Leadership Development

_____________ Includes 10 Free Bonuses To many people, strategic planning is something meant only for big businesses, but it is equally applicable to small and medium businesses. Strategic planning is matching the strengths of your business to available opportunities. This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of developing a results driven strategic plan. The book is packed with guides, worksheets and checklists that make it easy to apply all that knowledge to your business. Here's what’s in the book: * The Need for a Strategic Plan * How to Create a Mission ...

Whether you're rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful. In Fail Better, Anjali Sastry and Kara Penn show how to create the conditions, culture, and habits to systematically, ruthlessly, and quickly figure out what works in three steps.

By cultivating executive poise and presence, we not only improve how others see us but enhance our capacity to lead a life of our choosing. While leadership styles may vary, all great leaders are able to connect with others while staying true to themselves. By remaining true to the best aspects of your personality, you, too, will be able to lead effectively in every situation. Leading from Your Best Self delivers a road map for developing the poise, presence, and influence needed to succeed at work and in life.

Got "people problems" on the job? Is your team plagued by high turnover rates, low employee engagement scores, or complaints being made to HR? If these alarm bells are going off, it might not be them... it might be the beginnings of toxic leadership with you. A raw, confrontational look at the warning signs of toxic leadership, this book dives deep into those indicators that YOU (yes you!) could be contributing to a loss of team morale. With her experience as an executive coach, Deb Calvert challenges readers to lead themselves and acknowledge imperfections and embrace vulnerability to ...

Ministry is supposed to be a team sport, but it's hard to build a team if you're a pulpit hog. Sharing the pulpit is one of the most powerful ways to instill a ministry-wide culture of equipping, empowering, and releasing others for the work of the ministry. Preaching the Other Way is an absolute must have for any preacher, speaker, or primary communicator. It's an inspirational reminder that no one person can be it all, and do it all. This book comes from forty years of ministry wisdom. Insightful, and backed with impeccable integrity, JD Pearring presents an innovative approach to equip ...

Art Thinking combines the mind-sets of art and the tools of business to protect space for open-ended exploration and manage risks on your way to success. Art Thinking takes you from "Wouldn't it be cool if...?" to realizing your highest aims, helping you build creative skills you can apply across all facets of business and life. Warm, honest, and unexpected, Art Thinking will help you reimagine your work and life-and even change the world-while enjoying the journey from point A.

Unlock Your Leadership Potential with 'Leadership European Business Competence*Licence'! Embark on a transformative journey towards leadership excellence with our comprehensive guide tailored for aspiring managers and leaders. Dive into the dynamic world of European business standards and gain invaluable insights into leadership development that will set you apart in today's competitive landscape. Synopsis: Experience a groundbreaking approach to leadership development as you delve into the core principles and practices of effective leadership. From mastering essential leadership skills to ...

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur, or a not-for-profit leader, there's no shortage of advice on such topics as writing a business plan, recruiting, raising capital, and branding. In fact there are so many books, articles, and websites that many startups get bogged down to the point of paralysis, or they focus on the wrong priorities and go broke before they discover their mistakes.

Ready to thrive as a new leader in a world of constant change and challenge? The 12 Ordeals of Leadership is your blueprint to rapidly develop leadership skills and confidently conquer the trials every modern leader faces. This persuasive guide turns leadership development into an adventure—showing you how to master the make-or-break moments that define successful leadership. In this groundbreaking book, G. Damon Wells structures leadership growth around three powerful categories of ordeals: Ordeals by Fire, Ordeals by Water, and Ordeals by Combat. The Ordeals by Fire test your ability to...

What are positive affirmations? An affirmation is anything that you think or say. This means that even your negative thoughts and words are affirmations. People have become used to thinking negatively, thus resulting in negative experiences and situations. It is important to retrain the mind to think only of good and positive things, so that only positive would also come out of the mouth. This is how you will change your life.

Executive coaching is a professional and personal development intervention that organizations introduce to address and improve those areas in managers' and leaders' behavior, attitude, and interactions with others that do not allow him/her to work at full potential and also to further improve one's own strengths. The end objective, besides the development of the managers and leaders, is for the organization to benefit in the long-run from the coachee's improved performance.

In today's complex, highly competitive, global environment, those who will survive and thrive in this new world of work are individuals, teams, and organizations who can maintain high levels of accountability and remain focused on must-achieve desired results. Achieve with Accountability is your personal handbook for awakening your (or your team or organization's) inner confidence, drive, perseverance, determination, resolve, and can-do mindset.

Clayton M. Christensen is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Michael E. Raynor is a director at Deloitte Research. Together, they outline an innovative plan that urges businesses to create disruption rather than fleeing from it. Named one of 2003's Best Business Books by Business Week, this book is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times best seller.

Unlock the power within you to reach your highest potential and positively impact the world around you with "The 48 Laws of Positive Power: Achieve Your Highest Potential and Impact Others for Good" by E.W. ‘Buck’ Lawrimore. Drawing from a rich background as a success consultant and a vast well of research, Lawrimore distills the essence of true power into 48 transformative laws that promise to reshape your approach to personal and professional success. This isn't just another book on achieving success; it's a roadmap to wielding influence with integrity and kindness. Each law is ...

Looking for breakthrough strategies that really work? Are you stressed, depressed, and ready for a change? Seeking inspiration to help you plan for massive success? In this book renowned life and business reinvention experts share their best advice for taking the quantum leap you’re ready for. Don’t live an ordinary life one more day….. start living your dreams today and every day!

In What It Takes to Be #1, Vince Lombardi, Jr. explores his father's leadership philosophy and extracts powerful lessons about what it takes to be an effective leader. Taking as his jumping-off point his father's legendary 1970 speech on the supreme importance of self-knowledge, character, and integrity, Lombardi, Jr. examines each of those qualities and offers guidelines on cultivating and applying them at work and in your personal life.

In this accessible guide, franchise expert Rick Grossmann and franchise attorney Michael J. Katz impart decades-worth of insight and advice on what it takes to make your franchise operation successful. Grossmann and Katz share expert tutorials, tricks of the trade, and access to sample franchise documents, checklists, and questionnaires designed to get you organized, support you through the process, and get your new franchise off the ground.

Globally recognized digital expert David L. Rogers argues that digital transformation is not about updating your technology but about upgrading your strategic thinking. Based on Rogers' decade of research and teaching at Columbia Business School and his consulting for businesses around the world, The Digital Transformation Playbook shows how pre-digital-era companies can reinvigorate their game plans and capture the new opportunities of the digital world.

Self-Leadership: Become the CEO of Your Own Career takes a unique approach to the self-improvement genre, delivering a wealth of practical advice through a blend of well-crafted fiction and a structured, in-depth analysis of the key concepts explored in the narrative, specifically professional development. Two logical sections, “The Story” and “The Lesson,” first introduce readers to a series of characters all grappling with questions of how to break out of their respective ruts and improve their lives. The characters are authentic and highly relatable, and readers will have no ...

Limited Liability Companies For Dummies, 3rd Edition offers a clear, concise guide that explains the pros and cons of LLCs, and shares insider tips on everything from choosing your members and your company name to creating and filing your Articles of Organization and managing day-to-day operations. You'll find the most current, real-world advice on customizing an LLC for your specific business needs, creating a great operating agreement, keeping accurate records, and new information on federal regulations and fees that are applicable to LLCs.