Social Work Management

Uncover the ultimate guide to defeating anxiety and creating positive, healthy relationships. With an authentic, heartfelt approach to dealing with anxiety in your personal and professional relationships, this complete guide reveals a wealth of practical strategies designed to help you let go of fear, manage feelings of stress and worry, and create positive relationships with the people you care about. Drawing on a mix of proven psychological insights and down-to-earth advice, inside, you’ll discover how to deal with social anxiety and family issues, stand up for yourself at work, and ...

Unlock Confidence, Resilience, and Real-World Success — A Practical Guide for Teens and Young Adults Navigating the world as a teen or young adult can feel overwhelming. From making new friends or managing anxiety in social situations, to figuring out how to speak up at work or stay on top of deadlines—life throws a lot at you. That’s why this guide was created. This is your personal toolkit for mastering the essential social and life skills needed to thrive—at school, at work, and in the real world. Inside, you’ll discover how to: ✔ Communicate clearly and confidently in any ...

We're trying to get something done that really matters to us. To do this we need to work with others. But these others include people we don't agree with or like or trust, so working with them seems impossible - like collaborating with the enemy. What can we do?

Managing up helps you build the sort of relationships that foster more communication, collaboration, cooperation, and understanding between people at different levels of power, with a variety of perspectives and skills. Managing Up is your personal manual for building this vital skill so you can begin building your best future. Real-world strategies give you a set of actionable steps, supplemented by expert advice from a top leadership consultant that helps you get on track to advancement.

Whether you are a new player or a seasoned veteran, Secrets to Winning at Office Politics can help you increase your personal power without compromising your integrity or taking advantage of others. This smart, practical guide shows you how to stop wasting energy on things you can't change and start taking steps to get what you want.

One of the biggest myths that plagues the business world today is that our ability to network depends on having the “gift-of-gab.” You don’t have to be outgoing to be successful at networking. You don’t have to become a relentless self-promoter. In fact, you don’t have to act like an...

Do you have clients who have killed other people? Clients who have killed other people come to us from all walks of life and many different experiences. Some have killed in the line of duty—others have killed people in tragic accidents. Then there are clients who may have killed other people through malevolence, self-defense, or as a result of careless action. Whatever the situation might be that brought the client to our office, having a guide for dealing with issues such as acceptance, guilt, forgiveness and moving towards the future, despite the tragic past, are all issues the ...

Help! I Work with People is not a book about leadership theory, but rather a handbook on how to connect with people and influence them for good. With his signature transparent and relatable storytelling, Chad Veach uses modern research and biblical principles to encourage you to lean into your leadership potential regardless of your level of influence or experience. In short and easily digestible chapters, he addresses the three phases of becoming a quality leader: learning to lead the hardest person you will ever be in charge of-yourself and more.

The Unseen Tyrant: The Clock That Stole Your Time Do you feel like you’re always running late? That your time is never truly your own? The cause isn't your email inbox, your boss, or your to-do list—it's the Anxiety Machine itself. We are all slaves to a technology invented centuries ago for the quiet discipline of monasteries, yet weaponized by industry to measure, control, and commodify human life. This short, authoritative micro-history exposes the shocking truth of how the mechanical clock left the cathedral tower and became the single most dominant force in modern capitalism, ...

Have you noticed that on some days, everything seems to go so smoothly? Those times when everybody shares the same deadline and all of a sudden everything gets done. What’s going on here? What’s different in these scenarios? At the core of each situation is a replicable occurrence, a behavior pattern, or a trend you can understand and utilize. In fact, with just a little bit of heightened awareness and increased focus on your situation, you can pinpoint these exact patterns and recreate them at will.

You don’t need a marketing degree, an office, or years of experience to launch a profitable online business. You just need the right tools, a step-by-step plan, and the confidence to take action. Launch Your Own Social Media Marketing Agency with AI is the complete beginner’s guide for anyone who wants to build a flexible, modern business from home—using powerful (and often free) AI tools like ChatGPT, Canva, Buffer, and more. This book takes you by the hand and shows you exactly how to: Choose a niche and create a brand—even with no prior experience Use AI to write captions, design...

We've all been taught that we must suppress or avoid emotions at work, but this inevitably leads to a loss in productivity, diminished creativity, and crushing job dissatisfaction. Research shows 85 percent of us avoid communicating crucial workplace problems upward, and many of us who are employed are actively looking for a different job. What's going on?

Social Anxiety by Jane Kennedy is your practical guide to understanding and overcoming the challenges of social anxiety. Whether you're struggling in crowded rooms, on dates, or at work gatherings, this book offers proven techniques to help you regain your confidence and feel at ease in any situation.

In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this audiobook unpacks the ways in which the world has been - and continues to be - remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.

Ego, arrogance and narcissism commonly describe ineffective leadership. Nobody likes a show off, but it also doesn’t work to shrink into the shadows. Ben Fauske had significant confidence issues early in his career and he was miserable. After years of struggle, he discovered a pattern that some of the greatest recording artists have used to overcome confidence issues and find success. He called it Authentic Confidence, and the process dramatically improved his career.

Black women continuously navigate systems that were never intended for them while playing by a set of rules they never agreed to or were ever trained for. In this book, Francine Parham shares her knowledge as a Black woman and a former global executive of two major corporations on how to move up in the workplace while maintaining a sense of sanity. The key skill—one that Black women are rarely taught—is understanding the power dynamics within your organization and learning how to “shift the power” to your advantage.

The first comprehensive mentoring guide written specifically for 21st-century career building, this entrepreneurial approach to work relationships addresses the key issues of our time. Using simple tools and proven strategies, this essential guide shows you how to leverage the relationships you already have to map out a new developmental network that grows with your career.

Governor Charlie Baker, one of the most popular governors in the United States, with a reputation for getting things done, wants to put the service back into public service. Results is the much-needed implementation guide for anyone in public service, as well as for leaders and managers in large organizations hamstrung by bureaucracy and politics. With a broad range of examples, Baker, a Republican, and Kadish, a Democrat, show how to move from identifying problems to achieving results in a way that bridges divides instead of exacerbating them.

Building a fully engaged, energized workforce is the key to business success. The Power of Thanks reveals how leading companies like Intuit, JetBlue Airways, IHG, Symantec, ConAgra Foods, and The Hershey Company empower employees through social recognition, in which the practice of mutual appreciation and trust directs and rewards higher performance. Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine, executives at the world-renowned employee recognition firm Globoforce, explain why social recognition is so powerful and how you can apply it in your company.

Are you looking to reignite your resilience and passion? Discover how to overcome burnout and reclaim your life. Do you sometimes feel like you're losing yourself to the grind of daily life? Are you constantly battling against burnout? Have you become aware that you are not enjoying life as much these days? If you feel fatigued and find yourself wandering aimlessly in life, know that you're not alone. In today's high-pressure world, burnout is an epidemic. It's not just the feeling of being overworked that makes you feel unappreciated and lost, but also the fog of burnout that clouds your ...