• Promoting your business
• Optimizing your performance
• Realizing your potential
• Making your dreams come true
• Managing your stress better

Kate Keenan is the author of 'Management Guide' series of books, published by Oval Books. These are a series of short books which assist how people manage themselves by enabling them to develop the skills to be more effective, and so contribute to the community's or organisation's effectiveness. The books offer guidance on specific topics, including handling stress at work, and help people to perform more effectively. They are compact, concise and written in common sense language, refreshingly free of the usual management jargon.

The books acknowledge the sometimes stressful difficulties involved in managing anything and recognise that people are coping somehow, but may need gentle encouragement to do better and increase their interpersonal and managing skills. They are dedicated to those ‘who would like to manage better, but who are too busy to begin' and are designed to be easily read in about one and a half hours.

The topics covered are:

• Managing (an overview)
• Asserting Yourself
• Communicating
• Delegating
• Handling Stress
• Making Time
• Managing Yourself
• Motivating
• Negotiating
• Planning
• Running Meetings
• Selecting People
• Solving Problems
• Understanding Behaviour