Leadership Essentials

Throughout history, the world’s most admired generals have used basic principles of strategy to achieve great military successes, often against overwhelming odds. You can use these principles to achieve success in every area of life.

What if you can successfully coach anyone in 15, five, or even 60 seconds using one question? Sales Leadership makes delivering consistent, high-impact coaching easy. For busy, caring managers, this removes the pressure and misconception that, "Coaching is difficult, doesn't work, and I don't have time to coach." Since most managers don't know how to coach, they become part of the non-stop, problem-solving legion of frustrated Chief Problem Solvers who habitually do other's work, create dependency, and nourish the seed of mediocrity.

Time for Change: Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders (Educational Leadership Development for Change Management) offers powerful guidance for those seeking to develop and strengthen the educational leadership skills needed for change management. Throughout this authoritative guide, Anthony Muhammad and Luis F. Cruz share concrete tools and strategies that will prepare you to lead your school toward lasting, meaningful change.

Master conflict before it escalates—create a harmonious workplace quickly and efficiently, through these key conflict resolution skills! Are you overwhelmed by conflicts in the workplace that disrupt your team’s synergy? Do you find yourself wishing for practical strategies that can help you manage diverse personalities and prevent disputes from escalating into something more serious? If these challenges sound all too familiar, you're not alone. Many managers encounter these pain points. With the right tools and knowledge, you can transform conflict into collaboration.

As management ages and prepares to work longer than previous generations, and Millennials join companies at steady rate, companies are suffering through tension and dissonance between Millennials and Boomers, and realizing that they can't just wait for management to age out to fix it. Finding productive ways to work across the generation gap is essential, and the organizations that do this well will have significant strategic advantages over those that don't.

How did Alan Mulally - an outsider to the auto industry - lead such a spectacular turnaround at Ford? How did Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack keep his company from imploding even as Lehman Brothers collapsed? What is it that enables such extraordinary leaders to galvanize their talents and energy, as well as the talents and energy of those who work for them, to achieve superior performance no matter what challenges they face?

Are you tired of watching your teen struggle with self-doubt and uncertainty? Imagine giving them the extraordinary gift of unyielding self-confidence and genuine humility. As a parent, the constant worry about your teen's choices and emotions can be overwhelming. But what if you could empower them to think independently, shaping their mindset for success rather than imposing your views?

Many who aspire to be organizational leaders focus on developing “hard” skills, related to quantitative action and analytical thinking. These are important, but over his many decades of executive leadership, Dr. Eugene B. Habecker has learned to value the “softer” side of leadership. Unfortunately, these “soft” skills and behaviors are often neglected, to the detriment of both leadership and organizational development.

Campaign To Be A Better Leader - will teach you the 12 essential keys that will unlock leadership excellence in you. Author and businessman Gary Bergenske will teach you the principals he has refined to become a great leader. Lessons in this book will take you on a journey that will improve your leadership skills. Here are a few impressive endorsements: I personally found the book to be well-written, easy to read and understand, and filled with a ton of information that will help you become a great leader. Lou Holtz ESPN Studio Analyst Former New York Jets Head Coach Former College Football...

This guide transcends the traditional book format, serving as your comprehensive mentor through the elaborate and challenging terrains of the PMP exam. Imbued with a solid study strategy, it pledges to demystify complex concepts, assist in applying essential project management principles practically, and instill a confident, exam-ready mindset.

Are you ready to unlock your true potential as a man and develop a dominant masculine presence that commands respect and confidence? The Essential Skills of a Masculine Presence: Psychology - Paradigm is your guide to transforming the way you see the world and yourself by mastering the invisible frameworks that shape your life. In this powerful audiobook, Paul Bauer dives deep into the concept of paradigms—those unseen mental filters that control your thoughts, actions, and results

Skip the Overwhelm! Turn Your Passion into a Purpose-Driven Nonprofit – Quickly Starting a nonprofit is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming, complicated, confusing, and time-consuming. Nonprofit Setup Simplified takes the guesswork out of the process, walking you through every step with clarity and confidence. Award-winning author and experienced nonprofit founder Michele L. Whetzel shares the exact roadmap she uses to launch nonprofits quickly and effectively – without backtracking or costly mistakes. This book is designed for doers: people with big hearts and big ideas who are ...

An official ITIL® Licensed product, ITIL® Foundation Essentials is a distillation of critical information - no waffle or padding; just exactly what you need to understand how to pass the ITIL Foundation exam. Created for self-study candidates, ITIL community training delegates, itSMF/BCS members, and V2 Foundation Certificate holders who have yet to take an upgraded exam, this pocket guide is fully aligned with the ITIL 2011 core volumes.

In The Chief Executive Operating System, veteran CEO Joel Trammell and executive coach Sherif Sakr present a concise, systematic guide to being a truly great chief executive. Filling a wide gap around CEO-specific guidance in the management literature, the authors draw on decades of leadership and client work to deliver a practical CEO operating system that works.

The job of a Chief Technical Officer is broad, ever-changing, and hard to define. Is the CTO an engineer, an architect, a people manager, or an executive? Turns out, in most cases, it’s all of the above—and even the most experienced “techies” often find themselves feeling underprepared for the human and logistical sides of this pivotal role.

Discover how to improve your skills by learning how to motivate staff, improve performance, and create positive relationships. Learn to build confidence, communicate clearly, and establish trust for navigating situations such as giving feedback, settling conflicts, and managing teams remotely.

Negotiation-whether brokering a deal, mediating a dispute, or writing up a contract-is both a necessary and challenging aspect of business life. This guide helps managers to sharpen their skills and become more effective deal makers in any situation.

This book offers a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer's classic Theory U. Scharmer argues that our capacity to pay attention coshapes the world. What prevents us from attending to situations more effectively is that we aren't fully aware of that interior condition from which our attention and actions originate. Scharmer calls this lack of awareness our blind spot. He illuminates the blind spot in leadership today and offers hands-on methods to help change makers overcome it through the process, principles, and practices of Theory U.

In Hero Maker you will learn how to bring real change to your church and community by developing the practical skills to help others reach their leadership potential. Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus, Hero Maker presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provides strategies for how you can activate gifts, help others take ownership, and develop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progress.

Each term is arranged alphabetically, making it easy to find, with a formal definition, then a simple jargon-free explanation, and then a real-life example. If you think that Artificial intelligence (AI) is only for IT experts, not leaders or executives, or that understanding AI terms requires a technical background or prior IT knowledge, then this is the book for you.