Experience and paper credentials are often not enough in today’s highly competitive workforce. One’s image is an often-overlooked aspect in the workforce, but when considered, many limit one’s image to that of mere appearance. However, one’s professional image is about much more than just looking the part, but also behaving and sounding it. In this book, you will understand how your dressing can impact your superiors and subordinates perception of you, and how your behavior and personality can affect the impression that you want project. Learn to communicate in a fashion that reinforces – and not undermines – your authority or capability. Pick up tips on how to put your best foot forward and promote yourself in a manner that will get you remembered and going places. Let Pang Li Kin, a Certified Image Professional (CIP), show you how to evaluate your current image, how to decide on the characteristics to project and how to be consistent. She is the vice-president/president elect on the 2009–11 AICI South Asia-Singapore Chapter Board and is an appointed Success Coach with AICI globally. She runs her own company, Potenxia Unlimited, and has over 20 years of experience behind her.

In today’s fast-paced information age, maximising your memory power is not an option but a necessity. We use our memory all the time, and the way we use it will affect what we achieve in our lives. No matter what your profession or occupation, mastering information and memory management skills will prove essential, and will help you to increase your productivity and profitability. Nishant Kasibhatla, Grand Master of Memory and World Record Holder, shares more than 20 simple yet practical techniques that will help you remember anything. By practising these techniques, you will be able to exercise your brain, focus better, remember things easily, retain information for longer and even impress people with special memory stunts. Learn to maximise your memory power today.

The measure of your success will most probably not depend on what you know, but who you know! It has never been more important to develop great relationships and ensure that you are in the right place at the right time. When you become an effective networker, opportunities will continually knock at your door. But simply connecting is not enough, and opportunities rarely happen by luck or accident. Skilful networkers plan their networking for a greater return on investment. Confident networkers polish their small talk and conversation to become a charming, popular guest at any event. In her clear, straightforward style, Sharon Connolly helps you discover the great benefits to be gained from networking and shares practical, effective techniques that will help you become a skilful networker and reap huge rewards.

2018 Axiom Business Book Award Winner, Gold Medal Stop Selling! Start Solving! In Ninja Selling, author Larry Kendall transforms the way readers think about selling. He points out the problems with traditional selling methods and instead offers a science-based selling system that gives predictable results regardless of personality type. Ninja Selling teaches readers how to shift their approach from chasing clients to attracting clients. Readers will learn how to stop selling and start solving by asking the right questions and listening to their clients. ​Ninja Selling is an invaluable step-by-step guide that shows readers how to be more effective in their sales careers and increase their income-per-hour, so that they can lead full lives. Ninja Selling is both a sales platform and a path to personal mastery and life purpose. Followers of the Ninja Selling system say it not only improved their business and their client relationships; it also improved the quality of their lives.

An Amazon Best Business Book of 2018 Selected by Audible as the Best Business Book of 2018 Named “Best New Book” by People Magazine and Refinery29 Named a Most Anticipated Title of April 2018 by Bustle and Levo A Women@Forbes “Boss Moves Book Club” pick A candid guide for ambitious women who want to succeed without losing themselves in the process Fran Hauser deconstructs the negative perception of "niceness" that many women struggle with in the business world. If women are nice, they are seen as weak and ineffective, but if they are tough, they are labeled a bitch. Hauser proves that women don’t have to sacrifice their values or hide their authentic personalities to be successful. Sharing a wealth of personal anecdotes and time-tested strategies, she shows women how to reclaim “nice” and sidestep regressive stereotypes about what a strong leader looks like. Her accessible advice and hard-won wisdom detail how to balance being empathetic with being decisive, how to rise above the double standards that can box you in, how to cultivate authentic confidence that projects throughout a room, and much more. THE MYTH OF THE NICE GIRL is a refreshing dose of forward-looking feminism that will resonate with smart, professional women who know what they want and are looking for real advice to take their career to the next level without losing themselves in the process.

Addressing one of the key challenges facing doctoral students, Completing Your Qualitative Dissertation by Linda Dale Bloomberg and Marie Volpe fills a gap in qualitative literature by offering comprehensive guidance and practical tools for navigating each step in the qualitative dissertation journey, including the planning, research, and writing phases. Blending the conceptual, theoretical, and practical, the book becomes a dissertation in action—a logical and cohesive explanation and illustration of content and process. The Third Edition maintains key features that distinguish its unique approach and has been thoroughly updated and expanded throughout to reflect and address recent developments in the field.

An insider reveals the secrets to pitching your nonfiction book: “Traditional publishing is shrouded with mystery. Terry Whalin peels back the curtain.” —Michael Hyatt, New York Times–bestselling author of Your Best Year Ever In the beginning stages of writing a book, most people start with a blank page and write their entire manuscript. According to acquisitions editor, former literary agent, and author of dozens of traditionally published books W. Terry Whalin, this approach is backwards. He knows that about 80% to 90% of nonfiction books are sold from a book proposal. This mysterious document called a proposal contains many elements that will never appear in a manuscript—yet these details are critical to publishing executives who make the decision about publishing or rejecting an author’s project. Book Proposals That Sell reveals twenty-one secrets to creating the kind of effective, impressive book proposal that can help an author make the sale.