Career Education

Emotions matter. Whether negotiating with an angry boss or an outraged teenager, emotions can derail you. Properly treated, however, they can help you achieve the results you want. This book shows you how.

Design to Engage is a “how-to” book that will help you become an effective designer and facilitator of learning events. Practical, accessible, and jam-packed with tools to support facilitators to create impactful learning experiences, Design to Engage is a revelation and an inspiration.

If I were a ballerina, I would wear pointe shoes. I would stretch my legs and leap across the stage! Dream big, and see what fun it is to be a ballerina.

The challenge we face as writers, Natalie Goldberg says, begins with the process of turning inward and then trying to communicate what we find. From the secret of letting characters and stories "write themselves" to finding mentor sources and responding to criticism to writing's one essential ingredient, which is the mind - here are all-new Zen-based lessons and reflections, refined and proven at Natalie's acclaimed national writers' workshops.

How do I open an independent hotel, resort, or inn? I am often asked this question, but before I answer, let me begin by asking you a couple of questions. Does the idea of being your own boss sound appealing to you? Is the thought of sharing your corner of the world with guests intriguing? Have you ever thought about owning your own hotel, resort, or inn but are not sure where to start? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, this audiobook is for you. It is designed to get you started if you have dreams of becoming a successful hotel, resort, or inn proprietor.

Based on more than 25 years of experience, best-selling author and facilitator Ernest Holm Svendsen takes you on the most important journey of your life. The journey from the prison of your mind to the vitality and aliveness of the present moment. In his down-to-earth style and using practical exercises and experiments, Ernest shows you exactly how to change your life by shutting down your autopilot and waking up to the spontaneous joy of being in the present moment.

A unique and significant guide to selling more books through personal appearances and online interviews, brimming with information and resources as well as tips and ideas from nearly two dozen author-speaker professionals.The most powerful tool in your book promotion toolkit is your personality. The fact is that personality sells books.

Do you have what it takes to become an author, but are not sure where to start? Promote Your Book gives enterprising authors the advantage they need to navigate the publishing industry and gain a better understanding of what book promotion is all about. This well-organized collection of the most successful low-cost and no-cost ideas provides solutions for both aspiring and seasoned authors in any genre. You will learn how to promote the book without changing your lifestyle; how to promote creatively, locally, and through social media; submit news releases and tip sheets; and more.

Les difficultés que nous rencontrons dans notre vie professionnelle ne se résolvent pas grâce à une formule simple qu'il suffit d'appliquer en toute circonstance. Si des managers techniquement très qualifiés rencontrent des difficultés pour accomplir leur mission ou pour s'épanouir dans leur travail, ce n'est pas toujours parce qu'ils manquent de savoir-faire dans leur domaine, mais bien car les relations humaines sont dynamiques et complexes.

We’re all afraid of something: beginnings, endings, changing, getting stuck. Fear doesn’t have to hold you back from happiness or success. You can change your relationship with fear. Susan Jeffers teaches compassionate concepts and highly effective exercises that help you unravel the complexities and reverse the effects of fear. You’ll learn the five truths about fear. You’ll see how to weed negatives out of your words and thoughts. And you’ll be able to develop goals that helps extend your self-imposed limitations.

Mastering the Seven Decisions guides listeners to a profound understanding of how to fully integrate seven life-changing decisions into their daily lives. The responsible decision, the guided decision, the active decision, the certain decision, the joyful decision, the compassionate decision, and the persistent decision.

Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities.

Warren Buffett ranks among not only the top investors of our time but among the best of all time. Buffett has managed to rise to the top of the ranks in stellar fashion, confounding the critics and earning the adulation of millions. Forty-three of his most valuable and inspiring life lessons relating to investment, human relationships, and overall betterment have been deconstructed and explained, including actionable information as to how you can implement the lessons into your day-to-day life.

Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business. The reality is, those who want to make a full- or part-time job out of writing are going to have a more positive and productive career if they understand the basic business principles underlying the industry.

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small...

LE SEUL LIVRE de préparation au concours réalisé par un commissaire de police, enseignant, et ancien membre du jury, qui en connaît les attentes et les exigences : ne confiez pas votre préparation à un enseignant qui n'a jamais mis les pieds dans un commissariat !

In "The Career Woman’s Guide," Arianna Blakely guides modern women through a transformative journey to success. Addressing challenges faced by women, she emphasizes executive presence and debunks misconceptions about assertiveness. Through case studies, including trailblazers like Eleanor Baum, she showcases the empowering impact of assertiveness.

What good will it do to skillfully craft a written argument if you lose your audience? Simple emails, formal reports, blogs, presentations, articles—they need punch to gain influence. Clear structure and logic alone won’t do. To engage readers, you need to make mentally stimulating choices in language—choices that electrify your readers’ mental hotspots. Veteran journalist Bill Birchard reveals the secret of making that happen. He blends the findings from a global cadre of psychologists and neuroscientists with lessons from his long, successful career as a professional writer.

Do people have trouble understanding you? Are you yearning for your dream career, but your accent is stopping you? Is English your second language? Do you believe that your accent may be keeping you from the advancement you've been seeking? In Accent Reduction For Professionals, you'll discover secrets of reducing - and eliminating - your foreign accent. With this guide, you'll quickly learn the easiest ways to sound more like an American and dramatically improve the way you sound.

We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you learn the most important ideas in leadership and management, feel confident in your business classes, and be ready to thrive in any role you take on. This book will inspire you to: succeed by playing to your strengths; learn to be more persuasive; give killer presentations; perfect your business-writing skills; find your authentic voice and leadership style; and build a purposeful career.