Assess, review, reflect and reboot your skills as a communicator. Learn to listen and speak in ways that help you succeed.It is up to you to reinvent your leadership for yourself and for others. Use the assessments as a companion to the book, The Power of Zip, for a more successful career, relationships, and greater inner satisfaction.
Gather 'round, pull up a chair, and join family, friends, and your local community to swap some of the best reader-submitted recipes from American Profile. With more than 150 cherished recipes and dozens of beautiful photographs, Hometown Get-Togethers serves up the perfect dish for your next reunion, church event, potluck supper, tailgate party, family dinner, picnic, holiday celebration, or dinner party. The editors of American Profile have compiled the nation's most savory, sweet, and all-around tasty recipes—straight from their readers and modeled after the magazine's most popular section, "Hometown Recipes." You'll find recipes that are perfect for sharing: from South-of-the-Border Breakfast Bake and Omelet in a Bag for a Crowd, to Monkey Bread and Mom's Magic Muffins; from Clam Chowder and Superb Red Pepper Soup, to Best-Ever Fried Potatoes and Cheesy Slow Cooker Corn. With Hometown Get-Togethers, friends and neighbors will be asking for your cooking secrets and your recipes when you bring one of these delectable dishes to your next gathering. American Profile, one of America's most widely circulated magazines, celebrates hometown life, and in Hometown Get-Togethers editors Candace Floyd, Anne Gillem, Nancy S. Hughes, and Jill Melton do just that.
With fun and appealing party ideas, commonsense cooking tips, and selective menus for special occasions, The Best of Relish Cookbook is sure to make any get together or everyday family dinner a success.
A study guide to walk someone through self-analysis of how they speak and listen in two tracks: one is about speaking and listening with people; the other is about speaking and listening to God. If you have been hurt by words, this book will promote healing. If you feel powerless to speak effectively, this book will give you the tools to change that. If you don't listen well, this book will help you to hear more. If your relationships with others don't make you happy, learn what gets in the way and fix it. If you want to hear the voice of God, learn how to get read. If you want to value the people in your life in eternally significant ways, this book shows the way. If you want others to know the "real" you, this study guide will give you tools and courage to make it happen. Where is it written that you can't change the way you speak and the way you listen? Nowhere. Get started on reinventing the way others relate to you, the way you relate to others, and the way you relate to God.
When you speak, do people hang on every word? In Luke 19:48 we read “…they hung on every word he said.” When Jesus spoke to a few or to many, people “hung on every word.”Does that happen to you? How does it make you feel when people don't.How do you think God feels?His creation, the world, and His word are open books for us to read, study, and ponder. And yet do we? This workbook will help you “hang on His words and have others hang on your words.”Looking at the Table of Contents for The Power of the Zip in a Heavenly Light, you may be overwhelmed at the size of the list. However, perhaps the most important zip to consider is The Zip of the Spirit.“Be silent, all mankind, before the Lord…” Zechariah 2:13 In silence there is an opportunity for the Lord to speak to us and change our thoughts, words, mental models, heart, hopes, dreams and our very souls.Learning to still the noises in our heads and our hearts will prepare us to hear the voice of the Lord. Many people think you need to be especially spiritual or religious or favored to hear God's voice. God's voice is for all people. “The heavens are telling the glory of God, the dome of the sky speaks the work of His hands. Every day it utters speech, every night it reveals knowledge. Without speech, without a word, without their voices being heard, their line goes out through all the earth, and their word to the end of the world.” Psalm 19:1-4Like a bestseller or You Tube video gone viral, the Bible is read all over the world in hundreds of languages and yet millions don't yet “get it.” The more we recognize God's voices around us every day, the more likely we will hear His voice as we read His word and listen for the particular words he has for us.Allow the insights and assessments prune you to strengthen you and the impact you can have with others. “He has already tended you by pruning you back for a greater strength and usefulness…” John 15:3God prunes us to make us stronger, not to weaken, hurt, or punish us. Many of us may feel like the psalmist who wrote, “They cut me down with sharpened tongues; they aim their bitter words like arrows straight at my heart.” Psalm 64:3 If that's true for you, help is at hand.The Power of the Zip in a Heavenly Light and this workbook can trigger significant revelations in your life. They can help inspire you:• To reflect on your habits of speaking and listening; ask others to assess you as well.• To return to God; include God in every thought, word and pause.• To reveal – ask God to reveal to you what He wants you to keep and what He wants you to discard.• To repent if you have hurt others with your words or silence.• To restore damaged relationships.• To renew your approach to speaking and listening, one conversation at a time.God invented the thirty-seven powers in the book. Each time we use one, we co-labor with God and harness His power for His purposes.What are His purposes? To have us be all that He designed us to be, not 2nd or 3rd class, but 1st class to the highest power. Then, as credible witnesses to His power, we can make Him famous.How would your job change if you saw your role differently? What would your work be like if your role were to coach your clients, boss, or family into your perspective? What would your work be like if you were to coach your clients, boss, or family to recognize why they needed your products or services? What would it be like if you helped your clients, boss, or family assess their needs? Then your job would be to help them get those needs met.
The Power of the Zip is a manual to help anyone figure out how to speak and how to listen more effectively. With assessments and step by step guidelines to help people recognize what they are doing and reframe bad habits into "language leverage," The Power of the Zip will make people more successful in their professional and personal lives. Thirty-four powers of effective communication are explained and made easy: The Power of Listening, The Power of the Zip, The Power of Setting Context, The Power of Vocal Tone, The Power of the Question, The Power of Taking In, The Power of Silence, The Power of Caring, The Power of Being Real, The Power of Arresting, Compelling Language, The Power of Breathing, The Power of the Smile, The Power of Connection and many others will help people see themselves as others see them. If you are not fulfilled in your life and your work, this book is for you.
With fun and appealing party ideas, commonsense cooking tips, and selective menus for special occasions, The Best of Relish Cookbook is sure to make any get together or everyday family dinner a success.
Decorated with a breathtaking landscape and a treasured collection of diversely styled bridges, the Merritt Parkway runs thirty-seven and a half miles through Fairfield County. From its complicated beginnings to the present, authors Laurie Heiss and Jill Smyth navigate the hard-fought yet picturesque path of this beloved road. Meet the bridge artist, the landscapers, the politicians and the activists whose involvement in the Merritt transformed Fairfield County from farms and country estates to one of the wealthiest counties in the nation. With the dedication of preservationists and conservationists, the Merritt Parkway today remains both functional and beautiful, holding a unique place in the heart of Connecticut's drivers.
Accounting Principles, 14th Edition provides students with a clear overview of fundamental financial and managerial accounting concepts with a focus on learning the accounting cycle from the sole proprietor perspective. Through a primary review of accounting transactions, integrated real-world examples, and a variety of practice opportunities, students develop a thorough understanding of how to apply accounting principles and techniques in practice. Students work through an entire program that builds their mastery of accounting concepts with an emphasis on decision making and key data analysis skills appropriate at the introductory level that keeps them engaged and better prepared to connect the classroom to the real world.
In the past decade the relationship between communities, children and families has inspired a wealth of research and policy initiatives because of a growing belief that the breakdown of families and communities is a significant factor in social problems, including child abuse and juvenile crime. The latest policy initiatives to tackle social problems have therefore targeted communities as well as high risk families. This title amalgamates the latest research on the relationship between children, families and communities and explores policy and practice implications. Material for practitioners and community development workers is also be included. The book is divided in to three parts: 1) theory 2) the effect of community on children, parents and families 3) interventions and policy implications.
A fresh perspective on rural responses to the French Revolution, using sedition investigations to reveal how villagers took their place on the political stage.
Gather 'round, pull up a chair, and join family, friends, and your local community to swap some of the best reader-submitted recipes from American Profile. With more than 150 cherished recipes and dozens of beautiful photographs, Hometown Get-Togethers serves up the perfect dish for your next reunion, church event, potluck supper, tailgate party, family dinner, picnic, holiday celebration, or dinner party. The editors of American Profile have compiled the nation's most savory, sweet, and all-around tasty recipes—straight from their readers and modeled after the magazine's most popular section, "Hometown Recipes." You'll find recipes that are perfect for sharing: from South-of-the-Border Breakfast Bake and Omelet in a Bag for a Crowd, to Monkey Bread and Mom's Magic Muffins; from Clam Chowder and Superb Red Pepper Soup, to Best-Ever Fried Potatoes and Cheesy Slow Cooker Corn. With Hometown Get-Togethers, friends and neighbors will be asking for your cooking secrets and your recipes when you bring one of these delectable dishes to your next gathering. American Profile, one of America's most widely circulated magazines, celebrates hometown life, and in Hometown Get-Togethers editors Candace Floyd, Anne Gillem, Nancy S. Hughes, and Jill Melton do just that.
The Kingdom of the Occult delivers the timely followup to Dr. Martin's best-selling The Kingdom of the Cults This book takes Dr. Walter Martin's comprehensive knowledge and his dynamic teaching style and forges a strong weapon against the world of the Occult-a weapon of the same scope and power as his phenomenal thirty-five year bestseller, The Kingdom of the Cults (over 875,000 sold). Chapters include: Witchcraft and Wicca, Satanism, Pagan Religions, Tools of the Occult, Demon Possession and Exorcism, Spiritual Warfare, etc. Features include: Each chapter contains: Quick Facts; History; Case Studies; Theology; Resources
Every lesson in the new Jacaranda Humanities Alive series has been carefully designed to support teachers and help students evoke curiosity through inquiry-based learning while developing key skills. Because both what and how students learn matter.
From first steps to advanced levels, "QuickBooks X Bible" is an exhaustive and comprehensive guide that the reader will reference again and again. This authoritative book on Intuit's QuickBooks business accounting program provides everything a business owner, manager, or employee needs to learn about how to use QuickBooks.
From payroll management to tax filings, QuickBooks 99 Bible shows you how to master QuickBooks -- and make business bookkeeping a breeze. But this unique guide also takes you well beyond the ins and outs of the program. Tax attorney Jill Gilbert gives you expert legal and accounting tips to help you avoid tax audits, streamline operations, and realize your full business potential with this amazing software. Book jacket.
In this look at the man behind the business, Jill Hamilton explores the origins of the former Baptist lay-preacher who wanted to take campaigners to a temperance meeting in the Midlands and thus organized the first ever package holiday in the history of modern travel.
This book explores the changing food culture of the urban American South during the Jim Crow era by examining how race, ethnicity, class, and gender contributed to the development and maintenance of racial segregation in public eating places. Significant legal changes later supported the unprecedented progress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The question of immigration is a perennial hot topic in politics around the world. What gets far less attention is what happens to immigrants after their arrival--how they integrate into their newly chosen societies. This book draws on fieldwork in London and eastern England, analyzing and critiquing the effectiveness of recent policies that aim to promote integration and social cohesion. Successful management of immigration, Jill Rutter argues, requires a greater emphasis on the social aspects of integration and opportunities for meaningful social interactions between migrants and long-settled residents, particularly in workplaces.
Domestic Violence Advocacy: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices, Second Edition is a comprehensive and highly practical resource for anyone working with domestic violence victims. The essential elements and values of the victim-defined approach provide the foundation for a completely revised exploration of all victims’ perspectives and advocates’ role. This Second Edition draws on the far-reaching progress and increased knowledge of the field and delves deeply into the experiences of victims, their perspectives and decision-making, culture, and risks. Attentive to the real world context of limited time, resources, and options for victims and for advocates, this enlightening text focuses on what is feasible and offers ideas for working within such constraints
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