Work Development

Brave is a handbook for being more courageous. For busy people on the go, its short, focused chapters provide practical tools and empowering perspectives to help you build your "courage muscles" in your work, relationships, and life. Drawing on her background in business, psychology and coaching, author Margie Warrell will guide you in moving past the fears, doubts, and beliefs that keep you from making the changes, and taking the chances, you need to enjoy the fulfillment and success you desire.

Este libro para emprendedores te brinda todas las herramientas e información que necesitas sobre cómo convertir ideas abstractas en un modelo de negocio práctico en muy poco tiempo, qué trampas anticipar y cuál es la mejor manera de utilizar tu tiempo y dinero para convertir tu idea en una empresa rentable.

How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence series features smart, essential listening on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Relationships have the ability to infuse our lives with the magic of intimacy and connection. But often we can find ourselves chasing unavailable love, putting other's needs before our own all the while abandoning the one who needs us most—ourselves. From Sheleana Aiyana, spiritual writer and founder of Rising Woman, comes a transformational inner-work journey to heal lifelong relationship patterns and reclaim power over your life.

This guide is a powerful tool for women ready to heal their inner child, though it may speak to anyone seeking emotional wellness. You don’t need to know about psychology or have experience with therapy. Easy-to-follow instructions for using shadow work and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) will start you on your own immersive healing experience.

When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and looks it up. Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, have been brought up by their grandparents, as their mother is in prison. But the grandparents can no longer cope with Stevie’s behaviour, so they place him in care. Stevie is exploring his gender identity, and like many young people he spends time online. Cathy warns him about the dangers of talking to strangers online and advises him how to stay safe.

In Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships, FranklinCovey's chief people officer, Todd Davis, explains that an organization's greatest asset isn't its people; rather, it's the relationships between its people that is the greatest predictor of personal effectiveness. In the end, employees' ability to build and sustain great relationships is an organization's ultimate competitive advantage.

In this blunt and side-splittingly funny collection of essays, Liz Astrof embraces the realities of motherhood (and womanhood) that no one ever talks about - from needing to hide from your kids on a regular basis to the eternal quest for time alone, from the terror of failing to sometimes seriously wondering whether this whole parenting thing was a big mistake.

Join a quest for the Holy Grail within each of us: the optimized brain. In Smarter Tomorrow, Ricker shares the spoils of her decade long adventure. After countless expert interviews, poring through hundreds of research studies from around the world, and testing dozens of tools on herself—including nicotine, video games, meditation, and even a little-known beverage from the Pacific islands—she explains how some experiments failed hilariously, while others transformed her cognition.

This is a book about men. Not all men, just emotionally unhealthy men. The ones who make you question, "Is it him or is it me? Am I making too big a deal out of this? I try to tell him how I feel, but he says I'm overreacting or needy or it's all my fault". Relationships are hard work, but how hard should they be? When do you know you are struggling too hard to make a relationship succeed?

At its root, creativity is the practice of engagement; it's the marriage of feminine and masculine energy. By restoring that creative energy—and thus seeking our dreams—we can realign ourselves with an ancient, limitless presence, and reawaken the wild creative within. In Wild Creative, Tami Lynn Kent shows you how to tap into your creative center and access the natural, sustaining energy that is inherently yours. In doing so, you'll embark on a journey to achieve your dreams and restore your inner creative map.

Are emotional roadblocks hindering your personal growth? Do your emotions control your career success? Discover why some relationships flourish while others fail. You're not alone—many struggle with managing emotions, impacting relationships. What if you could overcome these hurdles and lead a more fulfilled life? Introducing Emotional Intelligence Unlocked: A Guide to More Fulfilling Relationships, empowering you to navigate emotions for meaningful interactions and life success.

Whether the confrontations are taking place at home, at work or online, the emotional toll of dealing with an angry person day-in day-out can be huge. As we often can't cut ourselves off from these angry people (although terminating the relationship is an option that’s explored), this audiobook draws on the author's years of research and clinical practice to help listeners manage potentially explosive situations for the best possible outcomes. This audiobook reveals the psychological factors that underpin an angry personality, offers ten key strategies for dealing with angry people.

Bill Geivett draws on his 28 years of experience in professional baseball to answer these questions. He offers his insights from his time as a player, scout, and front office executive. Do You Want to Work in Baseball? is more than a "how to" description of details to remember. It is filled with Bill's real-life lessons learned from the varied roles he has held for Major League Baseball clubs including the California Angels, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos,Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Colorado Rockies.

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, Josh Davis, director of research at the NeuroLeadership Institute explains clearly that our brains and bodies operate according to complex biological needs that, when leveraged intelligently, can make us incredibly effective. From what and when we eat, to when we tackle tasks or disengage - how we plan our activities has a huge impact on performance. Davis shows us how we can create the conditions for two awesome hours of effective mental performance.

Self-Leadership: Become the CEO of Your Own Career takes a unique approach to the self-improvement genre, delivering a wealth of practical advice through a blend of well-crafted fiction and a structured, in-depth analysis of the key concepts explored in the narrative, specifically professional development. Two logical sections, “The Story” and “The Lesson,” first introduce readers to a series of characters all grappling with questions of how to break out of their respective ruts and improve their lives. The characters are authentic and highly relatable, and readers will have no ...

In Don't Quit Your Day Job, former Google and Twitter executive Aliza Knox delivers hands-on, practical steps for achieving career success. Driven by Knox's four decades working in and leading some of the world's most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other people's successes and missteps in global tech, consumer goods, healthcare, academia, social services and more, this book is an essential guide to integrating your professional and personal goals to build a fulfilling, complete life.

Feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and short-tempered at work—and at home? Then you may have too much stress in your life. Stress is a serious problem that impacts not only your mental and physical health, but also your loved ones and your organization. So what can you do to address it? The HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work will help you find a sustainable solution. It will help you reach the goal of getting on an even keel—and staying there.

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From the groundbreaking author of Mistakes I Made at Work comes the perfect book for anyone who needs inspiration after dealing with rejection, failure, or is searching for a new beginning in the workplace. Featuring fascinating interviews with more than 25 women, including Keri Smith, Angela Duckworth, and Roz Chast, The Rejection That Changed My Life provides an exciting new way to think about career challenges, changes, and triumphs.