How to be the employee your company can't live without : 18 ways to become indispensable

This is a guide to getting ahead at work, from a management expert.

This practical guide explains what today's managers are looking for in employees and how employees can surpass expectations to gain raises and promotions.

Often, communication is the problem. Employees think they're underappreciated and their efforts unnoticed, while management mistakes that attitude for a lack of work ethic.

This book helps bring the two sides together so that managers can get what they want from employees and employees can get ahead in the game.

Glenn Shepard (Nashville, TN) is the owner and founder of Glenn Shepard Seminars in Nashville.

Nearly 100,000 managers, from Fortune 500 companies and small businesses alike, have attended his seminars.

He is also the author of "How to Make Performance Evaluations Really Work" (0-471-73963-4) and "How to Manage Problem Employees" (0-471-73043-2), both from Wiley.