An absolute must read! It encapsulates the principles which we have used as a fundamental part of our people strategy here at microsoft in the uk 'creating an environment where great people can do their best work', the foundation of which is there will come a time when people will choose which employer they contract with, not the other way around'. Act now before it is too late" —Steve Harvey, Group Director, People and Culture, Microsoft UK. "Nicholas brings the best personal development training with simple sysytems and strategies for growth. He has helped me and many others here take a grip of their lives and fast forward to the results they desire." —Michael Wood, Retail Academy, Marks & Spencer
If you want to be happy, fulfilled and energised its probably best not to obsess over being THE best. Why not focus on doing YOUR best? You don't need to completely transform yourself and become a shining beacon of wonderment and astonishing success—you should remain you . . . just a better version. You, Only Better is all about discovering what you're good at and focusing on that. It's about deciding what it is you really want from life and learning how to reach your full potential. Packed with the author's hand-drawn illustrations, helpful quotes, mini-case studies and Q&As you'll learn how to change your mindset for the better and think positively, take action to achieve your goals, fight against fatigue and get motivated and achieve long lasting happiness and contentment. You, Only Better offers techniques and methods for: Gaining energy and focus Managing your time effectively Setting your goals Honing your thinking and mindset Dealing with pressure and stress Making smart decisions Thinking creatively to solve problems Actually taking action and keeping up the momentum
This book explains the seven steps that can help you manage, control and maintain a career that will help fulfil your goals and ambitions. Whether you are unemployed and planning your next move, a graduate planning your future or an employee planning your escape, this smart book is packed with practical, life-changing advice that is simple and straightforward to apply. The vital guidance will help you understand and adapt to the realities of the job market today and develop a focussed and realistic career plan for a secure future.
Get a Life focuses on raising self-awareness and finding proactive ways to improve your life. Guides you through six key areas of your life: Career, Mind/Body, Finance, Relationships, Fun and Contribution. Features text case studies and challenge points all designed to help you get to the heart of what it is that motivates you and what you wish to achieve. Challenges you to reflect upon the way you think and behave and provides strategies for implementing changes. "Get a Life adds new and compelling dimensions to the idea of personal effectiveness both at work and at home. It balances some 'killer app' personal productivity tools alongside tremendous insights to manage your life goals and excellent advice on physical and mental well-being to achieve a winning performance-indispensable." —Mike Dunlop, HR Mananger, Sun Microsystems
Neither the time nor money to study for an MBA? Skill-up with this 30 minute read! Make the most of your commute to work by discovering the critical models and hard-won wisdom of an MBA course in short form. MBA On The Go is an ultra-condensed, mobile guide to the essential thinking which will make your business fitter and stronger – quickly. MBA On the Go: • Can be read in 30 minutes – that's the same as the average commute time • Covers core business skills and problems to make your work life more productive and more successful • Provides the answer to pretty well any business challenge you might have • Is written in an engaging and punchy style with high impact
You're half an hour away from never making a bad decision again! Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each of these short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressing those painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expert advice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make your work-life more productive, less painful and more successful! Decision making not your strong suit? Fed up of thinking 'I should have chosen the other candidate/strategy/sandwich'? This succinct, practical guide will teach you how to properly weigh up all the information and make well thought out decisions more quickly. Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as part of 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection. Make Better Decisions More Often will help you: Identify the problem and what isn't working Discover the 10 Big Strategies Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.
You’re half an hour away from a more productive life! Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each of these short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressing those painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expert advice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make your work-life more productive, less painful and more successful! Too much to do and not enough time to do it in? Spend 30 minutes boosting your productivity with this succinct, pragmatic guide then blast through your to-do list and leave everyone else trailing in your wake. Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as part of 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection. Boost Your Productivity will help you: Identify the problem and what isn't working Discover the 10 Big Strategies Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.
You’re half an hour away from presentation greatness! Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each of these short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressing those painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expert advice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make your work-life more productive, less painful and more successful! Does the thought of giving a presentation leave you wanting to take really early retirement? Well hang on to your P45s because this succinct guide to better presentations will help you leave the power point behind, learn how to present yourself, pace your presentation and have the audience eating out of your hands in just 30 minutes. Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as part of 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection. Give Great Presentations will help you: Identify the problem and what isn't working Discover the 10 Big Strategies Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.
You’re half an hour away from the new energized you! Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each of these short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressing those painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expert advice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make your work-life more productive, less painful and more successful! If you feel like you are only ever running on empty, and long to be switched on, enthusiastic, engaged and energized every day, this succinct, practical guide will help you blow away the cobwebs, learn how to look after yourself, get your problems into perspective and focus your mind. Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as part of 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection. Bags of Energy Now will help you: Identify the problem and what isn’t working Discover the 10 Big Strategies Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.
Go Home E-Mail Free; Bags of Energy Now; Give Great Presentations (And Without a Slidedeck); Make Better Presentations More Often; Boost Your Productivity
Go Home E-Mail Free; Bags of Energy Now; Give Great Presentations (And Without a Slidedeck); Make Better Presentations More Often; Boost Your Productivity
Introducing the 30 minute reads e-book series! You're half an hour away from a pain free working life! So why not fill your down-time with some up-skilling? The average commute to work is 30 minutes. Why not kick start your New Year good intentions by using your commuting time to skill-up?! And with five books in the series you could have the most productive week of your life! Digitally native content optimized to be read on-screen Each book contains 10 short, sharp and to-the-point chapters, finishing with an ‘Action Plan’ with clear, super-structured, super-easy steps to no more pain! Brand new series of short form e-books Each can be read in just 30 minutes! Covering core business skills and problems to make your work life more productive, less painful and more successful
You’re half an hour away from an empty inbox! Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each of these short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressing those painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expert advice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make your work-life more productive, less painful and more successful! A clear inbox equals a clear mind. It’s not an urban myth, it is possible to go e-mail free, and this succinct practical guide will show you how to achieve it. Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as part of 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection. Go Home Email Free will help you: Identify the problem and what isn’t working Discover the 10 Big Strategies Put in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.
Everyone WANTS something. Love. Health. Lifestyle. Things. Knowing what you want and knowing how to get it, however, requires a heart-body-soul approach to change. In his groundbreaking new book, JfDI, motivational expert Nicholas Bate offers you the definitive strategy for getting what you want, and keeping it. His simple but effective AIM 4 BEST model will show you how to engage your head, your heart and your gut to achieve the personal change you desire, but have yet to realise! From developing a clear mental picture of your goal to identifying potential blocks at different stages of your progress and putting support structures in place when you find your willpower floundering, JfDI will guide you through the three phases of goal achievement and provide you with support at critical levels within each stage. If you want lose weight, get fit, give up smoking, write a book, find true love, beef up your bank account, or simply BE HAPPY, JfDI is guaranteed to get you where you want to be. Just follow the instructions.
Contains the best of the thinking on how to survive - and with care, thrive - in the impending global economic downturn. This title offers 17 ideas you have to implement to strengthen and build your company's performance.
Beat The Recession: A Blueprint for Business Survival is an essential guide for anyone in business. Difficult economic times challenge you to go back to basics, reinvigorate your sales and marketing, and get everyone who works for and with you to work together. Beat the Recession is a practical toolkit - useful for every business owner, manager and employee who wants to make a difference and work better and smarter. This book is packed with clearly stated advice and ideas - no theory, no padding, just 100 percent turn-this-business-around value. It contains over 170 ideas you can implement now to strengthen and increase your company's performance including: key areas where you can make, or break, your business; practical steps you can take now to ensure your business survival; insights on how to implement these measures across every aspect of your operation whether it is large or small; step-by-step action points to guide you through your problem areas; secrets and tips to keep morale high and increase productivity; and winning moves you can make now so that you come out of the worst times even stronger than before. This back-to-basics practical guide is a perfect handbook for any manager or business owner. Don't delay - get to work now. And make your business work for you.
The Tough Times Handbook is a small business guide to surviving in the tough & changing times that we are experiencing. It does not require days of ploughing through jargon & trying to understand high level business practice. This book is a down-to-earth guide for a small business trying to find ways to change & adapt today. Covering basic business rules & financial realities through to marketing & motivational ideas this book should have many ideas that a business can implement almost immediately.
The benefits of a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree can be massive: fast-track career advancement, a big fat wage packet, the whole high-flying top-notch executive lifestyle. But studying for an MBA isn't something to decide to do lightly - it's a big investment to take a year or more out of your career path or commit endless week-ends to a part-time version, and for many the cost of either of these options is prohibitive. "Instant MBA" is the must-have guide to making the most of yourself and your career prospects, whether you're studying for an MBA or just out to improve your prospects while you work. Covering all the latest in MBA thinking, "Instant MBA" will impart the MBA thinking, language and models necessary to accelerate your career advancement. Designed to enable readers to think, perform and hopefully earn like a top MBA student, "Instant MBA" is packed with inspiring and expert practical advice on everything you need to know, from the original tried-and-tested business models to the newer aspects such as emotional intelligence and inspirational leadership that modern MBA courses are now embracing.
Selling is the one and only key to surviving bad times and prospering in the upturn, here is the very best on sales stategy and tactics. A straightforward guide with quick-to-implement tactics you can use immediately to flush out those in your market sector who do have budget and bonus tips to squeeze the best from your sales team.
Open-space Learning offers a unique resource to educators wishing to develop a workshop model of teaching and learning. The authors propose an embodied, performative mode of learning that challenges the primacy of the lecture and seminar model in higher education. Drawing on the expertise of the CAPITAL Centre (Creativity and Performance in Teaching and Learning) at the University of Warwick, they show how pedagogic techniques developed from the theatrical rehearsal room may be applied effectively across a wide range of disciplines. The book offers rich case-study materials, supplemented by video and documentary resources, available to readers electronically. These practical elements are supplemented by a discursive strand, which draws on the methods of thinkers such as Freire, Vygotsky and Kolb, to develop a formal theory around the notion of Open-space Learning. CAPITAL was a collaboration between the University of Warwick's Department of English and the Royal Shakespeare Company. CAPITAL was succeeded by the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) in 2010.
This book explains the seven steps that can help you manage, control and maintain a career that will help fulfil your goals and ambitions. Whether you are unemployed and planning your next move, a graduate planning your future or an employee planning your escape, this smart book is packed with practical, life-changing advice that is simple and straightforward to apply. The vital guidance will help you understand and adapt to the realities of the job market today and develop a focussed and realistic career plan for a secure future.
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