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Personal Styles Indicator (PSI)
Communication is so much more effective when we understand our own personal style and the style of others. By shifting your style slightly to more powerfully engage the other person can have a huge pay off. If you are a business owner, corporate manager, self employed professional, parent or have a significant other in your life I highly recommend taking the Personal Styles Indicator (PSI) below. This is a wonderful topic for an initial coaching discussion.
Fill out the Personal Styles Indicator which comes with an in-depth interpretation. Check out the whole aray of excelllent tool available through this resource. Influencing with Integrity, by Genie Z. Laborde
A very practical overview of how to communicate for win/win.
Although this book is 10 years old, it remains very "current" and powerful. Communicating is the essence of what people do, and so often failure of good communications inhibits and injures. The book offers a great insight and practical approaches to improving communications and negotiating.
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership Follow Them And People Will Follow You, by John Maxwell "John C. Maxwell offers lively stories about the foibles and successes of Lee Iacocca, Abraham Lincoln, Princess Diana, and Elizabeth Dole in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Readers can expect a well-crafted discussion that emphasizes the core attitudes and visions of leadership." click here to learn more about this book Great Little Book on Effective Leadership, By Brian Tracy "Anyone who works with people, from entrepreneurs and fast-paced executives to community volunteers and medical professionals, will find the advice in Great Little Book on Effective Leadership helpful, sound, and exhilarating." Click here to see more about this book The Corporate Mystic: A Guide Book For Visionaries With Their Feet On The Ground, by Gay Hendricks, Kate Ludeman Qualities inherent in top leaders and corporate visionaries are outlined in a guide managers and executives will want to consider. Here is a fine book which describes typical corporate battles, individual successes and failures, and the exceptional qualities which set the top corporate executive. Click here for more about this book
Coaching Skills
Whether you are dealing with employees, clients, friends, a spouse or children coaching skills are invaluable. Thomas Leonard founded Coaching as a profession. His company is offering an incredible opportunity to get all the tools you could ever need or want, and a lifetime membership for only $79. Check it out and JOIN TODAY! Click here to visit Coachville.
Careers, Goals and Money Strategies I Could Do Anything if Only I Knew What It Was, by Barbara Sher
I keep recommending this book because folks keep telling me how helpful it is! How often have you had the desire to do "something different", but not known what to do, where to look, or how to start? This book is for you! With simple exercises and tremendous kindness, Sher helps you ask the questions to clarify exactly what your heart desires. She helps you define first steps so you can experiment and get going (without quitting your day job!), and know that you are on the way to achieving your dream.
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The Corporate Mystic: A Guide Book For Visionaries With Their Feet On The Ground, by Gay Hendricks, Kate Ludeman Qualities inherent in top leaders and corporate visionaries are outlined in a guide managers and executives will want to consider. Here is a fine book which describes typical corporate battles, individual successes and failures, and the exceptional qualities which set the top corporate executive. Click here for more about this book
Success is Not an Accident, by Tommy Newberry
A wonderful guide to understanding the principles,
the emotions, and the techniques that highly successful
people use to reach their goals. Based on common sense
and brilliant insights, this is a great book! Get it,
read it, take notes, then wrap it up and give it to
someone you really, really care about. A tremendous help! Click here for more about this book! Marketing Tips Marketing Your Services, by Anthony O. Putman Of all the books on "Marketing Your Services", this has to be the
best. He looks at marketing your services not as a chore but as
a fun and challenging activity to improve the success of your
business. Everything is covered here, from finding your niche to
taking care of clients. The style is fun and informal and includes
many stories and real life examples. This is a "must have" book if
you want to attract new clients. Reviewers at Amazon give it 5
stars! Buy and read this book, and you will attract more clients! Click here for more about this book! Marketing Without Advertising, by Michael Phillips & Salli Rasberry
Very practical. It takes the mystery out of marketing a professional practice, attracting clients, and making money, without having to "sell" or "advertise" anything! This book listed specific daily actions for letting the world discover you and beat a path to your door. It helped me relax and stop "trying"! Instead, the practical steps in this book taught me to effectively, effortlessly, let people know who I am, what I do, and how it could benefit them. And that has made all the difference! To build your professional practice, work less, and make more money -- buy (and USE!) this book! (a bargain!). Click here for more about this book! Selling the Invisible: A Field Guild to Modern Marketing,
By Harry Beckwith Despite it's title, I would not describe this as a "how-to" about
selling. It's much, much better and more valuable than that. It's
a how-to about building relationships, creating value, establishing
networks, and building partnerships that work for you and your
customers. Beckwith understands the principles behind successful
professional businesses, and explains them in a clear, easy-to-use
style. Read this, study it, read it again, and let it soak in!
This is fantastic material! Do yourself a favor: buy this book! Click here for more about this book!
Business Systems The E Myth Revisited, Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to do About It, By Michael Gerber If you run a small business or a professional practice, you really need this book! It will simplify your life, and make you money.
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How To Make Your Business Run Without You, by Susan Carter
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Inc. Yourself, By Judith H. McQuown Provides the most comprehensive, user-friendly guide to the tax breaks and legal benefits of incorporation. Reveals how to take advantage of the tax breaks and legislation that benefit startup ventures.
Click for more about this book! The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success, By Brian Tracy “is exactly what its title suggests--100 maxims and MOs everyone must learn and live by to make it big, broken down into the laws of Life, Success, Business, Leadership, Money, Selling, Negotiating, and Time Management. Each law is followed up by anecdotes and quotes through history, plus bulleted points on "How You Can Apply This Law Immediately," which provide welcome structure and practicality.”
Click for more about this book! The 26 Hour Day, by Vince Panella A book that will actually teach you how to gain at least two to four more profitable, productive and enjoyable hours a day at work and at home. By focusing on behaviors over organizational skills, it shatters the fallacy of traditional time management and gives you the specific skills necessary to massively leverage your time.
Every business and career professional trying to find more profitable and productive time at work and a more balanced and enjoyable time at home can benefit from these proven time-management techniques. This book will, as the author declares, "help you gain control of yourself. Do that, and you can fully control your time. Control your time, and you control your destiny." Click for more about this book The Corporate Mystic: A Guide Book For Visionaries With Their Feet On The Ground, by Gay Hendricks, Kate Ludeman Don't Be Turned Off By The Title (Mystic),
Reviewer: Joseph B. Murphy from Atlanta, GA USA
As an avid reader of many business books I had this one shelved for the better part of the year, finally cracked it open only to reveal thoughts and introspective ideas how to "become" a better person and leader. Simple and obvious points are usually the ones we overlook everyday because we are usually looking for complex solutions to our problems. But the points outlined here are practical and immediately useful and implementable. If you think the problem is "out there", read this, you'll see what you and your actions (or inactions) did to contribute to the problem and what you can do now to head off problems. A MUST READ. AN EASY READ. AN ENJOYABLE READ. YOU MAY BE PUT OFF BY THE WORD "MYSTIC" - DON'T BE!
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Coaching Skills
Whether you are dealing with employees, clients, friends, a spouse or children coaching skills are invaluable. Thomas Leonard founded Coaching as a profession. His company is offering an incredible opportunity to get all the tools you could ever need or want, and a lifetime membership for only $79. Check it out and JOIN TODAY! Click here to visit Coachville.
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