SPEECH: Explore part of the healing equation overlooked by conventional medicine - the spirit's unlimited capacity for self-healing and divine connection.
SPEECH: In this animated and inspiring program, he speaks on a wide range of issues, including health, illness, spirituality, life, death, and human sexuality.
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Speaking of Faith: Spirituality & Recovery by Krista Tippett
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RADIO/TV PROGRAM: Krista Tippett explores the spiritual foundation of addiction and recovery. She speaks with Lakota teacher and healer Basil Brave Heart, who describes how the 12 Steps find resonance in indigenous spiritual practices. Also, author Susan Cheever, who's published a biography of Bill Wilson. Cheever knows addiction and recovery in her own life and in the life of her father, the late fiction writer John Cheever.
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Boss Talk
By The Editors of the Wall Street Journal
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AUDIOBOOK: Timeless and effective business lessons from 21 top CEOs. "Boss Talk" presents expert advice on critical issues from a wide range of CEOs including Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Tina Brown, Ian Schrager, Steve Ballmer, and Sanford Weill.
AUDIO: Peter Navarro discusses today's unprecedented level of macroeconomic turbulence - from oil price hikes to drought and disease. Whether an executive, a strategist or an investor, Navarro provides the tools to align every facet of business strategy, tactics and operations to reflect changing business conditions. Keeping in mind finance, supply chains, production, marketing, HR and more, the author outlines ways to profit from the chaos of business cycle volatility by implementing the appropriate strategy.
AUDIOBOOK: If you're a boss, or hope to become one, or have a less-than-great boss, then this is the book that could change your career-and your life. Useful advice on how to handle the tough stuff (from having to fire a long-time employee to being a new boss with a demoralized team) the stories, observations, and advice contained in this gem of a book will set your feet in the right direction.
The bestselling author who brought you How to Become CEO and How to Become a Rainmaker knows the territory about which he speaks. His stories from bosses who have cared equally for employees' lives and the bottom line will inspire you to see that profit counts, but so do camaraderie, motivation, and a great place to work.
AUDIOBOOK: Jack Welch's innovative leadership strategies revived a lagging GE, transforming it into a powerhouse with a staggering $300 billion-plus market capitalization. Jack Welch tick. Learn how to work the Welch magic on your own company as you find out how he dismantled the boundaries between management layers, between engineers and marketers, between GE and its customers to streamline the process of getting products and services to market. Get details on Welch's far-reaching Six Sigma quality initiative, and discover how its principles and standards can save billions of dollars, how and why he has made GE a truly global company (and why you must think global as well), and all the other Welch "Midas touch" strategies you can put to work in your organization, at every level!
Kingdomality: An Ingenious New Way to Triumph in Management By Sheldon Bowles, Richard Silvano and Susan Silvano
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AUDIOBOOK: More than 13 million people across the world have discovered Kingdomality, an extraordinary new way to achieve more success than you ever thought possible. This is an audiobook you'll want to share with everyone from the CEO to the newest entry-level hire.
Valuable lessons in the creation of high-performance teams, assigning appropriate tasks, hiring and rewarding employees, and creating an effective, efficient, fun, and profitable workplace. In this fresh and original way of approaching business, you'll join the millions of others who have discovered why you should never send a Sheperd to do the job of a Black Knight, and vice versa.
Kingdomality will transform your workplace. Know yourself, know others, and know success!
Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know By Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
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AUDIOBOOK: This book by psychologists Henry Cloud and John Townsend provides small-group leaders with valuable guidance and information on how they can help their groups to grow spiritually, emotionally, and relationally.
In addition to describing what makes small groups work, Making Small Groups Work explains the roles and responsibilities of both leaders and group members. This book show how to identify and find solutions for common problems such as boredom, noncompliance, passivity, aggression, narcissism, spiritualization, over-neediness, over-giving, and nonstop talking.
AUDIOBOOK: The ways that leaders emerge from being ordinary "transactional" deal-makers to become dynamic agents of major social change who empower their followers. Transforming Leadership burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies through Europe's absolute monarchies to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and democracy. The book address the greatest global leadership challenge of the 21st century: the problem of global poverty.
What the Critics Say
"An excellent examination of the art of motivating, organizing, and directing people for the common good." (Booklist)
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful! By Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
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AUDIOBOOK: What's holding you back? Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. Perhaps one small flaw, a behavior you barely even recognize, is the only thing that's keeping you from where you want to be.
Who can help? Marshall Goldsmith is an expert at helping global leaders overcome their (sometimes unconscious) annoying habits and attaining a higher level of success. His one-on-one coaching comes with a six-figure price tag. But with this audiobook, you'll get Marshall's great advice without the hefty fee!
What Makes a Leader? By Daniel Goleman, Jack Welch and Suzy Welch
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AUDIOBOOK: No one knows leadership like Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric. Along with his wife and best-selling co-author, Suzy Welch, he explores with Daniel Goleman what it means to be a great leader, and what elements must be present for any leader to be successful. Self-awareness to the ability to instill core values in a team, are part of that success. Discovering how to nurture emotional intelligence, beginning as early as childhood, plays a crucial role in the ultimate success of any leader. Now, in What Makes a Leader?, listeners can learn from the best how to create an environment that helps leadership to thrive.
AUDIOBOOK: The careers of seven CEOs, world-renowned for their consistent and phenomenal success, and details the methodologies that propelled them to the top as industry leaders.
What the Critics Say:
"Helps you apply the lessons gleaned from these masters." (Forbes)
Find The Balance: Essential Steps to Fulfilment in Your Work and Life by Deborah Tom
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AUDIOBOOK: The key to achieving well-being and happiness was once thought to stem from building our careers and achieving wealth and comfort. However, research shows that many suffer negatively from trying to balance their work with their personal commitments. Long working hours result not in increased productivity but in decreased performance and stress-related illness. We need to rethink our approach to our social, professional, and personal lives: to create a future that offers the opportunity to relax, pursue personal interests, and spend time with our families and friends, whilst performing effectively and productively at work to ensure that businesses thrive.
Life Matters: Creating a Dynamic Balance of Work, Family, Time, and Money By A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill
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AUDIOBOOK: Creative ways to successfully balance four major aspects of life: family, money, work and time. The premise of their program rests on what the authors call three gotta do's-validate expectations, optimize effort and develop navigational intelligence.
What the Critics Say:
"Profound knowledge is literally what this book is. In fact, what I would say is 'profound wisdom,' because it interweaves timeless, universal, self-evident principles into all of the knowledge that is given....I hope you share my passion for this remarkable book." ~ Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
"Its advice is sound and can easily be applied to daily life." ~ Publishers Weekly
On-the-Fly Guide to Balancing Work & Life By Bill Butterworth
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AUDIOBOOK: Bill Butterworth will make you laugh -- and learn while you're doing it!
The attitudes and actions that result in steady success over the long haul are what make for long-term satisfaction and achievement. To experience this for yourself, you need to understand how to deal with life's inevitable challenges:
The "Hazies": losing sight of long-term goals
The "Lazies": lacking the self-discipline to bring life back into focus
The "Crazies": allowing life to run out of control
Each of these can be conquered by three "clarifying triangles": setting clear priorities, learning the discipline of endurance, and reaching the finish line through skillful pacing. It all adds up to a succinct and inspiring guide to balancing excellence at work with fulfillment in all of life.
HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying: Respecting Diversity by Claire Schoen
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RADIO/TV PROGRAM: Respecting Diversity" is the third in a series of three programs about helping people to live well as they face death. Winner of both the Gracie and Clarion awards for Best Documentary Series.
As we face our own death, or that of someone close to us, what we want and what we need depends on who we are. And, in this nation of immigrants, our cultural background, the language we speak, the religion we practice all influence our views on dying. The medical establishment has its own ideas on what a "good death" entails that may be very different and even at odds with what a patient may want. Assumptions and stereotyping on the part of doctors and nurses can result in inadequate care and sometimes even cross the line into discrimination.
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FIRST FRIDAY ARCHIVE: w/ RIANE EISLER hosted by Coaching Circles
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Listen to our audio archive of Coaching Circles' First Friday Call-In Workshop with RIANE EISLER, international speaker and author of the new book "The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics".
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The Secret By Rhonda Byrne
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AUDIOBOOK: In this audiobook you will discover the Secret, and you will learn how to have, do, or be anything you want. You will learn how to use the Secret in every area of your life. You will hear from modern-day teachers - men and women who have used the Secret to achieve health, prosperity, relationships, and happiness. They share their incredible stories of using the Secret to eradicate disease, acquire massive wealth, overcome obstacles, and achieve what many would regard as impossible. Through them, you will begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that is within you, and the true magnificence that awaits you.
Attitude Plus Self-Confidence: The Cornerstone for Personal and Professional Success By Keith Harrell
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AUDIOBOOK: f you are not where you want to be in life, renowned motivational speaker Keith D. Harrell is here to share the secret of making successful change and having the life your desire, and it all begins with attitude and self-confidence.
Aside from offering encouragement and inspriration, Keith gives you a plan to get yourself on the path that leads to success!
PERIODICAL: This Audible edition of the Harvard Business Review for December 2002 features an article warning you that if you follow the traditional career change advice, you may learn "How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career."
BOOK: You've just been promoted to a new leadership position. You're not yet sure of the challenges ahead or how you will meet them. All you know is that you have three months to get on top of the job and move forward, or fail.
Road map for taking charge quickly and effectively during critical career transition periods, whether you're a first-time manager or a new.
AUDIOBOOK: Every day, we set out to create a better life, a better career, or a better business. We often fail, because we fall into old patterns. But what if by devoting just one single, focused hour a week you could make big improvements in your professional life? And what if you knew in advance exactly what to focus on so that you could utterly destroy your old patterns?
Just as top athletes have coaches to help them focus on specific areas of their game, Dave Lakhani will help you focus on those issues that have the greatest impact on your success in life and business.
You Can Be Happy: The Essential Guide to a Healthy Body, Mind, and Soul By Amanda Gore
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AUDIOBOOK: Juggling a career, family, and other commitments is often overwhelming in today's busy world; happiness can seem to ebb away. But you CAN be happy, using Amanda Gore's simple and practical techniques. Enjoy your relationships, make the most of your career and money, reduce stress, escape energy-suckers, and look after your health.
Highly entertaining and arranged in short, easy-to-digest chapters, it will inspire you to make the easy but fundamental changes required to grab your happiness back, and keep it!
Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance, and Purpose By Sir John Whitmore
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AUDIOBOOK: A new edition of the book that took the art of coaching to new heights, this is the definitive guide to mastering the skills needed to help people unlock their potential and maximize their performance.
Adopted by many of the world's major corporations, this work argues for using questions, rather than instructions and commands, and following the GROW sequence "Goals, Reality, Options, Will" to generate prompt action and peak performance. It explores the dynamics of team development, and it positions coaching as the essential team-leadership skill.
Artful Negotiation in a Global Economy: Winning the Negotiating Game by Herb Cohen
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AUDIOBOOK: Employing a geocentric perspective, Herb Cohen shows you how others often see bargaining as an enriching social exchange akin to an art form. Then, by recounting his own colorful cross-cultural encounters, he takes you through the steps of this delicate dance. Afterwards, he provides a point-by-point analysis - ten tidbits and practical techniques - that you can use in reconciling all differences.
Obviously, while this strategic approach succeeds overseas, it also applies here at home, where both sides see conflict from their own unique point of view. As Cohen will tell you: "We don't see things as they are, but as we are. In fact, if there is anyone here exactly like you, there would be no need for you to be here."
For more than three decades, Cohen has been a practicing negotiator, intimately involved with several highly publicized negotiating dramas, including the Iranian hostage crisis, the skyjacking of TWA Flight 847, and the Achille Lauro terrorist incident. He has served as adviser to two U.S. Presidents and acted as consultant to hundreds of corporations, entrepreneurs and government agencies.
Bang!: Getting Your Message Heard in a Noisy World By Linda Kaplan Thayer and Robin Koval
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AUDIOBOOK: We all want to have our message heard. In Bang! Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval tell us how. They and their talented colleagues are the brains behind a host of memorable and highly successful ads, from the enormously successful AFLAC duck to the irresistibly sentimental "Kodak moment" to Herbal Essences' outrageous "Totally Organic Experience." Kaplan Thaler and Koval offer savvy advice and proven strategies for getting out a loud, clear, attention-grabbing message about any product or service.
AUDIOBOOK: Listening is half, and arguably the most important half, of communicating. With this audio program, you will learn how to become a good listener. It includes lessons on the blocks to real listening, the importance of paraphrasing, how to ask for clarification, the secrets to providing useful feedback, and how to listen with empathy and openness.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, and more
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AUDIOBOOK: Based on the authors' highly popular DialogueSmart training seminars, the techniques are geared toward getting people to lower their defenses, creating mutual respect and understanding, increasing emotional safety, and encouraging freedom of expression. Among other things, rlisteners also learn about the four main factors that characterize crucial conversations, and they get a powerful six-minute mastery technique that prepares them to work through any high impact situation with confidence.
Grammar Smart: An Audio Guide to Perfect Usage by Julian Fleisher
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AUDIOBOOK: The words you use say a lot about you...but the way you put them together says even more. Your grammar makes an immediate - and lasting - impression on your boss, your co-workers, your teachers, and even your friends.
This program includes:
Funny examples and stories to illustrate correct usage
Brief, interactive question-and-answer reviews
The basic parts of speech - nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Pronoun-verb agreement, parallel construction, the dreaded misplaced modifiers, and dangling participles - all without pain!
AUDIO: "Productive meeting" does not have to be an oxymoron. This month's issue explains how to turn a roomful of yawns into a productive environment. Also in this issue: Do you know your audience? Your power to communicate will improve tenfold when you learn how to understand who's listening, reading, or watching - and discover the best way to reach them. Plus, business babble - "the language of denial," when to use a topic sentence
AUDIO: You don't need an Academy Award nomination to have a marvelous meeting, but borrowing some techniques from Hollywood's hotshots might not be a bad idea. "Want to Communicate Better? Try Role Playing" will show you the ins and outs of role-playing, which allows participants to act out situations from various perspectives and establishes trust. Also, if you feel you just can't bring yourself to talk about something with a colleague or friend, this Communication Letter explores three types of conversations and how to make difficult conversations productive. Plus, "How to Get What You Want" tells you how to negotiate successfully and "Is There Any Good Way to Criticize Your Coworkers" offers a road map to constructive criticism.
AUDIO: This CEO thought he was connected with his coworkers...till he found out they were all playing football. Find out the importance of workplace culture and how it can hurt or help managing executives. The dynamic social relationships that exist within an organization can shape efficiency, productivity, and the direction of the company. Also, new methods on how to find your customers, with an emphasis on the "why" over the "what" in targeting and going beyond It's time to embrace your unique advantages to succeed as a woman in business. theory. Plus, graphic communication the right way, business writing the Hollywood way, and management the virtual way.
SPEECH: Techniques for successful communication. It will teach you how to communicate effectively in person, on paper, and on the podium.
Today's great communicators have more impact than ever before. In this powerful program, Nido Qubein, consultant to the nation's top corporations, shares his techniques for successful communication. It will teach you how to communicate effectively in person, on paper, and on the podium.
How to Run a Successful Meeting In 1/2 the Time by Milo O. Frank
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AUDIOBOOK Stop wasting your precious time. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, business executives nationwide agree that meetings are the most unproductive activity in business today. Now, whether you're a leader or a participant, one of America's master communication specialists shows how you can: understand how meetings work, and how your time slips away; plan your meetings to get the results you want; make large meetings work more effectively; and turn one-on-one meetings into hard-hitting, problem solving sessions. Milo O. Frank has been called a "communication genius." In this vital audio program he takes you step-by-step through every aspect of the typical business meeting - to help get the most out of any meeting in half the time.
AUDIOBOOK: La comunicacion es el combustible para el crecimiento de sus empresas, mueve sus negocios como la gasolina ayuda al funcionamiento de los autos; si se suspende, paraliza el negocio. Es una inversion para el crecimiento y la innovacion. No puede considerarse como un "gasto" que se elimina en cualquier momento y se paga al final de todas las obligaciones.
La comunicacion, con todos sus soportes (publicidad, promocion de ventas, merchandising, relaciones publicas, fuerza de ventas, ferias, exposiciones y exhibiciones, eventos especiales y marketing directo) debe convertirse en un plan sinergico e integrado de la imagen corporativa de todas las empresas.
Relationship Listening: Attract the People You Like and Bring Them Close to You By Abe Kass, R.S.W.
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AUDIOBOOK: Learn the science of being an expert listener. Attract the people you want to be close with and create loving feelings. As a great listener, people will feel good around you and seek out your company. Being a top listener is perhaps the greatest single "relationship tonic" ever invented. Learn how to give others the gift of feeling validated, understood, and cared for.
Each program is easy and simple: listen for eight minutes a day for about three weeks and directly apply what you learn. People have told us that using Wisdom Scientific Self-therapy audio programs they have learned to stay calm and improve their health, increase their happiness, and strengthened their relationships. We believe you can do likewise. Try it. You have nothing to lose except conflict with others and loneliness!
Talk Your Way to the Top: How to Address Any Audience Like Your Career Depends on It by Jeffrey Krames and Laura Daley-Caravella
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AUDIOBOOK: Every business situation is both a presentation and a chance to leave a positive impression. In Talk Your Way to the Top, corporate communications gurus Kevin Daley and Laura Daley-Caravella give listeners the know-how to recognize and maximize the opportunities they face throughout the day.
Each chapter represents a specific situation, from running a meeting to disagreeing with the boss, and outlines the steps needed to handle it with poise, skill, and success.
Communication has a tremendous impact on how professionals are judged. Talk Your Way to the Top gives them the skills they need to:
Know when and where to speak up, versus when to shut up
Telling Stories: The Secrets of Successful Speakers by Robert S. Fish
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SPEECH: In the first of three lectures in a series on professional uses of storytelling, motivational speaker, Robert S. Fish, Ph.D. teaches listeners how to find, create and tell stories that will enliven presentations to any size group. This lecture was recorded before a live audience.