Impact Management

Presentations have a disproportionate amount of impact on our careers. Great ones can glean more positive attention than you can imagine. However, so often we talk ourselves out of being our best as presenters. This piece talks about some great ways to get your mind and body on your side instead of working against you.

You are an educated, competent leader. But in high stakes leadership situations, emotion, anxiety and stress tend to override competency. Real life doesn't follow a logical flow or a leadership model. Emotions, opinions and passionate feelings are usually not factored into what is taught in leadership skill building workshops. The idea that highly skilled leaders will consistently deliver profit and create improvement is a half-truth.

You have a vision for success and impact, and you know exactly how to get there. You have a track record that speaks for itself and you are an inspiration to friends and family. Just the way you have been a change agent for others, it’s time to be an agent for your own change. You don’t have to live a life void of fun, good health, and restful sleep. It doesn’t have to be so hard. It’s time to take charge of your transformation.

Adam G. Fleming, artist, entrepreneur, and cross-cultural worker, talks about how to build culture.

If you’re a Christian professional, leader, pastor, or anyone who loves to serve and inspire others—and you’re willing to start by first improving yourself—this book is for you. Drawing on life lessons learned while attending Oxford and Harvard, author John Christopher Frame, PhD, shares easy-to-implement strategies to help you develop your leadership capacity.

Each chapter builds on common terms and transformational strategies. The aim is to turn you into a savvy leader who is respected and can offer your client or business challenge the confidence to deliver. Let us also not forget that there are lots of real-world examples of proof that this approach will work.

In Scaling Altruism: A Proven Pathway for Accelerating Nonprofit Growth and Impact, veteran social impact advisor and entrepreneur Donald Summers delivers a comprehensive, step-by-step blueprint to transforming a small or mid-size nonprofit into an impactful and extraordinary agent of change. The book contains templates, tools, exercises, and crystal-clear implementation guides that listeners can apply immediately to begin scaling their social impact organization.

Managing for Meteors provides a conduit for passing on direct experiences, raising questions, and providing tools for new leaders to consider for enhancing the functions of local governments and getting prepared in advance of major disruptors.

With more than a decade of success bringing companies and organizations together to the benefit of both, Tynesia Boyea-Robinson is an expert in helping business leaders and managers leverage social impact for increased business profits. In The Social Impact Advantage, she offers tools, resources, and insights to help you successfully navigate the modern business climate in an authentic way.

Extensive research has identified specific traits that transform average individuals into authoritative, influential, and "authentic" leaders. These authentic leaders learn from the mistakes and successes of themselves and others and build a positive strength initiative within their organizations. In The High Impact Leader, Gallup veterans Bruce Avolio and Fred Luthans show you what you can do to develop and leverage your own leadership strengths into positive, lasting improvement for both yourself and your organization.

However, what matters most to Tim is meeting his wife, Dr. Dana Yeoman. Seeing his wife's frustration with the complexity of running a dental practice, he saw that he could have a big impact on Dana’s business, so he set out to make things simple. Since meeting Dana, Tim has helped many dental entrepreneurs optimize their financial world even more so that they can decrease taxes, increase impact, and leave their thriving legacy!

The world needs positive leadership more than ever. Luckily, there is a large untapped source of leaders who can change the world for the better: all of us! Since each of us constantly influences those around us, by definition, everyone is a leader, not just people with formal titles. This audiobook will help everyone tap into the power of their influence to pursue a meaningful purpose, whether on the job, in the community, or at home. All it takes is leadership intelligence, a combination of 8 moral, social, and technical imperatives essential to our ability to positively influence others.

In Fundraising without Burnout, Radha Friedman, a philanthropic advisor with decades of experience funding nonprofits around the world, offers a frank and witty critique of how the “best practices” we’ve been taught are actually sabotaging our fundraising efforts. By debunking the myths that keep inequitable practices in place, Radha provides solutions that help nonprofit leaders redefine their purpose, prevent burnout, and meet their fundraising goals while reclaiming their peace.

Over decades spent in global management, Mosongo Moukwa saw how conventional models equating results with leadership limited an organization’s potential. Focusing purely on financial deliverables might grow a company’s bank accounts, but it would never grow its true wealth: the collective creativity and passion of its people. Demonstrating the power of human connection and belief in our ability to achieve even the most challenging goals, Mosongo equips his listeners with the skills to engage, empower, and mobilize employees to make the extraordinary difference and Be a Leader of Significance.

In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to neglect our health and well-being, amidst our busy schedules and daily responsibilities. However, taking care of our physical and mental health is crucial for a long and fulfilling life. This book chapter highlights the importance of regular doctor visits, spending time outside, getting enough sleep, socializing, maintaining a healthy diet, exercising our bodies and brains, and drinking enough water. By implementing these practices into our daily routine, we can improve our overall health, prevent chronic diseases, and increase our longevity.

Do you ever wonder what sets highly successful women apart from the rest? What habits do they possess that help them achieve success, happiness, and good health? In Habits of the Highly Successful Woman: 10 Ways to Impact Your Health, Success and Enjoyment for Life, you'll discover the strategies, habits, and mindset of some of the world's most successful women.

Do you routinely use words like exhausted, overwhelmed, disappointed, addicted, and frustrated to describe your life? It's possible to integrate your life so that energized, fulfilled, engaged, inspired, and passionate are words you use instead to describe the day-to-day legacy you're living. Opt out of complacency, realize your potential, and live from a place of purpose, freedom, and hope. Living Your Legacy is a movement. It's about showing up for your life, engaging in deeper, more meaningful ways, and making a difference.

Intentional Power is a call to action for the next generation of leaders to move beyond an entirely individual focus toward a more sustainable approach to lead and succeed. Deeply researched, the authors draw on an extensive review of the latest literature and insights on leadership development, cognitive and positive psychology, organizational design, and performance management, as well as extensive interviews with leaders across several industries to highlight the most critical skills required by today's executives and managers.

For over a decade, Jaime Taets, chief vision officer and founder of Keystone Group International, has been the go-to consultant for executive teams hoping to untangle their issues and improve their businesses—profits, strategies, and services—along the way. And throughout that time, Jaime has learned that most business problems are actually people problems. To get at the root cause, leaders must go deeper than the business layer with questions that are rooted in culture and people.

This is a book of tested models and exercises you can use to self-diagnose and improve your skills quickly. Based on the six key principles of effective leadership, it is a field guide that captures lessons you probably did not learn in school yet are critical for thriving in the real world.