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Miscommunications cost companies more than most people realize. They create conflict, reduce morale, hinder goals, increase turnover, decrease sales, hamper recruitment, etc. As a trainer, you greatly impact the culture of the company and have the opportunity to set the tone for a positive work environment. Improve employee competence in speaking, building rapport, and storytelling to get results.
This trainer guide provides tips and pointers to...
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Build the Career of Your Dreams
Are you on the edge of a career burnout? Do you feel bored or uninspired by your business? Have you been thinking about that next step but are too afraid to take it? You are not alone.
In this book, more than 30 successful entrepreneurs and career experts lift the veil on what it takes to rise the ranks in your company, build a successful side gig, and set up your business for success. Divided into four parts and...
83) Instant Focus
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How to Get and Stay Focused at what You're Doing Instantly!
How often do you have this happen?
* You are supposed to be doing something, yet are continuously getting distracted by every tiny thing that comes your way and never get anything done.
* You are supposed to be paying attention to something or someone, yet are drifting off to la la land and when you do return to reality, missed what just happened or said.
* You are supposed to be working...
84) Instant Goals
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How to Set Goals and Achieve Them Instantly!
When you die...what do you want people to remember you by? What do you want to leave with your families and friends? What do you want to be your legacy to the world?
Let's be honest, you don't want to be unimportant as just another person who could have done more and live life to the fullest and given back to it.
We all have dreams and aspirations we want to accomplish, rather that is to have the big house,...
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How to Be Creative Instantly!
Having problem coming up with great ideas? Struggling with thinking of solutions to problems keeping you awake all night? Feeling stuck with forever trying to find your muse for the next big thing in your magnum opus?
What you need is a sudden jolt boost of "creativity" to get your creative juice flowing and going.
Remember when you were a kid how you had tireless energy for curiosity and creativity that adults had to...
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How to Increase Willpower to Push Yourself through Anything Instantly!
Are you a "quitter," who always quits when the going gets tough? Do you know the feeling of getting all excited by something at the beginning, but then lose that momentum eventually...unable to finish what you've started, wasting all that time and energy for nothing?
Then you are a quitter! Plain and simple my friend.
You know you don't want to be a quitter BUT a winner - otherwise...
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The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism-since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ideological senses, has been racial, deriving social and...
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This short, accessible book seeks to explore the future of work through the views and opinions of a range of expertise, encompassing economic, historical, technological, ethical, and anthropological aspects of the debate. The transition to an automated society brings with it new challenges and a consideration for what has happened in the past; the editors of this book carefully steer the listener through future possibilities and policy outcomes, all...
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The career workbook Roadmap is better than ever.
Roadmap has been updated and expanded with tons of brand new content-including chapters on changing directions mid-career and not letting your past define your future.
Through inspirational stories and interviews, journal-like prompts, and practical career development information, this helpful resource will steer students, recent graduates, and career-changers toward an authentic, fulfilling life.
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When the Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established in 1966, the Asia and Pacific region was undergoing a process of deep change. Several countries gained independence and a sense of regional identity was emerging. A more organized drive toward modernization started in several countries but the region was still defined by poverty. Feeding people remained a primary concern even while the Green Revolution was under way. The first oil crisis in 1973...
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Asia proved resilient to the effects of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, but sustaining rapid growth became more difficult afterward. Development challenges intensified, the global development agenda became more ambitious, and new sources of development finance emerged. This volume shows how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) continued to reform in order to meet these challenges. A new long-term strategic framework, Strategy 2020, was launched...
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The Asia and Pacific region experienced continued growth. Intraregional trade and investment grew rapidly as Asian economies drew increasing strength from within the region. Interest was growing both within and outside Asia to understand and assess policy recipes for rapid and sustained "miracle growth." This volume presents the story of the third decade of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which opened with recommendations from a panel of eminent...
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The Asia and Pacific region continued to grow despite a difficult external global environment. The developing member countries demonstrated considerable resilience, following the second oil shock and the international debt crisis that followed. This volume shows how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) responded to the growing diversity among its developing member countries as both membership and operations widened during decade. Considerations about...
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The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. Corporate leaders understood that reform was needed and that they needed to commit themselves to the dual goal of producing benefits for society and their firms' bottom lines-to creating "shared value." But the specific actions they could take to bring about this change...
95) Back Yourself
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Is there a voice inside you that knows that there is so much more for you and that you have incredible potential just waiting to be realized?
Then it's time to learn how to back yourself. Believing in yourself is an incredible force of power that starts with you. Whether you want to change the world, invent an incredible product, take on the big brands, inspire people, take your business global, start a movement or dream bigger in any way it's time...
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Upward is a book every businesswoman, who dreams of holding a leadership position should read because it will answer questions such as...
• Do you wonder how to overcome challenges in the workplace that hold you back from your leadership goals?
• Do you wish you could ask current women in leadership how they did it?
The compilers of Upward, Simone E. Morris, and Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins, have done the footwork for you and have gotten the answers....
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The 1997 Asian financial crisis hit the region and became a defining moment for Asia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). As ADB participated in coordinated crisis responses, Asian policy makers used this opportunity to reassess their economic policies in a fundamental way. This volume presents how ADB met the challenges during the fourth decade of designing strategies to respond to rapid changes in the region following the Asian financial crisis,...
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OPEN THE STORE OF YOUR DREAMS: START YOUR OWN RETAIL BUSINESSRetail is one of the fastest-growing and fastest-changing segments of the economy. Apps, pop-up shops, and online shopping have made it easier to reach, interact with, sell to, and gain loyal customers. Making this the perfect time for eager entrepreneurs, like you, to stop dreaming and start selling. Whether you're interested in opening a storefront, online shop, or portable kiosk, this...
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Personal trainers aren't just for athletes and the rich and famous anymore. As people become more aware of the importance of living a healthy lifestyle, personal trainers are in high demand. You'll learn the nuts and bolts of starting a personal training business, including everything from establishing a business plan to getting certified to finding a profitable niche. Tips from successful trainers provide inspiration and advice along the way. They...
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You have to talk with a colleague about a fraught situation, but you're worried that they'll yell, or blame you, or shut down. You fear your emotions could block you from a resolution. But you can communicate in a way that's constructive--not combative. Difficult Conversations walks you through:
Uncovering the root cause of friction
Maintaining a positive mind-set
Untangling the problem together
Agreeing on a way forward
Don't have much time?...
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