Master the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam on Your First AttemptReady to launch your cloud computing career? The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification is your gateway to the world's most in-demand technology skill—and this comprehensive study guide gives you everything you need to pass with confidence.Whether you're a complete beginner exploring cloud computing, an IT professional validating your AWS knowledge, or someone making a career trans...

What if your team's biggest problem isn't poor communication or lack of motivation-but what no one dares to say out loud?This provocative and eye-opening guide exposes the silent culture problems that slowly poison even the most well-intentioned workplaces. From toxic workplace culture disguised as "good vibes" to fear-based leadership masked as loyalty, this book pulls back the curtain on the subtle emotional forces holding your team back. Whether you're a seasoned leader or an em...

This is a book for managers who know that their organisations are stuck in a mindset that thrives on fashionable business theories that are no more than folk wisdom, and whose so-called strategies that are little more than banal wish lists.It puts forward the notion that the application of uncommon sense - thinking or acting differently from other organisations in a way that makes unusual sense - is the secret to competitive success. For those who want to succeed and stand out from...

It is often claimed that 70% of organizational change efforts fail, despite the popularity of linear change models. However these linear approaches to change are often based on the premise that change is predictable and straightforward, when actually change is complex, with the 'human' element often changing the functioning of the organizational system as a whole.Leading Change provides the practical framework that allows leaders to actively engage with a ...

Now a billion dollar industry, executive coaching is one of the fastest-growing sections of the coaching market and is widely used by senior managers and chief executives in large organisations.In this accessible guide, fully updated for this second edition, Patricia Bossons, Jeremy Kourdi and Denis Sartain offer clear explanations of key coaching theories before putting that theory into context with a comprehensive selection of practical tools and techniques. Benefits and uses of e...

Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns.Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic adv...

Recognizing and responding to change is the oxygen of life for an organization, and leadership is fundamentally about focusing organizations on these new realities. Leadership and Change Management provides the reader with a practical, real-world understanding of several dimensions of leadership that are usually neglected in management textbooks, such as the nature of new realities and how managers can improve their insight into them, and how leaders can identify and overc...

Previously restricted to cascading information and managing day-to-day conversations, internal communication is now essential to empowering employees to deliver business strategy. Strategic Internal Communication shows how to design and implement a strategy which will lead to engaged and motivated staff, increased productivity and consequently improved business performance.The book uses the author's own Dialogue Box tool designed to help companies explore ...

You simply must read this book if you are serious about being a top-notch business coach. It is an excellent guide to best practices based on clear theory, experience and business wisdom.'- Carol Kauffman PhD, co-founder and Director of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Initiative at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice. 'This is an extraordinarily thorough book. It covers a great range of practical guidance...

Over the last decade our world has increased its focus on individual well-being. There is a huge amount of information available and education offered on how to enhance personal well-being by reducing stress and being more physically active, but when it comes to our workplaces do we really know what well-being means? Because we now live longer and work for extended hours and well into our twilight years, workplace well-being becomes a key element to employee attraction, retention and satis...

**BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 - OVERALL WINNER - The Business Book AwardsBUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 - PEOPLE, CULTURE & MANAGEMENT - The Business Book AwardsA startlingly insightful exploration of contemporary leadership**In Ruthlessly Caring: And other paradoxical mindsets leaders need to be future-fit, leadership strategist Amy Walters Cohen delivers a one-of-a-kind insight into contemporary business leadership. In the book, you’ll explore how the l...

This book is about action, results and leadership. Using a simple new framework, it will show you how to make the sort of progress in your work which your organization wants and needs. At the same time, this progress will give you the space to become a real leader. A leader who is strong, inspirational, and able to drive the results your company needs while keeping your people on board. One of the best ways to create the time you need to get results and get ahead is to become highly influe...