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Into the Hands of Leaders: Employee Growth Through Learning is essential listening for any organization aiming to thrive in the 21st century. Backed by solid research and brought to life through leader interviews, it offers a timely intervention and a fresh perspective into the current discourse on employee learning and development. Hannah Brown encourages us to rethink how our leaders can cultivate growth through learning. Work needs to be more than just a paycheque-it needs to be a place of development and fulfillment.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Project Management Professional Certification Exam or PMP. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the PMP. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down in small units.

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In business, OKRs—that's short for Objectives and Key Results—are the gold standard for communicating and delivering on what you want to accomplish and how you'll get there. OKRs For Dummies provides you with step-by-step guidance for following in the footsteps of some of the world's leading organizations. Drive focus on what matters most, align and engage teams, and generally maximize the benefits OKRs have to offer, thanks to this easy-to-use guide.

After finishing Learning to Lead, you will be well equipped to take the next step to success in your personal and professional leadership journey. Williams’s book has the potential to join other leadership development classics on your shelf—to be enjoyed repeatedly and consulted throughout the span of your career.

The Student Leadership Challenge tailors one of the world’s most respected leadership models to students’ unique needs, and provides a proven pathway to success. Based on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, this book merges solid research with personal stories from real-world student leaders to help students develop the critical skills they need to lead both now and after graduation. Useful from high school to graduate school and beyond, these lessons are reinforced by reflective and critical thinking activities to help students internalize important concepts.

This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources. Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere.

Change is everywhere and coming for us fast. This isn’t breaking news. Yet, despite knowing this -seeing the impact on our businesses and livelihoods - our human instinct is to resist. Instead of choosing change, we choose the status quo and ride it off a cliff. It needn’t be this way. What if we could see change as good?

Strategic thinking has become a core competency for business leaders globally. Overused and under-defined, the term is often used interchangeably with other strategic management terms. This book delineates and defines strategic thinking as an advanced, conceptual cognitive capability, focusing on the nonlinear, divergent, a-rational, and informal nature of strategic thinking. This unique and practical book is an original primer of how successful strategists learn to think strategically.

Sales may be about math, but the selling itself is based on psychology, understanding consumer mindset, and persuasion techniques. The good news is anyone can master the art of selling. It is a carefully cultivated and practiced skill that can help you in many situations in life. In this guide, you'll learn the best selling techniques and psychological strategies to close the sale every time. You'll be able to identify your target prospects, understand what drives people to make buying decisions, how to use emotions and facts to overcome objections, and close the sale.

You can have a satisfying career. Are you a school principal who is completely fed up with conflicting priorities and misalignment in our nation’s schools? It’s no surprise you feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Every day, you deal with federal and state regulations, district policies, and parental pressures. The expectations on educators are higher than ever, tempting many principals to consider alternate livelihoods. How amazing would it feel to take control of your own career and make decisions from a place of empowerment and clarity? Listen to find out more.

This is an audio summary of Good to Great, a book that examines how good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies can achieve enduring greatness.

Startup Playbook for Teen Entrepreneurs by Angela Winter is an empowering guide designed for the next generation of innovators and changemakers. Drawing from years of entrepreneurial insight, Angela takes listeners on a step-by-step journey, transforming big dreams into actionable ventures. Whether you want to launch a passion project, earn extra money, or build something that leaves a lasting impact, this playbook covers everything from brainstorming ideas to scaling and exiting a venture.

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.

Jim Collins' thoroughly researched look at corporate success, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't, offers practical, well-researched advice on how truly great companies differentiate themselves from the merely good. This SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to Good to Great to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 20 minutes!

This is audio summary of The War of Art, a book that helps identify the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.

Whether you’re considering checking out Kim Scott’s Radical Candor or you need some help recalling the key concepts, this Executive Reads summary has you covered. You'll quickly grasp the key ideas in Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

Every year, millions of top performers are promoted to management-level jobs - only to discover that the tactics that got them promoted are not the tactics that will make them effective in their new role. In Welcome to Management, Ryan Hawk provides practical, actionable advice and tools designed to ensure that transition is a successful one.

Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. In examining how to lead and teach, renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the listener inside his own head and heart. He notes that, as teachers, we often focus more on our inadequacies and missteps than on our strengths and unique talents.

Kaizen is the Sino-Japanese word for "improvement". In business, kaizen refers to activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. It also applies to processes that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain. Kaizen focuses on continuous improvement and transforming your life to have the self-discipline to accomplish all set goals. The use of kaizen in business has proven to have very high results. This audiobook explores the history of kaizen, how to incorporate it, and how to use self-discipline.