Leadership Meeting

Sooner or later, every business, association or organization will want to hold a meeting, seminar or trade show outside their regular offices. How do you find your way amongst the dizzying array of hotels, meeting halls, meal guarantees, accommodations arrangements, party packages, bar plans and billing procedures? Author Judy Williams, a veteran hotel and meeting planner, will guide you through the perils and pitfalls of organizing your event.

As an entrepreneur, your success depends on business communication skills. Whenever you make a powerful business presentation, deliver a winning pitch, or ace your business meeting, you have the potential to deliver a shot of financial adrenaline to your passion project. You can get the money you need to launch a startup, develop a business idea, or put investment capital to work and make investors happy. But what do you do when the rules of the game change?

Fortune 500 strategist and best-selling management author Ken Tucker explores the challenging skill sets required to navigate conflict and crucial conversations effectively. Drawing upon decades of experience in the corporate and government worlds, Tucker teaches leaders how to say what they really need to say and say it right, so their people and organizations execute the results they want and need.

Collaboration, discussion, and interaction are the lifeblood of a company’s progress and innovation. Unfortunately, meetings can hamper these collaborations when they’re poorly planned, badly run, and haphazardly organized. With the guidance and advice of meeting management expert J.W. Dionne, you’ll find out exactly what you have to do.

In today's connection economy, the most successful leaders inspire their people with purpose and meaning. Powerful corporate storytelling can mobilise people around an organisational objective in a way that a focus on market share never will. Be it a digital transformation or a diversity and inclusion initiative, corporate change needs the support of the people in that organisation in order to stick. Yet, while all stories can move people to take action, storytelling isn't a one size fits all.

Después de décadas de dar y ver presentaciones en grandes organizaciones multinacionales, en muchos países y culturas, Ana María Gonzáles lo ha visto todo, ¡tanto lo bueno como lo malo! Ana María te ayudará a evitar los tropiezos conocidos y no tan conocidos. Después de un poco de práctica, te convertirás en un experto en hacer presentaciones poderosas, persuasivas y convincentes.

Scrum has been practiced more regularly in the past few years. It's important to learn more about it and understand what you're doing. Have you heard about it before? Are you curious about what scrum and agile are all about? Do you want to know all the specifics about this emerging, trendy phenomenon? Then this is the book you'll need. It's short but powerful, and it teaches you all the basics you need to understand. So let's not waste any time and begin right now!

Our 21st century world is a noisy place with many distractions. Everything is instant and on-demand. The society expects instant communication. We are working longer and harder than ever and ever-increasing pressures negatively affect our work-life balance. The art of relaxing and taking solitude has disappeared. Halt to Proceed provides techniques you can use across all aspects of your life.

What’s your story? It’s a question human beings have been asking each other since we first gathered around a campfire. Millennia later, this human need for storytelling hasn’t changed. We communicate most effectively through our personal stories - and our professional success depends on it. This groundbreaking guide shows you how to tap into the timeless power of storytelling to transform your business.

This three-book boxed set consists of the key communication and negotiation techniques to help you manage your relationship, career, and life with success. Book 1 is Effective Communication First Anywhere - Family, Career, Life: The Step-By-Step Guide to Transform Your Communication Skills in 7 Days! Book 2 is Ultimate Guide To Effective Communication At Work: Build A Successful Career In A Happy Workplace, and book 3 is Ultimate Strategy to Become a Negotiation Genius: Becoming Influential & Successful in Career.

While few of us enjoy "networking", we all crave authentic conversations with peers, clients, and key stakeholders. The pace of change is accelerating, and we need peer networks more than ever to understand what others are thinking and doing. Building Bridges describes the characteristics of the most valuable peer networks, where executives meet regularly for conversations they can't have anywhere else. It offers a set of design principles for those who want to create and sustain these vital professional resources, because, in a transactional world, we all need to belong.

Frustrated by endless indecisive meetings, lack of alignment, mistrust, blame games, turf wars, toxic colleagues and/or weak performance? All of these are a result of bad communication. And effective communication can solve them. Dr. Zweifel, former CEO, Columbia leadership professor, and award-winning author, has trained and coached over 5,000 executives to communicate effectively. Now he unpacks the toolbox he developed over three decades of working with CEOs, C-level executives, and even heads of state like Nelson Mandela to reveal the communication secrets of winners.

In her previous books, executive coach and professional development expert Shawn Kent Hayashi identified the various types of conversations that are vital for growth and success. Now, in Conversations That Get Results and Inspire Collaboration, she answers many of the questions she is most frequently asked during coaching and training sessions.

Would you like to have the ability to "peer" inside people's minds and "read" their thoughts based on the sound of their voice? Do you want audiences to "hang on" to your every word with interest and attention? You can! The voice is a powerful communication tool – if you know how to analyze it and use it effectively yourself. Secrets of the Voice is a compelling guide to five essential elements that, once mastered, will help you analyze the mindset of people around you, and use your own vocal skills to influence others.

Learn how to make high-quality speaking engagements and become a persuasive communicator. How will you feel when you see an increase in career opportunities, by becoming a better public speaker?

In Winning Business Presentations, Steve Minshull, a multilingual global business consultant, shares a powerful system that will enable you to present with impact to achieve better business results.

Not everyone approves of the practice of negotiation. There are those who hate it because they think it is too confrontational, or they simply don't want to be bothered. This audiobook will demonstrate that negotiations in everyday transactions do not necessarily have to be confrontational, instead, they can be fun. The guidelines in this audiobook will teach you new ways to deal with people, regardless of how difficult or insensitive they are. You will become a better negotiator during both simple, day-to-day negotations and complex negotiation situations.

I happen to think that being a product manager is one of the best jobs out there. I find it to be very satisfying because I'm in charge of the success of a product. If I do the right things, then my product will be selected by a large number of customers and it will solve their problems. If I don’t do my job right, my company will probably decide to stop offering my product after a while. Ultimately, my career is in my hands.

The performance review is an important part of your job as a manager or coach. But it is only a part. In order to develop team members effectively, you have to be proactive on a daily basis. This means having conversations - and not just about the weather or the game last night. Create ongoing conversations throughout the year. Conversations for Creating Star Performers is a vital tool for keeping team members motivated, engaged, and moving ahead every day - not just the days before an annual review.

By utilising the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, Fully Connected will provide a blueprint for how to use social health to foster well-being and productivity. At every level, each person, department and organisation is struggling to find a way to navigate this challenging era; Fully Connected will be a blueprint for anyone looking to reclaim time, space and identity in our world.