Optimize Your Strengths


Book Description

Discover your unique edge. Each of us has our own set of strengths, abilities and skills that allow us to shine and deliver exceptional results. These are our underlying qualities that energise us and we are great at (or have potential to become great at). But how do you understand and build upon your strengths and how do you inspire others to do the same? Optimize Your Strengths provides a proven strengths-based approach to achieving peak performance for you and your team. You'll discover your core strengths and learn how to use these to bring out the best in yourself and inspire passion, innovation and engagement in those you lead. Using the Stretch Leadership Model, leadership and organisational development experts, James Brook and Paul Brewerton, show you how to lead beyond boundaries and develop positive habits that drive you to continuously improve and take advantage of new opportunities. Through a fictional narrative that brings the subject to life; follow the journey of Joe (a leader facing both personal and professional crises), as you learn to: Discover, analyse and grow you and your team's natural strengths and abilities in pursuit of a compelling vision Develop an energising and powerful leadership approach based on strengths, solutions and possibilities Use a Stretch Toolbox of six step-by-step models to uncover your leadership edge and grow into an inspiring leader Get hands-on experience working through chapter exercises on an accompanying website Take real action to continually enhance your strengths and improve your weaknesses




Optimize Your Strengths


Book Description

Discover your unique edge. Each of us has our own set of strengths, abilities and skills that allow us to shine and deliver exceptional results. These are our underlying qualities that energise us and we are great at (or have potential to become great at). But how do you understand and build upon your strengths and how do you inspire others to do the same? Optimize Your Strengths provides a proven strengths-based approach to achieving peak performance for you and your team. You'll discover your core strengths and learn how to use these to bring out the best in yourself and inspire passion, innovation and engagement in those you lead. Using the Stretch Leadership Model, leadership and organisational development experts, James Brook and Paul Brewerton, show you how to lead beyond boundaries and develop positive habits that drive you to continuously improve and take advantage of new opportunities. Through a fictional narrative that brings the subject to life; follow the journey of Joe (a leader facing both personal and professional crises), as you learn to: Discover, analyse and grow you and your team's natural strengths and abilities in pursuit of a compelling vision Develop an energising and powerful leadership approach based on strengths, solutions and possibilities Use a Stretch Toolbox of six step-by-step models to uncover your leadership edge and grow into an inspiring leader Get hands-on experience working through chapter exercises on an accompanying website Take real action to continually enhance your strengths and improve your weaknesses




Strengths Based Leadership


Book Description

From the authors of the bestselling "StrengthsFinder 2.0" comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams, and the reasons why people follow them.




Optimize Your Life!


Book Description

Self-development system that synergistically merges organizational and personal strategic planning. Readers develop Values, Mission, and Vision Statements; define Goals; divide Goals into Projects; and create Focused Tasks using a 10-question One-page. Through 40+ worksheets, readers organize, plan, and implement Goals for their lives and organizations. CD includes e-book, plus Interactive Worksheets allowing editing, saving, printing, and passwording personal planning.




Character Strengths and Virtues


Book Description

"Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but this term does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does not do, but a more active and thorough definition is necessary, one that addresses certain vital questions. Is character a singular characteristic of an individual, or is it composed of different aspects? Does character--however we define it--exist in degrees, or is it simply something one happens to have? How can character be developed? Can it be learned? Relatedly, can it be taught, and who might be the most effective teacher? What roles are played by family, schools, the media, religion, and the larger culture? This groundbreaking handbook of character strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers who have undertaken the systematic classification and measurement of widely valued positive traits. They approach good character in terms of separate strengths-authenticity, persistence, kindness, gratitude, hope, humor, and so on-each of which exists in degrees. Character Strengths and Virtues classifies twenty-four specific strengths under six broad virtues that consistently emerge across history and culture: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Each strength is thoroughly examined in its own chapter, with special attention to its meaning, explanation, measurement, causes, correlates, consequences, and development across the life span, as well as to strategies for its deliberate cultivation. This book demands the attention of anyone interested in psychology and what it can teach about the good life.




Optimizing Your Supply-Chain Performance


Book Description

Most companies are continuously trying to reduce their supply-chain costs, time to market, and inventory. Optimizing Your Supply-Chain Performance: How to Assess and Improve Your Company’s Strategy and Execution Capabilities presents the "how-to's" (and a few "how-NOT-to’s"!) for conducting assessments of companies’ supply chains as well as identifying areas for improvement. It covers techniques, tools, and methodologies for evaluating current working methods (current state) versus industry best practices and operational optimization. It identifies performance gaps and suggests planning and implementing improved ways of working (the future and ideal states). With a collection of approximately 40 case-in-point examples of supply-chain transformation across a wide array of industries including Fortune 1000 companies as well as foreign global leaders, this book provides a detailed guide for assessing and improving organizational strategy and execution-capabilities for: Inventory management Order fulfillment Sourcing and purchasing Manufacturing planning, scheduling, and execution Overall supply-chain effectiveness Business continuity planning Essentially, this book provides basic knowledge for assessing, improving, and optimizing the end-to-end supply chain, and the case-in-point examples assist in breaking down theories into simple, actionable improvement activities. The author stresses the importance of business continuity and provides grassroots approaches to identifying risks. Based on the author's vast experience out in the field, it gives professionals a new perspective and inspires them to seek world-class performance.




Time Management: Reach your Goals without Procrastination, and Optimize your Productivity (Master Focus, and Self-Discipline with Powerful Habits)


Book Description

Are you always running late? Do you always wait until the last minute? Do you never seem to get things done well - and on time? Do you lie awake at night, dreading tomorrow's schedule? These fun and easy tips transform your wasted energy into productive days and restful nights. You'll be proud of what you accomplish - every day! Life gives you 24 hours a day, 8 of which should be spent on sleep. However, with the pressures of modern living, many people don’t manage their time, even though they think that they are giving priority to the things that matter. In fact, everything matters including fun. If you have found that your life is stuck in the rut of all work and no play, then it’s time that you read this book, which will teach you how to turn your life around, so that your priorities are different, but you are still able to achieve everything that you truly want. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn…. Why You Should Really Care about Time Management? Any Do These Things When It Comes To Set Your Priorities Attention! You Might Be Scheduling Your Time In The Wrong Ways You can not get rid of all distractions completely but you can Possibly minimize them Much, much more! The temptation was to work from the very simple to the complex and esoteric in creating this book; but the complex and esoteric drives the simple to complex planning, and the esoteric is non-productive without the actual work of developing a plan from the simple to the complex. Therefore, the simple and the complex are mingled together, connecting action with theory. Not all parts of this book will be suitable for everyone – but it will have a little something for everybody. Through this book, you will be guided by the simple to apply, yet effectively tips & tricks on how to maximize your productivity and change your life for the better.




Optimize Your School


Book Description

Lead the change that you want to see in your school! Is your school or district heading in the right direction? A trusted advisor to numerous districts, author Lee Jenkins shows how to successfully transform your school culture – for the long-term. Discover how to: Evolve your leadership style to guide, empower and serve Apply the principles of continuous strategic improvement as an antidote to win/lose approaches to school accountability Spearhead change across classrooms, departments and organizations – with valuable insights for leaders of individual schools and school districts Develop a healthy, positive culture of achievement by deeply engaging your students in their own progress and success




Play to your strengths when presenting


Book Description

Why do people still struggle with public speaking when there are many books and courses on the subject? There are two reasons for this: • Most presentation skills coaches are – by definition – gregarious extroverts who love nothing more than to be on stage or on camera. Yet, people who need presentation skills coaching do so precisely because they are not gregarious extroverts. Trying to teach introverts to be extroverts is an effort in futility. • Most presentation skills books are focused on tactics without taking presenters’ unique personalities into account. That’s like teaching right-handers to write with their left hand, and vice versa. This book celebrates who you are. It is about recognizing that everyone is different. It is about listening to your concerns about getting on stage, speaking on camera, or even just networking at a business event. It is about offering well-honed tactics that fit in with the person you are, without telling you to become somebody you’re not. No matter what personality you have, you can communicate. You can present. You can present well.




Optimize Your Wealth


Book Description

Are you getting the MOST out of your FINANCIAL RESOURCES? How you define wealth and spend your money has a lot to do with your past. How you were raised and your life experiences shape your finances today and the legacy of your financial security tomorrow. In Optimize Your Wealth, longtime financial literacy advocate Stan Webb breaks down the complex components of financial and estate planning―wealth planning―to empower you to make informed decisions and to maximize your wealth based on your needs and comfort level. Inside, you will discover how to: 1. Enhance your wealth by making smart decisions with your assets 2. Protect your wealth by minimizing threats that can adversely affect it 3. Sustain your wealth by optimizing your resources with an eagle eye toward the future Whether you are retired, planning to retire, or just joining the work force, Optimize Your Wealth provides the practical knowledge and actionable strategies you need to employ your wealth to its fullest. “In Optimize Your Wealth, financial guru Stan Webb breaks down the complex components of finance and estate planning into manageable chunks that can help anyone understand the strategic hows and whys of proper wealth management. The clear prose and amusing anecdotes make Optimize Your Wealth perfect for anyone who is serious about their money.” ― John H. Reddan, executive producer of The Eldercare Channe