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Lifescripts for Managers

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ISBN-10: 0028626222

ISBN-13: 9780028626222

Edition: 1999

Authors: Stephen M. Pollan, Michael Caplan, Mark Levine

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Description:

This volume covers dealing with subordinates, peers, and superiors, including how to ask for a budget increase, turn down a raise request, deal with brown nosing, handle flirtation, and warn a superior of a potential problem. Includes 40 dialogue flowcharts.
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Stephen M. Pollan has been offering pragmatic career, financial, business, and legal advice to individuals and businesses. He has brought his techniques to viewers of CNBC and to readers of Working Woman in his monthly column "Find the Right Words."

Contributors
Introduction: The Magic of Lifescripts
Lifescripts for Subordinates
Giving a Negative Performance Review
Turning down a Subordinate's Raise Request
Adding Responsibility to a Subordinate without More Pay
Announcing a Salary Reduction to a Subordinate
Telling a Subordinate to Watch His Drinking
Turning down a Subordinate's Promotion Request
Reprimanding an Alleged Sexual Harasser
Stopping Backstabbing among Subordinates
Insisting on Better Hygiene from a Subordinate
Terminating a Subordinate
Demanding Better Work Habits from a Subordinate
Correcting Repeated Mistakes by a Subordinate
Putting an End to a Subordinate's Gossiping
Reducing the Size of a Subordinate's Staff
Reducing the Size of Subordinate's Workspace
Turning down a Subordinate's Request to Hire His Offspring
Sending a Voluntary Termination Hint to a Subordinate
Asking a Subordinate to Improve Her Appearance
Suggesting a Subordinate Improve His Voice Manners
Handling a Flirtatious Subordinate
Suggesting a Subordinate Consider Psychotherapy
Questioning a Subordinate's Expense Report
Handling a Subordinate's Personal Use of Equipment
Asking if a Subordinate Is a Victim of Domestic Abuse
Dealing with a Brownnosing Subordinate
Apologizing to a Subordinate for Your Own Behavior
Turning down a Subordinate's Request for Time Off
Lifescripts for Superiors
Asking Your Superior for More Staff
Asking Your Superior for a Budget Increase
Warning Your Superior of Potential Client Problems
Warning Your Superior of Potential Vendor Problems
Apologizing to Your Superior for Your Own Backstabbing
Lifescripts for Vendors
Asking a Vendor to Lower Her Price
Complaining to a Vendor about His Service
Soliciting a Bid from a Vendor
Asking a Vendor to Accelerate His Work
Resisting a Vendor's Commercial Bribery
Threatening Litigation against a Vendor
Index