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20 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-85-1 U.S. $12.95	Attitude, Intentions, and Focus by Ken Wright How do you build passion and professional fire in your employees? How do you turn around those who have lost their motivation and get them excited and inspired again? Whether you call it enthusiasm, motivation, or drive, we as leaders are ultimately seeking ways to inspire people to do a great job. The Attitudes, Intentions, and Focus eBook offers you a no-nonsense approach to developing passion in your people by operating from the heart with compassion and humility. This 17-page eBook is packed with gems that will show you how you can become a successful, authentic leader, and consistently create a win/win scenario for your business and the people you lead. See how leading from the heart is where growth and profit really come from.

17 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-0-9799949-6-8 U.S. $12.95	Boosting Your Leadership Skills by Patricia Fripp Some people just seem to be natural-born leaders. What's their secret? Actually, most of them are just like the rest of us, but they've honed their skills through a combination of hard work, increased self-awareness, and creating opportunities when none came along. In this eBook, you'll be presented with techniques on how to tap into your inner leader by igniting your passions and developing habits that will provide lifelong direction toward continuous self-improvement.

16 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-84-4 U.S. $14.95	Building Competency For A Profitable Workforce by Bob Kustka The first in the KFactors: Unlocking the Capacity of Your Human Capital eReport series, this insightful guide provides the roadmap to selecting, managing, and planning for your human capital. Drawing from his extensive experience in the HR/management arena, Bob Kustka offers proven strategies to identify the knowledge, skills, and attributes that breed future success and high performance. In this 16 page downloadable eReport, you'll find clear methods for interviewing and hiring future stars, assessing performance, and promoting from within your own company. You'll also find valuable information on building competency models to serve as the framework to increase the overall productivity of your workforce.

13 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-58-5 U.S. $11.97	Charisma by Dr. Tony Alessandra A quiet, shy, demure young girl-instantly cast into the worldwide limelight, made the passage from obscurity to celebrity look oh so graceful. She quickly developed into an international icon that influenced our world by connecting with us emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Princess Diana is gone, yet her imprint will live on forever. What was this mysterious quality she possessed? The same quality that allows the most influential people on earth to attract, enchant, and persuade. This mystical, silent, magnetic quality is called CHARISMA. And you have it! Once developed, you will notice that your charisma will help you… Get far more respect than the average person does Be admired and adored, seemingly without effort Exude huge amounts of self-confidence and self-esteem Appear extremely powerful without being intimidating Easily get what you want, because people instinctively want to help you

24 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-0-9815589-2-9 U.S. $12.95	How to Promote Yourself and Your Business by Patricia Fripp If you are like most business people and sales professionals, you are spending a fortune trying to influence the people who have never heard of you, when it’s far easier and more valuable to influence the people who already know you and who can act as your PR team! In virtually all businesses, we try to encourage, persuade, court, monitor, validate, and influence people who often have no idea who we are. We can avoid the wasted effort by maximizing the resources that are already available to us. This eBook will provide helpful direction on how to use efficient techniques to bolster your business relationships and achieve far more meaningful connections.

28 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-78-3 U.S. $5.92	Leading with Vision Getting Things Done through Other People by Stever Robbins Stever’s extensive insights and sharp wit are on full display in Leading with Vision. This eBook will show you how to become an effective leader through creating and communicating a consistent direction for your organization. Through what he calls a leadership relationship, Stever Robbins frames leadership in a fashion that incites focus, emotion, commitment, and responsibility within your company. This eBook is essentially a blueprint on how to make things happen when you or others may be stagnating. There’s no such thing as a born leader, and success in any relationship depends on both parties. Acting with integrity, developing shared values, and having actions match those values are vital in the cultivation of relationships. Learn the importance understanding the abilities of everyone you hire and making sure their job plays to their strengths. At its heart, leadership is nothing more and nothing less than inspiring others to follow your dream and doing what it takes to make possible their success. Being a leader isn’t about persuading the world, it’s about building your corner of the world. Use your vision as a tool for attracting people who are inspired and want to join you in making the dream real. This book is invaluable if you want to learn about negotiating feelings, creating leadership identity, and rethinking attitudes.

17 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-91-2 U.S. $14.95	Planning Tomorrow's Workforce Today by Bob Kustka Unlock the capacity of your human capital in the second installment of Bob Kustka's KFactors: Unlocking the Capacity of Your Human Capital eReport series. Informative and proactive in its message, this 17 page eReport addresses issues of planning, preparation, and strategy to maximize the output of an increasingly diverse workforce. Bob offers practical guidance on the formulation of a staffing strategy, explores vulnerabilities that may arise, and presents proven methods to address a variety of issues before they cause a crisis. Bob also tackles the issue of generational gaps and ever-changing social norms, and their relation to the specific job, customer, and ultimately, the bottom line.

13 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-18-9 U.S. $9.97	Presentation Power by Dr. Tony Alessandra Most of us have experienced our share of boring or unprofessional presentations. After what seems like hours, we still don't know what message we're supposed to get. Maybe the speaker put us to sleep with his monotone or we couldn't read the small writing on the visual aids, which didn't seem to match up with what the speaker was trying to say anyway. To avoid being the source of a "sleeper" presentation, you need to build your presentation skills. This 9-page eReport will give you specific, easy-to-follow techniques that you will be able to put to work immediately. Topics covered include: Training the butterflies in your stomach Developing the attitude of a successful speaker Characteristics of effective public speakers Ten tips for overcoming stage fright Four basic types of presentations How to prepare three key parts of a presentation Knowing your audience How to get and keep your audience's attention Ice breakers How to use visual aids effectively Practicing and visualizing success Good presentations can provide opportunities for growth in power, control, recognition, and prestige. The guidelines presented in this eReport can help you immensely if you read, study, and practice. You can become the expert to whom others will turn to for advice. Good luck!

30 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-72-1 U.S. $5.92	The Rights and Responsibilities of Being at the Top by Stever Robbins The Rights and Responsibilities of Being at the Top is a very useful guidebook on the do’s and don’ts of being a CEO. This entertaining read presents ideas on how to run your business with an open mind, how to build a culture of success, and how to lead by example. Offering broad ideas on management techniques, and addressing specific problems a CEO may encounter, you’ll learn fundamental practices that will provide direction to a financially struggling company, or maintain the growth of an already prosperous operation. In this eBook, executive coach and leadership expert Stever Robbins reveals people skills and organizational skills that are intended to build connection and cohesiveness throughout your company. You’ll be equipped to with the tools to foster honesty, accountability, goal attainment, motivation, and vision. Accurately measure your employee’s performance, allocate money where it really needs to be, review the systems you have in place, and learn the proper ways to raise capital. This book will help you make the most of your resources and advance your objectives through introspection. It’s all in here. While everyone may have different skill sets as a leader, understanding what these are and making the most of your capabilities will lead to unprecedented success as your business moves into the future.

17 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-09-7 U.S. $9.97	Speaking With Authority by Dr. Tony Alessandra Studies show that the top predictor of professional success and upward mobility is how much you enjoy and how good you are at public speaking. Yet, the number one fear of most adults is speaking in public. The ability to speak confidently is one of the most marketable skills you can acquire. Organizations continually seek individuals who can sell products, present proposals, report findings, and explain ideas effectively. This 13-page report is packed with skill-building tips that will help you learn to speak confidently and express your thoughts clearly and logically. Topics covered include: A quick quiz to assess your speaking skills and identify opportunities for improvement Step-by-step instructions on how to build your speaking skills How to overcome stage fright The six key steps to preparing your talk How to use your non-verbal communications for maximum impact How to jumpstart your public speaking skills How to use humor in your talk

41 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-08-0 U.S. $25.00	Street Smarts by Dr. Tony Alessandra The 37-page eBook is a self-help book that uses an allegory style to gel the ideas into a cohesive and easily remembered format. Each key point is highlighted to help you understand, remember, and use the skill. Street Smart skills revealed include: How to create a level of heightened awareness The importance of healthy skepticism Resourcefulness Risk-taking Confidence Our story follows the street smarts education of our hero, Charles, a new and naive resident of New York City. His teenage street smart friend, Tom, helps Charles learn a thing or two while Charles mentors Tom on some other important aspects of success. Charles learns how to trust his intuition, use chutzpa when necessary, not be taken advantage of, minimize the possible down side, and cut losses when he learns he's made a mistake. By the end of the story, Charles is a different person. He has a better idea of his abilities, his limitations, and he knows how to move through the system. He's learned a lot of life's unwritten rules. He has become "Street Smart." You too can benefit from Charles' journey to becoming street smart. Read this short, idea packed eBook. Each key point is summarized at the end so you can see where you measure up and where you need to practice.

221 pages, PDF eBook ISBN: 978-1-933631-92-9 U.S. $17.95	A View from the Roof Lessons for Life & Business by Calvin Mackie In A View from the Roof-Lessons for Life & Business, Presidential award-winning speaker Dr. Calvin Mackie offers a virtual Blackberry^TM of lessons that will inspire and direct your life to greatness. Through a slideshow of poignant vignettes and laugh-at-loud anecdotes, Dr. Mackie highlights the practical wisdom of his father, Willie Mackie Sr., the uneducated sharecropper's son who built a thriving roofing business of 100 employees with a truck, a ladder, and a whole lot of attitude. From the hot gable rooftops of New Orleans to the set of a Spike Lee film, this book explores the extraordinary journey of the Mackie men, while leaving you with a view you'll remember forever!
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