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Teamwork suffers, and can often fail, when team members make communication blunders that hurt productivity. This program looks at the major causes of teamwork failure and gives easy ways to overcome them. Listeners will learn how to disagree with team members without being disagreeable, how to improve body language to get ideas accepted, how to eliminate "blame" words and keep team members on your side. And much more. Suitable for all staff members.

No matter how hard you work to build a team, the behaviors of a few team members can cause breakdowns and block team progress. This program shows how to quickly resolve the conflicts that sometimes arise when diverse personalities work together. Learn how to: stand firm with those who bog your team down, help negative people develop a positive attitude, handle people who belittle others, and more.

Effective person-to-person communication is vital to maximizing productivity. This program gives practical tips and techniques that will help everyone in your organization communicate more effectively. Listeners will learn the 3 A's of communicating with people: Attitude, Awareness, and Attentiveness, and how to avoid common pitfalls of poor communication. Suitable for all staff members.

The key to developing your leadership is to take control of how you communicate with people in your workplace. Become a better leader using the 8 Communication Principles of Leadership. Whether you are a senior executive, a night shift supervisor, a call center manager, or a shop steward, you can become a leader in the eyes of those you manage, report to, and work alongside.

What makes a person easy to work with and effective on the job? How do some people earn the respect of both co-workers and employers? It's no 'secret' or unique personal characteristic. In many cases, it's simply the ability to listen effectively. This program teaches how to: build rapport, gain acceptance and establish trust, avoid conflicts, win allies and influence others, and more.

In The Simple Art of Greatness, Mullen explains how managers who are willing to re-think their approach to power and control can transform their company into a vital, enthusiastic, more productive place to work. Using ideas adapted from his favorite philosopher Aristotle, Mullen outlines the management principles that have helped him build one of the country's most respected advertising agencies.

The Oz Principle took the business world by storm. At its root, the principle works like this: Like Dorothy and the gang in The Wizard of Oz, most businesspeople have the tools to succeed, but when things go wrong they blame circumstance or others instead of looking within for the true cause of unsatisfactory results. Once individuals learn to accept responsibility, they can use the Oz Principle to become better leaders.

Building on the success of their previous title, The Oz Principle, Connors and Smith explore the direct link between a company's culture and the results it produces. Journey to the Emerald City details a clear road map for accelerating the move to a culture of accountability in which people focus on achieving the results critical to a company's future.

Un vero e proprio percorso di "coaching" per individuare le proprie potenzialità ed elaborare una mappa che le sintetizzi...

In Hope Is not a Method, Sullivan and co-author Colonel Michael Harper tell us how they kept the army well-trained and equipped for traditional functions while preparing it for a wide range of new and complicated missions, all in the midst of a dramatic reduction in both human and financial resources. Their approach is based on continuity and change: maintaining their focus on the army's historic vision and values while introducing new problem-solving techniques and training methods.

In Owning Up, business advisor and corporate governance expert Ram Charan answers these and other burning questions on the minds of directors and business leaders. He describes best practices that are emerging in boardrooms he has observed firsthand. And he provides practical recommendations on a range of issues, from compensation to dealing with external constituencies.

Based on an extraordinary collaboration between Steve Forbes, chairman, CEO, and editor in chief of Forbes Media, and classics professor John Prevas, Power Ambition Glory provides intriguing comparisons between six great leaders of the ancient world and contemporary business leaders.

Leading in Turbulent Times is a condensed, executive overview of how the leadership principles of Jim Clemmer's book, Growing the Distance, apply to leading organizations in turbulent times. This timely presentation was recorded with an audience of business leaders.Listen to a deeper discussion of leadership principles in a lively one-on-one interview with Jim Clemmer.

A rewarding, surprising view into the life and thoughts of one of the world's most inspiring leaders, The Leader's Way provides a powerful manifesto for leading change at every level - in our lives, our organizations, and the wider world.

Jack Welch is the legendary former CEO of General Electric. His many books include the best seller Winning, written with his wife, Suzy. Suzy Welch is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review. She attended Harvard University and Harvard Business School and has written numerous articles about leadership, creativity, change and organizational behavior.

Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions. The authors show how the shortcuts our brains have learned to take over millennia of evolution can derail our decision making. Think Again offers a powerful model for making better decisions, describing the key red flags to watch for and detailing the decision-making safeguards we need.

Walk the Walk shows how aspiring leaders must inspire and teach us through their own actions. Deutschman's analysis is informed by his two-decades of experience as a journalist covering the most prominent business figures of our times. He portrays dramatic and illuminating examples of leadership - not only in business but also in politics, the military, education, and social change.

Drawn from a series of deeply revealing conversations with coauthor Steve Jamison, The Score Takes Care of Itself offers Walsh's best leadership principles illustrated by anecdotes from his entire career. Additional insights and perspective are provided by his son Craig Walsh. The book will delight football fans and guide the vast business audience eager to learn how Bill Walsh motivated individuals and crafted winning teams.

In Fierce Leadership, Scott teaches us how to spot the worst "best" practices in our organizations using a technique she calls "squid eye" - the ability to see the "tells" or signs that we have fallen prey to disastrous behaviors by knowing what to look for. Only then, she says, can we apply the antidote.

Written by Jack Foster, a creative director for various advertising agencies with more than 40 years experience, How to Get Ideas (over 90,000 copies sold and translated into 15 languages) is a fun, accessible, and practical guide that takes the mystery and confusion out of developing new ideas.