Most Popular Books by Jan Yager

Habits to Transform Your Life How to Finish Everything You Start is just the book you need to get more done! This book will help you in understanding the causes of the “unfinished” epidemic, its cures, and when choosing not to finish something is okay. By focusing on this one key issue that is sabotaging so many today in their quest to be more productive at work, and to have a more satisfying personal life, you are more likely to: • Understand what is behind your occasional or chronic reluctance to finish • Apply the author’s unique FINISH systematic approach to get more done • Complete priority projects or tasks • Be more confident if you do put something aside it is for the right reasons and lots more... Jan Yager is the author of 46 books translated into 34 languages including seven titles on time management such as Work Less, Do More. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from The City University of New York Graduate Center. For more on this awardwinning author, speaker, entrepreneur, and coach, go to: http://www.drjanyager.com.

Key Features Book DescriptionIn a world where IT is absolutely integral to the way business works and how it interacts with its customers, effective time management within IT is perhaps more important than in any other department. Effective and on-time delivery is essential for any IT team, and ensuring your team is able to plan and deliver results independently as well as being able to cooperate and work cohesively together is the foundation of an exceptional and productive organizational culture. Business consultant and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager understands exactly what effective time management in IT can bring to a business. In this book she provides you with templates, tips, tools and tricks that you can use to deliver successful time management training for your team. From Agile organization to personal strategies for managing projects, this training manual will provide you with everything you and your team need to cultivate a culture where time is highly valued. Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer’s Manual is designed to make the task of delivering training material easier for you. Featuring exercises and worksheets and plenty of tips that will help you to develop exceptional time management skills this book is indispensable for anyone who recognizes the value of time in a business. Discover strategies for improving personal productivity and help your team tackle time management headaches such as procrastination with exercises and tasks to help improve personal planning and project management skills. Tackle the distractions of the modern workplace and help your team overcome issues such as perfectionism to ensure they are not only more productive but also happier and successful employees. Along with goal setting and prioritization for personal success, explore organizational strategies and Agile methodologies with your team. Move from personal goal setting to strategic cohesion as you help your team complete the time management puzzle to see the broad picture – where both personal productivity and organizational efficiency come together. What you will learn Who this book is for

Praise for the previous edition:" ... provide[s] a good background for anyone interested in the subject ... easy to use."

"Writing a great book is the easy part. Getting people to buy the book is wicked hard. Jan’s book shows you what promotion to do so you increase the possibility that your book becomes a bestseller.” —Jeffrey Fox,bestselling author,How to Become a Rainmaker "Being an author is 50% creative and 50% promotion. Jan Yager''s comprehensive and practical book, How to Promote Your Book, tells authors exactly what they need to know and do to promote their book. I''m recommending it to all the authors I know including those whose books I share through my Bedside Reading program." —Jane Ubell-Meyer, CEO, Bedside Reading, former TV producer, Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight, WSJ-TV Whether your book is being released through a commercial publisher or an academic press, or you are self-publishing it, as the author, you can and should play a crucial role in getting your title seen, talked about, and sold. And while you may watch dozens of authors pitch their books on TV, in social media, and in bookstores, they represent only a fraction of the writers who come out with new books each year. What do they know that you don’t? They know what to do to get attention for themselves and, more important, for their books—and as you will discover in book publishing veteran Jan Yager’s How to Promote Your Book, you can, too. The book is divided into three sections. Part One begins with a look at promotion basics. These include knowing what your book’s marketplaces are, who your audience is, how the media is divided, the elements involved in publicity, and how to create an effective promotional timeline. Once you understand the basics, Part Two focuses on the ways to package and market yourself to the various book and media outlets. It discusses putting together professional looking press releases and media kits. It also explains how to obtain endorsements and reviews, as well as how to generate speaking engagements and interviews with journalists; bloggers; and radio, TV, and podcast hopes. Part Three provides a plan that covers the fi rst three months of an author’s publicity program—from the day the book is formally released through all the media events that have been lined up. Throughout the book, you will find insets that answer important questions such as, “What are the real costs involved?” and “Should I promote myself or hire a publicists?” Just as important, the author includes a valuable resource guide that provides the names, addresses, and links to many of the key places covered in the book. Jan Yager has enjoyed a fabulous career as both a best-selling author and a publisher. She has been interviewed by many of the top shows on TV and radio. In How to Promote Your Book, she lets you in on what she has done—both for herself and for her authors—to open the door to effective publicity.

Taking its place alongside relationship classics The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dr. Jan Yager’s When Friendship Hurts, in print since being published twenty-two years ago, is now available in a second edition containing new original research. Friendship expert, coach, and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager’s prescriptive book on toxic friendships, what to do about them, and how to find or improve the positive friendships we all deserve, also has an updated Preface, bibliography, and resources section. The Preface shares Dr. Yager’s more recent research that asks the question, “Have you ever had a friendship that made you physically or emotionally sick?” She was surprised to find that such strong reactions were more common than she originally thought. Forty-three percent of the ninety men and women she surveyed answered “Yes” to that question. In the new Preface, she shares their most common reactions. Another new feature of Dr. Yager’s classic book includes cartoons at the beginning of each chapter by artist Cathy Wilcox and originally done for the Australia/New Zealand edition. When Friendship Hurts has helped countless men and women to better understand why they get involved in a toxic friendship, and then explore possible ways to mend it, let it fade, or end it.

Gives advice and comments on how to benefit from making your office, no matter what your position in the hierarchy, health, efficient, and reflects you.

"The Adjunct Handbook is a comprehensive prescriptive guide for new or current adjuncts that provides information on every aspect of being an adjunct. Based on extensive background research and the author''s own experience as an adjunct at twelve different colleges and universities, the book includes the results of anonymous surveys of adjuncts and over fifty in-depth interviews with current and former adjuncts. It covers everything from pay, benefits, and unionizing to dealing with the stigma of being an adjunct, how to make adjuncting work better for those unable to find full-time faculty work. It presents best teaching practices, how to create a syllabus from scratch or amend a preexisting one, and legal issues around free speech, intellectual property, and much more"-- Provided by publisher.

A new world has opened to writers who wish to have their words turned into finished books. With technological advances in typesetting, printing, distribution, and sales, self-publishing has become a reality. But while converting your writing into a commercially available title may sound relatively easy—based upon the claims of some companies that offer this service—there are many important considerations you should be aware of before going to press. Publishing expert Dr. Jan Yager has created an easy-to-follow guide that will take you from a book’s conception and writing to its production and sales. Whether your work is fiction or nonfiction, How to Self-Publish Your Book offers sound and proven advice at every turn, enabling you to avoid common pitfalls along the way to becoming a self-published author. The book is divided into three parts. Part One takes you through the initial manuscript preparation—setting your goals, writing, sequencing, editing, and proofing, as well as creating a business plan for your book’s eventual release. Part Two focuses on the actual production of your book. It explains the importance of cover and interior design, what you need to know about producing physical books and e-books, and how to turn your title into an audiobook. Part Three provides key information on how to market and sell your book—subjects that are crucial to a title’s success, but of which most writers have very little understanding. Also included is a valuable resource section that guides you to websites which offer essential information on self-publishing service providers, including complete self-publishing companies as well as freelance editors, proofreaders, printers, distributors, marketers, and publicists. Today, self-publishing workshops and lecturers charge hopeful writers hundreds of dollars, promising to turn their self-published books into bestsellers. The fact is that your book’s chance of success starts at its origin, not with the finished product. However you choose to produce your book, whether through a self-publishing company or through separate services, here is a complete road map to what lies ahead—based not on hype or wishful thinking, but on Dr. Jan Yager’s lifetime of experience in the world of publishing.

Along with Medicare, Social Security is one of the "rites of passage" older Americans experience. After contributing funds to this program their entire working lives, people are anxious to start cashing in on their monthly benefits. Idiot''s Guides: Social Security offers simple and clear explanations of the history of the program, the traditional age requirement, disability and survivor benefits, and the future of Social Security. A bonus decision tree helps recipients maximize benefits based on such factors as how and when benefits are filed, marital status, and future plans.

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