How can you help someone who doesn’t want to be helped? Should you even try? If motivation is considered not only as an intrinsic attribute of the offender, but dependent upon a range of factors including what obstacles there are, what sort of changes are needed and the kind of intervention on offer, steps can be taken to improve the situation.
Mary McMurran has skilfully brought together eminent researchers and practitioners, who provide the reader with best knowledge and practice from two major fields-addictions and criminological psychology-to examine the therapeutic process and suggest how best to engage offenders in therapy. Throughout, ethical issues surrounding motivating offenders to change are closely scrutinised.
This book is an invaluable resource and guide to those training and working with offenders and training staff, including clinical and prison psychologists, probation officers, forensic psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists , counsellors, and prison officers.
“Scholars and practitioners who despair because ‘the people who are most in need of treatment are the most difficult to engage’ will feel optimistic and reinvigorated after reading this book. Motivating Offenders to Change provides the most valuable and comprehensive information available anywhere about how to encourage offenders to attend sessions and to comply with and benefit from treatment.” David P. Farrington, Professor of Psychological Criminology at Cambridge University, UK
“This excellent book is a must-read for all who are involved in the criminal justice system. It challenges the idea that confrontation with offenders is necessary and demonstrates that effective treatment results from building effective relationships with these clients. McMurran’s book is a groundbreaking synthesis of what is known from various fields about motivating offenders.” William L. Marshall, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Motivation is the single most important management strategy a business person needs to ensure his or her professional, personal, and organizational success. “1,000 Ways to Inspire Your Organization, Your Team, and Yourself” shows how to re-apply motivation in every area National media publicity & promos.

Take your hobby to the next level and turn your blog into real income

Anyone who blogs knows that it is a fun, creative way for sharing thoughts and opinions. Now imagine making money from that hobby! This practical, how-to guide shows you how you can get serious about using your blog and implement advertising, sponsorship, partnerships, and affiliate marketing options to turn your hobby into extra income, or even a full-time career.

Helpful examples and featured articles with topic experts and bloggers who have built successful business demonstrate how to promote your business or build a blog-based business.
Discusses finding your niche, adhering to legal considerations, establishing your disclosure and privacy policies, and dealing responsibly with review requests
Introduces ideas for advertising and other monetization options and recommends promotional avenues to explore
Suggests creative ways to keep your blog fresh, unique, and interesting
Provides tips for monitoring and measuring your success

Professional Blogging For Dummies opens the door to a world of money-making blogging possibilities!

Change is afoot in businesses across America and throughout the world: Dual-earning households continue to grow in record numbers; men and women are taking time off from their careers to take care of children or aging parents and are struggling to find a way back in; and workers at the top and bottom of the pay scale are struggling to balance their jobs and personal lives while making ends meet. At the same time, businesses are looking for creative ways to boost profits and retain their talent rather than eliminating positions to make their numbers. We are, in short, standing on the precipice of a workplace revolution.

The Custom-Fit Workplace explains how to navigate the changing landscape. It reveals cutting-edge strategies for managers, workers, and executives everywhere to fundamentally transform the way we work. Today’s tumultuous, 24/7 world is wreaking havoc on the fit between the workplace and workers and, unlessaddressed now, will put our families, health, and communities on a collision course with our jobs. It has never been more urgent to align work and life. The Custom-Fit Workplace shows you how to do this.

Thoroughly grounded in research, The Custom-Fit Workplace distills the best practices that are transforming workplaces across the country, including work-from-home arrangements, results-only work environments, babies-at-work programs, and successful career lane changes. From flexible hours to part-time work strategies, these innovative approaches create win-win solutions for both businesses and employees.

With examples from both private and nonprofit sectors, The Custom-Fit Workplace will help managers and employees at every level forge a unique work-life fit while boosting the bottom line. This is an eminently practical guide for anyone who wants to reshape the workplace, reclaim their lives, and build resilient, effective, and respectful organizations.

Most businesses are frustrated regarding their use of IT. Are they making the most of it and unlocking the potential of their workforce? Are they even using technology correctly? In Agility, Mark Mueller-Eberstein defines a new course that your business can use to join the elite ranks of optimized IT infrastructure superstars.

Mueller-Eberstein teaches you how you can exploit technology to take your business to a new level of success. But this book isn’t about how to be simply good or better at using IT. Instead, it describes the myths of IT that keep companies underperforming, frustrated, and unprofitable. Filled with global case studies from various industries, it’s about evaluating and prioritizing IT projects based on the impact on your business and about redefining exactly how strategy and technology implementation intersect, to create astounding business performance.

To be IT-agile, Mueller-Eberstein reveals, you must take an honest look at the crucial role of technology adoption and its derived impact on your business’s results—and he offers lessons and experiences drawn from his many years in helping organizations use technology solutions to increase their agility within their business sector. He shows how it is those companies that know how to efficiently choose, roll out, and measure the effect of new technology that have proven themselves to be winners in today’s marketplace. He underscores that, whether it’s reductions in energy use or a quicker time to market with a new product, it’s companies like BMW and Del Monte that have used technology to gain a competitive advantage. These are today’s Agile organizations. It’s time your company joins them.

The corporate digital divide will soon be drawn between those who exploit technology to its full potential—the Agile ones—and those who merely have it.

Whether your job is to manage facilities, people, or sales accounts, or oversee technology and its management, Agility presents IT solutions that can and will transform any and every part of your company.

The benefits of networking are many – improving the chances of keeping a job, getting a new (better) one, career progression, learning how to get along with others, and improving personal effectiveness and company performance.
Successful Networking is designed to encourage people to “network for success” by removing the fear associated with networking. It gives advice and guidance on: finding the right networks, networking groups, networking in the virtual community, first impressions, the skill of conversation, coping with rejection, the elevator pitch, following up, sharing information and contacts, managing and growing your network.
Whatever stage you have reached in your life or career, you cannot afford not to network. This book will help you get started, virtually or physically, and convince you of the long-term benefits of relationship building. It is vital reading for anyone who wishes to stay ahead of the pack.

The study of inequality, polarization and poverty is crucial for understanding the economic well-being of the population of a country. Conceptual and methodological advances and better data have provided better insights into these issues in recent years, and it is the objective of the book to present a systematic and up-to-date treatment of the developments in the subject. Both welfare theoretic and descriptive approaches are discussed and, since the wellbeing of a population depends on income and non-income indicators, both unidimensional and multidimensional frameworks are taken into consideration. The technical terms and mathematical operations employed to analyze the results are explained intuitively in non-technical terms, and nmerical analyses and graphical representations help to illustrate important concepts.

International bestselling author and behavior expert Joe Navarro helps you successfully navigate the business world by understanding what your boss and coworkers are really thinking.

Why is it that some people have all the elements of success—education, skills, integrity, motivation—but can’t seem to move from effectiveness to excellence in their careers? Behavior expert Joe Navarro reveals the long-sought answer. Louder Than Words teaches how to master nonverbal intelligence, the ability to interpret and use nonverbal signals—in poker terms, “tells”—in business to assess and influence others.

Drawing on his decades in the behavioral sciences, Navarro shows how to use his simple yet powerful “comfort/discomfort” model to decode what’s really being said at meetings, interviews, negotiations, presentations, business meals, and more, including the casual exchanges that often impact decisions and reputations.

Jump-start your career as you discover how to:

Read body language to understand what clients, coworkers, interviewers, or interviewees are thinking, feeling, or intending, and discern nonverbal cues of concern, disagreement, or doubt—even over the phone

Master the all-important first impression and use settings, seating, and gestures to inspire and captivate

Recognize habits that send the wrong message, from nail biting to wearing inappropriate attire—and see what posture, work practices, workspaces, and even electronic habits say about people

Become culturally aware and gender-sensitive, from best handshake practices to personal space preferences

Learn what the “comfort dividend” can do for you and your business

Explore how the concept of “curbside appeal” applies to you and your business, and can mean the difference between average and exceptional

Use Louder Than Words to close the deal, keep your customers, secure new ones, and lead your company with confidence. For job seekers looking to stand out from the pack, this book is your get-back-to-work bible.

Written in a rigorous yet logical and easy to use style, spanning a range of disciplines, including business, mathematics, finance and economics, this comprehensive textbook offers a systematic, self-sufficient yet concise presentation of the main topics and related parts of stochastic analysis and statistical finance that are covered in the majority of university programmes.

Data Mining for Design and Marketing shows how to design and integrate data mining tools into human thinking processes in order to make better business decisions, especially in designing and marketing products and systems.