The Coward's Guide to Conflict


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Nobody likes conflict, but you can't avoid it. Top performers just like you face problems every day. If you know how to deal with conflict well, you can turn it into your biggest opportunity for success. The Coward's Guide to Conflict is your essential conflict handbook, giving you the tools you need to manage conflict and come out on top. Discover: Why you must know how to handle conflict How to recognize conflict before it happens How to bring out the best in difficult people How to build strength by overcoming problems Secrets to impacting and leading others Techniques to guide you past conflict Top performers face conflict head-on and come out on top. You are just a short read away from mastering this essential skill.




The Top Performer's Guide to Conflict


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No one likes dealing with conflict. But to be a top performer, one must know how to address these situations professionally and effectively. The Top Performer's Guide to Conflict examines the difficult situations that can arise between coworkers, clients, customers and colleagues. This short, effective guide is perfect for managers to give to employees facing this tough issue.




Developing Your Conflict Competence


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A practical resource, this book combines tips, checklists, exercises, and stories to outline concrete processes that improve the way leaders, managers, and anyone within an organization responds to conflict. Beginning with a series of questions and self-diagnostics, the authors show you how to: maintain emotional balance in the face of conflict; implement constructive communications techniques; help others deal with conflicts that are causing organization problems; establish norms for handling conflict; use specific approaches for addressing conflict more effectively. "A must-have guidebook for the new age of global business. This book shows every leader how to turn feelings of fear into feelings of safety, suspicion into trust, and competitiveness into collaboration." --Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the best-selling book The Leadership Challenge and Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University "Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan use their vast experience to give us Developing Your Conflict Competence. Move beyond negative workplace conflict to positive and constructive outcomes with the simple tools and suggestions in this must-read field guide!" --Marshall Goldsmith, best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Succession: Are You Ready?, and the upcoming MOJO "I've read the authors' first two books, Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader and Building Conflict Competent Teams. Their latest book pulls it all together by providing models, examples, and thought-provoking insight. It will be required reading for my senior management team." --Deborah Jallad, president/chairman, Accredited Surety and Casualty Company, Inc.




Christian Counseling Casebook


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This companion to the third edition of Christian Counseling will help readers apply their knowledge to real cases. It presents stories that illustrate the material that is discussed abstractly in Christian Counseling. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction followed by the case story or stories and three sets of questions designed by Gary Collins to help the reader or group explore the subtleties and details of Christian Counseling. The Discussion Questions focus primarily on the case and raise questions about how the counselee might best be helped. The General Questions focus more broadly on relevant issues that are suggested by the presented case but may extend beyond the case. The Personal Reflection Questions are written for the reader/counselor to reflect on ways in which the case and the topics under discussion could apply personally to the reader.




The Confidence Plan


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This is a revolutionary guide to building a more confident you. The practical book addresses the five essential elements that can help people boost their self-confidence. Filled with stories of unstoppable people whose mindsets have become even stronger than before, Ursiny shows how you can do the same.




Coaching the Sale


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Selling in the 21st century is a whole new game. Every day you face educated and skeptical buyers who are tired of traditional sales techniques and tricks. A whole new playbook is needed to focus on what works and unlock your potential. Coaching the Sale brings the power of coaching to the sales process. It involves a respectful approach in which you create solutions with your prospects, resulting in greater buy-in and increased client loyalty. Using the 3D Sales Solution, you will learn to: Discover the Issues Discuss Solutions Decide an Outcome Coaching the Sale is an entirely new approach to sales, one designed to win over today's cynical customers. If you learn to work with your clients and bring them on your team, they will let you coach them to bigger sales and a long-term relationship.




Listening to Conflict


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A fresh new approach to resolving conflicts - your own and others'. Arguing, persuading, cajoling, sulking, bullying, stamping feet - in the midst of conflict, these tactics fall on deaf ears. Literally. There's just nobody listening. And yet listening - on the part of both parties involved in the conflict - is the key to finding constructive resolutions. This unique book helps managers, team leaders, human resources professionals, and others successfully resolve conflicts by practicingand perfecting the art of listening. Filled with original models and tools, it explains how to: * Develop self-awareness, or listening to ourselves, to set the stage for better relationships * Change the action/reaction cycle that leads to an impasse during a dispute * Use empathetic listening techniques to convey understanding and encourage open communication * Understand how listening fits into the collaborative resolution process * Create a culture of constructive conflict, and more.




Project Management, Planning and Control


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Covering the principles and techniques you need to successfully manage an engineering or technical project from start to finish, Project Management, Planning and Control is an established and widely recommended project management handbook. With clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling and control, which can pose particular challenges in engineering environments, this sixth edition includes new chapters on Agile project management and project governance, more real-life examples and updated software information. Ideal for those studying for Project Management Professional (PMP) qualifications, Project Management, Planning and Control is aligned with the latest Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) for both the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Association of Project Management (APM), and includes questions and answers to help you test your understanding. It is also updated to match the latest BS 6079 standard for project management in construction. - Focused on the needs and challenges of project managers in engineering, manufacturing and construction, and closely aligned to the content of the APM and PMI 'bodies of knowledge'. - Structured according to the logical sequence of a major project, with a strong focus on planning, scheduling, budgeting, and control—critical elements in the management of engineering projects. - Includes project management questions and answers, compiled by a former APM exam assessor, to help you test your knowledge and prepare for professional examinations.




The 7 Principles of Conflict Resolution


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7 Principles of Conflict Resolution is the go-to resource for conflict and dispute resolution, whether you’re new to the subject or an experienced practitioner. This books sets the out 7 principles to create and maintain successful, workable relationships through effective conflict resolution. It provides you with the tools to resolve or mediate difficult conversations and conflict situations whatever the situation or context and help other people do the same to transform professional and personal relationships permanently. Crucially, it allows you to achieve results without the need to go to court or litigation even when conflict has escalated or is entrenched. The 7 principles to effective conflict resolution will enable you to understand, discuss and resolve problematic situations whether as an individual or organisation: 1. Acknowledge the Conflict 2. Take Control: building resolution focussed conversations 3. Construct a Resolution with the Conflict Resolution Framework 4. Enable others’ Success 5. Build the Resolution Culture 6. Walk the Walk 7. Engage the safety net: When informal resolution doesn’t work 7 Principles of Conflict Resolution will guide you through the process from beginning to end, with a framework for conversations and tools, techniques and strategies that work. There are also templates, exercises and worksheets that you can use to support conversations. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.




Leadership Isn't For Cowards


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A no-nonsense guide to driving performance while still maintaining a great place to work Leadership Isn't For Cowards offers straightforward steps to leading courageously and practical tips for driving performance. Courageous leadership means toughening your approach by being rigorous in the application of your values through the company culture. It means confronting and challenging people, and not letting them get away with being less than you know they can be. The path to courageous leadership has six components: Accept Your Current Circumstances, Take Responsibility, Take Action, Acknowledge Progress, Commit to Lifelong Learning, and Kindle Relationships. These manageable steps include: Identify the area in your business or life where a gap exists between your current reality and your desired reality Align yourself with a person or a group of people who can commit to holding you accountable for closing the gap Make a specific commitment to the outcome(s) you want and assign dates to them With courageous leadership, you'll create a culture and a mindset that encourages and demands excellence! Follow these steps to bring out the best in your employees and lead your company to significant success.