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Quest Toolboxes
When you’re focused on your work the last thing you want to do is wade through reams of theoretical advice and ‘management speak’. What you do want is inspiring content and lively writing which offers practical, effective tools and techniques that you can apply directly to your business. Whether you’ve experienced Quest’s consulting style in person or not, the Toolbox collection is a valuable way of acquiring expertise drawn from years of experience.
Quest’s Toolbox collection is used by organisations across the world as a handy reference guide providing new ideas and proven techniques for managing more effectively. Businesses of every shape and size find useful content in the Quest Toolbox collection, so whatever area you’re looking for improvement in, you’ll find practical ideas to try out straight away in Quest’s Toolboxes.
The Toolbox Collection
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The Toolbox Collection For organisational and personal development
Each title within the collection features more than 30 tools, checklists and guidelines. These five essential books are designed for every director, manager, team leader or internal consultant in dynamic, changing organisations. The compact size makes the Quest Toolbox an ideal daily reference point with practical advice which you can immediately apply to your work. The set comprises:
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Solve that problem! New and established problem solving techniques
Build that team! Essential techniques for better teamwork
Make things happen! Practical tools for commissioning, planning, monitoring and reviewing large projects
Create the difference! Tools to help you create and manage effective change
Be your best! An innovative guide for upgrading personal effectiveness
Individual Toolbox Titles
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Solve that problem! Quest Worldwide Tools for Quality Improvement
This quick reference pocket guide contains thirty-two problem solving tools, checklists and guidelines. It is a valuable resource for anyone involved in continuous improvement whether as a sponsor, team leader, team member, trainer or facilitator.
(Also available in French, Spanish, German and Dutch)
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Build that team! Quest Worldwide Tools for Team Improvement
This quick reference pocket guide provides thirty-five teambuilding tools, checklists and guidelines. It is a valuable resource for anyone involved in team working (of simple projects) whether as a sponsor, team leader, team member or facilitator. Build that team! takes you from identifying the need for a team through all the steps of setting objectives, selecting team members and working effectively together to, finally, reviewing and disbanding the team.
(Also available in Spanish and German)
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Make things happen! Quest Worldwide Tools for Project Management
This quick reference pocket guide offers vital tools, checklists and guidelines for setting up and managing projects. It is a valuable resource for anyone involved in large projects whether as the commissioner, sponsor, leader or team members. Make things Happen! takes you through all of the steps involved in commissioning, planning, monitoring and reviewing large projects.
(Also available in Spanish)
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Create the difference! Quest Worldwide Tools for Change
This quick reference pocket guide explains more than thirty tools, checklists and guidelines to help you create and manage effective change. It is a valuable resource for anyone responsible for identifying and implementing change whether it is focussed on customers, processes, behaviours or organisation wide improvement.
(Also available in Spanish)
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Be your best! Quest Worldwide Tools for Personal Development
This quick reference pocket guide contains the practical tools, checklists and guidelines you need to upgrade your personal effectiveness. It will help you to know yourself better, to build better working relationships and to create positive impressions with others.
(Also available in Spanish)
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The Lean Toolbox Quest Worldwide Quick Reference Pocket Guide
The Lean Toolbox is a quick reference pocket guide to over 30 tools, checklists and guidelines. Whatever your involvement with lean operations this is a valuable resource to have on your desk. It will help you identify ways to deliver better quality faster, and at a lower cost to your customers. “In short, lean thinking is lean because it provides a way of doing more with less” Lean Thinking, Womack & Jones (Reproduced with permission)
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Quest Management Books
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New edition now available!
Plan to Win - Turning strategy into success
By Steve Smith, Chairman, Quest Worldwide
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Research by Quest amongst some of the world's biggest organisations found that 80% had a clear business strategy statement yet almost half (47%) admitted they could improve the way they implement those strategies.
The latest edition of Plan to Win, published in August 2008, is an accessible guide to good planning and better implementation. It is designed to help managers, at all levels and in any organisation, understand the importance of strategy, the principles of implementation and their critical role in it. Drawing from Quest's global experience developing innovative and challenging management systems for companies like Unilever and Philips, Steve Smith examines the classic problems of implementing strategy and presents a winning system for tackling them.
