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Guide de l'auto-coaching pour les femmes: Dépassez vos blocages en 15 séances !

Guide de l'auto-coaching pour les femmes: Dépassez vos blocages en 15 séances !

By: Chine Lanzmann

Publisher: Pearson France

Publication Date: 01-FEB-2012

Insert Date: 02-JUL-2012

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Les femmes et la confiance en soi... toute une histoire ! Se mettre en valeur, faire preuve d'ambition, demander une augmentation, prendre la parole en public ou réagir face aux critiques... autant de situations dans lesquelles les femmes sont souvent mal à l'aise. Même lorsqu'elles parviennent à gravir les échelons de la réussite, elles ne cessent de se poser des questions et de se remettre en cause. Chine Lanzmann en sait quelque chose ! Son parcours, qui l'a conduite du journalisme à la télévision puis à l'Internet où elle a créé l'un des premiers sites féminins, lui a permis de...

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Facilitating Reflective Learning: Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision, 2nd Edition

Facilitating Reflective Learning: Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision, 2nd Edition

By: Anne Brockbank; Dr Ian Mcgill

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-JUL-2012

Insert Date: 30-JUN-2012

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This book offers answers by describing the different theoretical models available for coaching and mentoring and by looking at how these models are applied in practice. Robust theory is backed up by practical advice and numerous practical exercises, case studies, templates - including a Training Workshop template - learning partner handouts and a questionnaire for selecting prospective mentors are included. Advice is also included on sensitive areas such as the boundary between mentoring or coaching and therapy, and the desirability of supervision and codes of practice....

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Brilliant Relationships 2e, 2nd Edition

Brilliant Relationship, 2nd Edition

By: Annie Lionnet

Publisher: Pearson Business

Publication Date: 30-APR-2012

Insert Date: 26-JUN-2012

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Your inspirational guide to relationship success, providing all the essential tools to ensure you have happy and healthy relationships. From establishing positive personal beliefs and expectations right through to creating and sustaining healthy and happy relationships, you will discover how to attract the perfect partner and feel completely fulfilled in your relationships. BRILLIANT OUTCOMES:- Improve or transform existing relationships- Find out how to attract the perfect partner- Understand why we repeat negative patterns and change these for good....

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21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our times

21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our times

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Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Publication Date: 05-OCT-2009

Insert Date: 29-MAY-2012

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The new building blocks for learning in a complex world This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom...

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Seven Keys to Successful Mentoring

Seven Keys to Successful Mentoring

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Publisher: Pfeiffer

Publication Date: 06-MAY-2009

Insert Date: 28-MAY-2012

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Mentoring is an intentional, developmental relationshiop in which a more experienced, more knowledgeable person nurtures the professional and personal life of a less experienced, less knowledgeable person. Both mentors and mentees realize many benefits from mentoring, as do organizations that encourage, structure, and support mentoring. Effective mentors develop the leadership capacity of their mentees while increasing their own skills. They transfer their knowledge and expertise back into their organizations. They nurture the alignment between employee aspirations and organizational...

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OtherWise: The Wisdom You Need to Succeed in a Diverse and Divisive World

OtherWise: The Wisdom You Need to Succeed in a Diverse and Divisive World

By: Dick Martin

Publisher: AMACOM

Publication Date: 27-JUN-2012

Insert Date: 09-MAY-2012

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Everyone puts multiethnic faces in marketing materials, but it’s mostly a token gesture. ...

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Charisma, 2nd Edition

Charisma, 2nd Edition

By: Mr Andrew Leigh

Publisher: Pearson Life

Publication Date: 19-OCT-2011

Insert Date: 09-MAY-2012

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Make a powerful, positive and lasting impact and become the person everyone remembers, as you discover how Charisma can take YOU to a whole new level.   Learn how to unlock the secrets of being a success with everyone you meet by gaining their agreement, confidence, commitment and admiration.   Packed full of strategies for increasing charisma, you will learn how to stand out from the crowd, communicate with confidence, establish lasting meaningful and life-changing relationships with people on every level, revolutionise your confidence and self-esteem and become more assertive so...

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Brilliant Positive Thinking

Brilliant Positive Thinking

By: Sue Hadfield

Publisher: Pearson Life

Publication Date: 14-OCT-2011

Insert Date: 09-MAY-2012

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Positive thinking is about being able to accept the ups and the downs of life, to feel grateful for what we have and to look forward to the future. Brilliant Positive Thinking will show you how to reap the benefits of positive thinking, giving you the necessary the tools to make the most of your life, whatever you have experienced. Includes: ·        Information on transforming negative feelings to positive feelings in simple steps ·         Guidance on how to deal with negative people and lessening their influence on you  ·         Identifying your emotional ‘triggers’ and...

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Boost your memory

Boost your memory

By: Darren Bridger

Publisher: Infinite Ideas

Publication Date: 24-JUN-2008

Insert Date: 04-MAY-2012

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In Boost your memory, expert author Darren Bridger provides 52 brilliant ideas and brain training exercises that will help you make and store new memories effectively and re-arrange your existing memories for more effective recall. Boost your memory will help you perform better at work, and make sure you never forget another anniversary or important detail again. Simply brilliant. ...

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Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness

Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness

By:  Infinite Ideas

Publisher: Infinite Ideas

Publication Date: 16-DEC-2011

Insert Date: 02-MAY-2012

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Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness is a guide on living a happy life. Although it was of its time it was also ahead of its time. Russell believed that true happiness could only be achieved through thought and effort. A true self help classic before self help even existed. Our interpretation of The Conquest of Happiness illustrates the timeless nature of Russell's insights by bringing them to life through over 50 modern case studies. This brilliant interpretation of The Conquest of Happiness is an entertaining accompaniment to one of the most famous books on popular philosophy...

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Upgrade Your Brain

Upgrade Your Brain

By: John Middleton

Publisher: Infinite Ideas

Publication Date: 29-APR-2006

Insert Date: 02-MAY-2012

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There are plenty of keep fit books and progammes for the body, so why not one to make sure we're making the most of our grey matter? Upgrade your brain will inspire you to achieve greater personal and business success by developing your thinking skills. John Middleton reveals how to maximise brain power and access insight and creativity, whether at work or at play. From pub quizzes to strategic business projects, personal ambitions to game show dreams, Upgrade your brain reveals the hidden potential of your brain and shows you how to use it. ...

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Personal Best: How to achieve your full potential

Personal Best: How to achieve your full potential

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Publisher: Capstone

Publication Date: 20-DEC-2011

Insert Date: 13-APR-2012

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True inspiration from a true inspiration "...vibrant and instructional ... fresh, original and devoid of the usual sound bites and transatlantic psychobabble of many books of this genre..." —The Independent on Sunday It's not always easy to embrace life, to get up and go, to follow your dreams and make things happen... imagine how much more difficult it must be to achieve your dreams after suffering from cancer as a teenager and losing your leg. But that's exactly what Marc Woods did. Marc overcame his challenges and went on to become a four times Paralympic Gold medalist. It's that...

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Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

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Publisher: For Dummies

Publication Date: 13-MAR-2012

Insert Date: 11-APR-2012

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Personal Development All-in-One For Dummies is a complete guide to a range of techniques you can use to master your thoughts and achieve your goals. Discover the basic principles of each approach and receive sensible, practical and effective expert advice on how each one can help you challenge negative beliefs and change your attitudes. Whether you wish to conquer an anxiety, communicate better with others or simply think more positively, here you will find proven and popular methods that you can use to make major changes - improving your personal power and creating the life you...

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An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better

An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 01-APR-2011

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This book is about the basic principles that underlie critical thinking and creativity. The majority of the content is on critical thinking since more topics are naturally involved and since they can be discussed readily and systematically. The last few chapters are devoted to creativity and research methodology, not typical the book's plethora of competition. Each chapter introduces a specific topic, usually by introducing the relevant theories in conjunction with realistic examples that show how the theories can be applied. Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises whose solutions...

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Identity: Your Passport to Success

Identity: Your Passport to Success

By: Stedman Graham; Stewart Emery; Russ Hall

Publisher: FT Press

Publication Date: 17-FEB-2012

Insert Date: 01-MAR-2012

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Features a foreword by John Maxwell and afterword from Steven R. Covey. Have you ever thought about the connection between knowing who you are and success? Identity can serve as your greatest asset. Enduringly successful people know who they are, are clear about what matters to them, have established powerful identities, and create value in the world. In this book, the process for discovering and understanding your identity is brought to life through Stedman Graham's personal experiences and the stories of individuals who've resolved their questions of identity, building a life that...

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Shut up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life, Second Edition, Revised & Updated

Shut up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life, Second Edition, Revised & Updated

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 09-AUG-2011

Insert Date: 28-FEB-2012

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Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life was immediately hailed as "not your average self-help book" and demanded attention and praise right out of the gate. It is now considered one of the icons of the personal development movement. Now, Larry Winget is back with his signature caustic, no-nonsense, hilarious style, which earned him the titles "Pitbull of Personal Development?" and "World's Only Irritational Speaker?." Winget's "get off your butt and go to work" approach to self-improvement boils success down to a simple formula: Everything in your life gets better when you get...

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The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct

The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct

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Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Publication Date: 18-OCT-2011

Insert Date: 23-JAN-2012

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A dynamic new way to understand intuition, already implemented around the world at top companies and business schools Neuroscience shows that instinct has a leading role in complex decision-making, yet imaginative play is the most direct means of activating our creativity and problem-solving abilities. Based on over 20 years of Cholle's wide-ranging professional experience and insights, The Intuitive Compass offers a fascinating new approach to innovative problem-solving, decision-making, and sustainable value creation. Through a concept known as Intuitive Intelligence, Cholle shows how...

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Coach Yourself, 2nd Edition

Coach Yourself, 2nd Edition

By: Anthony Grant; Jane Greene

Publisher: Momentum

Publication Date: 20-MAY-2004

Insert Date: 20-JAN-2012

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Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and your life being exactly how you want it to be. This book will help you help yourself to find where this is - and get there. The only self-coaching book written by a business psychologist and based on scientifically tested techniques, it reveals the power of knowing how to coach yourself..... ...

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Test Your Emotional Intelligence

Test Your Emotional Intelligence

By: Philip Carter

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-JUL-2011

Insert Date: 19-JAN-2012

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Emotional Intelligence is the ability to be aware of one's own emotions and those of other people. In today's workplace more and more companies are using emotional intelligence tests to vet job applicants and assess staff as they recognise that positive behaviours are just as important as technical expertise. Test Your Emotional Intelligence will help you to think about various aspects of your personality and identify your strengths and weaknesses. Each test is followed by analysis and assessment that will help you to develop your potential, build on your strengths and improve on areas of...

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The Complete Personality Assessment

The Complete Personality Assessment

By: Jim Barrett; Hugh Green

Publisher: Kogan Page

Publication Date: 03-OCT-2011

Insert Date: 18-JAN-2012

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How can you discover where your true potential lies? Is it possible to balance work and life more effectively? What has been holding you back? The Complete Personality Assessment uses psychometric and analytical techniques to help you answer all of these questions and more. Consisting of a series of personality tests, motivation tests and competency exercises, it takes a structured approach to help you understand how to control underlying emotions that have been standing in your way. It covers everything you need to realise your full potential, including a career development profile, action...