Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want.
When someone is fully engaged in a job search, they quickly realize how many skills must be learned and mastered in a very short time. From interview and networking strategies, to proper negotiation and ATS compatibility rules, the job seeker must remember a wide variety of unrelated skills. Moonwalking with Einstein is one of THE best books about improving memory.
You might think laziness, lack of willpower, and/or low motivation are to blame for the fact that you aren’t achieving your goals. But fascinating research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology has revealed another, far more likely possibility. One with the potential to transform your life in a dramatic way.
The secret to finding out anything you want to know is amazingly simple: Ask good questions. People in any profession will immediately benefit by developing the skill and art of good questioning.
Best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary.
Based on one company’s successful No Complaining Rule, the powerful principles and actionable plan are practical and easy-to-follow, making this book an ideal read for managers, team leaders and anyone interested in generating positive energy.
What if all the advice we’ve heard about networking is wrong? We know that it’s essential to reach out and build a network, but did you know that it’s actually your distant or former contacts who will be the most helpful to you? Or that many of our best efforts at meeting new people simply serve up the same old opportunities we already have? In this startling new look at the art and science of networking, business school professor David Burkus digs deep to find the unexpected secrets that reveal the best ways to grow your career.
We all want people to do stuff. Whether you want a recruiter to call you back, a friend to introduce you to their colleague, or a hiring manager to make an offer—a large amount of everyday is about getting the people around you to do stuff. Instead of using your usual tactics that sometimes work and sometimes don’t, what if you could harness the power of psychology and brain science to motivate people to do the stuff you want them to do – even getting people to want to do the stuff you want them to do.
Face-to-face networking is still the NUMBER ONE way to start building relationships. Learn techniques from the woman who knows face-to-face networking from A to Z. Benefit from her one-of-a-kind adaptation of DiSC Classic to relationship-building skills. Also learn more about what you say before you speak from her leading-edge impression management skills.
For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. Now this bestseller is available to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century!
What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? It is a more skillful way of dealing with people. The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In this book, Leil Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure fire success techniques.
Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decades. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us.
Verbal Judo is the martial art of the mind and mouth. Learn how to be better prepared in every verbal encounter. Listen and speak more effectively, engage people through empathy, avoid common disasters, and use proven strategies to successfully communicate.
In this highly acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini—the seminal expert in the field of influence and persuasion—explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these principles ethically in business and everyday situations.
Gamification Pioneer Yu-kai Chou takes readers on a journey to learn his sixteen years of obsessive research in creating the Octalysis Framework, and how to apply it to help make your job search fun instead of a chore. When it’s fun, the process gets easier and your results get better. Click the image to learn more.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions. Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones.
Rejection Proof by Jia Jiang To de-sensitize himself from rejection, Jia Jiang set out to be rejected for 100 straight days. He not only learned how to handle it better, he learned how to ASK better! When he wasn’t afraid,…
Drive, The Surprising Truth About Motivating Ourselves by Daniel H. Pink Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach, but that’s a mistake. The secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at…
When, The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don’t know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of “when” decisions: when to start a business, schedule…
The LIKE Switch by Jack Schafer, Ph.D., with Marvin Karlins A former FBI Special Agent specializing in behavior analysis and recruiting spies shares his proven strategies on how to instantly read people and influence how they perceive you, so you…
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is…
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales, but so do the other eight! Whether we’re employees pitching colleagues on a new idea, or a new employer to hire us, we are all in sales.
Captivate, The Science of Succeeding with People by Vanessa Van Edwards Do you feel awkward at networking events? Do you want to know what the interviewer is thinking of you? Do you wish you could decode people? As a human…
212°, The Extra Degree by Sam Parker At 211º water is hot. At 212º, it boils. And with boiling water, comes steam. And steam can power a locomotive. It’s that one extra degree that makes all the difference. Use this powerful metaphor…
This book has nothing to do with Job Search, and EVERYTHING to do with Job Search! This is truly one of my all-time favorite books, so even though I don’t have an interview with Rick to share with you, I had to include it on my list. Rick is a very successful basketball coach, and I’m not even a basketball fan, but this book still resonates with me.
