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The Unashamed Guide to Virtual Management

The Unashamed Guide to
Virtual Management

What happens when a virtual manager needs actual day-to-day support around issues such as handling office romance and doing laundry on the job—as well as more traditional issues like onboarding, performance reviews, and scheduling? Using short chapters and writing in a fun, whimsical, and straightforward way, authors Ben Bisbee and Kathy Wisniewski address the unanswered and critical questions of how to manage virtual teams in this new resource.

Publication Date: October 2019
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Digital You - Real Personal Branding in the Virtual Age 

Digital You
Real Personal Branding
in the Virtual Age

In Digital You: Real Personal Branding in the Virtual Age, branding authority William Arruda describes the 21st century world of personal branding and guides you to define, express, and expand your personal brand for the virtual world. Branding is not about being famous, Arruda explains; it’s about being selectively famous. It’s about more than social media excess. When you understand the true value of personal branding, you can use it as a serious career development strategy.  

Digital You offers a deep dive to understanding and defining your unique promise of value—making a great first impression, mastering multimedia, and, ultimately, expanding your network and promoting thought leadership. 

Publication Date: October 2019
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Agile for Instructional Designers - Iterative Project Management to Achieve Results 

Agile for Instructional Designers
 Iterative Project Management
to Achieve Results

To serve business needs amid greater volatility and uncertainty in the workplace, learning and development professionals need project management methods that can keep up. Enter Agile...

With templates for goal alignment, learner personas, scope definition, estimating, planning, and iterative development, Agile for Instructional Designers is the resource you need to embrace change in learning and development.

Publication Date: August 2019
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Story 10x: Turn the Impossible Into the Inevitable

Story 10x: Turn the Impossible
Into the Inevitable

Drawing on 30,000 years of storytelling, Story 10x delivers a fresh approach for how to inspire and influence in the digital age. Most people think of storytelling as “once upon” fairy tales or how to tell a better anecdote. In reality, getting clear on your strategic narrative is how you navigate hypergrowth. In these pages, you’ll learn how to craft an Undeniable Story—a 3-step narrative framework for any high-stakes presentation. Apply the same strategies embraced by Google, Facebook, and Hulu to communicate some of their biggest breakthroughs. Invest in your story, and you can literally bend the limits of time, money, and people.

Publisher: Storied (October 8, 2019) 
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