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Conventional leadership coaching approaches focus primarily on personal change, exploring the qualities that define successful leaders. But to truly play transformative and visionary roles within their organizations, C-suite and other senior leaders must accurately gauge their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to identify and address the "shadow side" of their personality traits. This book offers a unique model for strategic leadership by encouraging leaders to think carefully about their personal leadership styles.

Effective business communication is a skill that anyone can develop. From interview strategies to high-stakes negotiation tactics, 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication offers practical strategies to improve communication skills and help you succeed in your career. Equal parts research and actionable advice, this book applies effective strategies from the world’s most successful professionals to common workplace scenarios.

Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Karen Rayne, PhD, and Katherine Gonzales, MBA, is an all-inclusive, uncensored guide for teens who are transgender, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, or gender-fluid. Trans+ answers all your questions, easy and hard, about gender and covers mental health, physical health and reproduction, transitioning, relationships, sex, and life as a trans or nonbinary individual. It's full of essential information you need—and want—to know and includes real-life stories from teens like you!

In general, companies decide to begin franchising for one of three reasons: lack of money, people, or time. Opening your own franchise business is a big step for those who choose the venture, and it can be somewhat intimidating. The franchise marketplace is filled with innumerable franchise systems over a vast range of industries.

It’s time once again to make much of a simple concept; that two groups with different names, languages and cultures might put aside their old habits, pettiness, and grudges, recognize the overwhelming alignment of their most critical self-interests, and join their complementary strengths to achieve unprecedented peace, harmony, and productivity. That’s the concept behind total productive maintenance (TPM).

Planning is the trick for succeeding in small business. This process needn't be daunting, especially if you can get the timing right, pick a strategy that works, and chart a sound financial course. And if your best-laid plans go sideways, there's always hope, and a practical way forward, in this book. Getting Started in Small Business for Dummies will help you decide whether small-business ownership is right for you, and assess the viability of your business idea; and more.

5S is a simple and highly effective set of lean manufacturing techniques that removes waste from the work environment through a better workplace organization, general cleanliness, and effective visual communication.

>"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short." Abraham Maslow, rock star Lawyer, drives straight to the heart of unspoken truths in the legal industry. Are you running your firm like a business? How is your brand? Are you the rock star in your field? Reach the inner entrepreneur within. Become comfortable with being uncomfortable. Whether a small firm practitioner or a large law firm attorney, Rock Star Lawyer speaks directly to you to be your best.

Newly revised and updated, Mutual Funds for Dummies quickly and easily helps you pick the best funds, assemble and maintain your portfolio, and evaluate your funds' performance. In no time, it gets you up and running on exchange-traded funds, tax laws affecting investments in funds, how to evaluate different fund-investing strategies, and much more.

Planning a Profitable Business for Dummies explains how to build a business with profit in mind, using smart pricing techniques and clear-eyed strategic planning. Whether you're just getting started in business or still recovering from lockdown losses, this book points to where extra profits might lie.

Resilience is not an innate character trait. Whether you’re in a leadership role or working as part of a team, you need to implement strategies that build and nurture resilience. You need a resilience plan. Award-winning mental health expert Marie-Hélène Pelletier draws on her clinical practice and extensive knowledge in therapeutics and business practices to explore how resilience is the best defense against burnout and how everyone can build it in themselves—not with a one-size-fits-all plan but with strategies to help you create a custom plan.

B2B decision-makers are more informed and more inundated with choices than ever before. To succeed in this environment, businesses need to break through the noise, engage prospects on their own terms, and add value every step of the way. Leveraging more than 15 years of marketing success with startups and Fortune 500 companies, Getting Started with Demand Generation provides the foundation for marketing and sales leaders to develop a high-performing, revenue-focused program that fills the marketing funnel and drives qualified sales opportunities.

Leadership succession made easy. Leaders leave. It's inevitable. It might even happen today. Are you prepared? Every organization needs a plan for leadership succession, but few leaders know how to start the process. Who Comes Next? solves that problem and easily guides you through the steps of creating and implementing a viable succession plan. This essential guidebook simplifies the process and gives you the tools you need to build and activate your leadership succession.

Our NCLEX-RN series is intended to be used by both nursing educators and nursing students alike. Our goal is to help transition students to successfully practicing nurses. This journey in many ways begins by passing the nursing board exam. Our audiobook edition is a summarization of important, high-yield concepts that students need to know in order to pass the NCLEX exam. We have divided the curriculum into sections based on organ systems to facilitate review.

Our Nursing Review series are intended to be used by nursing students. The audiobook has in-depth explanation of each topic. Out goal is to help transition students to successfully practicing nurses. We divided the curriculum into sections based on the organ system review. This audiobook is focused on psychiatric nursing and includes high-yield concepts to help you do well in nursing school, HESI, and NCLEX exams.

The Power of Perception: Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, and the Gender Divide serves as a practical guide to educate women, men, and organizations on the barriers that keep women from fully contributing in the workplace. These include differences in leadership style and emotional intelligence, gender bias and stereotypes, breadwinner and caregiver responsibilities, and differences in gender culture that show up every day at work and home.

Many people think they need a lot of money to invest, save, or get out of debt--and that financial planning is only for the rich. Rob Donovan wants to change that mentality. He merges over two decades of experience in the business and finance world with biblical principles--breaking down the walls of these misconceptions. In this book, you will discover how leaning on God will help turn your budget into blessings.

An easy-to-read, comprehensive guide for anyone affected by pancreatic cancer. The book includes valuable information about recent medical advances, insurance coverage, advanced testing, nursing care and living optimally given this devastating disease.

We call the process "mind boggling". New brain-mind research is here presented in quick idea "gulps", which focus the eyes (brain) and release the mind.

Followed sequentially, this "Driver's Manual for the Mind" takes you on an inner self-guided tour. Your hidden, true potential comes into view.You learn to actually change your brain's structure and function...on purpose!

This Driver's Manual leads you to a new "high way". You learn how to create a future that was previously unthinkable. Mental debris is avoided. That is, you become unboggled.

Your Mindset impacts everything you think, say, and do. Your Mindset creates hope and hopelessness, success and failure. It is the software your brain uses to create attitude, experience, and achievement. It is also the filter that builds behavior. Your mindset causes you to blame others for failure or learn from experience. Your Mindset helps you make sense of everything that happens. It is the prism through which you experience life.