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The world has changed. Competition used to define the marketplace, separating winners from losers in a cut throat game of money-making. Businesses sacrificed everything trying to achieve the coveted number one spot. No matter the price, they’d spend time and energy chasing industry domination. But these tactics don’t ensure ultimate success, and when they’re implemented, businesses are forced to scale slower and hire more people in hopes of remaining relevant. Thankfully, there’s a better way. Author Chad Jenkins discovered a winning formula that creates a much higher return.

Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zachary offer a timely, evidence-based, practical guide for helping mentors develop the level of cultural competency needed to bridge differences. Firmly rooted in Zachary’s well-known four-part mentoring model, the book uses three fictional scenarios featuring three pairs of diverse mentors and mentees to illustrate how key concepts can play out in real life. It offers an array of accessible tools and strategies designed to help you increase your self-awareness and prepare you to embrace and leverage differences in your mentoring relationships.

If you want to learn, grow, become better at coaching, and maximize the potential in your players, clients, or team, then this book is for you. Regardless of the work we do or the industry we’re in, as leaders and managers, we need to grow and develop our people, to enable them to achieve high performance. From the front-line manager to the boardroom, it isn't enough to direct and tell people what to do. We need to drive innovation, accountability, and performance in our teams. And that is what this book is all about.

Bursting with innovative ideas, practical examples, and easily implementable approaches, The Author vs. Editor Dilemma will transform how you think about the structure and organization of your daily interactions. It will help you maximize any vertical relationship, from leading your team to influencing your manager.

This book takes leaders on a journey through the big ideas of leadership. This book is a professional development tool for leaders at any stage of their career. Leaders do not just play a role - they create a better future. Great leaders have learned the value of influence rather than control as a leadership model.

Many organizations still operate under the notion that promotions are the only option for career development, leaving employees disengaged, managers frustrated, and the business disadvantaged in its efforts to retain talent. This audiobook offers you a new approach for developing your employees’ careers and helping them thrive in a company when promotions are not readily available. It's filled with practical advice, nearly 100 questions to spark reflection and productive dialogue, and actionable templates and tools that managers can use with employees.

Solid Ground shatters the popular myths in today’s culture about how to create a successful life and career. Tom Lewis offers both a road map and a compass for discovering True North. Following these principles will not only put you on solid ground, it will significantly improve your chances of finding success and happiness.

The unique business problems we face today have rendered the old corporate playbook obsolete. Without it, executives scramble for guidance, only to discover everyone around them is just as lost. JeVon’s people-first mindset guides his service as CEO of Scribe Media, a multimillion-dollar publishing company Entrepreneur magazine ranked America’s #1 Top Company Culture. The son of a Black pimp father and a White orphan mother on welfare, JeVon’s experiences demonstrate more than the old playbook’s issues—he’s living proof that we should throw it out.

Based on the authors' extensive experience working with international board-level teams, Challenging Coaching suggests that for too long coaches have shied away from adopting a more challenging stance in their work - a stance that can provoke greater performance and unlock deeper potential in business leaders and their teams. In particular, the authors offer a new coaching approach, FACTS, to help coaches develop this challenging stance.

A conversation starter and an approachable guide in fable format for mentors both deliberate and unintentional, The Difference Maker looks at the godly principles of true success, mentorship, leadership, courage, and transformation. The truths are powerful and applicable, in life and in faith, for everyone who hears them.

Written in a highly accessible, anecdotal style, Turn Can’t into Next: Leadership Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks weaves leadership lessons, storytelling, and humor together in a way that will resonate with listeners with varying levels of professional experience and across various industries who are looking to become better leaders. The book is a fascinating journey full of stories and hard lessons learned over Gerry Cadorath’s more than 40-year career with his family business.

We are all leaders in some form or fashion. Whether you are leading a team at work, involved in your church or community, caring for your family, or pursing personal goals and aspirations in life, you are practicing some form of leadership. The quality of your results and the amount of fulfillment you get out of such pursuits depends on how well you understand and apply a set of timeless and universal leadership principles. The Transformative Leader is accessible and chock full of entertaining stories that will put you in touch with the extraordinary leader in you.

From humble beginnings of just $150 to his name, to a multi-million dollar brand and franchise business, 4U Fitness, Daniel Nyiri has learned the ins and outs of what it takes to build a truly successful business. In this book Daniel shares the strategies necessary to achieve long term success as a gym owner by teaching you how to work on the business instead of in it. You'll learn invaluable information to apply to your gym so that it too can become a seven-figure business.

In Against the Grain, Bill Courtney shares his convictions on the fundamental tenets of character, commitment, service, leadership, civility, and others that, in his decades of success as an entrepreneur and educator, have proven to be the keys to a winning and meaningful life and career.

In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first-grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca's likably irreverent questioning, also revealing his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools.

Human connection affects much more than the bottom line. Organizations thrive when employees feel valued, the environment is energized, and high productivity and innovation are the norm. This requires a new kind of leader who fosters a culture of connection within the organization. An update to the popular first edition, Michael Stallard’s Connection Culture (Second Edition) provides a fresh way of thinking about leadership and offers recommendations for how to tap into the power of human connection.

Now in a new, expanded, and fully revised third edition, this best-selling audio handbook will help you learn the skills, and the art, of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. This edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work and goal-setting, a spiritual approach to coaching, and a final section on "Coaching the Organisations' Culture".

Do you love the idea of Appreciative Inquiry, but you’re not sure how you would put it into practice? This book is the step-by-step guide to get you started using it confidently with teams and small groups. Author Andy Smith has over 15 years’ experience of facilitating Appreciative Inquiry processes. He has trained hundreds of people in how to put the theory of Appreciative Inquiry into practice – now let him share with you practical tips and formats for implementing each stage of the process.

What sets apart people like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Plato, Elon Musk, and Oprah Winfrey? Is it riches, education, geography, opportunity, or something else? Perhaps it was their ability to control their thoughts and harness them for powerful action. Perhaps they figured out that they could change the world by first changing their minds. Dr. Don Hooper certainly thinks so. And lucky for us, he can show us how.

A life coach is more than just being a good listener, you also need to be able to ask good questions to assess the problems your client may be having. You also need to be able to ask tough questions. Your goal as a life coach is to find the source of all of your client's problems so that you can effectively fix them and teach them at the same time how they can fix similar problems in the future.