Career Change

Every day, we set out to create a better life, a better career, or a better business. We often fail because we fall into old patterns. But what if by devoting just one single, focused hour a week you could make big improvements in your professional life? And what if you knew in advance exactly what to focus on so that you could utterly destroy your old patterns?

Here's the truth about fundraising: no one is born a great fundraiser. It's just a skill you can learn, refine, and master. This book is your guide to improving your major donor fundraising. Whether you're new to fundraising or a seasoned nonprofit leader, the principles in this book apply to you. In this book, you'll discover the 3 Levers of Fundraising Growth and how to pull them effectively. You'll learn how to craft a persuasive pitch that moves donors to action, and how to treat your major donors like the valued partners they are.

Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions - but it is not a book about technology. It is about the organizational changes required to harness the power of technology. The authors argue that digital disruption is primarily about people and that effective digital transformation involves changes to organizational dynamics and how work gets done.

Transform your leadership style with 'Lead With Empathy,' an insightful audiobook by Pete Srodoski, brought to life through Dan Wilson's engaging narration. This concise guide offers a wealth of practical strategies, real-world examples, and personal anecdotes to help you embrace empathetic leadership. Learn to navigate crises with confidence, enhance team innovation, and balance your well-being for more effective management.

Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help listeners think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond.

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.

Are you stuck in a rut, unable to create meaningful change in your life or organization? The Art of Change is the solution you've been searching for. Written by Jeff and Staney DeGraff, founders of the consulting firm Innovatrium, this book provides a masterclass in sustainable transformation.

“Os 7 Hábitos das Pessoas Altamente Eficazes” é um manual para todas as pessoas que desejam ser bem-sucedidas, seguir em frente e descobrir seu potencial. Covey revela um passo a passo para viver com justiça, integridade, trabalho e dignidade humana–princípios que nos proporcionam a segurança para nos adaptarmos à mudança, bem como sabedoria e força para tirar proveito das oportunidades criadas pela mudança.

Every leader and manager strives for success. The problem is, success relies on change and change is difficult. As you know, change affects people differently, which is why organizational change usually fails and why using a method that includes everyone’s needs is critical. The HST Model for Change presents a unique and comprehensive approach to the people side of organizational development.

Why does your weather app say “there’s a 10 percent chance of rain” instead of “it will be sunny”? In large part, this is due to the insight of award-winning physicist Tim Palmer, who pioneered the introduction of uncertainty into weather and climate prediction. Now, he wants to apply it to how we study everything else.

How many times did your inner critic pop up and talk you down today? Or, tell you someone else wasn't good enough? Is your inner critic running rampant, thwarting your advancement as a leader? You may have never called your inner critic out or confronted its harsh ramblings until now, but it's time! Mastering Your Inner Critic offers firsthand hard-won advice for scaling the hurdles that prevent you from controlling that little voice. It's time to counter those nagging questions that torment you - with positive solutions that empower you.

The pace of change has picked up and will continue to do so. The future is requiring us to get ourselves and others engaged in change rapidly. In Spark Action, internationally acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur, and advisor Gregg Brown unlocks why people aren’t motivated to act on our ideas and shares insights and strategies to spark positive change in our organizations and communities. With a thirty-year career that spans the health-care, education, non-profit, and private sectors, Gregg has learned what makes people tick and how to help them take action, often in difficult circumstances.

Unlock the transformative power of curiosity with "5 Steps to Asking Better Questions." Dive into a practical guide designed to elevate your communication skills, enhance your relationships, and sharpen your problem-solving abilities.

In this compact business management audiobook, Mac Anderson and Tom Feltenstein take the listener through every step of change - from realization that change is a good thing, to implementing that change in every department, across all channels. Change Is Good...You Go First will facilitate and champion change in any working environment and comes in an easily digestible format, including well-organized lists and objectives to help your team achieve its goals.

The "Step Up, Step Back" approach suggests leaders need to step up and do more than they typically do in the early stages of the change - in specific ways and at specific times; and then step back and do less than they typically do in the later stages of the change - again, in specific ways, at specific times. The result is not only change that sticks, but empowered, motivated managers who can get on with delivering change, without needing ongoing input or cover from leaders.

Learn to leverage your relationships so you can dream bigger, achieve whatever you want, and build a life that makes you happier with each passing day. No greater force for change exists than the people we surround ourselves with. Relationshift explores how the people in your life have colored your worldview, how this limits or expands your options, and what to do about it. Through the stories of British explorer Gertrude Bell, abolitionist hero Frederick Douglass, music icons the Beastie Boys, and many others, this book will show you how.

If you're trying to push your way through endings, beginnings, and places of uncertainty, only to find yourself more confused, disconnected, tired, and uncertain, this book will hold and fortify you. Yoga teacher and activist Octavia Raheem offers us the motivation and guidance we need to restore ourselves in the midst of all sorts of change.

When Nellie Borrero joined Accenture, bigotry and bias went unnoticed and unchecked; it was simply the workplace norm. Now, thirty-five-plus years later, this first-generation Latina shares how she led diversity strategy and developed award-winning inclusion and diversity programs that transformed Accenture into the #1 ranked employer for inclusion, diversity, and equity. In Unwavering, Borrero draws on her experiences with remarkable candor and courage to inspire you to think bigger, know your value, and show up with it everywhere, every day.

As this book shows, human beings are wired to care, and we can become more empathic with practice. Empathy increases dopamine, reduces stress, boosts self-esteem, heightens the immune system, and enriches our relationships. Empathy also improves business key performance indicators. This means that leveraging empathy on purpose can lead to better health, happier and more productive workplaces, and a more meaningful life. That's why empathy is our superpower.

In The Easiest Way to Live, you will find the keys to becoming your true self, being in harmony with life and pure in heart, which is a state of essential clarity. You will discover that most of the challenges you face are caused by past patterns and memories that keep replaying in your subconscious and block you from being who you really are. You will find that no problems exist outside of you, and since they are inside of you, you have the ability to take 100 percent responsibility for them and neutralize them.