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Soft skills make the hard skills work! Soft skills are the personal qualities that make you a great communicator, problem solver, and leader on the job—and in your personal life. Soft Skills For Dummies helps you hone in on the traits you already have—or fine tune the ones that may need some extra attention—to market yourself as a workplace leader who's in touch with what today's employers are looking for: people who can lead and inspire through interpersonal communication, cultural awareness, time management, teamwork, critical thinking, and problem solving.

Kendra Adachi, the creator of the Lazy Genius movement, invites you to live well by your own definition and equips you to be a genius about what matters and lazy about what doesn't. Everything from your morning routine to napping without guilt falls into place with Kendra's thirteen Lazy Genius principles.

In The Deadline Effect, Cox shares the strategies these teams used to guarantee success while staying on schedule: a restaurant opening for the first time, a ski resort covering an entire mountain in snow, a farm growing enough lilies in time for Easter, and more. Cox explains how readers can understand the psychological underpinnings of expectations and time, the dynamics of teams and customers, and techniques for using deadlines to make better, more assured decisions.

How new practices can improve your performance in life after COVID-19. The essence of this book is to help and inspire people to adapt smoothly to the new «post-Covid World», the «new normal», as well as helping them improve other aspects of their lives. How new practices can improve your performance in life after COVID-19. The essence of this book is to help and inspire people to adapt smoothly to the new «post-Covid World», the «new normal», as well as helping them improve other aspects of their lives. How new practices can improve your performance in life after COVID-19. The essence of this book is to help and inspire people to adapt smoothly to the new «post-Covid World», the «new normal», as well as helping them improve other aspects of their lives.

A practical, accessible, and charming guide for finding joy while navigating your professional life working remotely from home—without losing your mind.Like it or not, working alone is now the new normal. The COVID-19 pandemic may have accelerated the process, but the trend is clear—making a living outside the confines of a public workplace is here to stay. For anyone who needs guidance on how to navigate working from a home office—or a home sofa—here is a charming, expert, and genuinely helpful guide to managing a productive career without impromptu hallway conversations or on-call IT support, but with more joy—and, for most of us, better coffee.

Trying to remember a bunch of details and tasks isn't the best use of your brainpower. This is not another book on time management; this is a book on how to take back control of your busy life.

This book explains how to develop effective flexibility policies and processes as well as how to communicate and train line managers on these practices. It also includes advice on how to overcome barriers to flexible working, dispels common myths and offers guidance on the different forms of flexible working available to organizations.

Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals.Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO. Through the busts and booms of Silicon Valley in the early 2000s, this bold and inspiring book details the risks she took and the strategies she engaged to steer her family, her career, and her company MetricStream toward success.Through her journey, Shellye discovered that ambition alone is not enough to achieve success. Here, she shares the practical strategies, tools, and approaches readers can employ right now, including concrete steps to most effectively:Dismantle impostor syndrome Capitalize on the power of planning Take risks Developing financial literacy Build your network Establish your reputation Take charge of your career Integrate work, marriage, parenthood, and self-care.

Tear up the playbook and find breakthrough ways to create impact, build meaning, fuel your passion to do bigger, greater things–while enjoying the entire journey.

For over twenty years, Alan Henry has written about using technology and productivity techniques to work and live better for publications such as Lifehacker, The New York Times, and Wired. But he found that as a Black man he didn't have access to some of the more powerful ways to hack your job—like only checking email once a day or blocking out time on your calendar to do deep work. In fact, he found that even when he landed a prestigious title at the Times, there were moments when he was still overlooked and excluded from the most interesting and career-boosting work. In Seen, Heard, and Paid, Henry shares the new work rules that may finally allow people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ folks to have the same access to career advancement and rewarding work as those with more privilege.

This hand-picked collection of books—on management, leadership, entrepreneurship, branding and CSR—offer advice from management experts whose knowledge and research has impacted and shaped business and management education

Trainer Karl Mulle has developed a collection of complete workshops and tools you'll need to conduct effective two-day, one-day, and half-day emotional intelligence workshop programs.

“Using Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace” provides an overview of emotional intelligence and explains how to build important EQ skills. In this issue of TD at Work, you will find: · descriptions of emotional intelligence competencies · a personal EQ assessment · steps for developing emotional intelligence · explorations of workplace trends · stories of employees and leaders learning to manage emotions.

Become a mindful listener at work. Listening is a critical skill that leaders and managers often take for granted. The book will teach you what great listeners do, how to stay fully present in challenging conversations, and how empathic listening can help others learn and grow.

Zachary Wong offers practical strategies, skills, and tools to help project managers diagnose and solve their toughest people problems. The book shows how to confront and correct bad behavior, increase team performance and inclusion, turn around difficult people and poor performers, get people to do what you want them to do, boost employee motivation and attitude, reduce change resistance and risk aversion, and manage difficult bosses.