Professional Career Development

Inspiration. Success. Confidence. Passion. No one is born with these qualities, but they are the key ingredients for reaching goals, building careers, or taking a blueprint and turning it into a breathtaking skyscraper. In The Trump Card, Ivanka Trump recounts the compelling story of her upbringing as the ultimate apprentice, the daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump, and shares the life lessons and hard-won insights that have made her a rising star in the business world.

So you want to be a great mum and, ideally, a rich one too? Welcome to Million Pound Mum. This is the first in a range of audiobooks offering constructive advice on how to start a business, but still be a great mum and have fun while doing it. Together with great advice, this audiobook also contains the experiences and tips of over 100 mums who have all successfully started their own companies. Some have reached the Million Pound Mum goal and others are well on the way.

What skills will matter most for work, business, and life in the future? Where should you focus your energy and effort when the world is changing at an extraordinary rate? How can you future proof yourself, your organization, and your kids? In this groundbreaking book Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory have interviewed hundreds of successful business people, educators, futurists, economists, and historians to uncover the key skills that will always be critical to success in business and in life.

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at PopSugar creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters, and she's the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night.

Grad to Grown-Up: 68 Tips to Excel in Your Personal and Professional Life is a unique self-help book that offers a roadmap to kickstart your future. Rags-to-riches author and CEO Gene Rice and his high school English teacher daughter Courtney Bejgrowicz demystify adulthood by sharing critical information alongside professional and personal successes and failures. The five sections—life, job search, career, personal finance, and health and relationships—provide real-world insights that are often overlooked in formal education.

To be a great leader, you must be able to unite people from all backgrounds with seemingly competing agendas to come together under a common cause. Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League, has been such a leader and shares the lessons he learned along a legendary journey of achievement.

Great salespeople are made, not born. Now you can learn how to get the winning edge in the art of selling from America's 5 best sales professionals: Martin Shafiroff, the world's #1 stockbroker; Bettye C. Hardeman, America's #1 residential real-estate agent; Joe Gandolfo, the world's #1 life insurance agent; Mary Kay Ash, founder and chairman of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.; and Buck Rodgers, IBM's legendary super-salesman.

This is a quintessentially American story of one man's journey through his career and life. Wall Street veteran Ben Carpenter chronicles the people he met, the experiences he had, the mistakes he made, and what he learned along the way. Listeners will encounter a colorful cast of real-life characters which include Big Hank, Hoops, Sweater Girl, The Zombies, Mr. Nuts, The Cheese, Deep Throat, and The RAT.

Whether you're looking at the CEO seat, an executive manager slot, or a more intrapreneurial position, Career GPS has what every woman needs to achieve her career goals. An authority on career development, Dr. Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, PhD, offers valuable guidelines and essential tips for maximizing a review, networking in a relevant way, and much more.

Why do we have such a crippling fear of failure? We desperately scramble to cover up mistakes, to avoid staggering shame and embarrassment. I’m here to tell you that failure isn’t a dirty word! I believe in failing forward. I believe we can not only use our failures to elevate performance, but also share the invaluable lessons we learn, lifting up those around us. What if we normalized failure, even learned to embrace it? Could it be possible that our failures might be the very thing that connects us with others?

Have you ever been reduced to a quivering mass of jelly when handed a wine list? Wondered why a sommelier was hovering near your table? Felt out of your element at a nice restaurant with clients, colleagues, or friends? Professional Drinking will boost your confidence and squash the fear of embarrassment. Sommelier and executive coach Jim Schleckser teaches you to handle yourself like a pro in a restaurant or bar, at a business event, or in any social situation.

From the co founder of the Vera Bradley empire, a practical and inspiring book that shows women how to awaken their full potential at any age.

Many people know the benefit of finding a sponsor - someone who goes beyond traditional mentorship to partner with a junior-level employee to help build their skills, advocate for them when opportunities arise, and open doors. But few realize that being a sponsor is just as important to career growth as finding one. Combining powerful new data and rich examples drawn from in-depth interviews with leaders from companies such as Unilever, Aetna, Blizzard Entertainment, and EY, The Sponsor Effect provides a seven-step playbook for how you can become a successful sponsor.

Productive Accidents shows how a framework for curiosity and creativity can also be a recipe for innovation and adventure. There are 10 actionable insights that can be applied by individuals, families, or companies. The more you experiment with these ideas the more you realise that serendipity can be predictable and repeatable experience.

This book is a collection of the transcripts of 26 interviews that will give you insider tips and suggestions on how to start or grow your business as a speaker. And it's not just about professional speaking. It doesn't matter what you do for work, just about all of us have to speak as part of our business or marketing plans to do our job successfully or grow our businesses stronger. First, here's where this book came from.

Since the first edition, NLP at Work has pioneered the use of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) in the business world to improve communication, negotiation, teamwork, and influence. With more 100,000 copies sold and now in its third edition, NLP at Work is a clear and comprehensive introduction to using NLP in the workplace, with a unique personal style and approach.

With the wisdom of a seasoned industry expert and the clarity of an effective educator, Smith walks you through each aspect of building, operating, and excelling in your professional services firm. Dive into the depths of strategic thought, embrace the magnetic power of authentic branding, and discover client-centric strategies.

Shift Teaching Forward showcases the ecosystem of elements that characterizes a successful job-training program. We need to prepare students to interact with others, contribute to inclusive workplaces, and become collaborators-whatever their industry or career goals. This book shows the way.

Artists transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. All too often, the talent that brings so much beauty into our lives is poorly compensated. If you’re a creative entrepreneur and you want to take control of your career and start earning what you’re worth, this is the guide for you. In Blazing the Freelance Trail, Eric Holter shares insights from his three decades as a creative entrepreneur. He covers everything from the motivation to create to how to successfully manage the business and financial side of your creative enterprise.

You cannot ask your most successful competitors and peers their secrets of rainmaking. That would be awkward, impractical, and sometimes illegal. But it pays to compare yourself to your successful peers. So, we did it for you. We went behind closed doors and asked the tough questions. We asked more than 100 successful rainmakers what they are investing more in, what they are cutting back on, and what are their go-to strategies. In other words, how are they investing their time, treasure, and talent. Think of us as your rainmaking R&D department.