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  365 WAYS TO BE YOUR OWN LIFE COACH, 2nd edition
by Preston David Lawrence
Paperback
9781845283834
$22.00


  Life coaches aim to support and encourage their clients in their personal and professional growth by helping them to identify and achieve their goals. Good coaches don't give advice, but help the client to find the answer for themselves. But they are expensive. With this book, you can transform your life with no financial outlay other than the cover price. Using the author's eight steps to success you'll learn how to: - Choose your goals - Use the power of your mind - Build desirable personal qualities into yourself - Evaluate your current situation - Consider your options - Take action in order to succeed - Monitor your progress - Plug into the power of persi AUTHOR BIOG: 'I believe the best coach for you is you, and I aim to give free rein to that person. This book will show you exactly what you need to do to turn yourself into your own life coach. In it you'll find priceless ideas, exercises and skills to learn from and apply.' David Lawrence Preston is a hypnotherapist and personal development trainer who has frequently appeared on radio and television. Over the last 20 years he has developed the Dynamic Living Programme, which draws on practical psychological techniques and the sum of all his considerable experience with clients. He is also the author of 365 Steps to Self-confidence. CONTENTS: Welcome to 365 ways to be your own life coach How to be Your Own Life Coach - An Overview Step One - Clear Intentions - Choosing Your Goals Step Two - Using the Awesome Power of Your Mind Step Three - Building Desirable Personal Qualities into Yourself Step Four - Evaluating Your Current Situation Step Five - Considering the Options Step Six - Action - What You Must do to Succeed Step Seven - Monitoring Your Progress Step Eight - Plugging into the Power of Persistence The Art of Relating Communication Skills Assertiveness Happiness - The Point of it all Appendix References and Further Reading.  
  85 INSPIRING WAYS TO MARKET YOUR SMALL BUSINESS
by Jarvis Jackie
Paperback
9781845283964
$26.00


  This book is for the many people who run their own small to medium-sized business and who want to make it grow. The book sets out to be your own, pocket, marketing consultant - without the expense. Not only does it offer some great ideas but it explains how each idea will benefit your business, what you need to do to make it work, and how you can apply it to your own business immediately. Through a series of special response questions it cleverly gets across marketing ideas in combination with the vital thinking behind their application. Furthermore, it does so in a way that transfers 'ownership' of these strategies to you the business manager so that you feel thoroughly motivated and inspired to act. Whether you run a product or service-led business, it will help you to: - Understand your market place, your competition and your customer - Create a clear and focused business proposition - Develop credible marketing messages that attract your target customer - Decide on the most effective marketing methods for your business - Attract new customers, and boost business with existing customers - Build your business profile so that it's always working for you - Sell yourself and your business with ease and confidence - Complete your marketing plan and create a successful marketing system The ideas are presented separately in bite-sized chunks so that you can devote just a little thinking and reflection time to each one before - most importantly - making it all happen. AUTHOR BIOG: Jackie Jarvis is the Director of Marketingco, which specialises in helping small business owners get the best results they can from their sales and marketing activities. Marketingco provides one-to-one and group mentoring, marketing materials design and copy writing, DIY PR packages and practical sales and marketing strategy advice and planning. Jackie speaks regularly at networking events and conferences and runs the fast track sales and marketing workshop series. She also writes articles for local and national business publications. www.marketingco.biz www.salesfasttrack.co.uk CONTENTS: About the Author Prace Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. How to get started - evaluating where you are now Chapter 3. Getting clear about where you're going Chapter 4. Understanding your marketplace and your competition Chapter 5. Understanding your customer Chapter 6. Creating solid foundations Chapter 7. Getting the price right Chapter 8. Developing your marketing message Chapter 9. Determining your marketing methods Chapter 10. Marketing methods that boost business with existing customers Chapter 11. Marketing methods that attract new customers Chapter 12. Profile building marketing Chapter 13. Selling your services Chapter 14. Completing your marketing plan Chapter 15. The simple things that make a big difference Chapter 16. Creating a marketing system Chapter 17. Making it happen.  
  COACHING SKILLS FOR LEADERS IN THE WORKPLACE
by Arnold Jackie
Paperback
9781845283186
$30.00


  This book provides instruction on the requirements for the Institute of Leadership and Management coaching & mentoring qualifications levels 5-7. As a leader, senior manager or executive, you are often required to act as a coach or mentor for your staff. This book will enable you to set up coaching programmes that can make a significant difference to staff retention and motivation. It will give you the knowledge and skills you need to encourage your staff to grow so that you can get on with your own essential leadership role. In this book you'll discover how to: - become an effective leader and coach *distinguish between coaching and mentoring - establish the right coaching climate *develop effective communication skills - set up the first coaching session *present a business case for coaching ...and much more. You'll also find out the various coaching models available and equip yourself with useful tools and exercises that you can employ in your coaching sessions. REVIEWS:  
  Critical Thinking for Students, 4th edition
by van den Brink-Budgen Roy
Paperback
9781845283865
$26.00


  The skills of Critical Thinking are important whatever subject you are studying. They enable you to assess what's been said or written by asking the right questions: 'What does this mean?' 'What else could it mean?' 'What other evidence do I need?' With your answers, you can suggest other explanations or scenarios: 'Perhaps it's this rather than that'. As a creative, enquiring thinker, you can then move on to produce well-argued material of your own. This new edition has been totally updated, but it continues in the tradition of the earlier editions in that it is invaluable for all students, whether you're doing a course in Critical Thinking (like the AS-level) or not. It quite simply covers everything you need to become a skilled Critical Thinker. REVIEWS: suitable for the AS level; and for A level, Advanced GNVQ and university students who - will not only be able to better understand their course material but also to produce better essays and assignmentsA  
  D-FORMS
by Sharp John
Paperback
9781899618873
$32.00


  Surprising new 3D forms from flat curved shapes. Could you make your own Squaricle, 3-Dform, Wobbler and Twisted Bean yourself? Developable Surfaces such as these are made from a single sheet. There are ten models that introduce D-Forms, as well as explanatory material to develop your understanding. Templates are also provided to explore ellipses with different aspect ratios, but all one perimeter. Such explorations provide fascinating projects for mathematicians, designers, artists and paper engineers.  
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