Leadership Essentials

A life coach is more than just being a good listener, you also need to be able to ask good questions to assess the problems your client may be having. You also need to be able to ask tough questions. Your goal as a life coach is to find the source of all of your client's problems so that you can effectively fix them and teach them at the same time how they can fix similar problems in the future.

Determine how much of your organization’s operations are dependent on IT. Consider how much your organization relies on information technology to conduct business and make it a part of your culture to plan for contingencies in the event of a cyber incident. Identify and prioritize your organization’s critical assets and the associated impacts to operations if an incident were to occur.

Transforming Project Management takes you beyond envisioning a great strategy and into the realm of implementing it - with skill, care, and expertise. Petersen explains how to break down a strategic plan into key objectives and project portfolios to make sense of all the project "parts" - then successfully lead the execution of the plan.

A commitment to cultivating mindfulness practices in your business is no longer optional, it is an imperative. Not only will mindful businesses survive in the 21st century, they will thrive as the world grows in its initiative to support integrity, creativity, and diversity in the workplace. Integrating solid and definitive mindfulness practices into your business will create a greater sense of ease, innovation and well-being among your staff. Ultimately, they will feel safer and more self-assured, and in doing so will develop a loyalty to you and your business.

When it comes to providing effective solutions for the client, the coaching techniques are a little unique and very much focused on getting the client to where he or she wants to be within a stipulated period of time. The coach would ideally want to understand the vision that the client has and then create an outline of steps that the client will be able to follow to effectively get the vision from that stage to reality. In some cases, the inclusion of inspiring tips may be needed to get the client excited about reaching the end goal faster.

The Harvard Business School has its own boot camp, and you're the prize recruit. Let leading marketing consultant Mark Stevens teach you the strategies of the business world's most rewarding training program...without the big tuition pricetag.

Leading an Agile team calls for unexpected changes and typical project management tactics. You simply can't approach an Agile project with the same mentality as you usually use. Agile teams are self-organized, self-directing, and lack a hierarchical structure that often defines project management.

Wielding his widely recognized powers of explanation, Paul Krugman lays bare the hidden facts behind the $1.35 trillion tax cut. In Fuzzy Math, Krugman dissects the Bush tax cut plan and shows us who wins, who loses, and how quickly the tax cuts will consume the surplus.

Whether you are a business owner, director, or entrepreneur, The Business Leaders Essential Guide to Innovation enables you to progress the right ideas with the greatest opportunity for your business, and to invest your time in developing new concepts and ideas that will give you a robust way forward.

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?

Juggling all the tasks and resources you need to make a project run smoothly can seem like an onerous task—from engaging with stakeholders and scoping out the full specification of the project, through to keeping a rein on costs and sticking to schedules. Manage Projects Successfully offers calm and practical advice to help you with setting priorities, communicating with others, monitoring progress and dealing with unexpected events.

Contemporary organizations proliferate with projects. Managing projects, working with project managers, and delivering project excellence have become fundamental skills in the world of business, resulting in an array of approaches, tools, and techniques that can bewilder. This book homes in on the absolute essential elements of the field. With practical insights throughout, the audiobook provides listeners with a concise understanding of key concepts, techniques, and outcomes such as ownership, execution, success, quality, budgets, and risks.

Using the knowledge in this book, you will be able to create a systemized business that runs even when you're not there. This book is focused on the professional HMO market, but many of the tips can easily be applied to other sectors of the market such as LHA (local housing allowance) and student HMOs. The book is split into five sections: Find It, Fund It, Finish It, Fill It, and Future-Proof It. Each section contains tips large and small - some short and sweet and some that are more in-depth.

Wisdom Keys is a book about ways Leaders can optimize their ability and effectiveness. As Kingdom Leaders in the Church and Entrepreneurs in the Market Place, it is our divine mandate, before God, to utilize Godly Principles to execute and manage divine ideas and witty inventions. This book gives you supernatural keys to optimize the kingdom of God in your business, ministry and personal life.

In Project Management with Ease and Purpose, author Evelyn D. Brooks, MSM, PMP, SSGB, pulls from her years of leading multimillion-dollar, high-profile projects to explain theories, techniques, and best practices of project management. She also provides plenty of real-world examples that illustrate how these principles can be applied to avoid PILEUPS and achieve success.

All businesses experience the insidious cost of conflict. Unfortunately, few have the skills or resources to combat this toxic and pervasive problem. Until now!

Warum neigen Unternehmensprozesse so häufig dazu, im Sande zu verlaufen oder zumindest die in sie gesteckten Erwartungen nicht zu erfüllen? Der wesentliche Grund ist nicht, dass sie nicht sorgfältig genug geplant wären. In der Regel hapert es schlicht an der Umsetzung. Stephen R. Covey und sein Institut FranklinCovey haben sich mit dem Thema in einer Tiefe beschäftigt, die vermutlich ohne Beispiel ist. Sie haben untersucht, was der Umsetzung im Wege steht - von der Führungsetage bis zur vordersten Front - und dabei die Faktoren isoliert, ohne die eine präzise Umsetzung nicht möglich ist.

Zweifellos wird die Rolle des Managers immer anspruchsvoller und komplizierter, mit der Folge, dass viele Manager vor lauter Verpflichtungen den Überblick darüber verlieren, was wirklich wichtig ist. Dieser Band lässt Sie Abstand gewinnen, damit Sie sich aus der Perspektive des Gipfelbesteigers einen Überblick über Ihre Lage verschaffen können. Hier finden Sie die sieben essentiellen Gewohnheiten effektiver Manager. Sie finden Antworten auf die 25 schwierigsten Managementherausforderungen.

Most plumbing and heating engineers are excellent on the tools, but with the running of the business, they fall short. If you read this book, I promise you will have an increase in your quote conversion rate; you will have a sound structure and system to produce quotations which will save hours in admin work; your customers will know exactly what you are going to deliver; over time, your turnover will increase if you implement the teachings of this book; and more.

A practical and accessible guide to getting the best from working and managing remotely. The guide that gives you all the know-how you need to manage a team remotely and get the best out of them. More people are working from home - or remotely in other locations or time zones - than ever before. But with the many advantages remote-working brings, there are also brand-new sets of challenges - especially around effective management and getting the best out of teams that aren't in the same room.