Career Building

Conquer the Construction Field: Your Guide to Building Skills and a Career as a Construction Laborer and Helper is a comprehensive resource designed to prepare individuals for success in the dynamic world of construction. This guide covers essential topics, including site preparation, material handling, and the safe operation of power tools and heavy equipment. Readers will gain insight into scaffolding, excavation, and assisting tradesworkers, as well as advanced skills like robotic equipment operation and laser placement. Safety is a critical focus, with detailed explanations of OSHA ...

Have you ever thought about starting a business but don't know where to begin? Or, do you have a great product or service idea with limited resources to get it off the ground? Maybe you just want to be the boss and that's it? If you're just like how I was many years ago with tons of ambition and no clue where to start, then this is the book for you. I have designed a thorough step by step guide through actual experience which will teach you how to build your own business from the ground up or through buying a franchise.

Many farm folks work hard at producing great crops and caring for livestock, but when it comes to communicating their deepest desires for the future of the farm, they get stuck. Building Your Farm Legacy: Tools to Empower Family is a useful toolbox created by a farm woman, partner, and mother to a successor.

Self-Discipline is a guide that is designed to help you boost your productivity and vanquish procrastination and laziness forever.

Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously embraces humility and failure as part of the growth process to deliver results. By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team, layered on with four resilience factors.

There are millions of people who strive to make a difference in workplace diversity and inclusion. And with this practical, leader-friendly framework, Daily Practices of Inclusive Leaders will equip listeners with the actionable tools they've been searching for. Leaders will learn why they are the key to inclusion; insights for the lifelong journey; successful practices they can start today; and more.

This dynamic program, founded on cutting-edge psychological research, enables you to deconstruct and deal with stress head-on. Stress: The Psychology of Managing Pressure helps you identify external and internal sources of stress in your life and reframe unhelpful patterns of thought into powerful psychological solutions that you can apply every day. Underpinned by psychological theory, with relevant findings from psychologists, doctors, and teachers, this audiobook will help you smash the shadow of stress in any area of your life.

Everyone deserves to feel comfortable in the skin they are in, and journeying through this audiobook is the perfect place to start a new relationship with your body, your mind, and your health. Your journey will take you day-by-day over a 50-day period, challenging and transforming how you see yourself. All you need is five minutes each day to listen to the lesson and personal application challenge of the day;

In the construction industry, reputation is everything. Whether you’re a distributor, manufacturer, builder, or installer, you want the pride of building something that will last and make a difference. While you may be an expert in your craft, marketing your business may feel like trying to drive a nail with a tape measurer—it just doesn’t work. In Building Better Brands, Elton Mayfield provides you with the tools and raw materials to plan and build a business marketing plan.

Interested In A More Productive Network? Forget about all those networking skills ... they are of little value. Abandon the notion of accumulating all those spiffy networking techniques … they are a waste of time. You can only achieve long-term networking success through the consistent practice of Foundational Networking, which is the process of consciously building in your relationships the quintessential networking elements of “know, like and trust.”

This book provides a detailed, step-by-step account of how fraud can be committed in the construction industry, narrated through the experiences of Robert, a former project manager who orchestrated a sophisticated scheme to siphon funds using a fake vendor. Combining his personal story with actionable insights, Robert reveals the vulnerabilities that allow fraud to thrive, the devastating consequences of unethical behavior, and the strategies businesses can adopt to protect themselves.

For previous generations, living within your means was a simple formula. Now, with the staggering rise in health-care, medical, and housing costs, millions of people find themselves skating from paycheck to paycheck with no idea how to move forward.

Mastering Management: Essential Strategies for Success This book is a comprehensive guide that delves into the core principles of effective leadership and successful management in the modern workplace. This book offers practical tips, proven strategies, and actionable advice for aspiring managers looking to enhance their skills and drive organizational success. From team building and performance management to employee empowerment and career advancement, this book covers key topics essential for professional growth. Whether you are a seasoned manager or a budding leader, this book will equip...

Conquer the Fabrication and Precision Assembly Field: Your Guide to a Career Building Finished Products and the Parts That Go into Them is your comprehensive resource for mastering a career in one of the most dynamic and rewarding sectors of modern manufacturing. This guide explores the essential skills, tools, and techniques needed to thrive as an assembler or fabricator, whether you’re building intricate electronic components or assembling large structural elements. From interpreting blueprints and operating CNC machines to understanding automation and robotics, the book provides ...

Building a Badass Boutique - Your 10-Touch Journey to Designing a Fitness Studio That Rocks takes operators through the key areas of Purpose, Pain, Positioning, People, Programming, Place, Processes, Plan, Pace, and Polish. The 10 touchpoints are unpacked clearly and comprehensively, offering new lenses, and allowing you, the business owner, to establish authentic foundations that will set you up to optimize and scale. Emma Barry is a global fitness authority advising the sector’s fastest growing segments: boutique studios, budget clubs, and fit tech start-ups.

A C-Suite Executive’s Guide to Leading High-Performance Teams & Resolving Workplace Conflict! Are you a leader struggling with difficult team dynamics, unproductive employees, or workplace conflict? Do you want to enhance collaboration, build trust, and hold your team accountable—without micromanaging? What You’ll Gain from This Book: How to Handle Difficult Personalities – Learn to manage manipulators, passive-aggressors, narcissists, and workplace bullies with confidence. Conflict Resolution & Mediation Tactics – Turn workplace tension into opportunities for team growth and innovation.

Ever watched someone command a room and thought, "I'll have what they're having"? Confidence isn't a personality trait you're born with—it's a skill you can develop, even if you're currently calculating the odds of becoming invisible to avoid social interaction. In this refreshingly honest and humor-filled guide, you'll discover: • Mind Hacks That Actually Work: Reprogram your brain for confidence without the cringe-worthy affirmations • The Competence Connection: Build concrete skills that make confidence inevitable (no "just believe in yourself" fluff) • Body Language Secrets: ...

With Results, Not Reports, Peter Follows, CEO of Carpedia International, provides business leaders with a framework for lasting improvements in performance and profitability. Carpedia has a remarkable success rate in large-scale improvement programs, helping clients achieve their improvement goals over 90 percent of the time. In this book, Peter explains how to achieve sustainable improvement through the dynamic management of process, performance, and people, emphasizing that all three components have an interdependent relationship and that the key is to address them concurrently.

In our extroverted business culture, introverts can feel excluded, overlooked, or misunderstood. But being an introvert doesn’t mean you can’t be a great leader. Citing examples of highly successful leaders like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, Jennifer Kahnweiler shows that introverts can build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power.

There’s nothing more frustrating than an unproductive meeting - except when it leads to another unproductive meeting. Yet every day millions of people conduct meetings - in person or online - without the critical understanding or formal training on how to plan and lead them effectively. This book offers a structured method to ensure that meetings will produce clear and actionable results. Meetings that are profitable and productive ultimately lead to fewer meetings. This book offers leaders a significant edge by