From profit to purpose: transform your business for meaningful impact.The business landscape is shifting. At one time, the profit-first model drove strategic decision-making. Now business leaders are struggling with disengaged employees, unclear plans, and lack of purpose. It's time to take a step back, get down to the heart of your organization's mission, and lead with purpose.In Purposeful Performance, business-strategy consultant and coach Jonat...

Bringing together the latest research and theory about a child's inner world and the impact of the world around them, this is a guide to understanding and responding to the emotional needs of traumatised children.Founded on the principle that traumatised children do not have a secure sense of self and therefore cannot relate to the outside world without becoming overwhelmed, this book brings psychoanalytic and psychodynamic understandings of child psychology together with current n...

From profit to purpose: transform your business for meaningful impact.The business landscape is shifting. At one time, the profit-first model drove strategic decision-making. Now business leaders are struggling with disengaged employees, unclear plans, and lack of purpose. It’s time to take a step back, get down to the heart of your organization’s mission, and lead with purpose.In Purposeful Performance, business-strategy consultant and coach Jonathan Stanley gives...

The Right Phrase for Every Situation…Every TimeWhether you're a project manager, department head, or CEO, you have to choose the perfect words to inspire real teamwork. This quick-reference guide addresses all the issues you could possibly encounter working with a team-offering hundreds of ready-to-use phrases for every situation. From managing interpersonal conflicts to motivating an entire company, you'll find the exact words you need to:Get people ...

The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.Ideas are not enough: successful innovation...

Managing a sales team is one of the most important and challenging positions in a company, and it requires a unique set of skills. Unfortunately, many sales managers spend much of their day putting out fires, and moving from problem to problem. Their days consist of an overwhelming number of activities including respond to urgent request from their bosses, resolving customer issues and complaints, and dealing with disgruntled employees. In addition, they find themselves sitting in meetings...

Building winning strategy doesn't need to be complicated. Think Beyond Value provides a simple, memorable framework to help readers think beyond the value proposition to form sound business and personal strategy. Dr. David Flint's simple framework is thorough yet practical, and quickly focuses strategic thinking on the issues of most concern to a particular situation. Think Beyond Value uses easy-to-remember terms that resonate with seasoned strategists, while also opening the wor...

Ready for the Future or Stuck in the Past?Millennials have been condemned as lazy, entitled, disloyal, and disrespectful and needing constant hand-holding. But Crystal Kadakia—a Millennial herself as well as an organizational development consultant and two-time TEDx speaker—shows that not only are these negative stereotypes dead wrong, but each one conceals a positive workplace practice that forward-looking companies must adopt if they are to endure. She illuminate...

Companies get into trouble due to ineffective management decisions, but most books on management dont focus on making better choices. Perhaps thats because not many were written by CEOs with effective leadership track records.Martin Richenhagen, who has successfully led multimillion-dollar companies, presents this guide illustrating how a business leader must approach various situations and challenges. In the fast-paced, change-on-a-dime business world, these kinds of insights are ...

If your nonprofit is like most, you have a big, bold vision for the difference you want to make, the lives you want to touch, and the impact you want to have.But for too many organizations, incremental, stagnant, or even negative revenue growth, stands in the way.We, at TGP Consulting, set out to change this.We believe nonprofits are uniquely positioned to do the work no commercial enterprises or governmental bodies can do.Nonprofits are the most willing, commit...

The most powerful word in your leadership vocabulary is . . . THANKS!Building a fully engaged, energized workforce is the key to business success. The Power of Thanks reveals how leading companies like Intuit, JetBlue Airways, IHG, Symantec, ConAgra Foods, and The Hershey Company empower employees through social recognition, in which the practice of mutual appreciation and trust directs and rewards higher performance.Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine, executives at th...

WHAT KIND OF LEADER WILL YOU BECOME?Whether you're in a corporate role, building a startup, or preparing for your next move, this book will help you craft a leadership path that's entirely your own.Leadership Beyond the Playbook offers no neatly packaged lists or models. Instead it will help you become a better leader—with clarity, sharper judgment, and greater intention.Roopa Kudva is a rare leader who has built across corporate, startup a...