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Steve Broe

Based on interviews with 33 career changers who became leaders after a transition, LEADERS IN TRANSITION answers the question, “How do you become a leader after a career change?” As people make work transitions in mid-career, some will decide to become a leader. Leaders in Transition explores the challenge of making a significant transition, and guides career changers to become successful in their new work. Career transitions are a substantial change from one career path to another, such as a career military officer who becomes a schoolteacher or principal. After talking to 33 leaders about their career change, five critical factors were identified. This book shows today’s career changer how to take the important next steps to launch an influential new career and find lasting satisfaction leading others.

Sara Canaday

Learn the secrets of accelerating your journey toward success by better understanding yourself and how others perceive you. In You — According to Them: Uncovering the blind spots that impact your reputation and your career, Sara offers practical steps to help you leverage the perceptions of a great reputation into bottom-line success.

If you’ve ever worked in an organization of any size, you’ve probably seen it: the talented geniuses with all the right credentials who don’t really seem to be going anywhere in their chosen careers. Sometimes that “talented genius” is us, and we are hard-pressed to understand what’s blocking our ability to advance.

In her powerful book, You — According to Them, Sara Canaday draws on her years of corporate experience and research to not only explain WHY smart people can end up with stalled careers, but also HOW they can fix the problems (or avoid them in the future). The timing for this insight couldn’t be better, given today’s increasingly competitive work environment.

Ron A. Carucci

It’s been known for decades that failure rates among transitioning executives are too high, leaving exorbitant costs, damaged organizations and careers behind. But little has changed in the way organizations prepare leaders to assume executive positions.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Our ground-breaking ten-year longitudinal study and approach offer a comprehensive look at how successful executives transition to the highest altitudes of their organization, and thrive once there.
Organizations are making strategic bets to drive growth.
Part of the bet includes the executives entrusted with leading the way to success.
Accepting our 50-50 odds as “the best it gets” is no longer an option. Pushing for something better isn’t just possible….it’s necessary.

Stephen Garchow

To be successful, companies must effectively prioritize their near-term business goals with addressing longer-term strategic issues. Executives understand that strategic issues can be devastating if disregarded, but there is a perception that their solution requires considerable time and resources. The daunting prospect of assembling a multidisciplinary team of experts from the myriad business functions required for a comprehensive analysis often leads executives to deprioritize strategic decision-making. This does not need to be the case. With the right tools, long-term issues can be addressed without hampering a company’s success in today’s fast-paced business environment.

This book is a focused, practical guide introducing the Lean Strategic Decision Model (LSDM). LSDM is designed to improve strategic decision effectiveness and efficiency using a simple 9-step process. The author explores many of the personal and group barriers to effective strategic decision-making and demonstrates how the LSDM overcomes them. Learn how to implement a simple process to improve your company’s strategic decision-making.

Halelly Azulay

It has been estimated that 70 percent of employee development takes place through informal learning, rather than through formal learning events. Employee Development on a Shoestring offers insights and lessons for leveraging non-training activities for on-the-job employee development. This hands-on resource delivers specific implementation techniques for developing motivated, engaged employees in today’s “do more with less” business environment. A handy tool kit for any employee developer, this book provides templates and detailed guidelines to help busy managers develop their workforce in a way that is tailored to each employee’s strengths, development needs, and constraints without breaking the bank.

Liz Weber

Are you tired of working 50, 60, 70 or more hours a week? Do you come in early and stay late, just to get your own work done? Are you frustrated by what your team members don’t do or can’t figure out for themselves? Would you like to know why you’re always playing catch-up just to keep-up?

If you answered “yes” to just ONE of these questions, this is the book for you. Leadership expert, author, and management consultant Liz Weber (aka – The Dragon Lady of Leadership Accountability®) shares her model: The Five Stages of Focused Leadership Development™. This model will help you quickly identify why your team depends too heavily on you to solve every problem, causing you to work the long hours you do. Get your life back by leveraging your leadership!

Paul R. Williams

As the speed of business continues to increase, and as focus on an ever growing number of project data points is needed to keep business and project execution in control, new and innovative tools and techniques are required to help busy executives make efficient and effective decisions on where to place investments in money and resources. Because many of these decisions are made in the moment, using whatever facts are available, executives need timely, data-rich and easy to comprehend information. Lengthy, text-heavy project document artifacts consume too much time and effort to both generate and review. New research only confirms that information presented in this manner is both ineffective and inefficient. The fact is, in order for information to be conveyed most efficiently, it needs to be visual.

Today’s project manager has more to manage than just project scope, deliverables, communications and teams. They are also expected to manage large volumes of project-related data. And the expectation goes beyond just managing the data. It extends into creating great visualizations that allow stakeholders to fully digest that large volume of data in a manner that is quick, effective and clear. They are also expected to serve as facilitators in the use of visual thinking tools as a method for working through project issues, risks and problems. These new expectations require new skills. The era of multi-page, text-based project status reporting is over. The era of visual project management is here. Time to “skill up!” Time to become a Visual Project Manager!

Marilyn Suttle

Every customer oriented business has its own Gladys; someone who demands more than most companies are able or willing to give, one who pushes front line service representatives’ buttons, one who requires a higher degree of skill to manage. One who let’s just say it can be difficult. Yet how is it that some businesses prove able not only to satisfy their ‘Gladys’, but turn her into one of their most loyal, utterly pleased customers? Filled with inspiring real-life case studies, “Who’s Your Gladys?” reveals how large and small companies from a variety of industries avoid creating difficult customers in the first place.

Patti Hathaway, M.Ed, CSP

Nonstop change is now the workplace norm. According to a 2013 global survey, 82% of companies had undergone significant reorganizations in the previous year, and only 21% say those efforts were a success. Companies with failed redesigns cited active employee resistance to the change as a challenge. Employees struggle to deal with the enormous amount of change they face and most feel out of control and stumped by the daily uncertainty.

The Institute for Corporate Productivity, a workforce research firm, found that companies surveyed considered their top two critical issues to be coping with change and managing organizational change. And yet, the study found that only 35% of the top performing organizations are effective at managing change. How much more would the other 65% be achieving if they managed change more effectively? What’s the solution?

In this book, you’ll experience practical, uplifting solutions that will allow you to master change, not just survive it. Learn why change is so difficult. Learn how to lessen the pain and stress nonstop change causes. Shift your perspective with inspiring personal stories, groundbreaking research, and proven behavior-change strategies.

Jasmine Sandler

How to Brand Yourself Online Like a CEO is a personal branding manual , available in ebook form on Amazon and Kindle and in print on Createspace.

This book is the second in a series of Digital Marketing manuals for those business professionals that like the DIY model of building and growing their own Online Brands. This book is a quick, intense read with loads of strong CEO Social Brand examples and worksheets to complete. The elements of the book are highly actionable and provide best practices for creating the Online Personal Brand for anyone serious about their career.

How to Brand Yourself Online Like a CEO, the reader is given a manual on how to build, grow and protect an online brand that is geared towards total career success.

In this book, you will learn:

-How to Identify Your Own Personal Brand
-How to Position Your Personal Brand
-How to Determine Your Brand Messaging
-How to Commit to Your Personal Brand Content
-How to Get Into the CEO Role

There are also specific Branding guidelines for each type of professional.

This Online Branding manual is authored by Jasmine Sandler, Personal Branding Expert. For more information and tips on personal branding, read her related Blog pieces, listen to her related interviews and watch her related videos.

The book is also provided to training audiences of Jasmine Sandler’s Personal Branding Consulting and Online Branding Training Programs.

The book is available in single versions online. Discounts are available on bulk orders.