Are You a Best-Ever Boss? If No, Would You Like to Be One? Then be A WOW! Employees can be cynics and skeptics. Both have much in common--they've been disappointed, deceived, and at times, devastated. Most workplaces are loaded with the working wounded--men and women who have been let down by their leaders, their managers, their coworkers, even the culture of their workplace. They live for Fridays. Could that be yours? Is your workplace one where employees can't wait to clock out? Would you like to discover how you can create a workplace where the best and most talented people line up to get in? You can. Within this book are the strategies, tips and tools to make it so. The WOW Factor Workplace shows it's possible to create a workplace that not only WOWS everyone who works there, it WOWS everyone who hears about it. Yes, you can create a workplace where the best and most talented people line up to get in. A workplace where every time top talent comes into your company, they say WOW! And, a workplace when employees are asked, "What's it like to work at your company?" the response is, "I think I won the lottery!" People join companies and leave bosses. Get ready to become a WOW boss in a WOW factor workplace. WOW is within your reach with The WOW Factor Workplace: How to Create a Best Place to Work Culture.

Paula Stenberg is a creative careers strategist, workshop facilitator and small business mentor. She operates a careers lounge and facilitates professional development programmes through small group workshops. Some of the material in this book is derived from her Personal Branding and Identity Development workshop where numerous clients have benefited from the exercises about themselves, who have then moved forward and upward in their careers expressing their WOW factor! The WOW factor is that all evasive X-factor that some of us easily exude while others dont think they have any of IT at all! Paula believes everyone has an element of the X-factor, but it just needs discovering, harnessing and releasing. In this workbook she shows you how and directs the discovery of yours, particularly in relation to your world(s) of work. This workbook is sub-titled coloring in your nebula. Paula uses this as a metaphor, she explains: Our brains have their own nebulae (thats our grey matter) and our galaxies do too! (thats the iridescent gases). The nebulae are the star nurseries where stars are born. Our minds are like that, nurseries for ideas to be born, birthing sparks of inspiration. As the universe is infinite, so are our minds. Paula believes in figuratively coloring in our grey nebula to iridescent. Add light and you have instant color, add a little color and everything comes to life. Light up yourselves and become a star is not just what the famous have done; you too can shine like stars in the heavens, that hold us in awe of their splendour. Paula encourages coloring in your nebula by starting at your identity development and then personal brand, so you can gain that awe the wonder of you, your X-factor back into that someone who is AWESOME!

Within Heartfelt Leadership, Deb Boelkes reveals how leaders can get through to anyone, even under what many would believe are not the best of circumstances. The result is a workplace that is admired; one that delivers outstanding results; one that employees seek to be part of. In your current role, do you honestly believe you can accomplish significant things that are important to you? If not, why not? Are you aware of the personal passions, priorities and goals of those on your team? If not, why not? Is it a priority for you to ensure that your team members are aligned with the mission, vision, and goals of your organization? If not, why not? Do your employees seek you out and respond to you with enthusiasm, or do they tend to ignore your presence? Within Heartfelt Leadership, you will hear from some truly exceptional award-winning bosses who have been consistently praised by their teams as the epitome of best-ever bosses. They reveal how they evolved into the extraordinary leaders they became ... the kind of leader that you, too, can become. Heartfelt Leadership: How to Capture the Top Spot and Keep on Soaring delivers the tools and knowledge to modify your leadership presence to become the inspiring person others want to follow. Heartfelt leaders are, for now, a rare breed. You can change that ... starting today!

Rich with inspiring stories and practical suggestions, I Like Giving will help you create a lifestyle of generosity. Choosing to live a generous life can transform you and the world around you. Something incredible happens when giving becomes your own idea, not something you do out of duty or obligation. When you move from awareness to action, miracles happen. As you make giving a lifestyle, you’ll realize you’re not only loving life more, you’re also creating a more generous world— a better world for all of us. Inside you’ll find tips about: • Thinking of giving as something you get to do, not something you have to do. • How to raise kids with a sensitivity to others’ needs. • Making a difference without being a millionaire. • Practical ideas for ways to give to people around you every day. I Like Giving shows you how to experience the joy of giving because we all have something to give. Beyond money or things, giving can be a listening ear, a touch, or simply the gift of time. Giving is living.

The founder of Adams Golf and the inventor of Tight Lies, the most popular fairway wood of all time, tells his rags-to-riches story. In the early years of Adams Golf, entrepreneur Barney Adams labored in obscurity. He collected six patents for his golf products, manufacturing fine equipment but enjoying no sales. Everything changed for him and his company in 1996, though, when he invented the Tight Lies fairway wood. Working as a custom fitter, his customers repeatedly asked for a club they could play from "long iron" distance, from 180 to 220 yards to the green. Adams knew the technical secret was to lower the club's center of gravity. He did this by designing the traditional head shape upside down, which not only lowered the center of gravity, but also increased the hitting surface. The result was a club that was easier to hit, and suddenly Adams and his club, after years of diligent work, became overnight sensations. As lean as those early years of Adams Golf were, the amazing success of Tight Lies more than made up for them. Sales skyrocketed beyond Adams's wildest expectations, and earned Adams Golf two placements on the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Small Companies list, an Industry Week Top 25 Award for Growing Manufacturing Companies, several golf industry awards, and led to the largest IPO in the history of the golf industry in 1998. This is Barney's unvarnished story of how he made this happen, and how you, too, can make your entrepreneurial dreams come true.

“A guidebook for how leaders can motivate, engage, and recognize their people all the while growing the business profitably.” —Forbes.com Every year, thousands of visitors come from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They make the trek not to learn about technology but to witness a radically different approach to company culture. CEO Rich Sheridan removed the fear and ambiguity that typically make a workplace miserable. With joy as the explicit goal, he and his team changed everything about how the company was run. The results blew away all expectations. Menlo has won numerous growth awards and was named an Inc. magazine “audacious small company.” Joy, Inc. offers an inside look at how Menlo created its culture, and shows how any organization can follow their methods for a more passionate team and sustainable, profitable results.

Are you an employee trying to improve your job? or find you are searching for that special job? Are you running a business? Do you find your business orbiting, stagnant and/or struggling to develop? Do you need a little professional help? By reading, studying and adopting the principles written in the pages of this book, you will learn and be confident to take your business, and yourself, to the next level and double your turnover and salary in one year. Then both employees and business people will have the "it". "The WoW Factor". Showing the "Change Management" & "Style" that will take you and your business to the next level and double your income in one year. Written by David Wright.