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The Manager's Communication Toolbox

Every manager should excel in their ability to communicate with employees in order to increase employee engagement, productivity, and retention. Strengthen your skills and become a better manager today!

The ASTD Management Development Handbook

The ASTD Management Development Handbook is a powerful and useful collection of writing covering many aspects of management in today’s business climate.

90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance

Are you responsible for bringing recently-hired employees on board and up to speed within your organization? If you are a manager, trainer, corporate coach, or human resources executive in charge of developing the new hires in your company, 90 Days 90 Ways: Onboard Young Professionals to Peak Performance provides you with the knowledge and tools required to grow these recruits into engaged, confident team members during the course of the standard three-month probationary period. With a strong focus on working with younger professionals, 90 Days 90 Ways offers specific, actionable strategies and corresponding techniques for ensuring that the new hires under your guidance are integrated quickly, completely, and successfully into your business.

Leaders Start to Finish: A Road Map for Developing Top Performers

Leaders Start to Finish focuses on developing effective leadership training programs that produce leaders with an engaged, “I can” leadership attitude. This book will help you develop your staff into efficient, respected managers and leaders.

Coaching Employee Engagement Training

Coaching Employee Engagement Training is written formanagers and other leaders who, regardless of their level ofexperience, wish to facilitate and support the development of trulyengaged employees within their organization. Utilizing clear,focused suggestions on improving employee coaching skills,Coaching Employee Engagement Training focuses on thefundamentals of successful employee coaching, and deliverspowerful, pragmatic lessons within an easy-to-use, highly efficientworkbook format. With its comprehensive approach to teachingemployee coaching, Coaching Employee Engagement Training isa valuable resource for everyone interested in creating a moreengaged workplace environment.

Sales Chaos: Developing Agility Selling Skills that Deliver Value Customers Expect

It doesn't matter if you are new to sales or a seasonedprofessional; Sales Chaos provides the key information any sellershould know to turn the scientific theory of Agility Selling intomore relevant sales conversations and bottom-line sales results.

Learn Like a Leader

Learn powerful lessons reflecting key learning moments in the livesand careers of todays top business leaders.

Consulting Basics

If you've ever wondered what it's really like to be atraining and development consultant and what it takes to become asuccessful one, then you need this book.

The High-Impact Middle Manager: Powerful Strategies to Thrive in the Middle

Middle managers have more direct impact on results than any otherlayer of an organization. This book shows you how to become ahigh-impact middle managerone who can transform high pressure intohigh impact business results.

High-Impact Middle Management: Solutions for Today’s Busy Public Sector Managers

Middle managers in the public sector have more direct impact onresults than any other layer of an organization. This book showsyou how to become a high-impact middle managerone who can transformhigh pressure into high impact business results.