Mike’s Books

Risk Happens!

Risk Happens! Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects, by Mike Clayton Risk Happens! Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects

Managers at all levels must lead and deliver projects ranging from thousands of pounds, lasting days, to multi-million pound projects taking years. They all have one thing in common: risk.

Risk Happens! Things go wrong; so you need a practical approach to managing project risk.

Visit the Risk Happens! website or buy the book from Amazon.co.uk

Brilliant Influence

“skilfully raises the reader’s awareness and provides pragmatic, easy to follow steps to achieving brilliant influence.”

Why do some people always seem to get what they want, while you have to follow along? If you want more of what you want, to win more arguments and have people keep their promises, you need to understand influence. Everyone can do it; some people do do it; why should you miss out?

Visit the Brilliant Influence website or click here to buy from amazon.co.uk

Brilliant Time Management

Brilliant Time Management “If you are serious about being brilliant at time management, then this is the book for you. Another fantastic resource."

We all have different ways of handling time. Brilliant Time Management looks at the unhelpful habits that waste the most precious commodity you have; and it offers practical solutions to get more done. If you want to make the most of your time, then reading this could well be the best few hours you spend.

Visit the Brilliant Time Management website or click here to buy from amazon.co.uk

Brilliant Stress Management

Brilliant Stress Management by Mike Clayton We all have stress in our lives, so why do some of us thrive on it while others feel crushed by its weight? The answer is that it’s not stress that does the damage: it’s our response to it.

Brilliant Stress Management shows you how to manage your response to stress to take control of your life and build a happy, successful future.

Visit the Brilliant Stress Management website and click here to buy from Amazon.

Brilliant Project Leader

Brilliant Project Leader by Mike Clayton Projects are tough environments where mangers rarely have complete authority over their teams. Yet the need to achieve a clear outcome in a defined time, with a limited budget, means you have to get the best from your people.

Brilliant Project Leader looks beyond the formal project management disciplines at how to lead your team and offers you a wealth of brilliant tips, tools and insights.

Visit the Brilliant Project Leader website. Available autumn 2011.

Management Models

“Invaluable both as a foundation to the subject for new managers and as a quick refresher for the more seasoned managers and leaders.”

Ten great management models; each one presented clearly and concisely, with a critical commentary and practical tips.

Visit the Management Models website or click here to buy from amazon.co.uk

Handling Resistance

“… brings his talent for providing clarity to a challenging and essential topic.”

Mike’s Onion Model of resistance shows you how to understand resistance, engage with it positively and change minds, in the contexts of ideas, sales and change.

Visit the Handling Resistance website or click here to buy from amazon.co.uk

I specialise in the skills that managers, leaders and project managers need, to be outstanding in the workplace. These are the skills I have studied and learned about in over twenty years of business life.

Each book has its own website, with additional resources, blogs and links to where you can buy the book. Click on the links in the bookshelf above, or here:

Three reasons why my books are different

1. I like ideas,
… so you will find my books stuffed with them.

2. I like to make connections,
… so you will find my books connect up knowledge and ideas in new ways.

3. I like results,
… so you will find practical methods that really work.

But most of all, I know that no technique is guaranteed to work for everybody every time.
So you get choice: you won’t get empty promises that “it’s guaranteed to work.”
Instead, you’ll get the best of my knowledge, experience and ideas in a
simple, practical, and thought-provoking package.