Improv Leadership

2024 AMERICAN WRITING AWARDS - FINALIST IN THE BUSINESS-MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP CATEGORYJust as DNA shapes who we are biologically, your personal and professional DNA forms the core of your identity, capabilities, and potential. In Enhancing Your Leadership, Communication and Performance DNA, Denola Burton guides you through a transformative journey of self-development using the concept of DNA—Develop, Nurture and Achieve—as a framework for growth. This book provides practical strategies, real-life examples and actionable tools to help you unlock your fullest potential in leadership, ...

Company culture influences the roles and responsibilities of every employee within the organization, from executive leadership down to the front lines. A strong, healthy company culture drives productivity and raises profitability, and disengaged employees cost companies billions, yet many executives rarely associate their culture with their bottom line. Today, employee engagement stakes are higher than ever because executives have to consider the impact their company culture has on external stakeholders as well.

From #MeToo to #WeToo tackles these difficult conditions with sensitivity and insight to help male leaders transform negative interactions, challenging workplace dynamics, and dysfunctional teams into an environment that is highly productive, collaborative, supportive, and respectful of everyone–regardless of gender.

Communicating is tougher than ever. Our relationships are suffering. We are losing our ability to relate and interact with each other. Despite our advances in technology, people feel lonely and disconnected. Brett Keirstead, a 30-year sales professional, wants to do something about it. We Are All Sales, People teaches five key skills that anyone can adapt to dramatically improve the quality of their communication and relationships at home, at school, and at work.

Organizations that provide opportunities for employees to playfully connect, bond, and build friendships see improvements in retention, engagement, and innovation. Intentional play at work creates a culture that benefits all employees’ physical and mental health and the company’s bottom line. It Pays to Play is a rich resource filled with ideas for play at work—whether in person, hybrid, or remote—and illustrates how the ROI from play is multifaceted and exponential. Learn the ways play can be easily and affordably implemented regardless of your industry.

There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works. But what will set you apart from the rest is actually knowing how to use big data to get solid, real-world business results - and putting that in place to improve performance. Big Data shows you how to implement the same practices that leading firms have used to access new dimensions of profitability. You'll learn from clear explanations and countless examples how successful organisations large and small use the SMART model to get ahead.

With Creativity: Creative Thinking to Improve Memory, Increase Success and Live a Healthy Life, you'll learn how to use creativity to improve your life. You'll discover how unlocking your creativity can help improve your memory, health, and success. Through a series of fun exercises, you'll start actively being creative in your everyday life.

Un mentor y entrenador de éxito, para más de 56 millonarios que lo acreditan como su mentor de negocios, comparte difíciles temporadas en su vida que rara vez ha compartido antes. Este libro no sólo habla del camino del autor desde una vida de dolor y esclavitud hacia la libertad, sino una verdad que está disponible para todos nosotros si decidimos creer y tener el coraje de soltar nuestra historia apestosa.

In this book, you'll get fresh takes on well-beaten topics such as leadership, accountability, and a step-by-step approach to innovation. It contains a simple way to build winning strategies and align efforts across the entire enterprise. All of these breakthrough insights are based on the same set of principles. Discover how these principles make air travel safer, employees happier and smarter, weight loss easier, health care better, and business meetings shorter.

Many companies struggle with retaining employees and getting projects in on time. They hire the best, and before they know it, these individuals have left for different companies. Sometimes, it is for more money and, sometimes, not. It seems impossible to find an employee who has any loyalty any longer, and the problem just gets so much worse when unemployment rates are done.

The practice of positive affirmations and visualization on a steady, witting basis will help your success. Persistence accomplishes results much earlier than practicing sporadically; practicing your affirmations each day has a better effect. Affirmations by themselves, however, don't guarantee success; you likewise have to take action. In this audiobook, you will learn essential guides on effective affirmations that can inspire leaders and improve their leadership skills!

In today's workplace, too many marginalized groups are underrepresented. And yet, workplaces often struggle to find enough employees to sustain their growing needs, putting massive pressure on HR hiring teams to fill the demand. Organizational psychologist Gil Winch argues that addressing our own biases and building organizations where everyone feels a profound sense of belonging is not only great for a company's bottom line, it's also good for employees, communities, and society as a whole. Winning with Underdogs is the highly practical step-by-step guide you need.

Discover the secret to becoming a person-focused manager and the leader who gets the best results! Bursting with quotes, anecdotes, and historical titbits, this audio version of the book offers a practical and out-of-the-box approach to a management style that works. Delving into real historical examples of what makes a good leader, along with how old lessons of leadership can be applied to our modern workforce, Tales of the Person-Focused Manager combines authentic advice with tons of engaging stories.

Emotionally intelligent people are open to new experiences, can show feelings adequate to the situation, either good or bad, and find it easy to socialize with other people and establish new contacts. They handle stress well, say “no” easily, realistically assess the achievements of themselves or others and are not afraid of constructive criticism and taking calculated risks.

He traveled over two thousand miles to find her.... And yet she is firmly saying, "No, thank you" to raising her orphan cousins. Boston lawyer Reed Malloy cannot believe it. After an exhausting train ride west to a dusty Colorado town, he's not prepared for Miss Charlotte Sanborn, who wears her independence like a suit of armor, cloaks her identity behind her pen name, and flat out refuses to raise her kin!

¿Te sientes estresado por tu próxima presentación? Tanto si estás nervioso por cómo organizarás tus ideas como por la forma en que las articularás en el gran día, Cómo realizar presentaciones te ofrece las pautas rápidas y los consejos de los expertos que necesitas.

Have you ever wondered why it's painfully difficult for you to get a raise at work? Do you know you can successfully ask for a raise even if your pay was recently increased? Do you also know you can get the best deals in most transactions if only you will learn how to ask the right questions? In the book Negotiating, Richard Wall demystifies what makes for a good negotiation. It takes a good negotiation to get what you want out of life.

Narrated by Mark Burns, The Learning Imperative examines the key ingredients that ensure effective learning and offers leaders step-by-step guidance on how they can achieve it in their own teams and organizations. The audiobook maps out the key stages of the learning journey and provides a comprehensive guide for team leaders and managers who want to improve learning in their teams. It also shares essential advice on the design and delivery of effective training programs, as well as a range of illuminating case studies drawn from real-life contexts.

So, you have sorted through the plethora of information on leadership and landed right here. Perhaps you are already in a leadership position and you need to learn some tools to be effective. Maybe you feel that you are a leader, but those in authority over you seem to look right past you for promotion. Whatever your situation might be, you have started an adventure that will propel you into your destiny.

This audiobook will teach you different exercises and techniques to help you become a better leader in your life. You will discover the key qualities an effective leader should have. You will learn how to develop your leadership skills no matter what role you play in your career.