Business Performance

Now including a discussion of critical success factors, as well as new chapters that focus on implementations issues and "how to sections" on finding your CSFs and brainstorming the performance measures that report progress within the CSFs, Key Performance Indicators, 2nd Edition will help you identify and track your organization's KPIs to ensure continued and increased success.

Do you need to do a wedding speech but have no idea how to start or what to say? Are you nervous about standing up and speaking in public? The Wedding Speech Manual is your complete, practical, step-by-step guide to how to write and perform a personalized wedding speech: something which will be enjoyed and cherished by your loved ones, friends, and family.

Leaders are measured by their team’s performance as well as the performance of their individual members. The team’s morale, discipline, efficiency, and performance are a reflection of their leader’s influence and effectiveness. If you suck, they will suck. Worse yet, if they perform and behave nothing like you, they’re not yours and someone else is influencing them.

Executive Toughness takes you through the steps of making these critical behaviors part of your everyday routine. Practice your accountability, focus, and optimism, and you'll be on the path to attaining your goals; make them part of your mental “DNA", and there will be no turning back - ever. A complete regimen from a leading expert on developing the mindset for attaining goals, Executive Toughness is your workout for ultimate success in your career and in your life.

This is a not-so-serious guide to take you on a wild ride to Hollywood stardom. Get ready for laugh-out-loud advice, ridiculous but actually true tips, and the most entertaining journey of your life. Let's dive into the madness of becoming a movie star! And, not to be totally out-in-the-dream world, there are some really good tips at the end to get you honestly started in the crazy world of movie making. Just think of all the streaming services making movies and TV series shows. They need actors and thousands of them. Who is to say you can't be one of them.

"The Corporate Mentor's Toolkit: Techniques and Strategies for Success" is the ultimate guide for managers and leaders who want to build a successful mentoring program within their organization. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the mentoring process, including identifying mentees, matching them with mentors, and establishing clear goals and expectations. It also provides various tools and techniques for fostering effective communication and building trust between mentors and mentees. With practical advice and real-world examples, this book equips readers with the knowledge and...

Transform your leadership capabilities in record time, even if you've faced obstacles and setbacks along the way. Are you constantly facing leadership challenges that make it difficult to steer your team effectively? Do you find yourself grappling with the rapid pace of change and worrying about how to grow and scale your business confidently? The journey to exceptional leadership begins here. If you're an entrepreneur or business leader overwhelmed with perfecting your leadership skills, you’re in the right place. My Leadership Development Skills Made Simple is meticulously crafted for ...

Managing a sales team is one of the most important and challenging positions in a company, and it requires a unique set of skills. Unfortunately, many sales managers spend much of their day putting out fires, and moving from problem to problem. Their days consist of an overwhelming number of activities, including responding to urgent requests from their bosses, resolving customer issues and complaints, and dealing with disgruntled employees.

The hardest part of a manager’s job isn’t staying organized, meeting deliverable dates, or staying on budget. It’s dealing with people who are too comfortable doing things the way they’ve always been done and too afraid to do things differently. Treasurer, a courage-building pioneer, proposes a bold antidote: courage. With more courage, workers gain the confidence to take on harder projects, embrace company changes with more enthusiasm, and extend themselves in ways that will benefit their careers and their company.

What’s Holding You Back from Change? Many people feel stuck, overwhelmed, and unsure how to move forward. Unstoppable breaks down the process of making meaningful and sustainable change into seven simple steps. Michelle Bonahoom, a speaker, author, and founder of VisionOne High Performance Group, shares the principles she has taught thousands of leaders over 20+ years to help you overcome obstacles and unlock your potential.

Inclusion is more than a moral obligation; it's a competitive advantage. Inclusive leadership expert Melissa Majors is an innovator and optimizer of inclusion, leadership, and education strategies. In The 7 Simple Habits of Inclusive Leaders, she reveals how great leaders enjoy superior team performance and drive much higher profitability by incorporating inclusive practices. Through storytelling, research, and personal experiences, she offers a common-sense yet compelling and actionable approach to inclusion.

Train to Lead offers a structured, 90-day path to enhance your leadership capabilities and personal growth, whether you’re newly promoted or have years of leadership experience. This book is designed to help build your leadership core with sustained improvement over time, broken down into training segments: healthy habits, conditioning, strength, power, endurance, and recovery.

Have you tried to improve your self-esteem? Are you tired of not seeing the results you would want to see? Do you start feeling confident about yourself and then find yourself doubting just after a few days? Have you given up thinking there is no other option for you? The truth is...every woman should have healthy self-esteem. The solution is coding your brain and help it change its perspective on yourself, your confidence as well as your self-worth. This can be done through self-talk.

Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies shows you how to apply the latest performance appraisal practices and generate positive outcomes for your employees, for your company, and for you. The days of stand-alone annual performance appraisals are drawing to a close, with today's appraisals utilizing quarterly or biannual sessions, continuous feedback with regular two-way communication, collaborative goal-setting, career development, and an ongoing forward focus.

Who can benefit from art therapy? The best thing about art therapy is that it doesn’t ask for you to have the mad skills of Leonardo da Vinci or Picasso to to reap its benefits. Discover the benefits of music therapy, dance therapy, drawing therapy, coloring, art therapy, and neuroscience to improve your life.

Are you a small business owner struggling to identify the performance metrics that truly matter? Are you grappling with monitoring and measuring your business's performance effectively? If so, "The Art of Measuring Success in Small Businesses: 7 Essential KPIs Your Business is Ignoring" is crafted just for you! This book provides actionable steps to help you: Identify relevant KPIs tailored to your business. Set meaningful benchmarks for performance measurement. Regularly track and analyze data for informed decision-making. Implement findings and repeat the process for continual improvement...

What’s your story? It’s a question human beings have been asking each other since we first gathered around a campfire. Millennia later, this human need for storytelling hasn’t changed. We communicate most effectively through our personal stories - and our professional success depends on it. This groundbreaking guide shows you how to tap into the timeless power of storytelling to transform your business.

Hay pocos libros en el mundo que todos deberíamos leer. Éste es uno de ellos. Con ejemplos prácticos y pasos concretos, nos revela un sistema que puede ayudarnos a convertirnos en personas de alto rendimiento en el trabajo, en los negocios y en el ámbito personal. El método timing funciona.

If you are a talented and ethically grounded sales professional, the most effective way for your customers to get what they want is to do what you tell them to do. Stop “asking for the sale,” and start recommending it. The Sales Upgrade will immerse you in an experiential sales methodology which will allow you to connect on a human level, create value outside of your products and services, and master the many facets of consultative selling.

Veteran character actor David Dean Bottrell draws on his 35-plus tumultuous years of work in the entertainment industry to offer a guide to breaking in, making a living, and making a life in the fabulous trenches of show business. Mixing prescriptive advice with wisdom drawn from Bottrell's own professional highs and lows and those of his acting compatriots, this book's humorous, tell-it-like-it-is tone is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to successfully navigate show business.