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Title:
The Speed Reading Course
Author:
Peter Shepherd
Pages: 40
Website:
www.trans4mind.com
Summary: We
all learn to read at school, after a fashion. But for most of us, this
is not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn
to better use the left brain's focused attention combined with the right
brain's peripheral attention, in close harmony. Good communication
between the brain hemispheres is a pre-requisite for creative thinking
and also a sense of wellbeing, where thoughts and feelings are
integrated.
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Title:
A Course in Light Speed Reading
Author:
Joseph Bennette
Pages: 109
Website:
www.jbennette.com
Summary:
When I was in second grade I was called upon to read in front of the
class. The material I was required to read was above my ability at the
time and I knew it. I was so frightened to stand in front of the class,
yet I was unable to resist the teacher who was an old-school
disciplinarian. The teacher insisted that I come up and read in front of
the class or receive a severe consequence - she liked to strike the
backs of hands with a ruler, a very intimidating and painful experience.
I was petrified with fright as I stood before my class, many of whom
were snickering and giggling. I gave them quite a show when I released
my bladder in fright. I was so embarrassed, and the teacher so
unsympathetic, that I swore I'd never do that again. I was traumatized
to say the least. I never again stood in front of a class - I took the
consequences instead. Further, I never undertook to read adequately
because that meant "proving" it to my teachers and classmates in some
embarrassing way. So, I went to my mother's mother, my grandma Tuggle.
She was a special reading teacher for the school district I lived in.
She taught me some shortcuts that helped me get through. Some of her
shortcuts are included in this course because they worked so well for
me.
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Title:
Alpha-netics Rapid Reading Program
Author:
Owen D. Skousen
Pages: 114
Website:
Summary:
Over the years, the most effective ways of teaching and learning have
been sought. Every method attempted has had some strong points and some
weak points. Putting the best available methods of teaching and learning
together has been the goal of every parent, school, marketing
organization, sales force, and individual or group that has information,
beliefs, or ideas to communicate or sell to others. Parts One through
Five are all directional and instructional. The actual development of
new skills begins in the Work Section. This section is broken into
practice sessions labeled Week One through Week Four.
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Title:
Leadership for Learning: Tips for Effective Mentoring and Coaching
Author: The
Creative Problem Solving Group--Buffalo
Pages: 12
Website: www.cpsb.com
Summary:
Our expectations for what we learn and how fast we learn it are
increasing at an alarming rate. Our minds are being asked to process
tremendous amounts of change in incredibly short periods of time. To
process that much information to the level we expect will require us to
go well beyond the routine and to the edges of what we know, what we can
do, and what we believe about ourselves and the world around us (Resnick,
1987). Stepping over the edge into the unknown, the uncertain, the
ambiguous can feel threatening. It raises questions about our comfort,
capacity, or commitment to take the next step - into a new level of
learning and growth. It requires us to break through self-doubt, to
create new levels of insight and understanding, and to embrace new
frames of reference for defining ourselves.
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Title:
Effective Coaching
Author:
Pages: 15
Website:
Summary:
The four district managers aren't getting their phone messages fast
enough. They're upset about it, and they say they're losing orders
because of it. All fingers point at Sonya. Incoming calls are routed to
her phone, and her voice mail backs everybody up. You've got to solve
the problem. What's your first move? We'll come back to this situation
after you've learn about the goals of good coaching and how management
by coaching will help you get the information you need.
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Title:
Coaching for an Extraordinary Life
Author:
Terri Levine
Pages: 102
Website: www.terrilevine.com
Summary:
The idea for this book came from my work as a professional and personal
coach. As I coached people of all ages, all backgrounds, and from all
continents, I began to realize the powerful coaching tools I had been
using were changing people's lives, as they learned to use these same
tools for themselves. Later, through the coach training company that I
founded, I learned that many of our students weren't in the training
program to be personal and professional coaches, they were there to use
the tools to be more effective in their personal and professional lives.
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Title:
Executive Coaching: A Guide for the HR Professional
Author:
Anna Marie Valerio and Robert J. Lee
Pages: 241
Website: www.executiveleadershipstrategies.com
Summary:
The purpose of this book is to help human resource professionals and
their clients become more savvy consumers of coaching services. With the
wide array of coaching services now available in the marketplace, HR
professionals need information to allow them to sort through options,
ask discerning questions, and understand what constitutes successful
coaching engagements.
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Title:
Coaching, Mentoring and Managing
Author:
Micki Holliday
Pages: 300
Website:
Summary:
First, managers were hired to manage - take care of the business. Then,
managers had to be leaders - provide vision and mission. Now, they must
recruit and train, inspire and motivate, correct and empower. What's a
poor manager to do? The answer is to coach. As a 21st-century manager,
you are continually challenged to shift how you, as a leader, manage
your most important and only unlimited resource: your people. Henry
Kissinger once said, "Leaders take their staff from where they are to
where they've never been before." That's what the role of coach lets you
do - take a diversely proficient group of people, expand and grow their
skills, keep them satisfied and motivated, and, most importantly in this
competitive environment, retain their talent.
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Title:
Conversation Confidence: Secrets to Fearless Conversation
Author:
Leil Lowndes
Pages: 38
Website: www.lowndes.com
Summary:
How to make an unforgettable first impression. Introduces the series and
gives you 2 techniques you can start using immediately to create a
dynamic first impression in the first minute or less. The first is a
nonverbal technique which makes you come across as a confident, friendly
and outgoing person. The other is a verbal device which creates a
feeling of instant rapport with your conversational partner.
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Title:
Unstoppable Confidence: Unleash Your Natural Confidence Within
Author:
Kent Sayre
Pages: 113
Website: www.kentsayre.com
Summary:
Chapter one describes my background of being painfully shy and how I
overcame my shyness. It continues on with having the reader set some
very specific goals about what they want out of this book so that they
can focus in and accomplish what they want. True confidence is defined
and it's explained why confidence is such an integral part of life.
Chapter two teaches the reader to speak the language of confidence. They
learn how to speak authoritatively and harness the power of confident
words. Furthermore, the reader learns how to eliminate the confidence
destroying words from his or her vocabulary. Chapter three details the
nine factors of unstoppable confidence. There are different factors that
go into making someone confident and they are described in this chapter.
The reader will learn how to use momentum to their benefit, how to
commit to success, and how to discover their own natural motivation
strategy. Chapter four goes into depth about the topic of beliefs.
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Title:
How To Achieve Total Self-Confidence... FAST!
Author:
Mark Anastasi
Pages: 66
Website: www.mark-anastasi.com
Summary: I
have 'studied' what it takes to be totally Self-Confidence intensely for
over 3 years. You see, I had suffered a near-decade of extremely low
self-esteem, and I know all too well the pain that comes from erecting
the mental prison called "I'm not good enough"... It all began when I was
13, and started having acne. That was it, from one day to the next, my
self-esteem and self-confidence were just shot. During recess, I would
hide away in toilets or in the library, out of fear that someone might
see me and go, "What's happened to your FACE??!" I rarely came out of my
room, avoided going to parties, did not eat with the rest of my family,
in fact, avoided other people as much as I could.
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Title:
Fearless Interviewing: How to Win the Job by Communicating with
Confidence
Author:
Marky Stein
Pages: 193
Website: www.markystein.com
Summary:
Have you ever felt jittery before an interview? Nervous or even
terrified? Have you ever wished you had answered a question differently
or negotiated your salary more skillfully? Do you panic when you imagine
the possibility of "failure"? Do you just want to make sure you get it
right the first time? Let's face it. Interviews are not like normal
conversations. Being interviewed can be scary, even for ordinarily
outgoing people. When you're sitting in the hot seat, the interviewer is
an authority figure, and he or she has all or most of the power in the
interview. Guess what? Studies show that more than 60 percent of
interviewers have never been trained in the task of interviewing. Most
of these managers report that they feel "nervous, anxious, confused,
stressed" and even "incompetent" when taking on the responsibility of
conducting a job interview.
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Title:
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Author: Dr.
Robert Anthony
Pages: 152
Website: www.totalsuccess4u.com
Summary: As
you look around at your fellow human beings, you will find it hard to
ignore the fact that very few people are happy, fulfilled and leading
purposeful lives. Most of them seem unable to cope with their problems
and the circumstances of daily living. The majority, settling for the
average, have resigned themselves to "just getting by." Resignation to
mediocrity has become a way of life. As a result, feelings of inadequacy
cause them, quite humanly, to blame society, people, circumstances, and
surrounding conditions for their failures and disappointments. The idea
that people and things control their lives is so thoroughly ingrained in
their thinking that they normally will not respond to logical arguments
that prove otherwise.
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Title:
How To Change Your Shyness
Author:
Pages: 11
Website:
Summary:
While it is possible that shyness is (partly) caused by your genetic
make up, it is my belief that learned behavior (the Nurture part) is
much more powerful. There are so many cases of happy, healthy, vibrant
and outgoing children having their personalities ravaged by abusive
parents or other traumatic situations. And, believe it or not, the
opposite is also true. Quiet, timid, withdrawn people can become more
sociable in the same way. Catatonics and autisms can be brought back to
life, people with "learning disabilities" can become fully literate. It
just takes the right tools.
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Title:
How To Sell Yourself: Winning Techniques for Selling Yourself
Author:
Arch Lustberg
Pages: 206
Website: www.lustberg.ne
Summary:
Communications is the transfer of information from one mind to another
mind, or to a group of other minds. It can be in the form of an idea, a
fact, an image, an emotion, or a story. It can be written, spoken,
drawn, danced, sung, or mimed. Whatever the medium, if the message
doesn't reach the other person, there's no communication, or there's
miscommunication. The simple premise of this book is that every time you
open your mouth, in order for communication to happen, you have to sell
yourself. If you don't sell yourself, communication is nearly
impossible. If you do, your message will get across.
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Title:
Dale Carnegie's Golden Book
Author:
Dale Carnegie
Pages: 7
Website:
www.DaleCarnegie.com
Summary:
This is the Golden Book passed out by the Dale Carnegie organization. It
is a summary list containing the 80 principles that Dale Carnegie taught
in his courses. Dale Carnegie was born in 1888 in Missouri and was
educated at Warrensburg State Teachers College. As a salesman and
aspiring actor, he traveled to New York and began teaching
communications classes to adults at the YMCA. In 1912, the world-famous
Dale Carnegie Course was born. He authored several best-sellers,
including, How To Win Friends and Influence People and How to Stop
Worrying and Start Living. Over 50 million copies of Mr. Carnegie's
books have been printed and published in 38 languages. Mr. Carnegie was
a prominent lecturer of his day and a sought-after counselor to world
leaders. He wrote newspaper columns and had his own daily radio show.
Dale Carnegie founded what is today a worldwide network of over 3,000
instructors and offices in more than 70 countries.
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Title:
Abraham Lincoln Writings Vol 1
Author:
Pages: 57
Website: www.blackmask.com
Summary:
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Title:
Abraham Lincoln Writings Vol 2
Author:
Pages: 62
Website: www.blackmask.com
Summary:
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Title:
Abraham Lincoln Writings Vol 3
Author:
Pages: 42
Website: www.blackmask.com
Summary:
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Title:
Abraham Lincoln Writings Vol 4
Author:
Pages:
Website: www.blackmask.com
Summary:
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Title:
The Power of Concentration
Author:
Theron Q. Dumont
Pages: 100
Website:
Summary: We
all know that in order to accomplish a certain thing we must
concentrate. It is of the utmost value to learn how to concentrate. To
make a success of anything you must be able to concentrate your entire
thought upon the idea you are working out. Do not become discouraged, if
you are unable to hold your thought on the subject very long at first.
There are very few that can. It seems a peculiar fact that it is easier
to concentrate on something that is not good for us, than on something
that is beneficial. This tendency is overcome when we learn to
concentrate consciously. If you will just practice a few concentration
exercises each day you will find you will soon develop this wonderful
power.
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Title:
How to Kick the Worry Habit
Author: Jim Rohn
Pages: 54
Website: www.jimrohn.com
Summary: In
my seminars the last few years I have covered what I have found to be
those few, simple, basic principles that can make major changes in life
and lifestyle. One of those subjects that gets the most comment is:
Diseases of Attitude. And out of that subject, worry and how to kick the
worry habit have caused the most questions. So, in this brief visit with
you, let me give you my best look at worry, how to recognize it and
define it, and what to do about it. And hopefully these ideas will give
you a good chance for confidence over worry.
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Title:
Healing Through the Power of Positive Thinking
Author:
Pages: 27
Website:
Summary:
Healing - is a topic which is becoming more and more pressing from day
to day. Despite, and partly due to our modern medicine, there are now
fewer and fewer people who can rightly say that they are completely
healthy. Conventional medicine runs increasingly into difficulties: The
diseases brought about as a result of the side-effects of medicines
prescribed by physicians are growing in an alarming way. The taking of
many chemical preparations is like a violation of the body. As a result
of the rising environmental pollution, natural healing remedies
increasingly lose their positive effect; the healing power of
homeopathic remedies is also decreasing, because there will soon hardly
be any pure original tinctures.
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Title:
Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Author:
David Allen
Pages: 278
Website: www.davidco.com
Summary:
The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 describes the whole game,
providing a brief overview of the system and an explanation of why it's
unique and timely, and then presenting the basic methodologies
themselves in their most condensed and basic form. Part 2 shows you how
to implement the system. It's your personal coaching, step by step, on
the nitty-gritty application of the models. Part 3 goes even deeper,
describing the subtler and more profound results you can expect when you
incorporate the methodologies and models into your work and your life.
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Title:
Rethinking
Procrastination: Positive Effects of "Active" Procrastination Behavior
on Attitudes and Performance
Author: The
Journal of Social Psychology
Pages: 21
Website: www.heldref.org
Summary:
Researchers and practitioners have long regarded procrastination as a
selfhandicapping and dysfunctional behavior. In the present study, the
authors proposed that not all procrastination behaviors either are
harmful or lead to negative consequences. Specifically, the authors
differentiated two types of procrastinators: passive procrastinators
versus active procrastinators. Passive procrastinators are
procrastinators in the traditional sense. They are paralyzed by their
indecision to act and fail to complete tasks on time. In contrast,
active procrastinators are a "positive" type of procrastinator.
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Title:
Encouraging Entrepreneurial Thinking
Author:
Pages: 15
Website:
Summary: If
you want your employees to be motivated to do their best, and if you
want them to be the most valuable asset on your balance sheet, then let
them feel and experience ownership in the organization. Effective
managers make every employee feel like a business partner. Why? Because
when people feel ownership of something, they look out for it.
Encouraging an entrepreneurial mindset goes beyond profit sharing and
stock options. It's a motivating attitude instilled in others by you,
the manager.
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Title:
A Theory of Human Motivation
Author: A.
H. Maslow
Pages: 21
Website:
Summary:
The present paper is an attempt to formulate a positive theory of
motivation which will satisfy these theoretical demands and at the same
time conform to the known facts, clinical and observational as well as
experimental. It derives most directly, however, from clinical
experience. This theory is, I think, in the functionalist tradition of
James and Dewey, and is fused with the holism of Wertheimer, Goldstein,
and Gestalt Psychology, and with the dynamicism of Freud and Adler. This
fusion or synthesis may arbitrarily be called a 'general-dynamic'
theory.
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Title:
Public Speaking Workbook
Author: Sam
Walch
Pages: 47
Website:
Summary: In
its most basic form, communicating involves a sender who takes his/her
thoughts and encodes them into verbal and nonverbal messages that are
sent to a receiver. The receiver then decodes the messages and attempts
to understand what the sender meant to communicate. The communication
process is completed when the receiver transmits verbal and nonverbal
feedback to indicate his/her reception and understanding of the message.
This process takes place within a context, also known as a rhetorical
situation, which includes all that affects the communication process
such as the sender-receiver's culture, the sender-receiver's
relationship, the circumstances surrounding the sender-receiver's
interaction, and the physical environment of the interaction.
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Title:
Essential Speaking Skills Handbook
Author: Kim
McFarland and Tom Vizzini
Pages: 19
Website: www.essential-skills.com
Summary:
Your tonality is very important, because you are using your voice to
persuade others. If your voice isn't pleasant to listen to, who is going
to sit and listen to it long enough for you to get what you want. Also,
you need to be able to effectively control your voice in order to use
techniques such as embedded commands and voice pacing. Posture is
important because if the body is not properly aligned the voice can't
come out with the power, the resonance, and the projection that it
naturally has.
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Title:
The
Certifiable Salesperson: The Ultimate Guide to Help Any Salesperson Go
Crazy with Unprecedented Sales!
Author: Tom
Hopkins and Laura Laaman
Pages: 177
Website: www.lauralaaman.com
Summary:
Many professions, including accounting, law, and medicine, have a
certification program that sets the standard for success within that
particular profession. Until now, the sales industry has not had such a
widely accepted tool. Some progressive businesses have developed a
certification program within their companies. Unfortunately, many
programs focus on product knowledge and fall short of the sales skills
needed to excel. Perhaps not having such a generalized program
contributes to the reason why sales has not viii The Certifiable
Salesperson been given the respect granted to other professions. Such
guidelines will help each salesperson understand what strategies are
necessary to becoming highly successful.
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Title:
Surefire Sales Letter Secrets: How To Create A Fortune In Your Business
With Powerful Direct Mail
Author:
Yanik Silver
Pages: 50
Website: www.surefiremarketing.com
Summary:
What's the first thing you think of when you hear "Direct Mail"? I'd bet
you say "junk mail," right? Wrong! Direct mail is only junk mail if
people are not interested in what you send them. If you carefully target
who your top potential clients are and provide them with valuable
information - you are not sending junk mail. Here's an example: Let's
say you're really into raising Pot Belly Pigs and in your mailbox comes
a letter telling you how to make your little piggie do all kinds of neat
tricks. Would that be junk mail to you? No way! You'd want to rip that
thing open right away to find out what it's all about. And this kind of
precise targeting is what makes direct mail so powerful. What's more,
that precision is coupled with detailed accountability and tracking.
It's easy for companies to spend tens of hundreds of dollars on
advertising and not really know what their results were.
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Title:
The 24 Sales Traps
Author:
Dick Canada
Pages: 199
Website:
Summary: A
wise person once said that you should begin a project with the end in
mind. If that were the case, when you finished reading this book, this
is what you would have learned: It is not what sales and marketing
people don't know that is most likely to significantly hurt their
performance; it is what they think they know that turns out to be either
a partial truth, fallacy, or mistaken belief that affects their results
more. We call these half-truths and falsehoods sales traps, and each
trap springs from validated research. There are 24 traps that could be
adversely affecting individual, team, group, and company sales
performance. So much for the ending, let's go to the beginning.
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Title:
An Information Multi-Millionaire
Author:
Robert G. Allen
Pages: 44
Website: www.robertgallen.com
Summary:
Welcome to the business of selling information. I call it info-preneuring.
(An info-preneur is an entrepreneur who sells information.) It is the
most exciting business in the world. If you do this business right,
within a few months, total strangers will be sending you money for your
ideas.... even if you think your ideas are worthless!
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Title:
Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting
Author:
William "Skip" Miller and Ron Zemke
Pages: 176
Website: www.m3learning.com
Summary:
Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting: How to Cold Call, Get Qualified Leads,
and Make More Money is about making the most of your cold-calling
opportunities. It is about developing the skill and judgment that lets
you know when to pursue a prospect all the way to customer status, and
when to cut your losses and move on. In fact, we've tried to make that
even easier for you. Throughout the book you will find our sales
prospector. When you see this little guy, pay close attention. He'll
offer nuggets of wisdom that will help you find gold with all of your
prospects. More than that, Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting: How to Cold
Call, Get Qualified Leads, and Make More Money is about creating a
personal program of cold-call selling, building the skills necessary to
work it, and developing the stamina-the patience-to do so, until one day
you, like young Thomas, become a master of cold-call selling.
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Title:
How to Make $1,000,000
Author:
Pages: 21
Website: www.mrfire.com
Summary: What we are
going to talk about is how you can make $1,000,000. It probably sounds like a preposterous statement, depending where
you are financially right now. I think that
my tip of the day is for you to set an intention. What do you want to learn? What do you want
to experience? And beyond that, what do you want to achieve?
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Title:
The Greatest Money-Making Secret in History!
Author: Joe
Vitale
Pages: 111
Website: www.mrfire.com
Summary: If
you want money, you only have to do one thing. It's the one thing some
of the wealthiest people on the planet have done and are doing. It's the
one thing written about in various ancient cultures and still promoted
today. It's the one thing that will bring money to anyone who does it
but at the same time most people will fear doing it. What is that one
thing? John D. Rockefeller did it since he was a child. He became a
billionaire. Andrew Carnegie did it, too. He became a tycoon. What is
the greatest money-making secret in history? What is the one thing that
works for everyone? Give money away. That's right. Give it away.
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Title:
Consultative Selling: The Hanan Formula for High-Margin Sales at High
Levels
Author:
Mack Hanan
Pages: 255
Website:
Summary:
Consultative Selling is profit improvement selling. It is selling to
high-level customer decision makers who are concerned with profit
indeed, who are responsible for it, measured by it, evaluated by it, and
accountable for it. Consultative Selling is selling at high margins so
that the profits you improve can be shared with you. High margins to
high-level decision makers: This is the essence of Consultative Selling.
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Title:
Objections! Objections! Objections! How to Conquer Objections
Author:
Gavin Ingham
Pages: 144
Website: www.gaviningham.net
Summary:
Many sales books talk about objections and objection handling but then
fail to put their money where their mouth is and produce a truly useable
guide that salespeople everywhere will want to keep on their desks. This
is truly achieved in Objections! Objections! Objections!
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Title:
How to Be Utterly Relaxed about Cold Calling!
Author:
Pages: 3
Website:
Summary: If
we cannot get ourselves out there properly in the market place, we have
no chance at all of success. If we get out there but are battling nerves
or doubt, then our performance will be mediocre at best.
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Title:
The Sales Success Handbook: 20 Lessons to Open and Close Sales Now
Author:
Linda Richardson
Pages: 65
Website: www.richardson.com
Summary:
Sales talk. What is it? It is more than you talking. Sales talk takes
two. It is not a monologue. It is a dialogue. It is a customer-centered
exchange of information that begins and ends with the customer whose
needs must drive the conversation. You have a sales approach you use
consciously or unconsciously every day. How open are you to looking at
your sales talk up close? If you are open, these lessons can help you
assess yourself, spot your strengths and weaknesses, and change your
sales talk. You will tap into your natural skills, leverage your
knowledge, and sell more by creating compelling dialogues with your
customers.
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Title:
What makes this e-mailed sales letter hypnotic?
Author: Joe
Vitale
Pages: 3
Website: www.mrfire.com
Summary: I
sent the following short sales letter by email to my own list of some
800 names. There was an immediate boost in sales. Amazon.com had to
back-order the book I was selling in the letter. My publisher's online
server went down due to all the orders they got at once. But something
even more shocking happened. Many people wrote to me and actually asked
how I was able to *make* them read the letter. They said they couldn't
stop reading it! Others said they felt compelled by some unseen force to
read every word of it. Still others just mindlessly read the letter but
then automatically---as if obeying a subliminal command---went to
amazon.com and ordered the book I was selling. Afterwards, they wrote me
and confessed they felt they had been "hypnotized."
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Title:
How to Make Your Ads, Sales Letters, and Websites Sell like Crazy
Author:
Mark Hendricks
Pages: 109
Website: www.hunteridge.com
Summary: Since you've
probably been online a while now, and have gotten pretty used to using
Email, you've most likely made this observation already, but I'll ask
you anyway... Have you noticed that most folks write short and bare-bones
Email messages? I mean they write messages as if a simple-minded
computer who only understands binary language was at the other end of
the modem line, instead of "a real, live, and breathing human being."
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Title:
The Mind guide to relaxation
Author:
Mind Publications
Pages: 9
Website: www.mind.org.uk
Summary:
Learning how to relax improves day-to-day living, and can be a valuable
tool for coping with stress of any kind. This booklet explores why
people have problems trying to relax and how to resolve them. It
explains how to introduce more relaxation into your everyday life, and
how to take it further. It is not designed to go into specific deep
relaxation techniques.
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Title:
Reliving Trauma: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Author:
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Pages: 3
Website: www.nimh.nih.gov
Summary:
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can
develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave
physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events that may
trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused
disasters, accidents, or military combat. Among those who may experience
PTSD are military troops who served in the Vietnam and Gulf Wars; rescue
workers involved in the aftermath of disasters like the terrorist
attacks on New York City and Washington, DC; survivors of the Oklahoma
City bombing; survivors of accidents, rape, physical and sexual abuse,
and other crimes; immigrants fleeing violence in their countries;
survivors of the 1994 California earthquake, the 1997 North and South
Dakota floods, and hurricanes Hugo and Andrew; and people who witness
traumatic events. Family members of victims also can develop the
disorder. PTSD can occur in people of any age, including children and
adolescents.
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Title:
Diagnosis and Management of Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder
Author:
Bradley D. Grinage
Pages: 6
Website: www.aafp.org
Summary:
Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating anxiety
disorder that may cause significant distress and increased use of health
resources, the condition often goes undiagnosed. The lifetime prevalence
of PTSD in the United States is 8 to 9 percent, and approximately 25 to
30 percent of victims of significant trauma develop PTSD. The emotional
and physical symptoms of PTSD occur in three clusters: re-experiencing
the trauma, marked avoidance of usual activities, and increased symptoms
of arousal. Before a diagnosis of PTSD can be made, the patient's
symptoms must significantly disrupt normal activities and last for more
than one month. Approximately 80 percent of patients with PTSD have at
least one comorbid psychiatric disorder. The most common comorbid
disorders include depression, alcohol and drug abuse, and other anxiety
disorders. Treatment relies on a multidimensional approach, including
supportive patient education, cognitive behavior therapy, and
psychopharmacology. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are the
mainstay of pharmacologic treatment.
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Title:
Combat Stress: Department of the Army
Author:
Department of the Army
Pages: 94
Website: www.army.mil
Summary:
This publication contains essential information about combat and
combat-related stress. It describes, in layman's terms, techniques to
prevent, identify, and treat harmful combat stress reactions at the
lowest level or until professional medical assistance is available. It
provides a basic understanding of the causes of stress and describes the
preventive actions that can be taken to avoid or reduce its harmful
effects. It describes how to identify and manage combat stress symptoms
when they appear, and provides techniques to prepare units to handle
combat stress reactions when they occur. All small-unit leaders should
read this publication. Unless otherwise stated, whenever the masculine
gender is used, both men and women are included.
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Title:
Combat Stress: U.S. Marine Corps
Author:
Department of the Navy
Pages: 94
Website: www.navy.mil
Summary:
Combat Stress is the mental, emotional or physical tension, strain, or
distress resulting from exposure to combat and combat-related
conditions. Controlling combat stress is a command responsibility. In
terms of Service members lost from action and reduced performance,
combat stress seriously affects mission accomplishment. It is a leader's
responsibility to take action to strengthen Service members' tolerance
to combat stress and manage it in his or her unit.
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Title:
Success Plan for Building Coalitions of Support
Author:
IdeaBridge
Pages: 5
Website: www.ideabridge.com
Summary:
Universal Principles of Business Achievement: The Four Key Determinants
of Success in Business 1. Have a Great Attitude 2. Have a Strong Work
Ethic 3. Create Value For Your Company 4. Stay Out of Trouble! The
Universal Qualities of Successful Business People: 1. Focus On Your
Unique Talents and Skills 2. Develop a Clear Sense of Direction 3.
Maintain Complete Focus and Concentration When Working 4. Develop a
Reputation for Speed and Accuracy 5. Concentrate Single-Mindedly On One
Thing At A Time 6. Maintain The Highest Standards of Character and
Integrity 7. View Yourself As Self-Employed 8. Collect Friendly IOUs 9.
Focus On Continuous Self Improvement 10. Hand Out With Successful People
and Find A Mentor 11. Be Teachable and Admit When You Don't Know 12. Be
A Team Player
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Title:
Successful Stress Management in A Week
Author:
Cary Cooper and Alison Straw
Pages: 8
Website:
Summary:
"Stress" as a word is no firmyl embedded in our vocabulary, although our
parents rarely used it in its present context, let alone our
grandparents. Yet these days, in the course of a week it would not be
unusual to hear "stress" used to describe a wide range of feelings,
symptoms and situations.
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Title:
Success Coaching: The Best-Kept Secret of the Super-Rich
Author:
Robert Stuberg
Pages: 48
Website: www.stuberg.com
Summary:
Did you ever notice how so many great athletes and Olympic champions
credit their coaches for the success they have achieved? In other walks
of life, students credit their teachers, children credit their parents,
and businesspeople credit their bosses or mentors . . . and these
authority figures, if they are talented in their fields, are all
coaches, too, in their own way. Like sports coaches, they help their
proteges reach the potential of their talents, set important goals, and
motivate them toward ultimate success. There is another kind of coach
you have probably heard something about - a kind that combines
characteristics of all of these and then some - and that is a personal
coach. A personal coach may not be in a recognized leadership position
but he or she has the potential for being more inspirational and getting
more positive results than any other kind of coach.
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Title:
TurboCoach: A Powerful System for Achieving Breakthrough Career Success
Author:
Campbell Fraser
Pages: 223
Website:
Summary: In
TurboCoach you'll find the same proven, practical, powerful techniques
and exercises that we offer our coaching clients (who spend thousands of
dollars per year to learn and apply them!), and you'll be able to apply
them right away to improve your own personal performance immediately.
TurboCoach will be your coach. With TurboCoach at your side, teaching
and encouraging you, you will learn how to set standards, priorities,
and goals; analyze yourself and identify your personal strengths;
delegate, outsource, and eliminate tasks and activities so you can
concentrate on the things that are most valuable to you and your
company; commit to specific plans of action and improvement; and measure
your own success on a predetermined timeline. With TurboCoach as your
guide you will be able to achieve the same kind of breakthrough results
as our personal coaching clients: achieving balance in your life while
at the same time obtaining financial success and independence on
schedule.
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Title:
Be More, Make More, Work Less
Author:
Veronica Lim
Pages: 14
Website: www.veronicalim.com
Summary:
Just what is it that you want? Focus. Just what does it mean? The
dictionary defines it as "point on which interest, activity is
centered."
And before that comes the question, what will you focus on? In other
words, just what is it that you want? Stop for a moment and ask yourself
that question.
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Title:
Operation Excellence: Succeeding in Business and Life- The U.S. Military
Way
Author:
Mark Bender
Pages: 241
Website: www.traintough.com
Summary:
Use this book as an instrument to discover truth. Before you can change
your life you've got to get to the truth. You can handle the truth. And
the truth will set you free. This book is like a mirror-to view where
you are today and to formulate how you're going to get where you want to
be tomorrow. Subject what's here to rigorous examination. But suspend
some of the preconceptions that inevitably come up about the military.
If you'll do that you'll find Operation Excellence can be a vehicle to
change your life. But you've got to get beyond Sergeant Bilko, Gomer
Pyle, and the guys on M*A*S*H. OK, that stuff is funny. All right,
hilarious. Some of it's even true. But it masks the larger truth of the
important processes that take place in our military. That's why so many
of our success strategies are, in effect, secret. Nobody's made the
translation from what we do to excel in a life-or-death industry to what
works in business and life. Until now.
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Title:
The Science of Getting Rich
Author:
Wallace D. Wattles
Pages: 63
Website:
Summary:
This book is fragmatical not philosophical - a practical manual, not a
treatise upon theories. It is intended for the men and women whose most
pressing need is for money, who wish to get rich first, and philosophize
afterward. It is for those who want results and who are willing to take
the conclusions of science as a basis for action, without going into all
the processes by which those conclusions were reached.
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Title:
Make Yourself a Millionaire: How to Sleep Well and Stay Sane on the Road
to Wealth
Author:
Charles C. Zhang with Lynn L. Chen-Zhang
Pages: 367
Website:
Summary:
It's not an easy or a quick process to become wealthy. Actually, it
takes a lot of discipline and hard work. However, recent history has
shown us that becoming wealthy can indeed happen overnight. Over the
past few years, we've seen many people strike it rich through the stock
market. Internet stocks, IPOs, and stock options-it seemed that
everywhere we looked there was someone else, and usually a young someone
else, who had just suddenly become worth millions of dollars. Every week
or so there was another initial public offering of a company whose stock
price would soar into the range of hundreds of dollars. People were
quitting their jobs to become day traders, all in the name of money and
riches.
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Title:
The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle
Author: Jim Rohn
Pages: 95
Website: www.jimrohn.com
Summary:
Most books are written to entertain or inform. This book is written so
that it might inspire. By virtue of the fact that you have been come
into possession of this book, there is the strong suggestion that you
are already in the process of looking for something. There is also a
strong possibility that there is something in your like you would like
to change. Perhaps you feel that you are worth more than you are
currently being paid or that you have more talent and ability than your
current occupation permits you to use. Maybe you are wrestling with some
personal dilemma that has you bewildered.
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Title:
How to Act like a CEO: 10 Rules for Getting to the Top and Staying There
Author: D. A. Benton
Pages: 224
Website:
Summary:
Whether you're a CEO now or on your way to becoming one, you want to be
a good one. No, a great one! That's wonderful. That's what is needed in
the business world. Your employees, customers, investors, community, and
competitors will demand it. But most importantly you want to be the best
because that's the kind of person you are. Like California winemaker,
Robert Mondavi says, "Even when I played marbles as a child, I wanted to
be the best." You are who I like to work with. You have basic ambition,
drive, and talent. You'll put the effort in, and you'll make a
difference in the world for all the people around you. You'll be what
Super bowl Champion Denver Broncos coach, Mike Shanahan, wants on his
team, "A difference maker."
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Title:
Diamond Power? Gems of Wisdom From America's Greatest Marketer
Author:
Barry Farber
Pages: 410
Website: www.barryfarber.com
Summary:
Diamond Power is divided into 20 different areas that help us live
better business and personal lives. It is a compilation of information
and insight gathered from my 20 years of seminars, books, tapes, and
radio and television shows. The experience I've gained has been my
training ground, my ongoing university. This has really been an
encyclopedia of information that I can draw from. It's helped me develop
a literary agency that represents high-profile people, from television
personalities to world-champion athletes. It's helped me develop a
company that manufactures and licenses innovative products like the
world's only FoldzFlat Pen. It's helped me earn a black belt and
compete in martial arts competitions.
Title:
The Art of What Works: How Success Really Happens
Author:
William Duggan
Pages: 304
Website:
Summary:
This book tells how Leonardo and Jack Welch did it. And not just them:
We find dozens of others throughout the ages. Napoleon Bonaparte, Bill
Gates of Microsoft, Ray Kroc of McDonald's, and top companies like
Nokia, Marriott, Johnson & Johnson-the list goes on and on. The art of
what works is the secret of strategy, a timeless truth for success in
business or any other field. This book presents principles, tools, and
examples to help you apply the art of what works yourself. We study
success, to see how it happened. Our trail leads mostly through business
strategy, but it leads also to science, art, war, government, the
nonprofit sector, psychology, and Eastern and Western philosophy. We
hunt for success from many angles. Time and again, in case after case,
the answer turns out to be the same: the art of what works.
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Title:
The Challenge to Succeed: A Philosophy for Successful Living
Author: Jim
Rohn
Pages: 84
Website: www.jimrohn.com
Summary:
Jim Rohn begins his presentation with the words, "It is a challenge to
succeed. If it were not...more people would be successful." Often,
though, thinking about it the most difficult part. Today you took the
hardest step-the first step. And as Mr. Rohn also says, let's not waste
our time on things that don't count. So let's do something that does
count and jump right into making this philosophy for successful living
work for you.
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Title:
The Greatest Obstacle to Success and How to Overcome It
Author: Dr.
Robert Anthony
Pages: 20
Website: www.totalsuccess4u.com
Summary:
Our life is about a string of moments in time. So often we stand in our
unhappiness trying to improve a future moment. The problem is that this
moment is where we are creating what we call our "future". Most people
are looking toward a future time for pleasure and a feeling of
satisfaction, but very few experience it in the NOW. Yet NOW is the only
time that exists. What you are being, living, thinking and feeling in
the present moment will determine your happiness. It also determines how
much time you spend on worrying about the future.
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Title:
The Ultimate Success Secret
Author:
Daniel S. Kennedy
Pages: 71
Website: www.dankennedy.com
Summary: I
believe that I have identified the one, single, sole "secret of success"
universally shared and relied on, above all other success secrets, by
all extraordinarily successful individuals. And it is my contention that
any person who discovers, accepts, comes to understand, and gives
priority, paramount importance to this one secret can and will quickly
create unbelievable breakthroughs in his or her life. I have paid a lot
less attention to the thinking of the successful, and paid a lot more
attention to their behavior.
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Title:
46 Ideas to make your business a Booming Success
Author:
Astrowhiz.com
Pages: 87
Website: www.astrowhiz.com
Summary:
There is a difference, you know! In fact, people that don't recognize
the difference within a year after starting their business will suffer
for this lack of knowledge until they do. Let me give you an example to
help you fully understand what I'm talking about. Suppose you went out
this afternoon, purchased a computer system and some start-up business
software at your local Office Max. You come home -- all excited -- ready
to get your new business going. (Everyone has experienced this same type
of feeling.) It gives you a great exhilarated feeling to finally take
the first step to making your dream become a visual reality.
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Title:
365 "Power Quotes" From 27 Of The Worlds Top Internet Marketing
Millionaires
Author:
Pages: 102
Website:
Summary:
There has to be a way to do all the jobs in Internet Marketing more
effectively and efficiently, whether its search engine optimization or
writing great sales copy, creating a winning Google Adwords campaign,
understanding customer sales psychological or just coming up with new
and profitable product ideas. With unswerving and shameless
determination, I have left no aspect uncovered in my quest to ensure
this ebook is as thorough as possible. I have begged, cajoled and, I'm
ashamed to say, issued thinly veiled threats to 27 of the Worlds Top
Internet Marketing Millionaires in order to reveal the secrets of their
success.
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Title:
Time Management for Busy People
Author:
Katey Walker and Nayda I. Torres
Pages: 4
Website:
Summary:
How often do you say, "I'd like to do that, but I don't have time?"
Learning to manage time is a problem for many people. Employers,
employees, students, and home managers alike complain that there are
never enough hours in the day to get things done. The essence of time
management is to put some things first, others second, and still others
third. Set goals and order them from most to least important. Then
develop a time plan for meeting them. Control your actions in order to
make the most of your time. Learning to manage time means learning to
manage yourself.
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Title:
Time Management Skills
Author:
Pages: 36
Website:
Summary:
Time Management skills are essential for successful people - these are
the practical techniques which have helped the leading people in
business, sport and public service reach the pinnacles of their careers.
The skills explained in the articles below help you to become reliable
and effective and show you how to identify and focus on the activities
that give you the greatest returns. The section finishes by explaining
goal-setting, which is a vitally important skill for achieving what you
want to achieve with your life. While you are reading these articles,
have a look at the time management book reviews, resources and stores on
the sidebars - these will help you to develop your skills further and
will support you in your regular use of time management skills.
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Title:
Time Management
Author:
Marc Mancini
Pages: 177
Website:
Summary:
The primary benefit to you, as you read and absorb the lessons here,
will be an increase in your on-the-job productivity. But, like other
books in the Briefcase Books series, Time Management is designed to
provide you with far more than that. It's intended to assist you, as
well, in helping your frontline staff refine their own time-management
skills, in making their jobs easier, and in making them more productive.
Even more, it will help you to apply the skills you learn to your life
outside the workplace-to your home, your relationships with family and
friends-in short, to your life in general. This book, as you'll
discover, also covers a myriad of other topics that intersect with time
management, like organization, efficiency, and goal setting for your
personal life. Indeed, time management doesn't exist in a vacuum. It
meshes into the very fabric of our daily lives. It goes to the core of
how happy and fulfilling our days ought to be.
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