w/c 19th June 2011 - Management Training News from ManageTrainLearn Management Training Resources: w/c 19th June 2011 This week, we have a new free handbook on Time Management for you. Like all the handbooks in our E-book section, this is one of the best manuals we've seen on this subject for a long long time. Other items in this week's "Management Training Resources" include a look at why brainwriting out-performs brainstorming; 5 kinds of question to ask at selection interviews; our spotlight on the "Qualities of Leadership" one-day course plan; and William Ouchi's Theory Z of management. "Handbook on Time Management Skills" This excellent free-to-download handbook comes from the Centre for Good Governance of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Perfecting Your First Page: 3 Tasks or Exercises Delacroix, Faust Trying to Seduce Margarete (detail) Over the weekend, I was a speaker at the Missouri Writers Guild conference (a terrific group of people and an impeccably run event). One of my sessions focused on evaluating the first page of your novel or memoir manuscript. Here are 3 of the best exercises or tasks you might undertake when thinking about your first page and how you can improve it before sending it to agents or editors. What is the absolute latest moment in the manuscript you can begin your story, and still not leave out anything that’s critical to the story problem? Most manuscripts I read should really start somewhere between page 5 and page 30.