The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition (The Covey Habits Series)

• • Authors: Stephen R Covey

  • Summary:  One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents—millions of people of all ages and occupations. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 Habits with modern additions from Sean Covey. The 7 Habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Why? Because they work! With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 Habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders. They include:

    • Habit 1: Be Proactive

    • Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

    • Habit 3: Put First Things First

    • Habit 4: Think Win/Win

    • Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

    • Habit 6: Synergize

    • Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

Administrative Management: Setting People Up for Success

• • Authors: Susie VanHuss, Bob Kreitner

  • Summary: Master the skills needed for success in today's rapidly changing work environment with the useful, practical management tools and insights found only in ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT: SETTING PEOPLE UP FOR SUCCESS. Readers discover the keys to functioning at the highest level in today's professional work environment. This unique book helps readers navigate and respond most effectively to contemporary work challenges. The authors use their extensive experience to highlight actual valuable tools that truly set readers up for success. A concise, inviting approach introduces basic, critical management concepts for a full understanding of the goals, functions, and responsibilities of today's managers. Readers learn how to identify opportunities to package their skills and sell their strengths for both immediate and long-term professional success.

Administrative Procedures and Management

• • Authors: Margarita Saidali, Jam Ferdinand Saidali 

  • Summary: Administrative Procedures and Management is a concise and comprehensive book of Administration and Management which provides essential knowledge and skills needed in a variety of careers in the business world. It is quick reference for students and for those who would like to have a total overview of internal environment of an organization. The book is task-oriented, requiring the students to apply the knowledge and skills they learned to complete an assignment or solve a problem. It is the desire of the authors to share and inspire their students of the knowledge, skills and experiences they gained working in the corporate world. It is also their hope that they can delight their students not only to be good workers but also to be obedient children of God. As promised to us- - - “delight yourself in the law of the Lord… whatever he does prospers.”

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals 1st Edition

• • Author: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

  • Summary : Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.

  • Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to:

    • Understand the importance of context and audience

    • Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation

    • Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information

    • Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data

    • Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization

    • Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience

Decision Analysis for Managers: A Guide for Making Better Personal and Business Decisions

• • Author: David Charlesworth

  • Summary: Everybody has to make decisions—they are unavoidable. Yet we receive little or no education or training on how to make decisions. Business decisions can be dif_ cult: which people to hire, which product lines or facilities to expand and which to sell or shut down, which bid or proposal to accept, which process to implement, how much R&D to invest in, which environmental projects should receive the highest priority, etc. This book gives you all the tools you need to… • clarify and reach alignment on goals and objectives and understand trade-offs in reaching those goals, • develop and examine alternatives, • systematically analyze the effects of risk and uncertainty, and • maximize the chances of achieving your goals and objectives. Success (getting what you want) depends on luck and good decision making. You can’t control your luck, but you can maximize your odds by making the best possible decisions, and this book gets you there. Broadly speaking, this book organizes and presents otherwise formal decision-making tools in an intuitively understandable fashion. The presentation is informal, but the concepts and tools are research-based and formally accepted.

How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams To Do The Best Work of Their Lives

• • Authors: Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian, Helen Kupp, Stewart Butterfield

  • Summary: The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office is now a relic of the past, and is being replaced by a better way―flexible work. But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to “work from home”: 93% of your employees want more flexibility in when, not just where, they work. They want choice and they are leaving their roles to find it. The most successful leaders will go much further than offering occasional remote workdays―they will redesign every aspect of how work gets done, from defining how they measure organizational success to training their managers to make it happen. How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do The Best Work of Their Lives offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people. The book offers the steps necessary to building the new principles and guardrails to empower flexible, high-performing teams. And it teaches readers to lead with purpose, to manage and measure differently, and to believe that by letting go, they’ll get more back than they thought possible. How the Future Works explains how to:

    • Establish leadership principles, commitments, and outcomes for truly flexible teamwork

    • Measure and assess productivity in a flexible workplace

    • Reskill managers to ensure a level playing field for all employees

    • Implement the infrastructure necessary to make flexible work successful

    • Using original research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM, How the Future Works offers concrete solutions and practical steps for building high functioning teams of talented, engaged people by providing them with the flexibility and choice they need to do their best work.

Effective Remote Work: For Yourself, Your Team, and Your Company 1st Edition

• • Author: Dr. James Stainer

  • Summary: Remote working is on the rise. Whether or not we are remote workers, it is likely we are all part of a global workforce. We need to learn to interact remotely, because we are all remote from someone in some way. Rather than simply simulating the way we'd usually work together via digital means, we have to learn new communication skills and adopt a different mindset in order to work remotely effectively, efficiently, and most importantly, healthily.

We'll start by getting you set up with the right equipment and habits. Then, we'll learn the mindset of treating everyone as remote, and conquer both synchronous and asynchronous communication. You'll learn how to produce amazing artifacts, how to communicate clearly, and how to manage yourself and your teams. Then we'll look at the bigger picture: from measuring the remote readiness of your workplace, to creating a handbook for your team, to exploring remote-first culture and tackling burnout and mental well-being.

Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus Kindle Edition

• • Authors: Ali Greene, Tamara Sanderson

  • Summary:  Drawing on their years of experience working at remote companies DuckDuckGo and Automatic, plus dozens of interviews with leading experts, Ali Greene and Tamara Sanderson have written the ultimate playbook for managing remote teams.  This book addresses challenges such as communicating effectively (with fewer meetings!), eliminating frustration over what tools to use, establishing team norms, and focusing on getting things done. You will learn how to work best remotely and create a workplace designed for freedom, flexibility, and focus. For decades, we've planned our lives around our work. Now it's time to intentionally design work to fit our lives.

The NOW Hello: What to Say | What to Do in the World of Work

• • Author: Tracy Hooper

  • Summary: In her wildly successful confidence playbook, The NEW Hello, Tracy Hooper taught people around the world what to say and what to do in the new world of work during a global pandemic. Now Tracy’s back, answering the big question: How do you carry yourself with confidence now? Welcome to The NOW Hello: What to Say | What to Do in the World of Work. If you are ready to:

    • Speak with influence and impact online or in person

    • Lead your remote or hybrid team confidently

    • Promote your accomplishments when you work from home

    • Communicate with coworkers, prospects, and clients with ease

    • Network with confidence in any setting

    • …The NOW Hello is for you.

In each chapter, Tracy will teach you new skills and techniques to support your remote, hybrid, or return-to-office work. Topics include camera confidence, words to lose and words to use, the NOW networking, confident conversations, the hybrid highway, and much more.

The Business Acumen Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in the Corporate World

• • Author: Steven Haines

  • Summary: The main idea behind The Business Acumen Handbook is to help managers understand the pillars of their company’s business, and to operate more effectively and efficiently. After reading this book, you'll be able to:

    • Understand and apply the dimensions of business acumen that focus on people, processes, projects, and products so that you can see the “big picture of business”

    • Incorporate finance, strategy, and performance management into your professional mindset

    • Develop a model for how to effectively communicate with, and influence others.

    • Understand complex business situations, evaluate facts and data, and make better decisions

    • The book is filled with tools, templates, exercises, and guidelines. It also introduces readers to their own individual business acumen assessment so that they can create a purposeful career and professional development strategy.

Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company

• • Author: Kevin Cope

  • Summary: Whether you're on the manufacturing floor or sitting in the corner office, you can learn how to follow the drivers through to measurable results conquering your fear of numbers. Using Kevin's simple explanations of the most important metrics presented in the income statement, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows, you'll be able to quickly review financial reports for signs of success or impending doom.  Convincingly communicate your ideas to leaders, improve your team's performance, even launch a successful business of your own. No matter your goal, give yourself the foundational knowledge every businessperson needs, and discover new strategies for proving your value.

The Street-Smart MBA: Mastering Business Acumen Without Going To School

• • Author: Ian Fishwick

  • Summary:  As we enter the world of Covid-19 and its' aftermath, there has never been a better time to go back to business fundamentals. He hopes that this book helps in a small way to the rebuilding of our economies and the rebirth of our business community. Ian shares stories and anecdotes about what he has learned from being a Managing Director and Chief Executive, for nearly three decades. This is not a textbook. Each story has a doodled image, the story itself and then a summary of the key lessons. Each story is only a few pages. You can dip in and out of the book, but many can't put it down and find themselves reading it all.The section on bank borrowing is for people who are serious about setting up a business and want to know how to deal with banks. Lessons that you rarely see anywhere else.

Better Business Acumen: A Guide to Building Corporate Savvy

• • Authors: Steven Cavaleri, David Freeman

  • Summary:  Highly effective leaders understand that problems and opportunities do not exist in isolation from the other parts of the company. An underlying truth of organizational science is that any so-called solutions, new policies, or project initiatives are inextricably connected to the rest of the organization. Whether you recognize these subtle ties or not is another matter. Taking actions that ignore these connections is not only a recipe for becoming ineffective in solving problems, but it may worsen existing ones. On the other hand, highly effective leaders learn to leverage the subtle forces at play in the background of every complex problem-solving situation. This is not magic, though, at times, highly effective solutions to complex problems seem like magic. These truths are embedded in every aspect of life including medicine, public policy, sports, and companies -- from the largest to the smallest.

Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

• • • Authors: Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz

    • Summary:  Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. Now, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and efficiently using Smart Brevity—think Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for the digital age.

Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World

• • • Authors: Todd Rogers, Jessica Lasky-Fink

    • Summary:  Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into six principles that will transform the power of your writing:

      • Less is more

      • Make reading easy

      • Design for easy navigation

      • Use enough formatting, but no more

      • Tell readers why they should care

      • Make responding easy

Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business

• • • Authors: Kenneth Roman, Joel Raphaelson

    • Summary:  The classic guide that helps you communicate your thoughts clearly, concisely, and effectively. Essential for every professional, from entry level to the executive suite, Writing that Works includes advice on all aspects of written communication—including business memos, letters, reports, speeches and resumes, and e-mail—and offers insights into political correctness and tips for using non-biased language that won’t compromise your message. Concise and easy-to-use, Writing that Works features an accessible, at-a-glance style, full of bulleted "tips" and specific examples of good vs. bad writing.

HBR Guide to Better Business Writing

• • Author: Bryan A Garner

  • Summary:  When you're fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a luxury. But it's a skill you must cultivate to succeed: You'll lose time, money, and influence if your e-mails, proposals, and other important documents fail to win people over. The HBR Guide to Better Business Writing, by writing expert Bryan A. Garner, gives you the tools you need to express your ideas clearly and persuasively so clients, colleagues, stakeholders, and partners will get behind them. This book will help you:

    • Push past writer's block

    • Grab--and keep--readers' attention

    • Earn credibility with tough audiences

    • Trim the fat from your writing

    • Strike the right tone

    • Brush up on grammar, punctuation, and usage

The Only Business Writing Book You'll Ever Need

• • Authors: Laura Brown, Rich Karlgaard

  • Summary:  A winning combination of how-to guide and reference work, The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need addresses a wide-ranging spectrum of business communication with its straightforward seven-step method. These easy-to-follow steps save you time from start to finish, and helpful checklists will boost your confidence as they keep you on track. You’ll learn to promote yourself and your ideas clearly and concisely―whether putting together a persuasive project proposal or dealing with daily email.

Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author

• Author: John P Kotter 

• Summary: The international bestseller now with a new preface by author John Kotter. Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter’s ideas on change management and leadership. From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and ultimately, recession we’ve learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It’s the rule. Now with a new preface, this refreshed edition of the global bestseller Leading Change is more relevant than ever. John Kotter’s now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process every organization must go through to achieve its goals, and by identifying where and how even top performers derail during the change process, Kotter provides a practical resource for leaders and managers charged with making change initiatives work. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration published in Harvard Business Review.

Managing At the Speed of Change

• Author: Daryl R Conner

• Summary: This classic, newly updated, is an indispensable source for anyone–from mid-level managers to CEOs–who must execute key business initiatives quickly and effectively. Once groundbreaking and now time-honored, Managing at the Speed of Change has helped countless business leaders learn how to orchestrate transitions vital to their organizations’ success. Rather than focusing on what to change, this book’s aim is far more valuable: It shows readers how to change. Daryl R. Conner, founder and chairman of the consulting firm Conner Partners, is a leading expert on change management. He has served as “change doctor” for clients that include non-profit enterprises, government agencies and administrations, and Fortune 500 companies in an array of industries such as Abbott Laboratories, PepsiCo, American Express, Catholic Healthcare West, JPMorgan Chase, and the U.S. Navy. Based on Conner’s long-term research and his decades of consulting experience, Managing at the Speed of Change uses simple, easy-to-understand language and elegant visuals to explore the dynamics of change, and in doing so, teaches readers

  • • why major change is difficult to assimilate

    • what distinguishes resilient individuals from those who suffer future shock

    • how and why resistance forms

    • how people become committed to change

    • why organizational culture is so important to the success of change

    • the roles most central to change in organizational settings

    • why powerful teamwork is at the heart of achieving change objectives, and how to foster it

ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community 

• Author: Jeffrey M Hiatt

• Summary: In his first complete text on the ADKAR model, Jeff Hiatt explains the origin of the model and explores what drives each building block of ADKAR. Learn how to build awareness, create desire, develop knowledge, foster ability and reinforce changes in your organization. The ADKAR Model is changing how we think about managing the people side of change, and provides a powerful foundation to help you succeed at change.After more than 14 years of research with corporate change, the ADKAR model has emerged as a holistic approach that brings together the collection of change management work into a simple, results oriented model. This model ties together all aspects of change management including readiness assessments, sponsorship, communications, coaching, training and resistance management. All of these activities are placed into a framework that is oriented on the required phases for realizing change with individuals and the organization.The ADKAR perspective can help you develop a “new lens” through which to observe and influence change. You may be working for change in your public school system or in a small city council. You may be sponsoring change in your department at work. Most importantly, ADKAR can help your changes be a success. Based on research with more than 900 companies from 59 countries, ADKAR is a simple and holistic way to manage change.

Becoming a Great Leader: Lessons from Silicon Valley

• • Author: Gustavo Rabin Ph.D

  • Summary: In Becoming a Great Leader, leading Silicon Valley business psychologist and international corporate attorney Dr. Gustavo Rabin presents dynamic, transformative tools and strategies for today's business leaders. Through the compelling stories of eight executives who have sought out his assistance, Dr. Rabin presents insightful approaches to leadership change that he has utilized with executives at Google, Intel, Linkedin, Cisco, Yahoo!, Roche, Barclays, AMD and so many other companies.

Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization

• Author: Scott Mautz 

• Summary: Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization delivers an insightful and practical guide for the backbone of an organization: those who have a boss and are a boss and must lead from the messy middle. Accomplished author and former P&G executive Scott Mautz walks readers through the unique challenges facing these managers, and the mindset and skillset necessary for managing up and down and influencing what happens across the organization. You’ll learn the winning mindset of the best middle managers, how to develop the most important skills necessary for managing from the middle, how to create your personal Middle Action Plan (MAP), and effectively influence:

  • Up the chain of command, to your boss and those above them

  • Down, to your direct reports and teams who report to you

  • Laterally, to peers and teams you have no formal authority over

The Manager’s Dilemma: A Manager’s Guide to Change Management

• • Author: Steve King 

  • Summary: Why do so many change efforts in our organizations fail? One of a handful of reasons … unprepared managers. Managers often feel their leaders cook up changes, unleash these changes, then expect managers to do the heavy lifting. That heavy lifting includes both coming to terms with changes personally, then getting their teams on board as well. This is the “Manager’s Dilemma”. Are managers helpless in this kind of situation? Are they set up to fail and disappoint? The answer is no. Even when senior leaders struggle to do their jobs as sponsors of change, there are plenty of things a manager can do to advance the change agenda and perhaps save the day. Steve King unpacks three key roles managers need to play in moments of change: change communicator, change coach, and change advocate …. and provides some simple tools and tactics for getting this job done.

The Engagement Equation: Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce Kindle Edition

• • Authors: Christopher Rice, Fraser Marlow, Mary Ann Masarech

  • Summary: Create a culture of engagement and build high-performance culture. The Engagement Equation explains the drivers of employee engagement, and how you can use improved engagement to execute strategy, reduce costs, and meet your organizational goals. This book describes a unique engagement model that focuses on individuals' contribution to a company's success and personal satisfaction in their roles. Aligning employees' values, goals, and aspirations with those of the organization is the best method for achieving the sustainable employee engagement. The Engagement Equation is designed to provide a framework that will help you move the needle on engagement.

    • Explains how to plan and execute a sustainable organization-wide engagement initiative

    • Shows how to avoid the engagement survey analysis-paralysis trap

    • Shares ways to align employee contribution with strategy

    • Encourages leaders to pay attention to and better understand your organizational culture, and much more

Ultimately, it's the daily dynamics at play in your team, your division, and your organization that matter most.

Coaching for Performance Fifth Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership UPDATED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

• Author: Sir John Whitmore 

• Summary: An international bestseller, featuring the influential GROW model, this book is the founding text of the coaching profession. It explains why enabling people to bring the best out of themselves is the key to driving productivity, growth, and engagement. A meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success. Written by Sir John Whitmore, the pioneer of coaching, and Performance Consultants, the global market leaders in performance coaching, this extensively revised and extended edition will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Brand-new practical exercises, corporate examples, coaching dialogues, and a glossary strengthen the learning process, whilst a critical new chapter demonstrates how to measure the benefits of coaching as a return on investment, ensuring this landmark new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.

Stakeholder Centered Coaching: Maximizing Your Impact as a Coach

• Authors: Marshall Goldsmith, Sal Silvester

• Summary: Executives buy results, not coaching. The problem is that most leadership and executive coaches do not measure the impact of their coaching engagements. They can't prove that their coaching is actually making a difference. They rely too heavily on coach satisfaction surveys and other methods that simply measure reaction and not change. It doesn't have to be that way. It's time to prove our coaching and training impact for our clients, our businesses, and the coaching and training industry as a whole.  This book lays out the framework to help you generate better results from your coaching practice using the Stakeholder Centered Coaching(R) approach, a proven coaching methodology and philosophy created by Marshall Goldsmith that demonstrates ROI and dramatically increases the likelihood of a successful coaching engagement. The best part about Stakeholder Centered Coaching is that it's a process you can use both personally and professionally for creating any kind of transformational change. In this fun and engaging book, Marshall Goldsmith and Sal Silvester submit a mandate for measuring behavior change in leadership development and coaching programs and offer a practical process that enables coaches, trainers, and Organizational Development leaders to measure change in their programs. You'll learn the keys to starting your coaching engagements with a strong foundation, how to implement suggestions from the people most impacted by a coachee, and tips for sustaining behavior change. This is a must-read book for those who believe that more effective leadership leads to better business results.

The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business Third Edition

• • Author: James M Hunt, Joseph R Weintraub

  • Summary: The Coaching Manager, Third Edition provides students and managers alike with the guidance, tools, and examples needed to develop leadership talent and inspire performance.  Using an innovative coaching model, bestselling authors James M. Hunt and Joseph R. Weintraub present readers witha developmental coaching methodology to help employees achieve higher levels of skill, experience greater engagement with organizations, and promote personal development.  The thoroughly updated Third Edition reflects the authors’ latest research, which focus on building and maintaining trust, working with others who are different from yourself, and coaching by the use of technology.

The Manager's Coaching Handbook: A Practical Guide to Improving Employee Performance (A Walk The Walk Handbook)

• • Author: David Cottrell

  • Summary : "Will someone out there please develop a simple guide to improving employee performance for busy managers like us?" Your colleagues spoke, we listened ... and here it is! The Manager's Coaching Handbook provides managers, supervisors, and team leaders with simple, easy-to-follow guidelines for positively affecting employee performance. Within these pages you'll find practical strategies for dealing with superior performers, those with performance problems, and everyone in between. This book is a must have for ALL leaders. Looking for a bunch of long-winded theory? You won't find it here! We "cut right to the chase" and give you proven tools you can use immediately - tools to make your job (and your life) easier.

A Manager's Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best From Your Employees Paperback

• • Author: Anne Loehr, Brian Emerson

  • Summary : To stay on top, companies need to do more than just survive, they need to grow. Thus, their employees need to develop and improve their skills at the same pace. Brian Emerson and Ann Loehr have spent years showing some of the country's top companies how to develop their most promising employees. In this helpful manual, they guide managers through every step of the coaching process, from problem solving to developing accountability. In A Manager's Guide to Coaching, you will discover:

    • the top 10 tips every manager should know before he starts to coach

    • how to handle difficult conversations, conflicting priorities, and problem team members

    • how to hold follow-up meetings after goals and priorities have been set

    • sample questions they can adapt to various situations

    • examples of common problems and how they can use coaching to address them.

    • More than ever, managers are being encouraged to improve employee performance through effective coaching, but many lack the time or knowledge it takes to do so. A Manager's Guide to Coaching teaches you how to coach your team effectively and successfully.

Radical Collaboration

• • Author: James Tamm

  • Summary:  This second edition of the essential guide, updated with new research and observations to help twenty-first century organizations create models for effective collaboration. Collaborative skills have never been more important to a company’s success and these skills are essential for every worker today. Radical Collaboration is a how-to-manual for creating trusting, cooperative environments, and transforming groups into motivated and empowered teams. James W. Tamm and Ronald J. Luyet provide tools that will help you increase your ability to work successfully with others, learn to be more aware of colleagues, and better problem-solve and negotiate. Radical Collaboration is an eye-opener for leaders, managers, HR professionals, agents, trainers, and consultants who are seeking constructive ways of getting the results they want.

Lead with Collaboration: A Complete Guide for Transforming Staff Meetings

• • Author: Allyson Apsey

  • Summary:  In the age of time-strapped teachers, shifting standards, and distance learning, how can educational leaders ensure that every staff meeting absolutely could not have been an email? Jessica Gomez and Allyson Apsey set the agenda for planning—and leading—meetings that are purposeful, impactful, and inspiring. Lead with Collaboration serves as a meeting guidebook for educators who understand that leadership is a collective endeavor. Staff centered and outcome oriented, these carefully curated strategies are designed to serve the needs of any team in any situation. So, whether you’re helping new hires to build confidence, or you’re navigating a crisis with a group of veteran teachers, Lead with Collaboration can offer you the tools you need to make every meeting an opportunity for connection.

Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results

• • Author: Morten Hansen

  • Summary: In Collaboration, author Morten Hansen takes aim at what many leaders inherently know: in today's competitive environment, companywide collaboration is an imperative for successful strategy execution, yet the sought-after synergies are rarely, if ever, realized. In fact, most cross-unit collaborative efforts end up wasting time, money, and resources. How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need? In this book, Hansen shows managers how to get collaboration right through "disciplined collaboration"-- a practical framework and set of tools managers can use to:

    • Assess when--and when not--to pursue collaboration across units to achieve goals

    • Identify and overcome the four barriers to collaboration

    • Get people to buy into the larger picture, even when they own only a small piece of it

    • Be a "T-Shaped Manager," collaborating across divisions while still working deeply in your own unit

    • Create networks across the organization that are not large, but nimble and effective

Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work

• • Authors: Heidi K Gardner, Ivan A Matviak

  • Summary: We need a new approach for solving tough problems in a complex world—we need to collaborate smarter. Market volatility. Sustainability demands. Hybrid working. Opportunities and hazards of fast-changing technology and regulations. Companies and nonprofits face more daunting challenges than ever. How can we collaborate in our organizations—and with outside partners—to solve problems, innovate, and succeed? Smarter Collaboration offers groundbreaking solutions. This indispensable new book lays out a pragmatic action plan blending rich stories, new empirical research, and loads of practical advice to help companies thrive by collaborating more effectively. As Harvard professor Heidi K. Gardner and senior executive Ivan A. Matviak show, firms that collaborate smarter consistently generate higher revenues and profits, boost innovation, strengthen client relationships, and attract and retain better talent. In this successor to Gardner's bestselling first book, Smart Collaboration, the authors expand their mandate, illustrating the fundamental dynamics of collaborating well across industries like financial services, health care, biotech/pharma, consumer products, automotive, and technology.

The NOW Hello: What to Say | What to Do in the World of Work

• • Author: Tracy Hooper

  • Summary: In her wildly successful confidence playbook, The NEW Hello, Tracy Hooper taught people around the world what to say and what to do in the new world of work during a global pandemic. Now Tracy’s back, answering the big question: How do you carry yourself with confidence now? Welcome to The NOW Hello: What to Say | What to Do in the World of Work. If you are ready to:

    • Speak with influence and impact online or in person

    • Lead your remote or hybrid team confidently

    • Promote your accomplishments when you work from home

    • Communicate with coworkers, prospects, and clients with ease

    • Network with confidence in any setting

    • …The NOW Hello is for you.

In each chapter, Tracy will teach you new skills and techniques to support your remote, hybrid, or return-to-office work. Topics include camera confidence, words to lose and words to use, the NOW networking, confident conversations, the hybrid highway, and much more.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition

• • Authors: Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory

  • Summary: This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want. It teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person. This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You’ll learn how to:

    • Respond when someone initiates a Crucial Conversation with you

    • Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it

    • Communicate more effectively across digital mediums

When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results.

How to Talk to Anyone

• • Author: Leil Lowndes

  • Summary: What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover). In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their “Midas touch?” What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people. The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone, Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques - she takes the listener from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed audiobook you’ll find:

    • 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression

    • 14 ways to master small talk, “big talk,” and body language

    • 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity

    • 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd

    • 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone

    • 9 ways to feed someone’s ego (and know when NOT to!)

    • 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool

    • 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room

    • 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive

Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust and Get Extraordinary Results

• • Author: Judith E Glaser

  • Summary: The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It's not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learn new and effective powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership, and mutual success. Conversational Intelligence translates the wealth of new insights coming out of neuroscience from across the globe, and brings the science down to earth so people can understand and apply it in their everyday lives. Author Judith Glaser presents a framework for knowing what kind of conversations trigger the lower, more primitive brain; and what activates higher-level intelligences such as trust, integrity, empathy, and good judgment.

How Highly Effective People Speak: How High Performers Use Psychology to Influence With Ease 

• • Author: Peter Andrei

  • Summary: What are the communication habits of highly effective people? It comes down to one secret: Highly effective people speak how the human mind evolved to interpret information. The result? They easily persuade and instantly influence, turning communication from an obstacle into an opportunity. They enrich their careers, get more done, and advance with stunning speed. They impact and inspire others, rising to positions of leadership. They quickly succeed, excel with ease, and shape the world. They attract support, feel confident, and smash goal after goal. Who are they? Presidents and CEOs; top-performers and respected professionals; leaders and visionaries. In How Highly Effective People Speak, you'll discover 194 communication habits of highly effective people (proven by 57 scientific studies)

The Microsoft Office 365 Bible: The Most Updated and Complete Guide to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Teams, Access, and Publisher from Beginners to Advanced

• • Author: James Holler

  • Summary: If you are a fan of PC and use it for work, entertainment, or anything else, mastering main Microsoft Programs is a MUST. I can’t tell you enough how many people I see not just struggling to use a program like EXCEL, WORD, POWERPOINT, ONE NOTE, ONE DRIVE, OUTLOOK, TEAMS, ACCESS, PUBLISHER, and others, but also… wasting so much time doing things that should take minutes and even seconds instead of hours and days. On top of that, on average most people use less than 5% of programs’ full potential at any given time.

For this exact reason, I created this amazing, in-depth book BUNDLE – to help you master these programs in no time, even if you don’t have any experience.

Microsoft Office 365 Bible 2024: Harness the Full Power of Office 365 for Seamless Workflows, Enhanced Collaboration, and Unparalleled Success 

• • Author: Robinson Cortez

  • Summary: Word Wizardry: Forge flawless documents with advanced formatting, collaborative prowess, and savvy document management. Craft reports, résumés, and projects that demand attention.

    • 📊 Excel Excellence: Transform data into gold with formulas, pivot tables, and data visualization wizardry. Illuminate your path with data-driven decision-making.

    • 💌 Outlook Mastery: Navigate your inbox and calendar like a virtuoso. Tame emails, appointments, and tasks, emerging as the commander of your digital domain.

    • 📢 Powerful Presentations: Paint your ideas on the canvas of PowerPoint, mesmerizing your audience with riveting visuals and dynamic presentations.

    • 📚 Publisher Artistry: Sculpt professional publications, flyers, and marketing materials that captivate and inspire.

    • 🔍 Access Alchemy: Embark on a journey through the realm of databases with Access. Sculpt, manage, and analyze data with finesse, shaping the future with your insights.

    • 📓 OneNote Brilliance: Organize your thoughts and notes effortlessly with OneNote, crafting digital notebooks that empower you to conquer any challenge.

    • ☁️ OneDrive Cloud Ascendancy: Store, synchronize, and share your files with OneDrive's grace, ensuring you're always in sync with your work, no matter where life takes you.

Microsoft Office 365 For Beginners: The 1# Crash Course From Beginners To Advanced. Easy Way to Master The Whole Suite in no Time | Excel, Word, ... Teams & Access

• • Author: Leonard J Ledger

  • Summary: When it’s time to start mastering the Microsoft suite, you need a truly beginner-friendly guide. It should tell you everything you need to know about Microsoft Office 365 and nothing more. That’s why I’m so excited to share this guide with you so you can:

    • Instantly Boost Your Career with step-by-step instructions

    • Master Complex Tasks thanks to easy-to-digest advice

    • Make Rapid Progress no matter your knowledge and skill level

  • Here’s how you’ll achieve this faster than you can believe:

    • 📘 Master Microsoft Without Stress: Your Complete Guide to Unlocking the Power of The Microsoft Office 365 Suite

    • 📗 A Complete Beginner’s Breakdown: Simple Tips For Making The Most of Word, Excel, PowerPoint & More so you can start making rapid improvements

    • 📙 Functions Made Easy: Step-By-Step Instructions For Using Basic & Advanced Features so you can cruise through the working day like never before

    • 📕 Confusion-Free Learning: Practical Examples & Handy Diagrams to Supplement Your Skills and improve even faster 🔧 Beat Those Pesky Problems: Expert Troubleshooting Tips To Overcome Common Issues with just a couple of clicks in the right place!

    • ⏰ Power-Up Your Productivity: Time-Saving Tips To Improve Efficiency & Get More Done while making it look and feel truly effortless

Conflict Resolution Playbook: Practical Communication Skills for Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict

• • Author: Leil Lowndes

  • Summary: Practical strategies to manage conflict in both personal and professional relationships. 

Conflict is an unavoidable aspect of human existence, so it's vital to develop communication skills that will help you navigate these challenging moments. With The Conflict Resolution Playbook, you'll discover real-life solutions to everyday problems and develop communication skills that can help you make breakthroughs at work, improve your relationships at home, and lead to significant personal growth. You'll start by learning about conflict and the fundamental communication skills necessary for resolution. Then you can put that knowledge to use with clear-cut strategies for preventing conflicts, resolving them once they start, and dealing with common issues, such as gaslighting and bullying. Along the way, you'll gain a better understanding of conflict itself—where it comes from, why it cuts so deep, and how it can be of value.

The Mindful Guide to Conflict Resolution: How to Thoughtfully Handle Difficult Situations, Conversations, and Personalities

The Mindful Guide to Conflict Resolution: How to Thoughtfully Handle Difficult Situations, Conversations, and Personalities

• • Author: Rosalie Puiman

  • Summary: Successfully handle difficult conversations, remain civil, and end an argument peacefully with this straightforward and mindful guide to conflict resolution. It’s important to share your thoughts and opinions with others—and even more important to be able to do so without starting an argument or offending someone. Now you can prevent and resolve conflicts with help from this guide covering everything from understanding your own emotions better and learning how to address people in different situations, to getting through a difficult conversation, coming to a positive conclusion, and disengaging yourself when necessary. The Mindful Guide to Conflict Resolution provides the essential tools to mindfully communicate during any challenging situation. With this practical and informative guide in hand, you have the power to transform any difficult exchange or disagreement into a positive, constructive conversation.

Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution

• • Author: Dana Caspersen, Joost Elffers

  • Summary: From Joost Elffers, the packaging genius behind the huge New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and The Art of Seduction, comes this invaluable manual that teaches seventeen fundamentals for turning any conflict into an opportunity for growth. Beautifully packaged in a graphic, two-color format, Changing the Conversation is written by conflict expert Dana Caspersen and is filled with real-life examples, spot-on advice, and easy-to-grasp exercises that demonstrate transformative ways to break out of destructive patterns, to create useful dialogue in difficult situations, and to find long-lasting solutions for conflicts. Sure to claim its place next to Getting to Yes, this guide will be a go-to resource for resolving conflicts.

The Courage To Lead: New Ways Of Thinking To Accelerate Your Growth: Courage In The Workplace

• • Author: My Pikus

  • Summary: Most people feel some kind of fear daily. Some are motivated by it; others are debilitated by it! Entrepreneurs feel fear as well; the successful ones use this fear to propel themselves and their companies forward. Their teams thrive on change and growth instead of struggling through it (or quitting)! True entrepreneurs are in constant growth mode, and growth means change! But great change, change that really sticks, is more like a constant evolution than a revolution, and living in fear makes that evolution scary instead of exciting. Teams that thrive live in courage rather than in fear. Essentially, they have cultivated a courageous mindset, a bold way of thinking that fuels the evolution of the company. It’s not that they don’t feel the fear; they feel the fear and do it anyway. As they live and work in courage rather than in fear, the fear they used to feel turns into excitement for the future!  In this book, you'll discover three components that create the courage mindset--a valuable accelerator for heightening business excellence and company-wide innovation.

Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results

• Authors: Bill Treasurer, John Ryan

• Summary: The hardest part of a manager's job isn't staying organized, meeting deliverable dates, or staying on budget. It's dealing with people who are too comfortable doing things the way they've always been done and too afraid to do things differently--workers who are, as Bill Treasurer puts it, too "comfeartable." They fail to exert themselves any more than they have to and make their businesses dangerously safe.  Treasurer, a courage-building pioneer, proposes a bold antidote: courage. He lays out a step-by-step process that treats courage as a skill that can be developed and strengthened. Treasurer differentiates what he calls the Three Buckets of Courage: TRY Courage, having the guts to take initiative; TRUST Courage, being willing to follow the lead of others; and TELL Courage, being honest and assertive with coworkers and bosses. Aristotle said that courage is the first virtue because it makes all other virtues possible. It's as true in business as it is in life. With more courage, workers gain the confidence to take on harder projects, embrace company changes with more enthusiasm, and extend themselves in ways that will benefit their careers and their company.

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

• Author: Adam Grant

• Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Originals, and Give and Take examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life.  Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. 

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

Critical Thinking, Logic & Problem Solving: The Complete Guide to Superior Thinking, Systematic Problem Solving, Making Outstanding Decisions, and Uncover Logical Fallacies Like a Pro

• • • Author: Neuronswaves

    • Summary:  In the fast-paced world we inhabit, there is a pressing need to cultivate essential skills that are indispensable for success. In an era riddled with fake news, social media, and information overload, the abilities of critical thinking, logic, and problem-solving stand out as the most crucial skills to master.

Critical thinking, logic, and problem-solving play pivotal roles in our daily lives, enhancing our ability to think effectively and make impeccable decisions. This Guide was built with the objective of rectifying this problem and equipping you with the most effective tools. This book comprises four key parts:

1) Harnessing the Power of Critical Thinking

2) The Architecture of Thought: Logic, Structuring & Framing

3) The Road to Resolution: Unfolding Problem-Solving

4) Expressing with Impact: The Journey Towards Clear and Effective Communication

Critical Thinking for Managers: Structured Decision-Making and Persuasion in Business (Management for Professionals)

• • • Author: Radu Atanasiu

    • Summary:  This book discusses critical thinking as a tool for more compassionate leadership, presenting tried and tested methods for managing disagreement, for anticipating and solving problems, and for enhancing empathy. Employing a lighter tone of voice than most management books, it also shows how and when less-than-rational mechanisms such as intuition and heuristics may be efficient decision-making tools in any manager’s toolbox. This book guides current and would-be managers through this process of improving and metathinking, in connection with decision-making and persuasion. Using examples from business, together with research insights from Behavioral Economics and from Management and Organizational Cognition, the author illustrates common pitfalls like hidden assumptions and cognitive biases, and provides easy-to-use solutions for testing hypotheses and resolving dilemmas. 

Critical Thinking And Problem Solving: Advanced Strategies and Reasoning Skills to Increase Your Decision Making. A Systematic Approach to Master Logic, Avoid Mistakes and Be a Creative Problem Solve

• • • Author: Carl Patterson

    • Summary:  Critical thinking brings about excellent resolutions to problems, yet, it needs to be developed so that it can work, which requires you to have a sound strategy for success. This book has been carefully written with the aim to handle the shortcomings that face the thinking process. What will you meet in this book?

      • 6 Simple Steps for Solving All Your Problems

      • 4 Sure-Fire and Lifesaver Skills for Decision Making

      • Several Traits of Critical Thinkers you Should Imitate

      • Useful and Effective Skills for Problem Solving

      • Why Logic is the Most Crucial Skill you Need to Develop as a Critical Thinker

      • Personal Decision-Making Styles that Seem to be Tailormade for You

      • How to Win an Argument

      • Obstacles Facing Critical Thinking

      • How to Tackle Your Challenges

      • Problem Solving Exercises to Boost Critical Thinking Skills

The Engagement Equation: Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce Kindle Edition

• • Authors: Christopher Rice, Fraser Marlow, Mary Ann Masarech

  • Summary: Create a culture of engagement and build high-performance culture. The Engagement Equation explains the drivers of employee engagement, and how you can use improved engagement to execute strategy, reduce costs, and meet your organizational goals. This book describes a unique engagement model that focuses on individuals' contribution to a company's success and personal satisfaction in their roles. Aligning employees' values, goals, and aspirations with those of the organization is the best method for achieving the sustainable employee engagement. The Engagement Equation is designed to provide a framework that will help you move the needle on engagement.

    • Explains how to plan and execute a sustainable organization-wide engagement initiative

    • Shows how to avoid the engagement survey analysis-paralysis trap

    • Shares ways to align employee contribution with strategy

    • Encourages leaders to pay attention to and better understand your organizational culture, and much more

Culture At Work - Using organisational values to drive results

• Author: Andrew L Moore

• Summary: In the global turmoil of 2008, Andrew Moore took charge of a declining real estate business in a troubled market. Managing short-term behaviour through the language of organisational values, he and his team developed a culture that not only steadied the business, but reversed its fortunes. This book explains how. “Andrew Moore has done something remarkable – he’s made culture real, tangible and actionable. This is a wonderfully honest and well-written testimony to the power of organisational culture.”

— Patrick Lencioni, President, The Table Group; bestselling author of The Advantage and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Balanced Accountability: Create a Culture of Ownership

• • Author: Hernani Alves

  • Summary: The problem with how most organizations try to hold their people accountable is that they discipline when something goes wrong. But the real way to boost performance and morale is to create a healthy peer-to-peer accountability system. The balanced accountability system is proven to reduce turnover by creating motivated and loyal employees, so they can maximize their performance instead of killing morale. The best way to predict the future is to go out and create it. You'll learn:

    • Breaking Down Barriers: Win hearts to maximize performance.

    • Improve Culture: Three Ps to embrace the power of Accountability.

    • Effective Communication: Improve both your personal and professional relationships.

    • Eliminate excuses: Inspire others to achieve results they never felt were possible.

    • Modern Strategies: Address the Energy Vampire in the room (or office!)

Toxic Cultures at Work: The Eight Drivers of a Toxic Culture and a Process for Change 1st Edition

• • Author: James Cannon

  • Summary: Taking a holistic approach, this book gives a succinct summary of how toxic cultures develop and shows how they can be remedied with practical takeaways for organisations. Existing books on toxic culture either skim the surface of the latest scandal or take a theoretical approach of limited use to practitioners trying to improve their organisations. Now, organisational development expert James Cannon presents an all-in-one resource based on organisational and individual psychology research that offers actionable suggestions for required change. Cannon provides a framework to understand the complexities of a toxic culture, identifying eight drivers: power, leadership personalities, values, organisation design, formal and informal systems, relations with the external environment and individual systems of motivation and reward. The book also offers a comprehensive toolkit with questionnaires and checklists to manage and achieve cultural change.

Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets: 5 Questions to Help You Determine Your Next Move

• • Author: Andy Stanley

  • Summary : Discover five game-changing questions to ask every time you make a major decision regarding your finances, relationships, career, and more. Good questions lead to better decisions. And your decisions determine the direction and quality of your life—they create the story of your life. And while nobody plans to complicate their life with bad decisions, far too many people have no plan to make good decisions. In Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets, Andy Stanley—pastor and bestselling author of Irresistible and Not In It To Win It—will help you learn from experience and stop making bad decisions by integrating five questions into every decision you make, big or small. This book will help you live differently by showing you how to:

    • Develop a decision-making filter that reveals which choices will likely lead to positive results.

    • Avoid selling yourself on bad ideas and making quick decisions when time is short.

    • Find truth and clarity in any tricky decision.

    • Improve relationships and heal division through better decisions.

    • Discover the reasons behind your decisions so you can move forward with positive changes.

    • Consider the long-term impact of your choices so you can write a life story worth celebrating.

    • Easily identify any red flags that signal which decisions may result in future regrets.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions 

• • Authors: Daniel Kahneman, Ram Charan

  • Summary: Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers―and how to make better ones. If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps. Leading experts such as Ram Charan, Michael Mankins, and Thomas Davenport provide the insights and advice you need to:

    • Make bold decisions that challenge the status quo

    • Support your decisions with diverse data

    • Evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor

    • Check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning

    • Test your decisions with experiments

    • Foster and address constructive criticism

    • Defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability

Critical Thinking, Logic & Problem Solving: The Complete Guide to Superior Thinking, Systematic Problem Solving, Making Outstanding Decisions, and Uncover Logical Fallacies Like a Pro

• • Authors: Neuronswaves

  • Summary: In the fast-paced world we inhabit, there is a pressing need to cultivate essential skills that are indispensable for success. In an era riddled with fake news, social media, and information overload, the abilities of critical thinking, logic, and problem-solving stand out as the most crucial skills to master.  Critical thinking, logic, and problem-solving play pivotal roles in our daily lives, enhancing our ability to think effectively and make impeccable decisions. These skills enable us to comprehend the reasons why things are as they are, the influential forces and factors at play, and empower us to develop strategies and alternatives to effectuate change. This Guide was built with the objective of rectifying this problem and equipping you with the most effective tools. This book comprises four key parts:

1) Harnessing the Power of Critical Thinking

2) The Architecture of Thought: Logic, Structuring & Framing

3) The Road to Resolution: Unfolding Problem-Solving

4) Expressing with Impact: The Journey Towards Clear and Effective Communication

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace: Developing DEI Solutions 

• Author: Kim Wilson 

• Summary: While DEI has become one of the trendy PR moves companies do to create good publicity, many of them still don’t have a firm grasp on what it actually means. It goes beyond just hiring a token person of a different race, gender, or age, or posting some slogans on your office walls. It’s not just about having a DEI policy that you have on your website, or an annual training program employees are required to take. Successful DEI needs to be an all-encompassing culture within the company that is understood and applied by all. But this requires deep work that many companies often struggle with. That’s where this book can help. It will help you formulate a plan for creating and implementing truly effective DEI programs and figure out solutions to address DEI issues in your organization. No doubt, DEI is good for business – from attracting and keeping talent to boosting profits. And if you want to reap its benefits, your company will need to prioritize it.

Diversity in the Workplace: Eye-Opening Interviews to Jumpstart Conversations about Identity, Privilege, and Bias

• Author: Bari A Williams 

• Summary: In order to create an inclusive working environment, it is important for companies to understand the experiences that diverse employees face in the workplace. Diversity in the Workplace is a guided tour of what it means to be a minority in today's labor force. Containing 25 real-life interviews, including stories of trailblazers fighting inequality, you'll be exposed to a slice of life you may not have been privy to. This book explores real world issues in a modern workday dynamic for members of marginalized communities and managers looking to equalize an imbalance. Diversity in the Workplace includes:

  • Exploring intersectionality—Learn about the diversity identities shaping disparity at work: Race, Gender, LGBTQ+, Age & Ability, and Religion & Culture.

  • Key takeaways—Each section is followed by summaries that encourage reflection and action.

  • Deep dive—Learn tips on how to have progressive conversations with colleagues, and build awareness with key terms such as "unconscious bias."

Diversity in the Work Place: How to be an Inclusive Leader, Manage Diversity in the Work Place, Tackle Unconscious Bias, and Foster Inclusive Conversations ... The Future of Work & the Insights You Need)

• • Author: Erika Nielsen Brown 

  • Summary: Whether we are looking at examples of sexism, LGBTQIA+ prejudice, how to talk about race, or discrimination towards people of color at work, inclusivity brings acceptance and support to everyone on the team. It brings an elevated level of respect and value to the team that will motivate and encourage your employees beyond your expectations. In addition, it will help create an inclusive workplace where people like to work. Diversity in the Workplace will take you on a journey of acceptance and inclusivity to bring a positive work environment to your employees where everyone can thrive. In Diversity in the Workplace, you will discover:

    • What diversity looks like now and how you, as a leader, can help foster a more inclusive workplace

    • The devastating fear of the unknown, own race bias examples, and why so many leaders are reluctant to change and evolve their managerial skills

    • How to be an inclusive leader and build trust and open-mindedness among your employees

    • The 7 pillars of diversity from race to sexuality so you can fully understand how to embrace acceptance and tolerance

    • Why inclusion matters -- and what you can do to build an inclusive work space

    • How to become a diverse leader to effectively build and lead a diverse team

    • Understand bias and oppression, tackle hidden biases of good people, overcome the negative influence of cognitive bias and eventually see the end of bias!

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race 

• Author: Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Summary: The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the  psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about communicating across racial and ethnic divides and pursuing antiracism. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand dynamics of race and racial inequality in America.

How to Be an Antiracist 

• Author: Ibram X Kendi

• Summary: Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.

Deep and deliberate delegation: A new art for unleashing talent and winning back time 

• Author: Dave Stitt

• Summary: We think we know what delegation is but few of us actually do it well, or even at all. Instead of deliberately growing new capability in the people around us, we too often hoard responsibility to protect our turf, or micromanage, or indiscriminately dump tasks. It leads, says Dave Stitt in this compact and sharply observed meditation, to burned out managers, bored or swamped staff, and choke points in teams and organisations. Delving into the anatomy of effective delegation, and offering fresh insights into issues of trust, motivation, communication and accountability, Stitt develops a set of approaches and techniques for empowering and inspiring people around us so that great things can start happening right away, even if it’s not us doing them.

The Busy Manager's Guide to Delegation (Worksmart Series)

• Authors: Richard A Lueck, Perry Mcintosh

• Summary: Authors Richard A. Luecke and Perry Mcintosh present leaders with a straightforward, five-step process for mastering delegation--and increasing their output. The Busy Manager’s Guide to Delegation teaches you to set the stage for excellent results, what to do if things go wrong, and ways to ensure that all their people benefit from the experience. In this book, you’ll discover:

  • which tasks to delegate;

  • how to identify the right people for the jobs;

  • how to assign tasks;

  • how to monitor progress and provide feedback;

  • and how to evaluate performance.

Filled with quick tips, exercises, self-assessments, and practical worksheets, The Busy Manager’s Guide to Delegation offers busy managers a way to strengthen their departments by focusing their newfound time and energy on developing the skills of their people.

Delegation and Supervision (The Brian Tracy Success Library) 

• Author: Brian Tracy

• Summary: Managers’ performance reviews, their salary increases, and basically their fate within the company in general are judged by the results they deliver, yet those results are usually produced by a team of employees working under them. Thus, the most important and broad-reaching aspect of a manager’s job is the ability to delegate and supervise extremely well. In this book, success expert Brian Tracy reveals time-tested ways any manager can use to boost the performance and productivity of their employees. In Delegation & Supervision, Tracy shares helpful tips including how to:

  • Define work, assign it, and set measurable, targeted standards for performance

  • Match skills to job requirements

  • Use Management by Objectives to delegate longer-term tasks to trusted team members

  • Monitor, control, and keep on top of projects with minimum effort

  • Turn delegation into a teaching tool and build the confidence of your staff

  • Avoid reverse delegation

  • Free up time for higher-level tasks only you can tackle, and more

When done right, delegation and supervision will allow your employees to learn, grow, and become more capable. Delegation & Supervision shows you how to impress the higher-ups with all that you and your team accomplished.

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

• Author: Adam Grant

• Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Originals, and Give and Take examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life.  Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. 

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.

Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

• Author: Liz Wiseman

• Summary: A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results. We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, light bulbs go off over people’s heads; ideas flow and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. Wiseman has identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed, they are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use—even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers.

Hidden Strengths: Unleashing the Crucial Leadership Skills You Already Have

• Authors: Milo Sindell, Thuy Sindell

• Summary: Books like StrengthsFinder 2.0 have helped leaders discover their strengths--but they stop there. The Sindells argue that focusing only on your best abilities neglects a vital development opportunity. They show how to identify hidden strengths that can be quickly elevated into full strengths with attention and focus. Working mainly on your strengths can ultimately make you weaker, they argue--you need to continually add new skills, not rely on what you're already good at. And while most people assume that means they should try to turn their weaknesses into usable skills, the Sindells say that it takes too much time and effort --the ROI just isn't there. It's in the neglected middle skills, neither strengths nor weaknesses, that the most potent development opportunities lie. They're close enough to being strengths that putting your energy there can offer a powerful payoff.

Using assessments, exercises, and case studies, the Sindells help you identify your most promising middle skills and create a plan to turn them into strengths. In today's work environment, not growing and stretching yourself translates into lack of innovation, stagnation, and obsolescence. Relying upon strengths is like relying upon training wheels - at a certain point you need to take them off in order to improve and grow.

Visit HiddenStrengths.com to learn more.

The Manager’s Guide To One On One Meetings Planner For New, Experienced Managers & Leaders: A Guided Workbook That Improves Your Managerial & Leadership Skills

• • Author: Tubique Publishing

  • Summary:  This Manager’s Guide to One on One Meetings Planner teaches you the importance of these meetings and guides you through the entire process from planning to regular meetings with your directs & peers. Improve your managerial and leadership skills with this guided planner. Learn how to prepare and hold the meetings at work, counseling, coaching or mentoring sessions. Key features:

    • Introduction on what an One on One Meeting is and why it is important

    • Key benefits of regular One on One meetings

    • How to structure your meetings and where to start

    • 7 types of One on One meetings and top 5 questions to ask

    • Best practices and tips to use

    • Meeting participants index for easy progress tracking

    • Meeting sheet with enough room for the agenda, discussion notes, goal planning and tracking

The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings (Briefcase Books Series) Kindle Edition

• • Author: Barbara J Streibel

  • Summary:  All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate heirarchy, can use a little "brushing up" now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings is a hands-on guide to planning and conducting meetings that fellow professionals will want to attend. It provides techniques for keeping a meeting focused and on target, reveals latest tools for meeting "virtually," and more. This latest addition to the popular Briefcase Books series will prove invaluable to anyone who has to plan or conduct meetings, in any environment.

The New One Minute Manager

• • Authors: Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson M.D.

  • Summary:  A new edition based on the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world. The New One Minute Manager offers a way for you to succeed sooner with less stress in changing times—both at work and at home. For decades, The One Minute Manager® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—including resources, funding, and staff—have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work. Now, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have written The New One Minute Manager to introduce the book’s powerful, important lessons to a new generation. In their concise, easy-to-read story, they teach readers three very practical secrets about leading others—and explain why these techniques continue to work so well.

Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

• • Authors: Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

  • Summary:  Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past fifteen years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and what gets in our way. In Thanks for the Feedback, they explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, offering a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace. They blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice. Thanks for the Feedback is destined to become a classic in the fields of leadership, organizational behavior, and education.

Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

• • Author: Kim Scott

  • Summary:  The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk. Using Radical Candor―avoiding the perils of Obnoxious Aggression, Manipulative Insincerity, and Ruinous Empathy―you can be kind and clear at the same time. Kim Scott was a highly successful leader at Google before decamping to Apple, where she developed and taught a management class. Since the original publication of Radical Candor in 2017, Scott has earned international fame with her vital approach to effective leadership and co-founded the Radical Candor executive education company, which helps companies put the book's philosophy into practice.

Radical Candor is about caring personally and challenging directly, about soliciting criticism to improve your leadership and also providing guidance that helps others grow. It focuses on praise but doesn't shy away from criticism―to help you love your work and the people you work with. Radically Candid relationships with team members enable bosses to fulfill their three core responsibilities:

1. Create a culture of Compassionate Candor

2. Build a cohesive team

3. Achieve results collaboratively

The Leader’s Guide to Mastering Feedback: Transform Relationships and Results One Conversation at a Time

• • Author: Joan R Hibdon

  • Summary:  Feedback is a crucial communication skill. But fear of getting it wrong often holds us back from speaking up. When facing a challenging conversation at work, you may be thinking, “What if my feedback causes a meltdown—or they quit?” While it’s tempting to avoid that discussion, that’s not the solution. Leaders have a responsibility to find a way to connect with their employees and others in an artful, compassionate, and courageous manner that transforms relationships and results. With over three decades as a human resource professional and executive coach, the #1 question Joan Hibdon gets asked is this: “I need to give someone feedback, but I don’t know what to say. What do I do?”  The Leader's Guide to Mastering Feedback offers answers to that question. With empathy and insight born of experience, Hibdon shows us exactly why, how, and when to offer feedback to achieve the results we want. Discover how to:

    • Create the optimal environment for feedback.

    • Remain heart-centered during difficult conversations.

    • Offer the right feedback, to the right person, at the right time.

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

• • • Author: Daniel Goleman

    • Summary: #1 BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart, with a new introduction by the author. Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny. Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work. 

Emotional Intelligence: For a Better Life, success at work, and happier relationships. Improve Your Social Skills, Emotional Agility and Discover Why ... IQ

• • Author: Brandon Goleman

  • Summary: Did you know that people with higher emotional intelligence tend to naturally cooperate better with their colleagues? This is because they are more ahead in their communication’s game unlike others. They are not only easily capable of sharing their ideas with the rest of the group, but they are also able to Hear, and most importantly, Listen To What Their Team Has To Say...

It does not really matter what your vocation or craft is. Emotional Intelligence is a skill that translates in all spheres of life...Begin Your Journey Of Self-Awareness and Get In Charge of Your Emotions, Eradicate Anxiety and Any Negative Self-Talk with This Powerful Book!

Going Through These Pages you will:

• • • Understand How Emotional Intelligence can help you make a positive impact both at work and in your personal life

    • Learn Which Are The Core Emotions and learn how to read other people

    • Be Able to Better Define Your Personal Values and never stress out when taking a decision or approaching a particular situation

    • Find Out How To Influence Others and get what you want without looking like a manipulative person

    • Build Meaningful and Lasting Relationships based on mutual respect, empathy and trust

Emotional Intelligence 2.0

• • • Author: Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves, Patrick M Lencioni

    • Summary: In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack. By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:

1) Self-Awareness

2) Self-Management

3) Social Awareness

4) Relationship Management

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

• • • Author: Marshall Goldsmith

    • Summary: Many professionals get stuck at a certain level of success. For instance, they manage to climb to a middle-management position at their organization, but always get passed over for promotion to the executive level. Author and business coach Marshall Goldsmith believes that when a professional’s career stalls in this way, it’s usually because they’ve slipped into bad behavioral habits. In other words, they’ve started to treat their colleagues poorly.  In this book, you’ll discover how you can reach your full potential by eliminating 21 harmful workplace behaviors. 

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

• • Author: Daniel H Pink

  • Summary:  Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married? In When, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

• • Author: Marshall Goldsmith

  • Summary: Many professionals get stuck at a certain level of success. For instance, they manage to climb to a middle-management position at their organization, but always get passed over for promotion to the executive level. Author and business coach Marshall Goldsmith believes that when a professional’s career stalls in this way, it’s usually because they’ve slipped into bad behavioral habits. In other words, they’ve started to treat their colleagues poorly.  In this book, you’ll discover how you can reach your full potential by eliminating 21 harmful workplace behaviors. 

Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

• • Author: Michael Hyatt

  • Summary: THIS IS THE YEAR YOU FINALLY CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN REALITY AND YOUR DREAMS. We all want to live a life that matters. We all want to reach our full poten­tial. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner-and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. It doesn't have to be that way! In Your Best Year Ever, Hyatt shares a powerful, proven, research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals. You'll learn how to design your best year ever by discovering • what's holding you back right now • how to overcome your past set­backs • the seven attributes of effective goals • how to quit-proof your goals • the role of habits in personal achievement • what to do when you feel stuck • and much more If you're tired of not seeing progress in your personal, intellectual, business, relational, or financial goals, it's time for you to have your best year ever!

Goals: How to Get the Most Out of Your Life (Official Nightingale Conant Publication)

• • Author: Zig Zigler

  • Summary: Do you ever find yourself confusing activity with accomplishment? In this book, legendary speaker and author, Zig Ziglar points out you can't hit a target you don't have. He shares the 4 Reasons People Don't Set Goals. Anyone can be, do, and have more. BUT... "You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific." Zig guides you through the 9 Steps of Setting Goals. And he encourages you with, "A goal properly set is halfway reached." Zig shares a quote by Oliver Wendall Holmes, "Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."

Crucial Influence, Third Edition: Leadership Skills to Create Lasting Behavior Change

• • • • Authors: Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron Mcmillan, Al Switzler

      • Summary: The New York Times bestselling guide to leading positive change in any organization―updated with critical new insights, research, and case studies. The world-renowned leadership experts that brought us the leadership classic Crucial Conversations have fully updated their bestselling Crucial Influence (originally published as Influencer). In these pages, they reveal that fewer than one in eight behavior change efforts is successful―and most produce nothing more than wasted resources and organization-wide cynicism. Crucial Influence walks you through the process of identifying the personal, social, and structural levers that influence both motivation and ability, then engaging these levers for directed behavior change. New to this edition:

        • Updated stories and examples using the Crucial Influence model

        • The authors’ latest research on behavior change

        • Practical applications for everyday leadership challenges

        • New case studies and business examples

Extraordinary Results: Mastering the Art of Leading, Coaching & Influencing Other

• Authors: Joe Contrera

• Summary: Whether you have been leading others for twenty days or twenty years, your ability to lead is directly connected to your ability to influence. Leading, Coaching & Influencing others is an art, if you want to achieve Extraordinary Results, you must not only possess the tools needed to lead, coach, and influence others, you must master these skills. In his latest book, Extraordinary Results, leadership expert, Joe Contrera shares the concepts and ideas from his in-depth leadership program with you, so you can start Mastering the Art of Leading, Coaching, and Influencing others today!

You Will Learn How To:

• • Influence others instead of trying to control them so you can exponentially increase the productivity of your team.

  • Facilitate group discussions by leveraging the power of the team to work together and create their own solutions to their challenges and problems.

  • Handle one-on-one Coaching conversations in a way that reduces conflict and gives team members a greater sense of purpose and meaning from their work.

  • Mastering the Art of Asking Powerful Questions so that accountability and ownership for the work is on your team and not on you.

  • Leverage the skills professional speakers use to influence and engage their audience.

  • Remove the obstacles that are slowing your career advancement

  • And so much more...

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How to Win Friends & Influence People

• • • • Author: Dale Carnegie

      • Summary: You can go after the job you want—and get it! You can take the job you have—and improve it! You can take any situation—and make it work for you!  Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you:

        • Six ways to make people like you

        • Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking

        • Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment

        • And much more! Achieve your maximum potential—a must-read for the twenty-first century with more than 15 million copies sold!

Leadership Brand: Deliver on your Promise

• • • • Authors: David Magellan Horth, Lynn B Miller, Portia R Mount

      • Summary: Everyone has a reputation. Whether good or bad, your reputation precedes you, and can inhibit or enhance your professional goals. However, how do you actively nurture, develop, and manage how others see you? In this book, we'll discuss how crafting a brand can give you control of how you're perceived at work. From proven strategies from CCL experts to practical advice you can implement immediately, Leadership Brand: Deliver on Your Promise can help you figure out the leader you want to be, and how to build the brand that can get you there.

Just Do You: Authenticity, Leadership, and Your Personal Brand

• • • • Author: Lisa King

      • Summary: Do you know who you want to be as a leader? There's a difference between a boss and a leader. Many managers aren't ready to lead. Toxic cultures, modeling bad behavior, and being unclear about values all contribute to low workplace engagement and poor results. In Just Do You, author Lisa King takes you on a powerful journey of self-examination to discover the amazing and authentic leader within. When you know what matters and what effective leadership means to you, only then are you ready to authentically lead. In Just Do You, you'll find everything you need to:

        • Learn about the power of branding and see how your personal brand is viewed today

        • Discover your True North and how your brand intersects with what matters

        • See how to lead with authenticity and build influence

        • Gain the tools to live, behave, and share your unique brand with the world

        • Find your unique purpose, which is key to happiness

As you seek to understand yourself and your personal brand, a leader will emerge. The lessons and exercises in Just Do You will help open your mind to think differently about leadership. You'll hear stories from leaders who share what matters most to them and from followers who share what leadership qualities and behaviors resonate most. As a result, you'll discover that you have the power and potential to lead inside you. You can lead with authenticity by taking control of your words and actions to ensure they're in alignment with what matters to you and is a clear reflection of your personal brand.

The Brand New Leader: Recognizing the Impact of Your Leadership Brand

• • • • Authors: Melva Robertson, Wesley J Hall

      • Summary: The extensive leadership literature of our day focuses on the what and how of leadership. Numerous definitions, concepts, behaviors, and traits of leadership aim to pinpoint the "magic formula" -from a blanket approach--that makes leadership effective. One vital, yet often overlooked, area lacking in these conversations is the emphasis on the personal connection to leadership. This book takes a deep dive into the notion of leadership as a personal brand. It provides theories, strategies, examples, and tactics along with evidence suggesting that leadership derives from -- and is influenced by -- a more personal context. Chapters draw from the belief that there is no separation between the leader and the person holding the leadership title. The leader's identity has a direct correlation to who the leader is as a person rather than a function. Leadership values stem primarily from personal values, experiences, beliefs, and other influences, and thus, the perceptions of a leader are automatically associated with that person-- the individual. Accordingly, if leadership output is personal and the outcomes are personal to those influenced by the leader, then one who is considered an impactful leader is the result of both their personal attributes and their application of concepts and theories. The way a leader leads originates from a customized selection of leadership styles, strengths, and approaches that are unique to each person and based on their exposures and influences.

The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

• • Authors: James M Kouzes, Barry Z Posner

  • Summary: The Leadership Challenge is the gold-standard manual for effective leadership, grounded in research and written by the premier authorities in the field. With deep insight into the complex interpersonal dynamics of the workplace, this book positions leadership both as a skill to be learned, and as a relationship that must be nurtured to reach its full potential. This new sixth edition has been revised to address current challenges, and includes more international examples and a laser focus on business issues; you'll learn how extraordinary leaders accomplish extraordinary things, and how to develop your leadership skills and style to deliver quality results every time. Engaging stories delve into the fundamental roles that great leaders fulfill, and simple frameworks provide a primer for those who seek continuous improvement; by internalizing key insights and putting concepts into action, you'll become a more effective, more impactful leader.

A good leader gets things done; a great leader aspires, inspires, and achieves more. This book highlights the differences between good and great, and shows you how to bridge the chasm between getting things done and making things happen.

• • • Gain deep insight into leadership's critical role in organizational health

    • Navigate the shift toward team-oriented work relationships

    • Motivate and inspire to break through the pervasive new cynicism

    • Leverage the electronic global village to deliver better results

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

• • Author:  Patrick M Lencioni 

  • Summary:  There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides.  Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified.  Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health―complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. 

Becoming a Great Leader: Lessons from Silicon Valley

• • Author: Gustavo Rabin Ph.D

  • Summary: In Becoming a Great Leader, leading Silicon Valley business psychologist and international corporate attorney Dr. Gustavo Rabin presents dynamic, transformative tools and strategies for today's business leaders. Through the compelling stories of eight executives who have sought out his assistance, Dr. Rabin presents insightful approaches to leadership change that he has utilized with executives at Google, Intel, Linkedin, Cisco, Yahoo!, Roche, Barclays, AMD and so many other companies.

The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company

• • Authors: Ram Charan, Stphen Drotter  

  • Summary:  An updated and revised version of the bestselling The Leadership Pipeline – the critical resource for how companies can grow leaders from the inside.  In business, leadership at every level is a requisite for company survival. Yet the leadership pipeline –the internal strategy to grow leaders – in many companies is dry or nonexistent. Drawing on their experiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors show how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results. New to this edition is 65 pages of new material to update the model, share new stories and add new advice based on the ten more years of experience. The authors have also added a "Frequently Asked Questions" section to the end of each chapter.

It Worked For Me : In Life and Leadership

• • Author: Colin Powell  

  • Summary:  Colin Powell, one of America’s most admired public figures, reveals the principles that have shaped his life and career in this inspiring and engrossing memoir. A beautiful companion to his previous memoir, the #1 New York Times bestseller My American Journey, Powell’s It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership is a trove of wisdom for anyone hoping to achieve their goals and turn their dreams into reality. A message of strength and endurance from a man who has dedicated his life to public service, It Worked for Me is a book with the power to show readers everywhere how to achieve a more fulfilling life and career.

Extraordinary Results: Mastering the Art of Leading, Coaching & Influencing Other

• Authors: Joe Contrera

• Summary: Whether you have been leading others for twenty days or twenty years, your ability to lead is directly connected to your ability to influence. Leading, Coaching & Influencing others is an art, if you want to achieve Extraordinary Results, you must not only possess the tools needed to lead, coach, and influence others, you must master these skills. In his latest book, Extraordinary Results, leadership expert, Joe Contrera shares the concepts and ideas from his in-depth leadership program with you, so you can start Mastering the Art of Leading, Coaching, and Influencing others today!

You Will Learn How To:

• • Influence others instead of trying to control them so you can exponentially increase the productivity of your team.

  • Facilitate group discussions by leveraging the power of the team to work together and create their own solutions to their challenges and problems.

  • Handle one-on-one Coaching conversations in a way that reduces conflict and gives team members a greater sense of purpose and meaning from their work.

  • Mastering the Art of Asking Powerful Questions so that accountability and ownership for the work is on your team and not on you.

  • Leverage the skills professional speakers use to influence and engage their audience.

  • Remove the obstacles that are slowing your career advancement

  • And so much more...

Leadership Just Got Personal

• • Author: Steven Brian Fulmer  

  • Summary:  The quintessential question of the ages: Are leaders born or made? The answer? Yes! Each of us is born with the innate gifts of leadership. We're all naturally capable of inspiring ourselves and others to dream more, learn more and do more. But for many of us, we have come to believe that we have things to learn, that we need permission to step into this greatness known as leadership. In this powerful compilation of stories and essays, you'll learn new skills and profound lessons to draw out your innate leadership. Whether you are a leader today, an aspiring leader of tomorrow or simply ready to step up and take charge of your life, your way, today, this book is for you.

Unite!: The 4 Mindset Shifts for Senior Leaders

• • Author: Sal Silvester  

  • Summary:  For many senior leaders, promotion is just the start of a whole new set of unexpected challenges. There are executive leaders to please and junior leaders to lead. Many for the first time are asked to work on multiple teams with peers who have competing priorities. They might now be responsible for areas of the organization in which they don’t have technical expertise. Some senior leaders seem to have advanced through the sheer force of driving results, often at the cost of high employee compliance and burnout. Others appear to have attained senior roles through the influence of their charismatic personality, without producing much in the way of sustained business outcomes.  Unite! The 4 Mindset Shifts for Senior Leaders explores the four shifts in mindset that help a senior leader balance both results and relationships so they can ultimately unite the people around them. Audiences will walk away with new insights and distinctions of how to transition successfully into senior leadership roles. Senior leaders will learn to fine tune how they function with their team and other senior leaders and to build a strong succession framework.

You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

• • Author: Kate Murphy

  • Summary: At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation. On social media, we shape our personal narratives. At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians. We’re not listening. And no one is listening to us.

Despite living in a world where technology allows constant digital communication and opportunities to connect, it seems no one is really listening or even knows how. And it’s making us lonelier, more isolated, and less tolerant than ever before. A listener by trade, New York Times contributor Kate Murphy wanted to know how we got here. In this always illuminating and often humorous deep dive, Murphy explains why we’re not listening, what it’s doing to us, and how we can reverse the trend. She makes accessible the psychology, neuroscience, and sociology of listening while also introducing us to some of the best listeners out there (including a CIA agent, focus group moderator, bartender, radio producer, and top furniture salesman). Equal parts cultural observation, scientific exploration, and rousing call to action that's full of practical advice, You're Not Listening is to listening what Susan Cain's Quiet was to introversion. It’s time to stop talking and start listening.

Listening Skills Training: How to Truly Listen, Understand, and Validate for Better and Deeper Connections (Communication Skills Training, Book 8)

• • Author: James Williams

  • Summary: Did you know that you could change the entire quality of your life just by focusing on one simple action you do every single day? You’ll progress quicker in your career. Your relationships with your coworkers, friends, lovers, and parents, and even with passing strangers, can improve dramatically. You can open your mind to learn new skills and information in a way you’ve never experienced before. What is this change? It’s the change of learning how to listen to others properly. Listening Skills Training: How to Truly Listen, Understand, and Validate for Better and Deeper Connections dives deep into the art of listening, a seemingly long-lost skill that so many of us have forgotten how to do properly, despite it being able to bring so many benefits into everyone’s lives. After all, there’s a reason the experts claim that the most important element of any successful relationship is being able to communicate properly. James will take you on a journey into the science and psychology that goes into listening while providing you with powerful, actionable tips so that you can develop the skill as fast and as effectively as possible.

Listening: The Forgotten Skill: A Self-Teaching Guide

• • Author: Madelyn Burley-Allen

  • Summary: A proven program for turning effective listening into a powerful business tool Managers and other employees spend more than 40percent of their time listening to other people but often do it so poorly that the result is misunderstood instructions, misdirected projects, and erroneous actions--millions of dollars' worth of mistakes just because most people don't know how to listen. In this new edition of her classic guide to the art of effective listening, Madelyn Burley-Allen shows you how to acquire active, productive listening skills and put them to work for you--professionally, socially, and personally. With her time-tested techniques, you'll learn how to:

    • Eliminate distractions and improve your concentration on what isbeing said

    • Locate key words, phrases, and ideas while listening

    • Cut through your own listening biases

    • Interpret body language clues

    • Ask constructive, nonthreatening questions that elicit realinformation

    • Get others to listen to you

    • Master a whole range of listening skills that you can use on the job and in your personal life

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

• • Author: Jim Loehr

  • Summary: This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time. We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance. The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job by laying out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you to:

    • Mobilize four key sources of energy

    • Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal

    • Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do

    • Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals to make lasting changes

Human Performance Improvement 3rd Edition

• • Authors: William J. Rothwell, Carolyn K. Hohne, Stephen B. King

  • Summary: Organizations are under pressure to build and sustain competitive advantage with and through people. For that reason, managers continue to demand results from workers and look for as many ways as possible to increase productivity and decrease the costs of doing business. This book provides a thorough overview of the theory and practice of HPI, looking at the long-term action plan and specific interventions that can improve productivity and address performance problems. This new edition provides up-to-date references and sources, examines the manager’s role in HPI in more detail than previous editions, and explores how to build on human performance improvement strengths and opportunities. Written by a group of highly respected authors in the field, this book will show you how to discover and analyze performance gaps, plan for future improvements in human performance, and design and develop cost-effective interventions to close performance gaps. HPI is not a tool reserved exclusively for training and development practitioners, human resource specialists, or external consultants. Almost anyone can use it, including managers, supervisors, and even employees, making this book vital reading for anyone looking to improve human performance.

Coaching for Performance Improvement Kindle Edition

• • Author:  Jeremy Francis

  • Summary: Managers, Team Leaders and Supervisors can face a number of challenges with their team members. These challenges fall into seven broad categories:

1. Achieving improvement in results.

2. Handling poor attitudes.

3. Achieving change.

4. Growing confidence and self-sufficiency in people.

5. Handling career development discussions.

6. Responding to queries or complaints relating to pay and conditions.

7. Resolving the employee’s personal problems which are negatively impacting their performance.

In each area of challenge the Manager, Team Leader or Supervisor needs to be able to analyse the issues concerned and meet with the individual to achieve an agreed outcome. This document contains a comprehensive Performance Improvement Needs Analysis which enables you to identify and prioritise the performance improvement needs of your team members. It also includes detailed Guidelines on how to:

• • • Achieve Performance Improvement

    • Achieve Attitude Change

    • Get people to deliver change

    • Grow self-sufficiency in people

    • Address Career Development issues

    • Address rewards issues

    • Tackle people’s personal problems

Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You

• • Authors: Rosanne Badowski, Roger Gittines

  • Summary:  Everyone has a boss. And anyone who has aspired to move up the corporate ladder knows that their relationship with those they report to is crucial. In Managing Up Rosanne Badowski offers a straightforward, entertaining, no-holds-barred account of what it takes to make your relationship with your boss work to your advantage, no matter where you stand in the corporate hierarchy. Everyone is a manager, in one way or another, Badowski points out. She discusses first-hand what it’s like to have to be a mind reader, to anticipate the future, to plan for the unexpected, and to perform the impossible. With refreshing candor and a hint of attitude, Badowski’s advice is unlike any other. She advises us that “Impatience is a virtue,” to “Have no shame,” and to “Beware the too-quiet office.” Having worked in one of the most challenging, high-profile corporate environments anywhere, no one knows more about prioritizing, about making decisions on behalf of your boss, about sifting through a daily barrage of data and information, about multitasking at warp speed, and exhibiting grace under fire. Ultimately, Badowski says, excelling at what you do is about a shared passion for the job.

HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across (HBR Guide Series)

• • Author: Harvard Business Review

  • Summary: By managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it, whether you’re a young professional or an experienced leader. The HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across will help you:

    • Advance your agenda―and your career―with smarter networking

    • Build relationships that bring targets and deadlines within reach

    • Persuade decision makers to champion your initiatives

    • Collaborate more effectively with colleagues

    • Deal with new, challenging, or incompetent bosses

    • Navigate office politics

Managing Up: How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss

• • Author: Mary Abbajay

  • Summary: Managing Up is your guide to the most valuable 'soft skill' your career has ever seen. It's not about sucking up or brown-nosing; it's about figuring out who you are, who your boss is, and finding where you meet. It's about building real relationships with people who have influence over your career. Managing up is good for you, good for your boss, and good for the organization as a whole. This book gives you strategies for developing these all-important connections and building more than rapport; you become able to quickly assess situations, and determine which actions will move you forward; you become your own talent manager, and your boss's top choice for that new opportunity. As a skill, managing up can do more for your career than simply 'networking' ever could―and this book shows you how.

The Effective Meeting Agenda: How to organize and cover all your meeting agenda contents completely.

• Author: Rita L Spears 

• Summary: Effective Agenda Meetings Immediately Are you tired in sitting in ineffective agenda meetings? Do you want to improve the effectiveness of the agenda meetings you attend? Then you need The Effective Meeting Agenda books! Cover all the meeting titles record important decisions and action items during your meetings. Track this information in a manner that is easy to return to validate decisions and confirm responsibilities. This is a great book to help you get the most out of your meetings agenda. The Meeting agenda books provides a powerful look at the strategic, operations, and tactical activities to manage your duty-of-care responsibilities and prepare for the chaos that may occur in times of crisis.

How to Do an Agenda: The Quickie Guide (The Quickie Guides Book 1)

• Author: Cat McEwan

• Summary: Have you been asked to do an agenda for an upcoming meeting and have no idea what you need to record? You’ll find everything you need to know in this mini-ebook…

Did you know you have to make sure everyone knows the audience, and what department they are from? Did you know that any guests or apologies should be noted? If not, then this is the ebook for you. Within these pages are step by step details of how to set up the agenda, what to include and how to include it. Find out how to ensure everyone gets the most out of your agenda by distributing it correctly. Discover how to accurately record discussion points, how to prepare for the meeting, and what communication is needed before and after the meeting. The point of an agenda is to ensure everyone understands the objective of the meeting and is clear about what should be achieved. How many meetings have you sat through where you have come out wondering whether anything has actually been decided? Or you have wondered whether the last hour to two hours has been a complete waste of time.

How to Book of Meetings: Conducting Effective Meetings: Learn How to Write Minutes for Meetings Using Samples

• Author: JH Hood

• Summary: In this revised and enlarged Second Edition you will find the information you need to run:

• An informal meeting a formal meeting using “Robert’s Rules ”

• A community meeting

• A virtual meeting

Includes templates and examples of Agendas and Minutes, checklists to guide you through each step of a meeting, how to decide whether there should be meeting, how to set up the agenda, The importance of setting timeframes in the agenda—and sticking to them, how to make sure that time is not wasted and the important items are covered how to chair the meeting how formal meeting procedures work, How to use the 80:20 Rule to stop time wasters and make sure focus on the right topics and how to deal with difficult people.

Mentoring 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know

• Author: John C Maxwell 

• Summary: Through this essential and easy-to-read reference book, international leadership expert John C. Maxwell gives you the bottom line on mentoring--what it is, why you should do it, and how you can do it most effectively. In Mentoring 101, Maxwell guides you in the art of mentoring by explaining:

  • how to choose the right person to mentor,

  • how to create the right environment for leaders to thrive and grow,

  • how to help people become better,

  • and how to overcome the most intimidating hurdle of all: getting started.

  • What if you spent your entire life achieving but never shared your wisdom with anyone else?

Mentoring Mindset, Skills, and Tools 10th Anniversary Edition: Everything You Need to Know and Do to Make Mentoring Work! 

• Author: Ann Rolfe 

• Summary: Mentoring Mindset, Skills and Tools is written for both for mentors and mentees, so you can literally be on the same page. It is based on decades of experience and explains the essential ingredients of mentoring conversations and relationships that work.

  • In this book you’ll discover:

  • What mentoring is and isn’t and the differences between mentoring and coaching

  • Mentor and mentee roles and responsibilities

  • A framework for the mentoring process

  • How to start, maintain and end an effective mentoring relationship

  • What to do to build trust and rapport

  • Ways to lead learning and strengths-based development

  • Practical tips, guides, activities, and templates

10 Steps to Successful Mentoring

• Author: Wendy Axelrod 

• Summary: While mentoring resources typically center on the mentee or the program, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is devoted explicitly to helping you excel in the role of mentor. In this book, Wendy Axelrod helps you stretch your mentoring abilities to yield substantial rewards for you and your mentee. Drawing on more than 20 years of work with mentors, she delves into proven approaches to use in your ongoing meetings, such as elevating the power of questions, leveraging experience for learning, and expanding growth using everyday psychology. Come away inspired to take on a fresh challenge. Whether mentoring is a calling or a choice, you’re new to it or a seasoned veteran, or you’re in a formal program or on your own, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is the resource you’ll return to again and again. It’s filled with real-life examples and 40 tools to help you master the nuances that drive deliberate development. Woven throughout are Wendy’s seven guiding principles that distinguish the most successful mentors (hint: “Start where your mentee is, not where you think they should be”).

Lead!: How to Build a High-Performing Team

• • Author: Dale Carnegie & Associates

  • Summary:  Dale Carnegie’s unique and powerful approach to leadership training is based on wisdom and expertise gained from developing leaders longer than any other professional development organization. LEAD! is for new or experienced leaders alike who want to be more effective at motivating and inspiring their teams. This book is designed from the proven Dale Carnegie Leadership Success Model and Dale Carnegie’s Human Relationships Principles to help you understand tools and techniques to address common leadership challenges and shift your mindset and behavior to become a more positive and confident role model leader.

Rather than a textbook full of theory, LEAD! offers practical advice, strategies and real-life examples from top leaders around the globe that will guide you to being a more effective leader who inspires success from your team. At Dale Carnegie, we believe everyone has inherent greatness. This book will help you explore your unsuspected power and become a champion leader.

You Are The Team: 6 Simple Ways Teammates Can Go From Good To Great

• • Author: Michael G Rogers

  • Summary:  Imagine a team with completely committed and selfless collaborative team members. Imagine a team who cared deeply and passionately about team results. Imagine a team where you (as a leader or a teammate) were free from the burden of dealing with team politics, drama, and distractions. Imagine a team where egos are checked at the door, and shared commitment to team excellence takes precedence. Is it possible? Yes!  Drawing on decades of expertise, visionary leader and team expert Michael G. Rogers presents an unparalleled approach to team development that sets this book apart from any other in the leadership genre. With captivating stories, relatable examples, introspective activities, and actionable exercises, this book challenges your team’s mindset and equips them with the tools to elevate their personal performance and that of your entire team. You Are the Team – 6 Simple Ways Teammates Can Go from Good to Great is not a book just for you but for every member of your team. It is a meaningful, practical, actionable, and enduring gift to your team and possibly a gift to your entire organization.

HBR Guide to Motivating People (HBR Guide Series)

• • Author: Harvard Business Review

  • Summary:  As a manager, it's your responsibility to ensure your team is motivated and performing at a high level. But recent data reveals abysmal engagement levels among workers around the globe. How do you fix the problem--before your most talented people walk out the door? By understanding what drains your employees, you can increase their job satisfaction and push them toward achieving their goals. The HBR Guide to Motivating People provides practical tips and advice to help your team find meaning in their work, build on their strengths, and produce the best results for the organization. You'll learn how to:

    • Pinpoint the root causes of lackluster performance

    • Tailor rewards and recognition to individuals

    • Connect routine work activities to a higher purpose

    • Support your employees' growth and development

    • Prevent burnout--especially in your top performers

    • Create a culture of engagement

Master the Matrix: 7 Essentials for Getting Things Done in Complex Organizations

• Authors: Susan Zelmanski, Tony Thelen, Harry Kraemer

• Summary: Whether we are in a formal matrix structure, a matrix role or work through a web of people to get things done, today’s work requires us to work side to side, across the organization. For our own careers and for the success of the organization, we can’t remain in the comfortable confines of our functional, geographical or product siloes. The complex solutions and decisions that move businesses forward are found in the lateral work—with partners scattered across the organization and around the globe. Master the Matrix, 2nd Edition, is based on the discussions, questions and ideas of thousands of participants and clients who have used this powerful, practical framework to make sense of cross-functional work. It is backed by the quantitative results from Finerty Consulting’s Matrix180 and Cross-Functional Influence 180 assessment tools, interviews and surveys. Structured around the stories of practioners and considered the gold standard of “how to” in our matrixed, cross-functional organizations, this book is as relatable as it is reliable. Bonus material includes making it work in virtual work environments and what to look for when hiring for cross-functional roles.

Making the Matrix Work: How Matrix Managers Engage People and Cut Through Complexity

• Author: Kevin Hall

• Summary: Global customers, supply chains and more integrated business functions mean that work now cuts across the traditional vertical silos of country and function. But the 'solution' of the matrix structure also brings multiple bosses, competing goals and higher levels of complexity. Traditional management training prioritizes clarity, predictability and control. In a matrix we need to be able to balance this with the ability to tolerate ambiguity, manage uncertainty and decentralize control. Managers need an expanded toolkit to help them move from the hard to the soft, from the concrete to the ambiguous and back again depending on the situation. Kevan Hall's new book will help you develop your “matrix mindset” and will show you how to establish and engage networks that do not depend on role, control or authority to get things done. This book gives individuals working in the matrix the tools to take control of their own goals, role and success and shows matrix managers how to lead others to make their matrix really work.

The Mighty Modern Manager: How to Overcome Leadership Challenges and Succeed as an Exemplary Leader With the Right Mindsets, Skills, Tools and Practices

• Author: Paul A Wyatt

• Summary: In this game-changing guide, you will learn how to overcome leadership challenges and succeed as an exemplary leader with the right mindsets, skills, tools, and practices! Using a practical, step-by-step approach, this book will walk you through the most critical skills you need to survive and thrive as a leader, including:

  • Increasing your self-awareness and self-management

  • Unlearning unhelpful leadership paradigms

  • Understanding yourself and the best leadership style for your philosophy

  • Mastering the art of effective communication and easily overcoming common communication challenges

  • Handling conflict like a rock star

  • Handling crises with ease and style

  • Making the best game-changing decisions with a drop of a hat

  • Creating mistake-friendly, creative, and change-embracing workspaces

  • Leading your team through any kind of changes with full commitment

  • Making people want to follow you, even through the toughest times

  • Creating strong, cohesive and motivated teams

  • And so much more!

Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

• • Authors: Deepak Malhotra, Max Bazerman

  • Summary:  From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation. Whether you’ve “seen it all” or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out of preparing for and executing negotiations—whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals or improving your next salary offer. What sets negotiation geniuses apart? They are the men and women who know how to:

    • Identify negotiation opportunities where others see no room for discussion

    • Discover the truth even when the other side wants to conceal it

    • Negotiate successfully from a position of weakness

    • Defuse threats, ultimatums, lies, and other hardball tactics

    • Overcome resistance and “sell” proposals using proven influence tactics

    • Negotiate ethically and create trusting relationships—along with great deals

    • Recognize when the best move is to walk away

    • And much, much more

Negotiation Made Simple: A Practical Guide for Solving Problems, Building Relationships, and Delivering the Deal

• • Author: John Lowry

  • Summary: Business and organizational leaders spend well over half of their professional time engaged in this process. It is the way they do deals, lead employees, and manage relationships. Most leaders learn to negotiate on the job through a long process of trial and error. In today’s competitive marketplace, there is no time for experimentation, nor room to make mistakes. The good news is by mastering negotiation, the next level of success is actually closer than it appears. The actionable advice and practical guidance offered in this book give a roadmap for every type of negotiation. Through case studies, illustrations, exercises, and personal stories, Lowry shows how to:

    • Make strategic decisions – move from doing what is comfortable to doing what is most strategic.

    • Manage the process – carefully balance the urge to compete with the need to collaborate.

    • Deliver the deal – fine-tune the negotiation process to achieve the desired outcome.

3-d Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals

• • Authors: David A Lax, James K Bebenius

  • Summary: When discussing being stuck in a "win-win vs. win-lose" debate, most negotiation books focus on face-to-face tactics. Yet, table tactics are only the "first dimension" of David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius' pathbreaking 3-D Negotiation (TM) approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and analyzing great dealmakers. Moves in their "second dimension"—deal design—systematically unlock economic and noneconomic value by creatively structuring agreements. But what sets the 3-D approach apart is its "third dimension": setup. Before showing up at a bargaining session, 3-D Negotiators ensure that the right parties have been approached, in the right sequence, to address the right interests, under the right expectations, and facing the right consequences of walking away if there is no deal. This new arsenal of moves away from the table often has the greatest impact on the negotiated outcome. Packed with practical steps and cases, 3-D Negotiation demonstrates how superior setup moves plus insightful deal designs can enable you to reach remarkable agreements at the table, unattainable by standard tactics.

Business Etiquette Made Easy: The Essential Guide to Professional Success

• Author:  Myka Meier 

• Summary: Etiquette expert Myka Meier has coached thousands of business professionals and worked with internal human resources and hiring departments of some of the most successful Fortune 100 companies to learn what it takes to be the best in business. It may surprise you to learn that etiquette is what differentiates you from everyone else, and Business Etiquette Made Easy shows you how to put your best professional foot forward. Whether you’re just entering the workforce or have been working for many years and want to revamp your image, Myka shares practical tips that are simple to incorporate into your everyday business life. Through easy-to-follow chapters, you’ll learn how to:

  • Master resumes and interviews at any level

  • Dress like a polished professional

  • Make a great first impression

  • Network like a pro

  • Have superb business dining table manners

  • And much, much more!

Office Etiquette: The Unspoken Rules in the Workplace

• Author:  Sonja L Traxler 

• Summary: Sonja L. Traxler is a corporate professional with over 17 years of experience in marketing and finance. Her debut, Office Etiquette: The Unspoken Rules in the Workplace is a combination of common policies, sound advice, and humorous real-life anecdotes from the working world. Office Etiquette is a quick, fun read that gets to the point. The author’s goal is to see that new graduates, young associates, and seasoned professionals are armed with the tools they need for success in the workplace. This is her first book in a series of career guides.

The Essentials of Business Etiquette: How to Greet, Eat, and Tweet Your Way to Success

• Author:  Barbara Pachter 

• Summary: Whether you’re eating lunch with a client, Skyping with your boss, or meeting a business partner for the first time--it's all about how you present yourself. The Essentials of Business Etiquette gives you 101 critical tips for improving behavior in any business situation--all delivered in a quick, no-nonsense format. "If you are looking for practical guidelines on how to conduct yourself in a business situation, what behaviors you need to use to get ahead, and how to be sure that you do not offend others, read this book!" -- MADELINE BELL, President and COO, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia "Pachter has once again done an excellent job at highlighting some key tools to succeed in leadership and how to conduct yourself in the workplace." -- JOSEPH A. BARONE, PharmD, FCCP, Acting Dean and Professor II, Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Hire, Inspire, And Fuel Their Fire: How to Recruit, Onboard, and Train New Employees to Live Your Culture Out Loud

• • Author: Michael Kerr

  • Summary:  This essential guide is loaded with practical ideas that not only help build and maintain a great culture, but also help to reduce the very high cost of turnover. This should be mandatory reading for anyone with the courage and influence to take their business to the next level and beyond. Brilliantly written and inspiring! Kathy Mueller, General Manager, Chartwell From creative ways to promote your workplace culture to simple, but effective ideas on how to keep your culture message alive with employees, "Hire, Inspire, and Fuel Their Fire" is also a blueprint on how to make the entire recruitment and onboarding process more fun - for you and for your new employees! “Inspiring pearls of wisdom for keeping your culture alive and leveraging it to attract and retain new talent. A recommended read to spark your creativity – it’s chock full of nutty (but effective) ideas for not only attracting great employees but keeping them once you find them!” Patti Courtois, Assistant Manager, Training Services, Stauffers of Kissel Hill Author Michael Kerr is a Hall of Fame business speaker and trainer who travels the world researching, writing, and speaking about inspiring workplace cultures. His Inspiring Workplaces blog has been listed as one of the top 75 workplace blogs in the world. Michael is the author of six other books, including "The Humor Advantage: Why Some Businesses Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank."

The Onboarding Process: How to Connect Your New Hire (The Team Solution Series)

• • Authors: Amanda J. Painter, Brenda A. Haire 

  • Summary:  Are you tired of turnover? Are you ready for productivity immediately after hiring? Employee turnover is costly, and in order to increase retention, you need a set of tools to streamline new employee integration, establish engagement, and empower your team. The Onboarding Process breaks down seven, simple C’s that will assist you in creating an effective system for your small business. This book will guide you through: 

    • How to collaborate with your team for a fluid onboarding process.

    • What to communicate when and how.

    • Solutions to common onboarding challenges.

    • Details of compliance necessary to protect your company and employees.

    • Clarifying expectations every step of the way for the new hire.

    • Connecting your new hire to the people and tools needed to succeed.

    • Strategies to integrate your new hire into your company culture.

Self-Organization In 8 Weeks: Your Ultimate Guide To A More Organized And Productive Life

• • Author: Simon Wright

  • Summary:  The term self-organization may seem misleading because it implies that it happens on its own, without any prompting. In reality, achieving self-organization actually requires a conscious effort on your part. Self-organization simply means organizing your mind, actions, time, home, relationships, work, and your life in general. It is important to keep yourself organized if you want to be successful in life. If you want to be successful in life, you need to organize your life so you can get more things done in the shortest time possible. Organization is one of the keys to success. You may think that 24 hours is not enough to finish all the things that you need to do, but this is not true. A lot of busy people are successful in what they do and still have enough time for their personal life. This means they must be doing something right with their time. Organizing is a lot more than de-cluttering and making a to-do list. It takes a lot of effort on your part, but the eventual rewards are worth it. This book gives you some useful tips and information about self-organization which includes time optimization, effective planning, increasing productivity, eliminating distractions, and a lot more. You will also be given challenges for each week to help you become more organized and permanently change your ways for the better.

Organize Your Day: How to Manage Your Day and to Become More Productive and Successful

• • Author: Dorothy Enderson

  • Summary:  Do you feel like you are doing a lot of work without any real results? Are you distracted, overwhelmed with work pressure, and feeling disorganized? You are living a busy life, but are you living an organized and productive life? We all want balance in work and life. We want to achieve that balance without being stressed out, overwhelmed and exhausted. The world is changing and you need to change and adjust with it. An organized and productive person doesn’t have more time in their day than you. We all live the same 24 hour day night cycle, but the difference between you and them is that they know how to manage their day properly. This comprehensive book encourages you to take small steps in organizing your home, office, and life in order to enjoy a stress-free, productive life. Start your day after a quality sleep and with the proper diet and nutrition. You will remain active and organized all day. Manage your stress and manage your day. In this book are simple techniques to help you learn how to become organized and get more things done in short time. Know about these productive methods and apply them in your life successfully. These are useful tips for you to utilize every minute of your life, so don’t waste time. Start reading the book and organize your life.

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

• • Authors: Marie Kondo, Scott Sonenshein

  • Summary:  The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way. In Joy at Work, bestselling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo and Rice University business professor Scott Sonenshein offer stories, studies, and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that really matters. Using the world-renowned KonMari Method and cutting-edge research, Joy at Work will help you overcome the challenges of workplace mess and enjoy the productivity, success, and happiness that come with a tidy desk and mind.

HBR's 10 Most Reads on Performance Management

• • Authors:  Harvard Business Review, Marcus Buckingham, Heidi K. Gardner, Lynda Gratton, Peter Cappelli

  • Summary:  For decades, performance management has been seen as an annual chore by managers and HR departments alike. But this process is changing, and there are ways to make it more effective at all levels of your organization. If you read nothing else on performance management in your organization, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you make your process more adaptable, conduct better feedback conversations, and encourage the growth of your employees. This book will inspire you to:

    • Learn where current performance management processes are falling short

    • Overcome organizational bias to evaluate performance fairly

    • Sculpt employees' jobs to meet their skill sets and interests

    • Boost collaboration by aligning goals across functions

    • Use people analytics ethically and transparently

    • Help your people identify and use their strengths

Performance Management for Dummies

• • Author:  Herman Aguinis

  • Summary:  Performance Management For Dummies is the definitive guide to infuse performance management with your organization's strategic goals and priorities. It provides the nuts and bolts of how to define and measure performance in terms of what employees do (i.e., behaviors) and the outcome of what they do (i.e., results) ―both for individual employees as well as teams. Inside, you’ll find a new multi-step, cyclical process to help you keep track of your employees' work, identify where they need to improve and how, and ensure they're growing with the organization―and helping the organization succeed. Plus, it’ll show managers to C-Suites how to use performance management not just as an evaluation tool but, just as importantly, to help employees grow and improve on an ongoing basis so they are capable and motivated to support the organization’s strategic objectives.

    • Understand if your performance management system is working

    • Make fixes where needed

    • Get performance evaluation forms, interview protocols, and scripts for feedback meetings

    • Grasp why people make some businesses more successful than others

    • Make performance management a useful rather than painful management tool

Harvard Business Essentials: Performance Management: Measure and Improve the Effectiveness of Your Employees

• • Author:  Harvard Budsiness Review

  • Summary:  Today’s competitive workplace demands that managers evaluate employee performance, and provide coaching. Performance Management will help managers prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report and create a development plan to increase employee productivity. The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Whether you are a new manager seeking to expand your skills or a seasoned professional looking to broaden your knowledge base, these solution-oriented books put reliable answers at your fingertips.

The 4 Pillars of Problem-Solving: 169 Techniques & Hacks to Solve Challenges With Strategic Thinking. Build Relationships and Collaborate With People by Fixing Tough Problems Using Creative Solutions

• Author: Patrik Meyer 

• Summary: Imagine a life where challenges are no longer roadblocks but opportunities for growth and success. In "The 4 Pillars of Problem-Solving", author Patrik Ian Meyer presents a comprehensive guide to transforming your problem-solving abilities. Meyer shares 169 techniques and hacks that will empower you to solve any challenge with strategic thinking, creative solutions, and collaborative relationships. Whether you're facing personal or professional obstacles, this book equips you with the tools and strategies to overcome limitations and achieve extraordinary results. Learn practical advice that will revolutionize your problem-solving approach.

Problem Solving For Every Problem: The Problem Solver’s Manual To Face Any Challenges And Handle Life’s Hiccups

• Author: Thinknetic 

• Summary: Less time spent mulling over problems and more time spent on solving problems the right way, means the freedom to work on projects you really care about and to finally plan weekend trips with family and friends. According to a 1974 MIT study called "Cognitive Style & the Problem-Solving Process: An Experiment," Peter G.W. Keen found that 60-70% of middle-level managers showed a specific cognitive style for decision-making. So, what does this mean? That each manager was productive and happy when solving problems that fit his or her style. This shows that the stress and overwhelm you feel are completely normal.

Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything

• Author: Charles Conn 

• Summary: Complex problem solving is at the very top of the list of essential skills for career progression in the modern world. But how problem solving is taught in our schools, universities, businesses and organizations comes up short. In Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything you’ll learn the seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving developed in top consulting firms that will work in any field or industry, turning you into a highly sought-after bulletproof problem solver who can tackle challenges that others balk at. The problem-solving technique outlined in this book is based on a highly visual, logic-tree method that can be applied to everything from everyday decisions to strategic issues in business to global social challenges. The authors, with decades of experience at McKinsey and Company, provide 30 detailed, real-world examples, so you can see exactly how the technique works in action. With this bulletproof approach to defining, unpacking, understanding, and ultimately solving problems, you’ll have a personal superpower for developing compelling solutions in your workplace.

The Handbook of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management, Second Edition

• Author: James T Brown

• Summary: Program managers must strike a balance between operations and project implementations in order to develop and maintain a culture in which the components of success are repeatable. The Handbook of Program Management is designed to help you do exactly that. This go-to guide supplies you with the insight and tools you need to establish processes that ensure the success of your project managers--and increase the profitability of your products and services. Fully updated and heavily revised, this new edition helps you incorporate new technologies and people into your processes while delivering improved products and services that continually outpace your competition. The Handbook of Program Management provides critical information from a trusted expert. In addition to the classic chapters on Attributes of the Effective Program Manager, Stakeholder Management, and Portfolio Management Essentials, this updated edition is packed with brandnew material covering:

  • Change management

  • Interfaces

  • How bad projects are stopped or postponed

  • How consultants and subcontractors should be used

  • Program performance analysis

  • The role of governance

Program Management (Fundamentals of Project Management) 2nd Edition

• Author: Michel Thiry

• Summary: Program management (PgM) is fast developing as the essential link between strategy and projects and as a vehicle for organizational change. It offers the means to manage groups of projects with a common business purpose in an integrated and effective way. The Second Edition of Michel Thiry’s Program Management builds on the bestselling title first published in 2010. The heavily revised text reflects the latest program management guides and international standards and includes: a new section on agile management in programs; the author’s own program management maturity measure; a new section on change management, which is now integral to many programs. Michel has also reviewed and revised the program lifecycle to align with the more unified view of program management that has emerged since the book was first published. The result is an essential guide to program management that incorporates a robust theoretical framework, complemented by examples and advice from one of the world’s leading practitioners.

Program Management: Going Beyond Project Management to Enable Value-Driven Change 1st Edition

• Author: Al Zeitoun

• Summary: Program Management links business purpose, strategy, program stakeholders, benefits realization, and transformative change-making to provide a uniquely integrated view and use of program management, offering practicing initiative leaders the skills and mindset shifts needed to effectively communicate and champion programs to stakeholders. The text includes key insights into strategy execution excellence and designing risk-based governance strategies that empower a learning culture within the PMO and across the business, guidance that is customizable to the nature of strategic initiatives and change efforts at the individual and organizational level, and customization that is driven by the emphasis on the potential use of programs and projects as learning labs for different levels of complexity, organizational maturity, and diverse business contexts.

Written by a highly qualified author with more than 30 years of experience in the field, Program Management covers critical topics such as:

• • Origin of programs, program management definitions and concepts, the role of program manager vs. project manager, and the importance of value focus across the program life cycle.

  • How leaders need to be agile, navigate political waters, manage incredible complexity, and align diverse stakeholders.

  • Envisioning a Program Roadmap that fits context and inspires commitment to continuously achieving value.

  • The culture for change making and the attributes for a healthy “change culture” including the future Power Skills. Also addressing the value proposition of program professionals in the future.

  • Impact of digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the future of programs.

  • Creating the value-driven way of working and developing the value mindset coupled with the role of benefits management in programs and projects.

  • The PMO as the learning engine for the enterprise and the changing role of the program offices.

  • Becoming a Change Scientist, the maturing of value and strategic metrics in programs, and how to achieve the right metrics design and mix.

Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook: How to Launch, Lead, and Sponsor Successful Projects (HBR Handbooks)

• • Author: Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

  • Summary:  In this comprehensive guide, project management expert Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez presents a new and simple framework that will increase any project's likelihood of success. Packed with case studies from many industries worldwide, it will teach you how to manage your organization's projects, strategic programs, and agile initiatives more effectively and push the best ones ahead to completion. Timeless yet forward-looking, this book will help you win in the project-driven world. In the HBR Project Management Handbook you'll find:

    • Everything you need to know about project management in practical, nontechnical language

    • A definitive taxonomy of project types, from product launches to digital transformations to megaprojects

    • A road map for becoming an effective project leader and executive sponsor

    • A new, simple, and universal project framework, the Project Canvas, that breaks down any project into essential building blocks that can be easily understood by all project stakeholders

Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title

• • Authors: Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, James Wood

  • Summary:  FranklinCovey experts Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood understand the importance of leadership in project completion and explain that people are crucial in the formula for success. Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager offers practical, real-world insights for effective project management and guides you through the essentials of the people and project management process:

    • Initiate

    • Plan

    • Execute

    • Monitor/Control

    • Close

Unofficial project managers in any arena will benefit from the accessible, engaging real-life anecdotes, memorable “Project Management Proverbs,” and quick reviews at the end of each chapter.

If you’re struggling to keep your projects organized, this book is for you. If you manage projects without the benefit of a team, this book is also for you. Change the way you think about project management "project manager" may not be your official title or necessarily your dream job, but with the right strategies, you can excel.

Project Management QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Precise Planning, Strategic Resource Management, and Delivering World Class Results

• • Author: Chris Croft

  • Summary:  Now more than ever, organizations are looking for flexible, profitable, and efficient ways to achieve their goals, and effective project management is the answer. Not only is it an in-demand skill in nearly every industry, but it’s also one of the most transferable skills you can acquire. In Project Management QuickStart Guide, author, speaker, trainer, and project management expert Chris Croft draws on his 30+ years of experience to deliver a comprehensive guide for would-be project managers, experienced project planners, and everyone in between. As one of the UK’s leading business, project management, and leadership trainers Chris knows how break down the sometimes-complex world of project management into actionable and easy-to-digest concepts. Insights from his dozens of courses that have reached over ten million students across the globe can be found within Project Management QuickStart Guide. It doesn’t matter if you are a reluctant project manager hesitant to step into the role, a manager with a new set of responsibilities, or a business owner looking to grow your business—you can learn and implement world-class project management skills to achieve your goals!

Tagging for Talent: The Hidden Power of Social Recognition in the Workplace

• • Author: Michael Salone

  • Summary:  Tagging for Talent introduces a breakthrough approach for human resources, senior executives and line managers to find hidden talent from within their own organizations. This unique method challenges the status quo of talent identification and succession planning with an easy crowdsourcing approach to competency recognition. This is not a book about using social media, but a true business solution using the natural behaviors of your workforce to self-identify potential myriad of talent. It speaks to HR professionals and senior leaders who are looking for simple to use, real-life solutions that can be implemented in business today. Employees already see the power of tagging and view this innovative approach as a fun way to recognizing talent, versus the old method of waiting for their manager to see or perceive their strengths. For years, executives have been asking, “Why am I spending all of this time and money when I keep getting the same results?” Tagging for Talent inspires leaders to tap into the power of the crowd, along with practical guidance on how to put a peer-based tagging system in place—and take their company up a notch!

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

• • Authors: Gary Chapman, Paul White

  • Summary:  A bestseller—having sold over 300,000 copies and translated into 16 languages—this book has proven to be effective and valuable in diverse settings. Its principles about human behavior have helped businesses, non-profits, hospitals, schools, government agencies, and organizations with remote workers. PLUS! Each book contains a free access code for taking the online Motivating By Appreciation (MBA) Inventory (does not apply to purchases of used books). ***Please contact mpcustomerservice@moody.edu if you purchased your book new and the access code is denied. The assessment identifies a person’s preferred languages of appreciation to help you apply the book. When supervisors and colleagues understand their coworkers’ primary and secondary languages, as well as the specific actions they desire, they can effectively communicate authentic appreciation, thus creating healthy work relationships and raising the level of performance across an entire team or organization.

O Great One!: A Little Story About the Awesome Power of Recognition 

• • Author: David Novak

  • Summary:  When was the last time you told your colleagues how much you value them? It sounds like a trivial thing in the middle of a busy work day. But as Novak discovered during his years as a hard charging executive, there’s nothing trivial about recognition. It can make a life-or-death difference to any organization, when people see that someone important really notices and appreciates their contributions. The story of O Great One! opens when Jeff Johnson becomes the third-generation CEO of his family business, after the sudden death of his father. The Happy Face Toy Company had many hits in the 1950s and 60s, including Crazy Paste, but its results have been declining for more than a decade. The board has given Jeff just one year to turn the business around, or else they’ll have to sell it to the highest bidder. As Jeff races to save his family’s legacy by getting the company back on track, he meets downtrodden factory workers and an uninspired executive team. Then a birthday gift from his grandson gives Jeff an important insight into why Happy Face lost its culture of innovation and excitement, along with its profitability. He comes up with an idea that seems crazy… But is it crazy enough to work? 

Relationships at Work: How to Authentically Network within Your Company

• • Author: Rachel B Simon

  • Summary:  In Relationships at Work, executive Rachel B. Simon shares her proven approach to demystify the art of networking. As a frequent speaker and panelist, Rachel offers her unique perspective with simple, yet often overlooked, tips to organically build relationships across departments and chains of command. Packed with over 200 examples, she outlines practical, tactical guidance for planting and nurturing the seeds of a reciprocal network, and enjoying the blossoms of success. This book is for everyone who seeks broader and deeper relationships with their colleagues. It’s designed with a comprehensive list of strategies to form human connections and create a meaningful impact in the workplace. Readers will hold the power to improve the way they collaborate with coworkers, accomplish goals, and quite possibly change the trajectory of their careers.

It's All about Relationships!: New Ways to Make Them Healthy and Fulfilling, at Home and at Work

• • Author: Karen L Rancourt

  • Summary:  IT'S ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS! New Ways to Make Them Healthy and Fulfilling, at Home and at Work takes the uncertainty and thorniness out of relationships. No more being confused, or unsure about what to do, often doing something that makes a relationship even worse! This self-help book provides the skills needed to manage effectively all personal and professional relationships. It clearly explains how to replace the randomness and indecisiveness in interpersonal interactions with confidence, focus, and direction. By completing a simple instrument to assess the building blocks of relationships, it quickly becomes clear as to what is working in a given relationship and what is not working. A variety of easy-to-implement actions are presented to get desired outcomes in relationships -- that is, to build, maintain, strengthen, change, or end them.

Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work

• • Author: Todd Davis

  • Summary:  From the business experts that brought you The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Strengthen relationships and improve communications skills: In Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work, Chief People Officer Todd Davis moves beyond the adage that an organization's greatest assets are its people. Instead, he argues that relationships drive professional and personal effectiveness—and, in the end, create a culture that can become an organization's competitive advantage. Improve your emotional intelligence and become the ideal team player: In an approachable, engaging style, using real-world stories, Davis uncovers the most common relationship pitfalls that hurt careers and negatively affect organizational results. From his experience observing, leading, and coaching others for more than thirty years, David identifies fifteen proven practices that anyone at any level of an organization can apply to be successful at work, improve business results, and truly master effective relationships. Readers will learn how to:

    • • Behave their way to credibility

      • Think “we,” not “me”

      • Take stock of their emotional bank accounts

      • Examine their real motives

      • Do less talking and more active listening

      • Make it safe to tell the truth and have difficult conversations

      • Start with humility, and much more!

Construction Safety and the OSHA Standards 2nd Edition

• • Author: David Goetsch

  • Summary:  Construction Safety and the OSHA Standards prepares students to handle all of the safety, health, and compliance responsibilities of even the largest construction projects. In addition to providing current coverage of the latest information and requirements in the OSHA standards for construction (29 CFR 1926, Subparts A through Z plus AA and CC), the text also includes essential safety topics not covered in the standards, such as accident causation theories and ethics and safety. Included are chapter summaries, key terms and concepts, review questions, critical thinking activities, and application activities to ensure understanding of the topics presented in each chapter. The Second Edition includes important new coverage and updating throughout, including a new chapter on innovative approaches to construction safety that go beyond just compliance (new Chapter 3).

Basic Construction Safety and Health

• Author: Fred Fanning

• Summary:  The costs of injuries and property damage from construction accidents increase daily. There is information that can help reduce or eliminate these costs. This second edition focuses on the top accident causes in the construction industry. The author has twenty years of experience managing safety and occupational health programs that target the accident causes to reduce or eliminate these costs. This book received three five-star reviews from Reader's Favorite.

Best Practices in Construction Site Safety: Where We have Been, Where We are Going, and a Review of Construction Through the Years Kindle Edition

• • Author: Harlan Fair

  • Summary:  Harlan W. Fair has 68 years of experience in construction and civil engineering, including construction site safety. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Dartmouth College and the Thayer School of Engineering, graduating in 1954 with an MS in Civil Engineering. Following graduation, he was commissioned in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps at Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Newport, R.I. His first assignment was Maintenance Officer at Argentia, Newfoundland Harlan Naval Air Station where he was responsible for a Seabee Detachment and civilian work force. Following a Naval Reserve career, he retired as a captain in the Civil Engineer Corps. In 1957 he joined Turner Construction Company as a field engineer. In 1964 he was Project Engineer for Thompson Starrett Construction Company on the New York State Exhibit at the New York World’s Fair. After assignments as Facility Director at Cornell Medical and New York Hospital, Director of Project Management for the New York Health and Hospital Corp and Project Manager on a consumables project in Oklahoma City for Xerox, he started his own construction and construction management business in the Metropolitan New York area.

Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships

• • Author: Daniel Goleman

  • Summary:  Our reactions to others, and theirs to us, have a far-reaching biological impact, sending out cascades of hormones that regulate everything from our hearts to our immune systems, making good relationships act like vitamins—and bad relationships like poisons. We can “catch” other people’s emotions the way we catch a cold, and the consequences of isolation or relentless social stress can be life-shortening. Goleman explains the surprising accuracy of first impressions, the basis of charisma and emotional power, the complexity of sexual attraction, and how we detect lies. He describes the “dark side” of social intelligence, from narcissism to Machiavellianism and psychopathy. He also reveals our astonishing capacity for “mindsight,” as well as the tragedy of those, like autistic children, whose mindsight is impaired. Is there a way to raise our children to be happy? What is the basis of a nourishing marriage? How can business leaders and teachers inspire the best in those they lead and teach? How can groups divided by prejudice and hatred come to live together in peace? The answers to these questions may not be as elusive as we once thought. And Goleman delivers his most heartening news with powerful conviction: we humans have a built-in bias toward empathy, cooperation, and altruism–provided we develop the social intelligence to nurture these capacities in ourselves and others.

The First Minute: How to Start Conversations That Get Results (Business Communication Skills Books)

• • Author: Chris Flenning

  • Summary: This award-winning book is a step-by-step guide for clear, concise communication in everyday work conversations. Being concise is not about trying to condense all the information into sixty seconds. It is about having clear intent, talking about one topic at a time, and focusing on solutions instead of dwelling on problems. Throughout this book you’ll discover how to:

    • Have shorter, better work conversations and meetings

    • Get to the point faster without rambling or going off on tangents

    • Lead your audience toward the solution you need

    • Apply one technique to almost every discussion, email, presentation and interview with great results

This book is a result of more than 20,000 conversations in both business and technical jobs. Chris Fenning has trained individuals and teams around the world in these techniques. He has worked with organizations from start-ups to Fortune 50 and FTSE 100 companies. These methods work for them all.

The Introvert's Guide to Success in the Workplace: Becoming Confident in a Culture of Extroverted Expectations Audiobook

• • Author: Dr Mike Bechtle

  • Summary: As an introvert, do you ever feel like the things you're best at—deep thinking, keen observation, focused listening, and strategic planning—are not highly valued in your workplace because they are internal rather than external? Have you ever been ignored or passed over while the extrovert in the next office is recognized and rewarded? Do you feel like you have to pretend to be someone you're not in order to get ahead? Just because your greatest strengths are internal doesn't mean your workplace doesn't need them. In fact, your invisible skills are essential to any business's success! And the key to your personal success is not trying to be someone else but being 100% yourself. Backed by research, case studies, and personal observation, communication expert Dr. Mike Bechtle shows you how to capitalize on your unique strengths so that you can reach your full potential with confidence and authenticity. His simple, actionable advice can change your work life-starting today.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

• • Author: Marshall Goldsmith

  • Summary: Many professionals get stuck at a certain level of success. For instance, they manage to climb to a middle-management position at their organization, but always get passed over for promotion to the executive level. Author and business coach Marshall Goldsmith believes that when a professional’s career stalls in this way, it’s usually because they’ve slipped into bad behavioral habits. In other words, they’ve started to treat their colleagues poorly.  In this book, you’ll discover how you can reach your full potential by eliminating 21 harmful workplace behaviors. 

Leading with Strategic Thinking: Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Result

• • Authors: Aaron K Olson, B Keith Simerson

  • Summary: Leading with Strategic Thinking reveals what effective leaders do differently. Eschewing the one-size-fits-all leadership model, this helpful guide outlines four general leadership types and demonstrates how each type achieves success - whether through personal vision, structured process, collaboration, or empowering others. The authors identify the actions and skills that distinguish strategic leadership, drawn from interviews and focus groups with over 300 leaders from around the world.  The disruptive forces of technology and globalization raise new challenges for leaders. This book is a manual that will help executives and aspiring leaders harness these forces and address the two central questions of strategic leadership: 

    • How do the best leaders develop their strategy? 

    • How do effective leaders drive strategic change? 

    • Becoming a strategic leader isn't about mimicking an icon. The most effective leaders seize opportunity in a way that consciously integrates environmental requirements, stakeholder expectations, and personal ability. Leading with Strategic Thinking shows what these leaders do and gives anyone the tools to be a more strategic leader. 

Learning to Think Strategically 4th Edition

• • Author: Julia Sloan

  • Summary: Strategic thinking has become a core competency for business leaders globally. Overused and under-defined, the term is often used interchangeably with other strategic management terms. This textbook delineates and defines strategic thinking as an advanced, conceptual cognitive capability, focusing on the nonlinear, divergent, a-rational and informal nature of strategic thinking. This unique and practical text is an original primer of how successful strategists learn to think strategically. In this fourth edition, the author offers an expanded definition of strategic thinking based on critical theory. This book highlights the role of informal learning, underscores the relevance of engaging in the arts, and has global application for those tasked with making strategy in this rapidly changing world. Sloan presents a previously unexamined account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved ― taking learning from the academic to the everyday. New features include an expanded list of learning methods to develop strategic thinking, a more extensive look at global cultural perspectives of strategic thinking, additional scenarios and case vignettes, and online resources comprising test bank questions and lecture slides.

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters

• • Author: Richard Rumelt

  • Summary: When Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy was published in 2011, it immediately struck a chord, calling out as bad strategy the mish-mash of pop culture, motivational slogans and business buzz speak so often and misleadingly masquerading as the real thing. Since then, his original and pragmatic ideas have won fans around the world and continue to help readers to recognise and avoid the elements of bad strategy and adopt good, action-oriented strategies that honestly acknowledge the challenges being faced and offer straightforward approaches to overcoming them. Strategy should not be equated with ambition, leadership, vision or planning; rather, it is coherent action backed by an argument. For Rumelt, the heart of good strategy is insight into the hidden power in any situation, and into an appropriate response - whether launching a new product, fighting a war or putting a man on the moon. Drawing on examples of the good and the bad from across all sectors and all ages, he shows how this insight can be cultivated with a wide variety of tools that lead to better thinking and better strategy, strategy that cuts through the hype and gets results.

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

• • Author: Hamilton Helmer

  • Summary: 7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate and quickly apply.Drawing on his decades of experience as a business strategy advisor, active equity investor and Stanford University teacher, Hamilton Helmer develops from first principles a practical theory of Strategy rooted in the notion of Power, those conditions which create the potential for persistent differential returns.Using rich real-world examples, Helmer rigorously characterizes exactly what your business must achieve to create Power. And create Power it must, for without it your business is at risk. He explains why invention always comes first and then develops the Power Progression to enable you to target when your Power must be established: in the origination, take-off or stability phases of your business. Every business faces a do-or-die strategy moment: a crux directional choice made amidst swirling uncertainty. To get this right you need at your fingertips a real-time strategy compass to discern your true north. 7 Powers is that compass.

The Engagement Equation: Leadership Strategies for an Inspired Workforce Kindle Edition

• • Authors: Christopher Rice, Fraser Marlow, Mary Ann Masarech

  • Summary: Create a culture of engagement and build high-performance culture. The Engagement Equation explains the drivers of employee engagement, and how you can use improved engagement to execute strategy, reduce costs, and meet your organizational goals. This book describes a unique engagement model that focuses on individuals' contribution to a company's success and personal satisfaction in their roles. Aligning employees' values, goals, and aspirations with those of the organization is the best method for achieving the sustainable employee engagement. The Engagement Equation is designed to provide a framework that will help you move the needle on engagement.

    • Explains how to plan and execute a sustainable organization-wide engagement initiative

    • Shows how to avoid the engagement survey analysis-paralysis trap

    • Shares ways to align employee contribution with strategy

    • Encourages leaders to pay attention to and better understand your organizational culture, and much more

Ultimately, it's the daily dynamics at play in your team, your division, and your organization that matter most.

Managing Stress in the Workplace: How To Get Rid Of Stress At Work And Live A Longer Life

• • Author: Joe Martin

  • Summary:  In this book, we will discuss in short why workplace stress affects you the way it does, the repercussions of leading a stressful life, and the various ways to combat it successfully. I sincerely hope that this book was able to help you to prevent, diminish or withstand your workplace stress successfully. Your excessive stress levels may have been your jailer at the workplace for a very long period of time, but, if you continue following the techniques that are outlined in this book, you will soon become free from its grasp. By adhering to these methods, you will be able to experience a renewed excitement and reinvigorated passion for your work that you may not have felt before. Rejoice in this. Don't fret if your progress doesn't go as well as you had hoped; most people experience several hurdles and roadblocks when trying to alleviate stress from their lives. Don't stop but climb further up and overcome every obstacle that you encounter. Very soon, you will see the bright ray of light that shows you have accomplished your objective.

Managing Workplace Stress: A Best Practice Blueprint (CBI Fast Track Book 1) 

• • Author: Stephen Williams, Lesley Cooper

  • Summary:  The facts of workplace stress are terrifying for businesses: in the average organisation ten percent of employees report very low levels of satisfaction with their jobs and three percent of turnover may be lost. Yet while stress may be endemic to business, it is not inevitable. Breaking through barriers of ignorance to promote happy and productive workforces, Steve Williams and Lesley Cooper provide a framework for building appropriate interventions along with a proactive template for dealing with stress before issues come to a head. Full of examples and workable solutions, this internationally-oriented book offers a wealth of sound advice and an essential stress debrief.

Managing Workplace Stress: The Cognitive Behavioural Way

• • Author: Koushiki Choudhury

  • Summary:  This book is focused at those who are working or are about to enter the workplace. According to the book, workplace may be defined as "any environment enabling work to be done". This broader definition will make the workplace include any situation or place where people interact to exchange knowledge and information. The book discusses the various anxiety and stress inducing events that one faces in the workplace and the ways to cope with them, using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), and Cognitive Therapy (CT). These techniques are the most widely used psychotherapeutic techniques and their effectiveness has been tested scientifically throughout the world. The book attempts to show as to how Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (umbrella term for CT and REBT) can be used to challenge and overcome workplace stress issues such as criticism, abuse, animosity, conflicts, disagreements, insubordination, organisational politics, favouritism, prejudices, discriminations, job uncertainties, extreme work pressures, excessive workloads, poor job designs, job mismatches, role conflicts, role ambiguities, cultural and ethical maladjustments, workplace boredom and anger problems by realistically and accurately interpreting events at the workplace.

Managing Workplace Stress and Conflict amid Change, Second edition

• • Author: Bahaudin Ghulam Mujtaba, Timothy McCartney

  • Summary:  Stress and conflict are realities of life. Most workers feel stressed on a daily basis. Perhaps this stress is due to the recession in the economy, job losses, more work, going to school while working, job change, more responsibilities, uncertainty, conflict, and/or too many things to achieve in a short time period. People are living in a constant period of transition, and the shelf life of solutions keeps getting shorter since what works today can become obsolete a few months later. Where is all the stress coming from in today's life? Stress is often coming from or caused by people, technology, new information, and globalization trends. Some of the commonly addressed sources of stress for businesses can include changes in nature of the workforce, economy, social trends, politics, leadership, management, organizational structures, products, services, customers, changing and conflicting demands, and location of where the firm produces or offers its products. Managing Workplace Stress and Conflict amid Change is about helping people effectively manage stress, conflict, and change in the workplace. The topics covered in this book include change management, conflict management, time management, stress management, and effective problem-solving. The book emphasizes that stress, conflict and change are realities of life in every organization. They are a natural part of evolution and human development. They have been handled for thousands of years and should be positively managed so that professionals may maximize their productivity and success in life.

One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams

• Author: Chris Fussell, Charles Goodyear, 

• Summary: Too often, companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics in isolation. Their traditional autocratic structures create stability, scalability, and predictability -- but in a world that demands rapid adaptation to a new reality, this traditional model simply doesn’t work. In Team of Teams, retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal and former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell made the case for a new organizational model combining the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization. Now, in One Mission, Fussell channels all his experiences, both military and corporate, into powerful strategies for unifying isolated and distrustful teams. This practical guide will help leaders in any field implement the Team of Teams approach to tear down their silos improve collaboration and avoid turf wars. By committing to one higher mission, organizations develop an overall capability that far exceeds the sum of their parts.

Multipliers, Revised and Updated: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

• Author: Liz Wiseman

• Summary: A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results. We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest person in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, light bulbs go off over people’s heads; ideas flow and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. Wiseman has identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed, they are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use—even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers. Lively, real-world case studies and practical tips and techniques bring to life each of these principles, showing you how to become a Multiplier too, whether you are a new or an experienced manager. This revered classic has been updated with new examples of Multipliers, as well as two new chapters one on accidental Diminishers, and one on how to deal with Diminishers. Just imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness all the energy and intelligence around you. Multipliers will show you how.

TeamWork: How to Build a High-Performance Team Paperback 

• Author: Natalie Dawson

• Summary: Do you wish your employees felt more energized and engaged? Would you like them to be on the same page and fully aligned with your goals? Your business success depends on your ability to align and develop the people who work for you. High-performance teams are built intentionally by leaders who understand the three essential components of growth: alignment, development, and transition. TeamWork breaks each of these components down into actionable processes, with steps you can take immediately to start making a difference today. Learn how to create teams that work the way you want them to. Then, discover ways to scale those teams, keeping them aligned with your objectives—and with each other—as your business grows. If you want your teams to excel, TeamWork can fast-track your path to a winning business with a thriving culture. TeamWork breaks each of these components down into actionable processes, with steps you can take immediately to start making a difference today. Learn how to create teams that work the way you want them to. Then, discov

15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs

• • Author: Kevin Kruse

  • Summary:  What if a few new habits could dramatically increase your productivity, and even 5x or 10x it in key areas? What if you could get an an hour a day to read, exercise, or to spend with your family. New York Times bestselling author, Kevin Kruse, presents the remarkable findings of his study of ultra-productive people. Based on survey research and interviews with billionaires, Olympic athletes, straight-A students, and over 200 entrepreneurs—-including Mark Cuban, Kevin Harrington, James Altucher, John Lee Dumas, Pat Flynn, Grant Cardone, and Lewis Howes—-Kruse answers the question: what are the secrets to extreme productivity? In this book, you'll learn:

    • Why millionaires don't use to-do lists (and what they DO use)

    • How to cure procrastination with the “Time Travel” trick

    • How the Harvard "DDR Questions" save 8 hours a week

    • How to identify your REAL priorities

    • How to get to zero emails in your inbox using 321Zero

    • How the simple E-3C system will double your productivity

    • How to reduce stress with the Richard Branson Tool

    • How to leave work at 5:00 without feeling guilty

    • How to run meetings like Apple, Google & Virgin

    • How to conquer social media distractions

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

• • Author: Oliver Burkeman

  • Summary:  Time is our biggest worry: There is too little of it. The acclaimed Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman offers a lively, entertaining philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life. The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.

Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces listeners to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society - and that we could do things differently. 

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less

• • Author: Brian Tracy

  • Summary:  There’s an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re done with the worst thing you’ll have to do all day. For Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task - but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Eat That Frog! shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively. The core of what is vital to effective time management is: decision, discipline, and determination. And in this fully revised and updated edition, Tracy adds two new chapters. The first explains how you can use technology to remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important. The second offers advice for maintaining focus in our era of constant distractions, electronic and otherwise. This life-changing book will ensure that you get more of your important tasks done today.

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

• • Author: Daniel H Pink

  • Summary:  Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married? In When, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.

Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor

• • Authors: Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O'Toole, Patricia Ward Biederman

  • Summary: In Transparency, the authors–a powerhouse trio in the field of leadership–look at what conspires against "a culture of candor" in organizations to create disastrous results, and suggest ways that leaders can achieve healthy and honest openness. They explore the lightning-rod concept of "transparency"–which has fast become the buzzword not only in business and corporate settings but in government and the social sector as well. Together Bennis, Goleman, and O'Toole explore why the containment of truth is the dearest held value of far too many organizations and suggest practical ways that organizations, their leaders, their members, and their boards can achieve openness. After years of dedicating themselves to research and theory, at first separately, and now jointly, these three leadership giants reveal the multifaceted importance of candor and show what promotes transparency and what hinders it. They describe how leaders often stymie the flow of information and the structural impediments that keep information from getting where it needs to go. This vital resource is written for any organization–business, government, and nonprofit–that must achieve a culture of candor, truth, and transparency.

The Transparency Edge: How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business

• • Authors: Barbara Pagano, Elisabeth Pagano, Stephen Lundin

  • Summary: Today's leading organizations have seized on the concept of transparency as the key to gaining the confidence of investors, employees, and customers--and gaining profits. In The Transparency Edge, leadership expert Barbara Pagano demonstrates that transparency is more than an excellent policy--it is a powerful management skill that managers can learn and use to make themselves and their organizations more competitive. Presenting the nine behaviors that every successful leader uses to gain a transparency edge, Pagano shows readers how to use these techniques to build loyalty, gain trust, and establish an impeccable reputation for integrity. She also shows how this nothing to- hide approach enables organizations and their leaders to:

    • Make decisions more efficiently and execute them more effectively

    • Speed up operations

    • Identify problems sooner and solve them faster

    • Build trust and collaboration within the organization

    • Establish a higher level of credibility

The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance

• • Author: David Gebler

  • Summary: A healthy corporate culture is the secret to an organization's performance. The good news is that employees already embody the values needed to propel the organization to its goals, but institutional roadblocks get in the way. All too often leaders don't know how to diagnose their culture in order to clear these roadblocks to performance. The 3 Power Values presents a breakthrough model that permits leaders to measure and manage culture. To create a fully aligned high-performing culture, leaders need only focus on nurturing three catalyst values: Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency.

    • Offers an innovative values-centered model to help organizations achieve short-term goals without sacrificing long-run sustainability

    • Filled with lively case studies of major companies including Johnson & Johnson and Boeing

    • David Gebler is a recognized thought leader in the field of values-based ethics and culture risk management

The 3 Power Values offers leaders at all levels a unique and accessible approach to identifying the behavioral challenges that are hindering their corporate culture and to removing them effectively.

Work-from-Home Hacks: 500+ Easy Ways to Get Organized, Stay Productive, and Maintain a Work-Life Balance While Working from Home!

• • Author: Aja Frost

  • Summary:  s many have discovered during the Covid-19 pandemic, working from home certainly has its perks. From the easy (non)commute to your computer to the extra time you can spend with your family and pets to the benefits of customizing your environment to your own personal needs, many are continuing to enjoy the work-from-home lifestyle. But it also comes with its challenges. How do you avoid distractions around your home? How can you remain as productive as you are in the office? That’s where Work-from-Home Hacks comes in to help! With over 500 quick and easy solutions you can implement in your daily life, you’ll find yourself staying more productive, organized, and happier than ever.

    • You’ll learn useful tips like:

    • Create a designated workspace at home

    • Figure out what background noise works best for you

    • Use a different internet browser for work

    • Change your clothes before you start work

    • And so much more!

Reconnecting Workspaces: Pathways to Thrive in the Virtual, Remote, and Hybrid World

• • Author: Jennifer J Britton

  • Summary:  Reconnecting Workspaces is a practical roadmap for leaders, business owners, teams and professionals navigating the virtual, remote and hybrid world. This book explores many of the core skills and practices required to thrive in the evolving workspace. The last year has shattered many of the myths of the remote workplace, creating a paradigm shift around leadership and teamwork. The world of the remote work requires that everyone is equipped with the skills, tools, and practices for exceptional work—whether it is virtual, remote, or hybrid. Join Remote Pathways Podcast co-host and virtual group and team expert Jennifer Britton in this foundational look at core topics impacting the workspace today including:

    • Boosting the Triad of Trust, Safety and Connection

    • Creating a robust virtual team culture and high performing remote and virtual team

    • Remote and hybrid teamwork and leadership practices

    • Providing feedback in the digital space

    • Navigating digital disruption

    • Strategies for building your Emotional Intelligence skills like empathy

    • Creating more engaging virtual events

Working From Home For Dummies

• • Author: Tara Powers

  • Summary:  In today's networked global economy, working from home is no longer a novelty. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies and organizations everywhere are embracing the game-changing benefits of allowing employees to work outside the office, and the results are profound: managers benefit by saving money and resources and by having access to talent outside their zip codes, while employees enjoy greater job opportunities, productivity, independence, and satisfaction―in part from the time saved not commuting. According to one source, 85% of businesses say that productivity increased along with greater flexibility―and 90% of employees say that flexibility boosted their morale. Working From Home For Dummies, gathers the expertise of multiple industry experts, featuring best of the best content from  Virtual Teams For Dummies, Managing For Dummies, 3E, Company Culture For Dummies, Zoom For Dummies, Microsoft Teams For Dummies, Slack For Dummies, Mindfulness For Dummies, 3E, and Stretching For Dummies, as well as new material from award-winning author Tara Powers on setting expectations and boundaries, and more.

Hybrid Work Management: How to Manage a Hybrid Team in the New Workplace (A super-short book about how to analyze, plan, manage, and evaluate your team’s hybrid work arrangement) 

• • Author: Hassan Osman

  • Summary: Learn a step-by-step process that helps you manage your hybrid work arrangement effectively while creating a fair and inclusive environment for your employees. This short book gives you everything you need to know about how to transition to a hybrid work environment in a post-COVID world. You will learn how to gain the benefits of a hybrid workplace model and maximize the advantages of remote and in-office work. Master Simple Tips That Help You Navigate a Successful Hybrid Work Model

    • Understand the different hybrid team models and how to set one up for your team

    • Assess your team’s roles and preferences to design the right flexible work arrangement

    • Plan your onsite and remote activities to optimize your hybrid workplace model

    • Transition back to the office by implementing special considerations post-COVID

    • Run your hybrid meetings effectively and ensure fairness among your remote and in-office employees

    • Evaluate the effectiveness of your hybrid team using the right success factors and KPIs

    • Become a more inclusive hybrid leader

The future of work is hybrid, and both employees and employers want to find the best balance between working from home and working from the office.

The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership

• • Authors: Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel

  • Summary:  Leadership First, Locations Second. As more organizations adopt a remote workforce, the challenges of leading at a distance become more urgent than ever. The cofounders of the Remote Leadership Institute, Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel, show leaders how to guide their teams by recalling the foundational principles of leadership whether their teams are scattered globally or just working from home a few days a week. The authors' "Three-O" Model refocuses leaders to think about outcomes, others, and ourselves--elements of leadership that remain unchanged, whether employees are down the hall or halfway around the world. By pairing it with the Remote Leadership Model, which emphasizes using technology as a tool and not a distraction, leaders can navigate the terrain of managing teams wherever they are. Filled with exercises that ensure projects stay on track, keep productivity and morale high, and build lasting relationships, this book is the go-to guide for leading effectively, no matter where people work.

The 10 Best Practices for Managing Remote Workers: Supervising in the New Normal - Remote Working Is Here to Stay

• • Author: M Paula Daoust

  • Summary:  Would you like to lead a team in which every member is free to do their best work? Are you wondering how to create that in this new, remote worker world? This book was written for you! The business world has entered a new era, one in which work can be done almost anywhere, and this new world is here to stay. In this new context, many of your old practices still apply but with a slight twist. You might even need to add some new skills to your repertoire. The 10 best practices explained in this book, as well as tips for running a hybrid meeting, are easy to apply and will make an immediate difference in the productivity of your team. With these ten practices, it’s not hard to keep members of your team feeling connected with you and each other and performing at their best.

Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfaction

• • Author: Matthew Kelly

  • Summary:  The research upon which this book is based shows overwhelmingly that people want satisfaction much more than they want balance. And yet, one of the dominant topics in the area of personal and professional development for the past twenty years has been work-life balance. Off Balance is more than just a book. It presents a system that Matthew Kelly uses with his Fortune 500 clients, his team, and himself to drive increasing levels of satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down. He teaches us how to cultivate energy so that we have plenty left for our passions when we are finished fulfilling our responsibilities. And finally, in five clear steps, he shows us how to use his Personal and Professional Satisfaction System to establish our priorities and honor them even when we feel pulled in a hundred different directions.  The beautiful thing about satisfaction is that you know when you have it, and you know when you don't. Do you have it? Short, insightful, and life-changing, Off Balance gives us all the tools we need to go to sleep every night knowing who we are, what matters most, and that our lives make sense.

HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance

• • Author: Steward D Friedman, Elizabeth Grace Saunders, Peter Bregman, Daisy Wademan

  • Summary:  Every day you juggle the many components that fill your life. Between work and family commitments, volunteer work, hobbies, and managing your physical and mental health, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and that you’re letting someone down or neglecting some aspect of your life. But you can find ways to honor all of your commitments without collapsing. The HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance will help you:

    • Evaluate and adjust your priorities

    • Manage expectations

    • Set and spend your time budget

    • Make plans--and backup plans

    • Understand how to make trade-offs

    • Prioritize self-care

    • Discover what works for you

Work-Life Balance For Dummies

• • Author: Jeni Mumford, Katherine Lockett

  • Summary:  A recent survey conducted by Universum Communication found that work-life balance is No.1 on the list of short-term career goals amongst professionals. But while work-life balance is an increasingly popular term, many of us are still unsure about how to achieve it or lack the confidence to approach employers to negotiate flexible working hours.

  • Work-Life Balance for Dummies will offer readers advice and simple strategies to achieve more balance whatever their situation. Discover how to:

    • Work out your priorities

    • Put off procrastination and improve your time management

    • Move your boss towards work-life balance

    • Cast your net wider and change jobs and employers

    • Plan a relocation