Career Skills

Why do so many organizations, teams, couples, families, and groups who should be working together end up wasting energy on unproductive conflict? Even when everyone has the same general goals, what’s often missing is a deeper alignment based on mutual trust, respect, and empathy. With Radical Alignment, top-level life and business coaches (and happily married couple) Alexandra Jamieson and Bob Gower share their potent method for helping groups to stop clashing and start working together.

Negotiation is a skill that can bring you vast success in all aspects of your life. When you're a skilled negotiator, you can get the best possible price on everything you purchase or sell, and you can deal with salespeople or clients.

Have you ever been called upon to speak at an event and the mere thought of doing it is giving you sleepless nights? Do you want to learn how to captivate a crowd with ease just like the pros? Are you looking to make your mark in the world of public speaking but have no clue where to begin? Whether you are speaking as the best man at your friend’s wedding, leading a presentation by your team at the next board meeting, or speaking to an audience of eager people, this book is just what you need.

The most successful women are often not the most talented, the most gifted, or even the most experienced. What these women have is a knack for communicating that opens doors and gives them influence. Gleaning from powerful research, best-selling author and life strategist Valorie Burton unearths practical insights you can put to work in your life immediately.

The coauthors of the New York Times–bestselling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: how we see ourselves Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past fifteen years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and...

We live, say Edgar and Peter Schein, in a culture of “tell". All too often we tell others what we think they need to know or should do. But whether we are leading or following, what matters most is we get to the truth. We have to develop a commitment to sharing vital facts and identifying faulty assumptions - it can mean the difference between success and failure. This is why we need Humble Inquiry more than ever.

What would your life look like if you finally stopped second-guessing yourself and started speaking up with confidence? Imagine walking into any room and knowing exactly how to express your needs without fear, guilt, or apology. That’s the promise of Confidence and Assertive Skills for Women—a bold, practical, and inspiring guide designed to help you break free from self-doubt and claim your power.

Facilitating with Ease! has become the go-to handbook for those who lead meetings, training, and other business gatherings. Packed with information, effective practices, and invaluable advice, this book is the comprehensive handbook for anyone who believes meetings should be productive, relevant, and as short as possible. Dozens of exercises, surveys, and checklists will help transform anyone into a skilled facilitator, and clear, actionable guidance makes implementation a breeze.

An indispensable guide to navigating power dynamics, building effective relationships with higher-ups, and earning more authority, freedom, and confidence at work—from one of today’s “most innovative career coaches” (Insider). “Outstanding. Wilding's scripts and strategies show us a...

Oui, les trois premières minutes d'une rencontre sont les plus importantes ! Tout se joue entre deux interlocuteurs pendant cette si courte période. Pour que la première impression soit la meilleure possible, il existe des techniques, des trucs, des secrets. Grâce aux dernières découvertes sur les secrets d'une bonne communication (analyse transactionnelle, PNL...) il est possible de "plaire à tous les coups" ; un peu, beaucoup (à la folie ?) et dans toutes les situations.

Now revised and updated for our modern world, the “complaint free” philosophy teaches you how to stop complaining, become more positive, and live the life you’ve always dreamed about. It all started more than fifteen years ago with a simple purple bracelet. Will Bowen passed out...

How to Manage Work Relationships in a Constructive Way that Leads to Success. Learning how to maintain strong, harmonious work relationships is essential. Unfortunately, at some point in your career, you'll have to work with people whose personalities or habits make every interaction with them a...

Have you been finding it hard to stop punishing yourself with negative thoughts about yourself and situations around you and accepting yourself unconditionally? Do you ever feel like you’re losing a battle against anxiety, often wish you were more self-compassionate, happier, and emotionally intelligent? You are about to discover a highly effective approach to combating anxiety, negative thinking, self-blame, guilt, lack of self-compassion, and other negative emotions and unhealthy ways of thinking that have been making you unhappy and unfulfilled in life!

Prospect the Sandler Way shares 30 core principles for mastering stress-free lead development by phone and over the Internet, in accordance with the selling system developed by David H. Sandler. Includes updated strategies on 21st-century topics like conducting effective online pre-call research, and using LinkedIn to generate referrals.

The media guru and bestselling author of Pitch Perfect helps professionals break away from canned communications and find their true—and most effective—voice no matter the workplace. The business world has adopted the wrong definition of successful communication. For many years, being “on...

This business classic features straight-talking advice you’ll never hear in school. Featuring a new foreword by Ariel Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell Mark H. McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modern-day...

A practical guide to build your emotional intelligence and develop social skills to strike confidently the conversation of life! Through this audiobook, build your social skills and have a list of social skills blunders to avoid. Understand confidence and gravitas and more importantly ways improve these. Today, social anxiety or people declaring themselves introverted on the spur of the moment is quite common, and this is largely due to a lack of social skills on the part of the majority of people.

What do How to Win Friends and Influence People and Sell! have in common (other than Dale Carnegie)? They're both based on the premise that relationships are what matter. In this age where media is social and funding is raised by crowds, the sales cycle has permanently changed. It's no longer enough to know your product, nor always appropriate to challenge your customer's thinking based on your online research. In Sell!: The Way Your Customers Want to Buy, Dale Carnegie & Associates reveal the real modern sales cycle.

In It's Not Magic, author, chartered psychologist, and professor, John Amaechi, delivers an impactful discussion of the dull, ordinary, energy-expensive, and transformative behaviors that define the world's best leaders.

Now in a second edition, this classic book shows how to make conversations generative and productive rather than critical and destructive so people, organizations, and communities flourish. This edition has been revised throughout with new examples; updates on the latest supporting research in neuroscience, positive science, and positive psychology; and a discussion guide. It also features a new chapter on what the authors call tuning in: cultivating awareness of how our physical and mental state affect our perceptions, emotions, and thoughts as we engage in conversation.