This book is completed in the midst of COVID-19 when organizations and personal lives have been dislodged. In times of disruption, I hope this book offers a silver lining that our best can burst forth so that we may continue to serve, guide and inspire. It is my intention that this book will provide the bounce-back needed with tools, mindset and techniques for advancing a more meaningful and purposeful future. This book is about the essentials of effective human communication. It is irresi...

This helpful resource explores the vital skills and traits needed to earn trust, generate interest, and motivate others in the workplace.Bestselling author Kurt Mortensen defines the intersection of these pivotal abilities as charisma--an enviable quality that can lead to improved relationships, greater income, and more success in every area of life. To some extent, charisma is innate but in this inspiring guide, Mortensen explores the trait’s four core elements to...

Every day, business owners, managers and leaders are expected to deliver more and more with less and less. They have fewer people, smaller budgets and -crucially-less time. Lack of time to make decisions has become the most stressful part of life for many business people.In a time-poor, fast-moving world we need a new approach.In this breakthrough book, Ken Hudson shows you how to achieve amazing results in time-pressure situations using Speed Thinking.Speed Thinkin...

New, updated edition 2017. Lyn Kelley, Ph.D., Certified Professional Coach with over 20 years experience gives you the step-by-step method to stop sabotaging your own success, how to stop other people from undermining your success, stop reacting to everyone else and start intend your own course of action. Claim your personal power once and for all! Includes workbook exercises to help you get out of your own way.Here's what you'll get:How to Handle ChangeThe Crucial Ele...

Offers a skills-oriented approach to acquiring the most critical competencies of effective servant leadership, all without overlooking matters of the heart and soul that make it

Fortune favors the humbleArrogant. Charismatic. Narcissistic If you were to name traits that define strong leaders, these are some of the words that likely spring to mind. Conventional thinking would have us believe that it's those filled with hubris and free of self-doubt that make the best leaders. The evidence, however, tells quite a different story.In Humbitious, professional speaker, executive coach and distinguished Trinity University professor Amer Kaissi shatters th...

Leadership doesn’t happen without courage. In fact, leadership might be defined as "courage in action." But the truth is that courage is poorly understood and not what you typically think. In their second original short format work, Finding the Courage to Lead, James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a perspective on what ordinary leaders say about what courage is to them, and what their courageous experiences mean for the daily practice of leadership.Courage is one o...

Seven Pillars of Servant Leadership (Rev.) offers concrete, functional skills necessary to practice servant leadership—to lead by serving first.

How to implement effecitve, magnetic leadership by applying asset-based thinking and shifting your mindset from the negative to the positiveLead Positive takes the fundamentals of Asset-Based Thinking (ABT) and turns them into a playbook for successful leadership. ABT is a simple mindset management process that shows people how to make small shifts in perception and thinking to achieve great results. Cramer shows leaders how to apply ABT to shift their att...

If you want to improve your professional performance and set yourself apart from your colleagues-in any discipline-these tips are for you. If you desire anything less than achieving the very best, you won't want this book.Rather than addressing research and theory about music education or the "how-tos" of teaching, these time-honored tips focus on common-sense qualities and standards of performance that are essential for success-everywhere. Whether you're considering a career in mu...

The surge of motivational titles flooding bookstore shelves amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is evidence of our society’s growing obsession with self-improvement. Recently two areas of growing interest among academics have been positive organizational behavior and psychological capital. While books on these subjects have led to a new understanding of motivation, they have limited their focus to two ends of a continuum.Mastering Self-Mot...

The Artistic Edge explores why leadership skills taught through the arts are what young people need most to be successful in life. Competition for jobs is fierce and the current state of the world requires an ability to constantly adapt to change. Is the coming generation ready to face the realities of life after school? Education in the arts should not be reserved for the talented few, but promoted as the means for all children to develop skills in: creative thinking, confidence, problem-...