by asking outrageously, she doesn't mean being obnoxious or taking advantage of others; she means making big asks - because if you're going to ask, why not be bold? In her former life as an attorney, Swindling found that she was doing this all the time for her clients but that she rarely did it for herself. Now, in this book, Swindling describes a straightforward, three-step process for making such asks. With a wealth of practical tools - checklists, suggested questions, case studies, and an online assessment so you can evaluate how well you're making asks - this book helps you overcome blockages and inhibitions to reach breakthrough results and ask for more than you believe is possible.

Ask Outrageously!: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want

Personal Finance

Berrett-Koehler on Dreamscape Audio

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