If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset.From effective time management and efficient speed reading to managing yourself and stopping stress from slowing you down, THE ULTIMATE PRODUCTIVITY BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Short, punchy chapters mean you can read up quickly and start applying what you've learned immediately.Discover the main themes, key ideas and tools you need and bring i...

Sunday: Examine the common causes of stress from a work/organizational perspective and an individual levelMonday: Understand the basic psychological and physiological aspects of stressTuesday: Gain an overview of the issues of stress surrounding job roles and responsibility, and consider potential solutionsWednesday: Understand the stress associated with workload, work pressure and work environment and develop the tools to deal with itThursday: Create a supporti...

If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset.From confidence and assertiveness to managing stress and mindfulness, THE ULTIMATE SELF CARE BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success.Discover the main themes and key ideas, and bring it all together with practical exercises.This is your complete course in wellbeing at work.ABOUT THE SERIESULTIMATE books are for manage...

Positive ThinkingFinding it hard to overcome the inevitable setbacks that life throws at you? Going through a difficult set of personal challenges or changes in your life? Starting a new job and feeling nervous and anxious? Feeling miserable and unmotivated in life?By changing how we think, we change how we feel, as our feelings follow on from our thoughts. It is these renewed feelings of hope, confidence and motivation that then change our lives. These mor...

Boost Emotional Intelligence in any situation to achieve exceptional results for any organisationAs organisations around the world are putting more focus on the mindset and wellbeing of staff, the need to develop Emotional Intelligence (EI) has never been greater. Emotional Intelligence in the workplace—including the five key concepts of self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, social skills and motivation—is defined as your ability to identify and manage your per...

What are the true determinants of a happy and fulfilling life?Widely admired psychological researcher Rag Raghunathan sets out to find the answer, undertaking extensive research into the happiness of students, business people, stay-at-home-parents, lawyers, and artists, among others. From his research he reveals a crucial discovery: many of the psychological traits that lead to success ironically get in the way of happiness.Forging a new way forward, Raghunathan shows how w...

Do your most important work when you are your most resourcefulAre you drowning in email? Overloaded with calendar invitations? Frustrated by wasteful meetings and an ever-growing workload? Then you know that being busy does not mean being productive. Most workers are being asked to take on more responsibilities with less support, advised to simply ‘be innovative.’ But you only have a finite amount of energy and thinking capacity available to you in a day. Most of u...

“I have long thought that what the Buddha taught can be seen as a highly developed science of mind which, if made more accessible to a lay audience, could benefit many people. I believe that Dr. Weiss’s book, in combining such insights with science and good business practice, offers an effective mindfulness based program that many will find helpful.” --His Holiness, the Dalai LamaA practical guide to bringing our whole selves to our professional work, based on the author’s overwhel...

Developing your emotional intelligence just got easierExperts are beginning to agree that types of intelligence other than IQ (Intelligence Quotient) have evolved as human capacities over the last two million years. Low Emotional Intelligence Quotient or EQ can be perceived as the absence of control over the outcome of a situation. Do you ever feel like this is the case - you keep getting 'poor luck' or cannot influence better results? When you have a high ...

Think of a conversation you have been putting off.Have you got it?okThen let’s go...Those times when you know you should talk to someone, but you don’t. Maybe you have tried before and it went badly. Or maybe you fear that talking will only make the situation worse.Still, there is a feeling of being stuck, and you would like to free up that stuck energy for more useful purposes. There are many well-written and informative books on how to have these i...

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. In just 96 pages, Dealing with Difficult People Easliy shows you how to deal with an unpleasant but unavoidable aspect of working life that can have a major impact on your career and wellbeing, including knowing how to define and deal with a difficult person in any work relationship and how to understand yourself and deal w...

Effectively understand yourself and others, to achieve a happier, healthier life.Improve your personal and professional relationships by learning a range of mental skills that can help you to successfully manage both yourself and the demands of working with others.Teaching you to stay in control, interpret body language and cope with negativity, this Practical Guide will help you to become aware of your own feelings and those of others, understand them and m...