Career Education

The best way to prepare the next generation for the future is to emphasize the value of communication, cooperation, initiative, and unique, individual talent - for nothing undermines confidence more than comparison. Whether in the classroom or at home, it is never too early to start applying leadership skills to everyday life. Drawing on the many techniques and examples that have already seen incredible success around the world, The Leader in Me shows how easy it is to incorporate these skills into daily life.

Expertise - we all want it. Traditionally, it would take years of intense study and practice. But just because it’s always been that way doesn’t mean you have to follow that path. It’s time to use all the resources at your disposal and learn a new approach and a plethora of scientifically validated methods.

You can have a satisfying career. Are you a school principal who is completely fed up with conflicting priorities and misalignment in our nation’s schools? It’s no surprise you feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Every day, you deal with federal and state regulations, district policies, and parental pressures. The expectations on educators are higher than ever, tempting many principals to consider alternate livelihoods. How amazing would it feel to take control of your own career and make decisions from a place of empowerment and clarity? Listen to find out more.

How to Animate is the first of it’s kind - a series of 26 books collecting everything I have learned so far in my 30-plus year career. It contains all of the advanced techniques that would normally take a lifetime to master! The first book, Advancing Your Animation Beyond The Basics, is the gateway to all of the others. It will show you what skills you need to learn to become a great animator. The other books in this series will teach you those skills. It doesn’t matter what style of animation you do, the techniques, theories, and mindset taught, relates to all of them.

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore popularized the technology adoption life cycle, known elsewhere as the product adoption curve or innovation adoption curve. Contained in this useful model are terms you've heard but may not truly understand: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Between the early market segments (innovators and early adopters) and the mainstream market segments (early and late majorities) lies the chasm.

Don't miss out on the life-changing techniques to fight resistance and create the art within you presented by best-selling author Steven Pressfield in his book The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. Purchase your copy of FastReads' Summary with Key Takeaways & Analysis today.

Have you ever had the thought that you might need to change or tweak them a little to get what you want from life? In this book you will discover how to get on to the right track by applying simple, everyday habits, proven strategies and tactics to achieve success in your life! We all have our own habits. Each individual differs in their habits. A famous line has said that all men are the same in nature but only differ in the habits that they are doing in life. If your habits tend to push you off track from the right way, then it’s probably best to change them as soon as you can.

Get the main key insights from this summary of Caroline Leaf’s Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess in just a short listen.

Jump into the captivating world of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit with Creativity for Sale, an inspiring how-to guide by creative director and bestselling author Radim Malinic. Full of tried, tested, and proven insights gained from 20+ years in the creative industry, this book is your personal blueprint to turn your passion into profit.

If you love to learn about dinosaurs, you might want to consider becoming a paleontologist. A paleontologist studies the remains of prehistoric life. They study why fossils form and why the animals and plants lived where they did.

Insecurity is an inevitable human feeling, but its effects are reducible. Low self-esteem is a clear symptom of insecurity. How to Stop Being Insecure: 25 Great Ways to Defeat Your Insecurities is designed to help the individual overcome insecurity in order to achieve a fulfilled life.

Affiliate marketing is the world’s most untapped source for generating passive income. It’s sort of like earning a reward for sending a new customer to a company, without all the customer service nonsense. The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you don't have to invest the time and effort to create a product to sell. You can begin selling something as an affiliate as soon as you have a platform to sell it on. This form of marketing is quickly becoming one of the biggest ways to make money Online. It is not a get rich scheme.

Talk to me. From Kim Bearden, cofounder of Ron Clark Academy and author of the best-selling book Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me, comes a powerful guide for improving communication and building better relationships. Whether you are a teacher, administrator, parent, or business professional, chances are you struggle at times to find the right words. Talk to Me gives you those words. In this instructional and inspirational handbook, you’ll learn how to choose words that inspire, encourage, and move people to action.

Inspirational and deeply illuminating, The Soul Frequency takes you into the unseen world of energy and emotion, which is the birthplace of every physical manifestation in your body and life. Step-by-step, frequency alchemist and personal coach Shanna Lee will show you how to align your energy to manifest any darn thing your little heart desires.

Businesses fail for a lot of reasons. The biggest one, however, is the owner's lack of understanding of their personal decision-making skills, who they are, or who they should be inside their organization. Running a business is both an art and a science. If you are only good at one of them, or in the worst case, neither, you will most likely become one of the 65 percent of people who fail.

In business and in life, handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave their team, retire from being the CEO, or see their kids leave home and lead their own lives. Leading from the Jumpseat enables us to embrace this inevitability. Leading from the Jumpseat is a metaphor for how we can choose to lead.

Drawing from the latest scientific and psychological research on the quest for happiness, The Law of Happiness reveals that the spiritual truths of the Bible hold the secrets to the happiness we desire. As Dr. Cloud unpacks these universal, eternal principles, he reveals that true happiness is not about circumstances, physical health, financial success, or even about the people in our lives. In other words, it’s not about the factors that are frequently beyond our control.

For those unfamiliar with copywriting, this article will provide an overview of the subject and explain why it is in such great demand today. The field of copywriting is vast and growing at a rapid pace. Copywriting can be defined as the process of presenting a creative message to a consumer. According to the book Copywriting, copywriting is founded on three essential ideas. When writing to a consumer, there must be some level of interaction between the customer and the vendor. You must then ensure that you communicate the benefits to the buyer up to the point of purchase.

Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. In A PhD Is Not Enough!, physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a fulfilling long-term research career. He offers sound advice on selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser; choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry; and more.

I wrote The Power of Writing Well to address everything managers, leaders, engineers, scientists, and others need to be better senders and receivers, not to cover everything they need to know about the language or to be the perfect sender or receiver; nobody is.