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I think and write about management - I make on-line videos, speak at conferences (message…
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Why Sales People Need To Know About Negotiating
Why Sales People Need To Know About Negotiating
By Chris Croft
Contributions
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Some real numbers from doing a mixture of zoom and face to face training:
Some real numbers from doing a mixture of zoom and face to face training:
Shared by Chris Croft
Experience
Education
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University of Cambridge
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Activities and Societies: CEO of Record Library, founder of Unicycling Club, Tenor sax in band called "Coming Soon", College 3rd Badminton Team, and a small amount of academic study
Masters in Manufacturing Engineering
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Activities and Societies: Maths, screen printing, TAC (with Chopper Hawith), gerbil room, Led Zep and Uriah Heep. Successfully avoided rugby, chapel, and being a prefect. Liked squash. Reasonable A-level results. Enjoyed Physics.
4 A-Levels: Maths Physics Chemistry and Further Maths
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Activities and Societies: Scrumping apples and building underground camps
Formative years
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Publications
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Seven Paths To Happiness (and Two Dead Ends) - strategies for your life and career
CCT
amazon USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWMFX389
Everyone is different so there isn't one route that works for all of us, but there seem to be seven choices of how you can live your life - do you specialise or generalise, do you run your own business or work for an organisation, do you go for steady progress or build something big to sell off, do you focus more on fun or achievement ....or money?
This is a book for people who are just starting out in their career, or maybe questioning…amazon USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWMFX389
Everyone is different so there isn't one route that works for all of us, but there seem to be seven choices of how you can live your life - do you specialise or generalise, do you run your own business or work for an organisation, do you go for steady progress or build something big to sell off, do you focus more on fun or achievement ....or money?
This is a book for people who are just starting out in their career, or maybe questioning their direction. It's full of practical tips on how to choose your path and then how to maximise the success you have with it. -
Project Management QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide
ClydeBank Media LLC
340 pages, this chunky book tells you everything you need to know about project managmeent, but in a fun and readable way with lots of graphics and also embedded videos - scan the QR code with your phone and watch the video. For beginners it's a great way into the subject, but experienced PMs will learn useful tips as well. Here are ten things that are unique in this book: https://www.chriscroft.co.uk/why-my-project-management-book-is-different-9-reasons/
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The Big Book of Happiness - 87 practical strategies
amazon kindle
The most practical book there is on how to improve your day to day happiness. Full of practical ideas. Also available as a physical book from lulu.com
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Happiness Tips
Linkedin Learning
52 videos on practical ways to get more happiness into your life, originally released one per week for a year on lynda.com / Linked in Learning, now available as a complete course
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Efficient Time Management
Linkedin Learning
This video course covers the detail on how to run your life efficiently - lists, systems etc
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Time Management: Five ways to control your time
Linkedin Learning
This video course covers the big picture of time management - how do you decide what's important, why you need clear goals, how to get more time for the important things in life as well as the urgent ones, and the five options you have: saying no, delegating, being less of a perfectionist, etc
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Process Improvement Fundamentals
Linkedin Learning
How to improve your quality and lead times, and reduce your costs. Understanding queue theory, balanced lines, kanban etc. The links between quality and cost, lead times and costs. All explained simply and clearly.
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Gantt Charts Explained
Linkedin Learning
The ultimate course on Gantt charts - how to draw them with excel, how to calculate resource requirements for one or multiple projects, how to crash your project, etc
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Management Articles
Lynda.com
The 7 sins of teamwork
5 Ways to Be Happier at Work
The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes
5 Ways to Know If You'd Make a Great Project Manager
10 Things Every Successful Business Must Have (Even Yours)
Want More Free Time? How About a Whole Month?
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Video Training Courses - listed below
Lynda.com
Project Management Simplified
Solving Project Problems
Gantt Charts Explained
Teamwork Fundamentals
Learning to be Assertive
Process Improvement
Time Management - 5 options for getting more done
Time Management - Efficient systems
Happiness - practical strategies for a happier life
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How to be Assertive
Linkedin Learning
Everything you need to know about handling difficult people, standing yup of your own rights while respecting others, and how people should and actually do interact. Fascinating and also amusing, as well as practical.
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Project Management Simplified
Linkedin Learning
Now with over a million views, this has been an incredibly popular course on how to plan and run projects.
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14 books on amazon Kindle
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Eleven instant guides on subjects including Leadership, Negotiation, Projects, Time, Assertiveness, Happiness, Selling, Customer Service, Presentations etc, as well as a few other books.
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Being Happy - instant guide
Lulu
Practical ways to increase the amount of happiness in your life.
Also on kindle: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Happiness-practical-strategies-happier-Instant-ebook/dp/B005F5PBFE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388847685&sr=8-1&keywords=croft+happiness -
Time Management
Cengage Learning - originally Routledge and then Thomson International Press
The ultimate book on Time Management. Covering issues such as delegation, prioritization, personal organization, procrastination and stress it develops new frameworks and theories in improving time management skills, whilst end of chapter action plans ensure that the theory is related to real life.
Courses
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Agile vs Waterfall (with Doug Rose)
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Assertiveness - on LinkedIn learning, previously lynda.com
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Bad Boss - what can you do?
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Be A Great Team Player
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Cost Reduction
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Delight your customers
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Dream Job - CV and Interview techniques
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Efficient Time Management
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Gantt charts - on LinkedIn learning, previously lynda.com
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Handling Difficult People
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Happiness - on LinkedIn Learning aka lynda.com
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Inspirational Leadership
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Leadership
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Life Mastery
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Meetings - Agendas and Problems
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Meetings - on LinkedIn Learning - previously lynda.com
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Negotiation Skills - on lynda.com
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Personal Efficiency
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Presentation Skills
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Problem Solving Techniques
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Process improvement - on lynda.com
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Productivity - Bitesize Tips (Udemy only)
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Project Management - top 10 mistakes to avoid
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Project Management Simplified - on lynda.com
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Resource Planning for Projects - on lynda.com
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Selling
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Solving Project Problems
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Stress and Anxiety - Udemy.com only
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Success Habits
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Surviving Organisational Change
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The Life Skills Collection
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Time and Life - the Five Options
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Top Ten Project Management Mistakes
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Working Productively From Home
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Languages
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Bokmål, Norwegian
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