Essential Business Skills

James Pizzola presents a compelling and inclusive guide for anyone seeking to excel in a managerial role. Whether you're a seasoned professional or new to management, this book is your road map to becoming a successful leader.

Every team has a manager.... But not every team is lucky enough to have a true leader. Get ready to break the mold! Did you know that 82 percent of employees would consider quitting their job because of a bad boss? And it isn’t just that you don’t want to be a bad boss…. You don’t want to be a boss at all – you want to be a leader.

The best candidates for a job aren’t necessarily the most gifted. They don’t have some secret formula for having an amazing interview. Their key to success is being prepared. They research and find out what questions are most often asked and they get ready to answer those questions. This audiobook includes two books: Job Interview: Prepare to Get Hired and Job Interview: Will These Mistakes Cost You the Job? In this book, you'll learn exactly what to do and not do if you want to get the job.

Negotiations can be a perplexing and often-intimidating endeavor. Are there aspects about the process that are hiding beneath the surface, unknown to even experienced negotiators? Or insider tools that would change your game considerably? The answer is yes—and they're all revealed in this practical guide from a world-renowned negotiation expert. Negotiation Essentials demystifies this all-important subject, helping you break the process down into easily digestible parts.

While it may not look like it, women have been dominating the digital sphere and investing in cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the Metaverse. There are tons of NFTs led by women in an effort to change the stereotype, more women are investing in cryptocurrencies, and many female names are hitting headlines around the Metaverse.

Leadership is hard and can be overwhelming. We get triggered, hijacked and derailed under pressure. We overreact. We say something we regret. Sometimes we don’t say what we should. We struggle to recover. We feel perplexed by the emotional and relational complexities of leadership. We wonder whether we’re doing the right things in the right way.

Learn the ins and outs of sales techniques with this comprehensive and accessible guide that is the crash course in how to sell anything. Sometimes, it seems like learning a new skill is impossible. But whether you are interested in pursuing a full-times sales career, want to make extra money...

Negotiation can be a vital part of business. The skills you need to acquire for such an activity can make or break your entire company. Not just in business, but in everyday situations of our lives, we are bargaining for the best deal, the solution to our very wants and needs. Through this book, your negotiation skills will receive a significant boost as knowledge of the practice of effective negotiating will be induced into your mind.

Mindfulness at Work Essentials for Dummies explores the many benefits of utilizing mindfulness techniques in the workplace, offering managers, HR professionals, and business people of all levels guidance on how mindfulness can help with the development of core business skills. You'll discover the key concepts of mindfulness and quickly grasp how its implementation in the workplace is a win-win for you, your team, and your organization as a whole.

Are you tired of giving average speeches and feeling nervous every time you have to speak in front of people? Imagine having the confidence and tools to deliver a powerful and engaging presentation every time. You’d get up in front of the audience and engage with them, hold their attention, and speak with clarity, composure and conviction. You EVEN start to enjoy yourself as you do! What you imagine is not a far-fetched dream but can become your everyday reality. With "The Young Leader's Guide to Public Speaking," you can learn to speak with success and become an extraordinary speaker.

As an entrepreneur, your success depends on business communication skills. Whenever you make a powerful business presentation, deliver a winning pitch, or ace your business meeting, you have the potential to deliver a shot of financial adrenaline to your passion project. You can get the money you need to launch a startup, develop a business idea, or put investment capital to work and make investors happy. But what do you do when the rules of the game change?

Many who lead or who aspire to lead rightly champion the importance of hard skills. These are skills that are informed by quantitative measurement and analytical thinking, among others. Knowing the numbers, embracing leadership tasks, and implementing the right strategies are important but no longer enough to be an effective leader.

Use these powerful techniques to improve and enhance your leadership skills immediately! This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to awaken, utilize, and maximize the natural leadership potential that you possess.

Unlock your leadership potential and shatter the glass ceiling with these 7 essential skills, even if you've doubted your abilities for years. Are you driven by the desire for authentic leadership in male-dominated industries but feel overwhelmed by imposter syndrome? Are you eager to overcome workplace biases and lead your team confidently, all while staying true to your core values and maintaining a healthy work-life balance? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you're in the right place. Many female leaders share your ambitions and challenges.

Many who aspire to be organizational leaders focus on developing “hard” skills, related to quantitative action and analytical thinking. These are important, but over his many decades of executive leadership, Dr. Eugene B. Habecker has learned to value the “softer” side of leadership. Unfortunately, these “soft” skills and behaviors are often neglected, to the detriment of both leadership and organizational development.

Intentional Power is a call to action for the next generation of leaders to move beyond an entirely individual focus toward a more sustainable approach to lead and succeed. Deeply researched, the authors draw on an extensive review of the latest literature and insights on leadership development, cognitive and positive psychology, organizational design, and performance management, as well as extensive interviews with leaders across several industries to highlight the most critical skills required by today's executives and managers.

The founder seat has changed. A great idea is no longer enough. Today’s entrepreneurs lead across product, people, capital, and culture—often before any of those systems are stable. In a world of speed and scrutiny, leadership must evolve in real time. The Contemporary Entrepreneur is a concise guide for that shift. Based on the model from The Contemporary Leader, it adapts essential leadership skills to the founder experience—where pressure is high, structure is minimal, and timelines move fast.

Faulty grammar can slow you down and diminish your credibility as a business writer. Essential Grammar has just one objective: to help you use correct English in the documents you write for work. Correct writing is an excellent way to boost your professional credibility. Here are some of the skills the book helps you master: writing grammatically correct sentences, using the right forms of pronouns and verbs, distinguishing between commonly confused words, and knowing when and where to use punctuation marks.

If you're seeking to enhance your leadership skills and navigate the complexities of being a great leader in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era, "Your Path to Greatness: Essential Leadership Skills" is tailored for you. Whether you're an aspiring leader or already in a leadership role, this book offers valuable insights and actionable strategies to propel your success.

First, you'll learn the essence of what leadership is and the essential traits of a leader. The second half of the book focuses on how to lead yourself first, grow in your influence, and master the growth cycle to always become a better and more effective leader. The final chapter will blow you away as you will learn how to actually recreate and duplicate yourself into new leaders that carry on your vision for the future and leave a true legacy you can be proud of!