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Designing Your Own Destiny will teach you how in a step-by-step format. This book is a road map for designing success in anything and everything you want in your career or your personal life.

Filled with inspirational true stories, thought-provoking quotes from famous films, and exercises to motivate you to make the changes necessary in your life so your design for your destiny becomes a reality, Designing Your Own Destiny is the catalyst to jump start your future.
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Life is simple. The person with the best story wins. To succeed and advance your career, you need to master the fine art of storytelling. Executives Have ADHD: The Art of the Story focuses on crafting and telling your story in a way that resonates with your C-level executives. The book covers the arc of storytelling to help you develop your narrative from inception through presentation:

• Focus and communicate your value to gain enrollment from top level executives
• Develop powerful stories that earn a seat at the decision-making table
• Synthesize and...

LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) is thriving. How is it that a child's toy, has become a serious strategy tool used by some of the worlds best known organisations? And what might be the relevance of this method in your work?

LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) is the result of 15 years development. A powerful method to solve problems, explore ideas and achieve objectives based on management theory using a toy.

Serious Work enables readers to understand what LEGO(R) Serious Play(R) is and how it works.

This practical and well designed workbook helps people have better meetings; it shows how...

New York Times Bestseller

"Catnip for all the TED fans out there." --Publishers Weekly

"The most insightful book ever written on public speaking . . . a must-read." --Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times best-selling author of Give and Take and Originals

Since taking over TED in 2001, Chris Anderson has shown how carefully crafted talks can be the key to unlocking empathy, spreading knowledge, and promoting a shared dream. Done right, a talk can electrify a room...

Standing up in front of a group of people and giving a speech is not an easy thing to do for any of us. As we stand there with everyone's eyes on us, it can be very easy to become overwhelmed with nerves and fear. However, if we are going to be successful public speakers, then we need to learn to deal with our fears.

What You'll Find Inside:

• HOW SPEAKERS HANDLE THAT FEAR THING...
• GREAT SPEAKERS AREN'T AFRAID TO STUMBLE ON THE WAY TO THE TOP
• TOO SHY, SHY - HOW TO OVERCOME YOUR SHYNESS AND BECOME A PUBLIC SPEAKER
• YOUR SPEECH IS NOT OVER WHEN...

Meeting planning doesn't have to be stressful

Do you break out in a cold sweat at the thought of planning and organising a business event or meeting?

Do you know what you need to do and when to do it, so that you can stay calm and confident as you plan your event?

Picture the scene: it's Monday morning. You're going through the schedule for the day. The sun is shining and you're looking forward to that first delicious cup of coffee. Just as you've decided to treat yourself to a cappuccino, your boss drops by:

"I'd like you to organise a...

The first step in creating a speech that will allow you to make your point is to first determine how best to organize it. There are a lot of different ways to go about doing this, but you are going to want to make sure that you'll be able to connect with your audience. This means that you'll need to be able to determine what your emotional intelligence quotient is.

What You'll Find Inside:

• SPEAKERS NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEIR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT IS
• NELSON MANDELA'S TIPS ON HOW TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR NEXT SPEECH
• HEY SPEAKER, WHAT'S YOUR ROOM IQ?...

You attend numerous presentations and meetings a year--filled with the typical dense and disorganized PowerPoint decks--and leave most of them thinking, -Well, that's an hour of my life I'll never get back.- But out of this sea of mediocrity, a rare few rise up, captivating you and driving you to action. What makes these few so special?

Despite what most people think, it's not because they were delivered well. It's because they were crafted in a way that deeply aligned with how your brain wants to consume information. The presentations that failed did so precisely because they...

Since the late 1800s, Robert's Rules of Order has been used in corporate governance and executive boardrooms. Robert's Rules of Order were designed to properly assemble a group of people, of any size. It's a form of organizing assemblies intelligently. Any group, society, or assembly who adopts Robert's rules has the liberty to adopt their own rules - eventually creating their own book of rules.

This book was written for executives, organizers, parliamentarians, and other organizations to easily understand the fundamentals of Robert's...

Let's face it, creating a speech is hard work. However, as long as we are going to go to the effort of creating a speech, it sure seems like we should do a good job of it. Now the difficult part comes: just exactly how does one go about creating a speech that works?

What You'll Find Inside:

• SIZE MATTERS - SHAPING YOUR SPEECH TO MATCH YOUR AUDIENCE
• THE SECRET TO BECOMING AN EXPERT IN ANYTHING
• GET IT DONE: THINKING ON YOUR FEET AND BUILDING A SPEECH REAL QUICK
• 4 THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD NEVER TALK ABOUT

We need to keep in mind the...

Transform your communication skills: Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Renowned five time TED Talks speaker and author Julian Treasure reveals how to speak so that people listen - and how to listen so that people feel heard. As this leading sound expert demonstrates via interviews with world-class speakers, professional performers and CEOs atop their field, the secret lies in developing simple habits that can transform our communication skills, the...