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This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of Coaching for Business. If you’re looking for a better way to enhance your ability to facilitate, guide, and support a team member’s progress toward the achievement of their goals to consistently produce excellent results, this book is for you! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. However, before proceeding, it’s essential to note that this book is one of forty volumes that comprise a revolutionary new program called ...

This book is about how to conduct Backbriefings. If you’re looking for a better way to eliminate mistakes and rework, by ensuring all expectations have been identified before starting work, this is your book! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. One of the main causes of business problems is failing to uncover all the expectations. One way to eliminate this is by conducting a Backbriefing before starting work. A Backbriefing is a Plan of Action briefing you give your boss or ...

This book is about how to Scale a Business. Scaling is developing sustainable processes and systems to accommodate greater demand without increasing costs. It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. One of the biggest problems people face in business today is what to do when the demand for your products or services outpaces your ability to deliver quality results. This situation demands sustainable processes, systems, and strategies to help you handle increased demand more efficiently...

This book is about how to conduct a successful Job Search. What’s the purpose of your resume? I’ll bet you think the purpose of your resume is to get a job, right? Wrong! This could not be farther from the truth. The purpose of your resume is to make your phone ring, period! This is the ultimate test of your resume: After posting your resume on the web, if your phone doesn’t ring, your resume is worthless. After reading this book, you’ll learn the language employers speak and be able to modify your current resume into a compelling one that will make your phone ring for job ...

THE ART OF MOTIVATING, THE SCIENCE OF ENERGIZING OTHERS — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION. Want to energize the invisible driving force in others that influences their behavior, improves their performance, and unleashes their potential? This book shows you how? For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people activate the driving force that inspires and motivates team members to move the work forward, and get things done the right way the first time. Inspiration is the igniter, and Motivation is the driver! Motivation is what gets you out of bed in the morning and keeps you going throughout the ...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of Building Consensus for Business. If you’re looking for a better way to facilitate a collaborative team effort to reach a general agreement to meet the interests of all members, that consistently produces excellent results, this book is for you! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. However, before proceeding, it’s essential to note that this book is one of forty volumes that comprise a revolutionary new program called ...

THE ART OF TRAINING, THE SCIENCE OF ENHANCING POTENTIAL — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION. Want to prepare others for the future by improving their performance, enhancing their potential, and encouraging their professional development? This book shows you how. For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people consistently produce excellent results by training their team members to do the same, year after year. In business, Training isn’t a cost; it’s an investment in the future and a 10X profit multiplier. Whether you're just starting your career or leading at the highest levels, The Art of ...

This book is about Accountability. It's the revised and updated 2025 edition. If you’re looking for a better way to instill in others the ability to accept responsibility for their actions and inactions and the obligation to report, explain, and be answerable for any adverse consequences, this is your book. It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. However, before proceeding, it’s essential to note that this book is one of forty volumes that comprise a revolutionary new program ...

This book is about PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: How to enhance and sustain your skills to remain highly marketable regardless of age. Not having a Professional Development Plan (PDP) may not hurt you today, but it will after you turn fifty. You may have risen as a superstar because of your reputation. But after you turn fifty, all those who knew you have moved, retired, or died. Your reputation is gone, and you have nothing to show for it because you've failed to improve yourself. I can’t tell you the number of clients I’ve worked with who ended their careers in their fifties. They all had...

This book is about NETWORKING to find a new job by getting your resume read by the right people. What happens to your job search if your resume never gets read by the right people? But here’s the truth about networking: First, 65% of jobs in America are filled by networking with people they already know. Second, networking, if done correctly, is 80% what you can do for others and 20% what they can do for you. Third, networking is something you do every day naturally. Do you have any social media accounts? Fourth, you would use your network to help a friend without thinking about it. ...

THE ART OF ORGANIZING, THE SCIENCE OF KEEPING YOUR ACT TOGETHER — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION Want to consistently produce excellent results by coordinating and scheduling all the human, physical, and financial resources needed to keep your act together? This book shows you how. For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people consistently produce excellent results by arranging and structuring the duties and responsibilities of team members, defining and grouping business activities, and establishing working relationships in the real world, not just in theory, but in action. We’ve worked ...

THE ART OF PLANNING, THE SCIENCE OF VISUALIZING THE FUTURE — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION. Want to consistently produce excellent results by bringing the future into the present, giving you the best chance of influencing the outcome? This book shows you how. For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people consistently produce excellent results by bringing the future into the present, giving them the best chance of influencing the outcome in the real world, not just in theory, but in action. Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to master the Art of ...

THE ART OF DELEGATING, THE SCIENCE OF EMPOWERMENT — REVISED & UPDATED EDITION Want to consistently produce excellent results by enabling others to act on your behalf, allowing you to accomplish more than you ever could on your own. This book shows you how. For over 50 years, we’ve studied how people develop, nurture, and empower others to act on their behalf, consistently producing excellent results in the real world, not just in theory, but in action. Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to master the Art of DELEGATING. We’ve worked ...

This book is about OWNERSHIP MADE SIMPLE. If you’re looking for a better way to inspire people to accept full responsibility and accountability for their work by proactively doing all they can to consistently produce excellent results, this is your book! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. One of the biggest problems people face in business today is how to get people to accept responsibility and accountability for their work. This demands something in business called ...

This book is about Brainstorming. It's the revised and updated 2024 edition. Brainstorming is a group process of producing the greatest number of solutions to resolve a problem or options to achieve a goal. It was created for you and everyone in the workforce, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. It’s one of twenty books that comprise a program called SUCCESS MADE SIMPLE, designed to help you achieve your true potential. The first ten books focus on these ten core competencies: Followership, ...

This book is about how to conduct an AFTER-ACTION REVIEW. If you’re looking for a better way to enhance the training of your employees to consistently produce excellent results, this book is for you! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. One of the biggest problems employers face today is how to train their employees. One way to overcome this is by using the After-Action Review Process. The After-Action Review Process is a training program that observes, measures, and reviews ...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of Decision-Making for Business. If you’re looking for a better way to select the BEST option from several VALID options needed to resolve a problem by using reason and intuition to consistently produce excellent results, this book is for you! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. However, before proceeding, it’s essential to note that this book is one of forty volumes that comprise a revolutionary new program called SUCCESS ...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of Managing Risk for Business. If you want to enhance your ability to proactively identify the risks to your work to minimize their probability and impact in order to consistently produce excellent results, this book is for you! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. However, before proceeding, it’s essential to note that this book is one of forty volumes that comprise a revolutionary new program called SUCCESS MADE SIMPLE. The ...

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of Managing Meetings for Business. If you’re looking for a better way to enhance your ability to gather people together to share information and resolve problems that consistently produce excellent results, this book is for you! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. However, before proceeding, it’s essential to note that this book is one of forty volumes that comprise a revolutionary new program called SUCCESS MADE SIMPLE. The...

TThis book is about how to create PLAYBOOKS. If you’re looking for a better way to keep the business running smoothly, scale successfully, and help teams stay aligned and accountable, this book is for you! It was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. One of the biggest problems people face in business today is how to achieve and maintain their ability to consistently produce excellent results over the long term. This situation demands sustainable processes, systems, and strategies to ...