Personal Growth

Personal Growth

 
10 Steps to Successful Sales Lambert, Brian ASTD Press , 2010 Customer Focus, Personal Growth

Sales is among the oldest and most conflicted professions on earth — at once reviled and revered, valued for its promise of heavy paychecks and prestigious career paths, maligned for its loose ethics, and made...

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The Time Trap Mackenzie, Alec | Nickerson, Pat Amacom , 2009 Management, Personal Growth, Productivity

Who has never felt the need for more hours in the day to accomplish what must be done? The struggle to use time effectively in the face of overwhelming daily demands has not diminished since the late Alec Mackenzie...

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The Secret Language of Business Hogan, Kevin John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2008 Communication, Personal Growth

Nonverbal communication affects and influences all aspects of daily life, and its impact is widely overlooked. Successful professionals must be able to interpret the nonverbal signals everyone displays. In business,...

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Getting to Resolution Levine, Stewart Berrett-Koehler Publishers , 2009 Communication, Human Resources, Management, Personal Growth, Relationships

In traditional models of conflict resolution, disagreeing parties are pitted against one another in a highly adversarial win/lose scenario. According to Stewart Levine, author of Getting to Resolution...

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Work with Passion in Midlife and Beyond Anderson, Nancy New World Library , 2010 Personal Growth

Nancy Anderson’s book Work with Passion in Midlife and Beyond presents a simple process for reshaping your life both inside and outside the workplace. Her seven-step process for change begins by eliminating layers of...

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Mindset Dweck, Carol S. Random House , 2006 Personal Growth, Productivity

According to Carol S. Dweck, one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation, there are two main belief systems, or mindsets, that people can possess: fixed and growth. These mindsets strongly...

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The Introverted Leader Kahnweiler,, Jennifer B. Berrett-Koehler , 2009 Leadership, Personal Growth

In an outgoing, Type-A business culture, the introvert may feel excluded, overlooked, and misunderstood. Reticence can be mistaken for reluctance, arrogance, or even lack of intelligence. These impressions can result...

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The Art and Science of Communication Perkins, P. S. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2008 Personal Growth

P.S. Perkins’ The Art and Science of Communication informs the reader of the seven types of communication, beginning with the individual and ending on a global scale. Perkins argues that effective...

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10 Steps to Successful Training Biech, Elaine ASTD Press , 2009 Leadership Development, Personal Growth

Training programs are only as effective as the trainers who design them, and 10 Steps to Successful Training explains in detail the characteristics, actions and behaviors that define truly successful...

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Just Listen Goulston, Mark AMACOM , 2010 Communication, Leadership, Personal Growth, Relationships

Though the seemingly simple act of communication is as natural to humans as breathing and eating, every individual occasionally runs across someone else who is not easily “reachable.” In Just Listen,...

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