doug smith training
Developing Leadership Skills
Resources
These resources contain great information, inspiration, and techniques to help you develop your performance and achieve success:
Think TQ
Optimize a set of key success factors here. You start with a quick, free assessment that gives you enough information and motivation to get started. If you like, there are free offers (with moderate prices for shipping) that energize and mobilize you further on your path to achieving your goals. Develop your personal power and capacity. Start now!.
The Leadership Challenge - by James Kouzes and Barry Posner, essential reading for leaders at every level, includes at its heart a careful (and backed-by data) study of five key leadership practices: Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart.
The Leadership Challenge workbook will help you take your study of leadership to a deeper level:
Quick thoughts on performance, growth and success:
SuccessNet
Informing, inspiring and empowering you to be your best -- personally and professionally. A great set of resources for personal growth.
Brian Tracy International
Jim Rohn International
An amazing set of personal and professional growth products in just about every price category. Terrific CD's, DVD's, books, and other resources on sales, leadership, communication, time management, and success. Be sure to subscribe to some of the outstanding and free newsletters that he offers. This is truly worth visiting and your best outlet more creating robust blended learning solutions.
One of the deans of development, Jim Rohn shows up at almost every great quotes site and produces consistently tight and well written articles on communication, leadership, sales, and success. Check out his many fine self-development products, including a free newsletter that's full of useful articles, quotes, and what Jim calls Vitamins for the Mind.
Organize to Optimize!
Are you looking for some tips, pointers, and resources to help you organize your world and your life? Here is a great set of resources from Get Organized Now!
Optimal Thinking
Great resources, quotes, and a free newsletter that you should consider subscribing to right away.Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D. is the driving force behind the book, the site, and the approach to personal development. Truly a great place to start or continue working on optimizing your personal growth.
Free trade publications and magazines. Learn more about your industry or related businesses with a variety of free publications.
Recommended Books on Personal Growth
NLP The New Techology of Achievement: This is a fine introduction to NLP, a complete seminar-in-a-book if you take the time to utilize the many helpful personal growth exercises included. I'm on my second reading of this book and I'll likely wear it out, it's that useful.
How To Win Friends and Influence People: Truly a classic, this book has influenced thousands of successful people. Filled with enthusiastic advice, it is a great place to start to increase your appreciation for other people -- a sure way to increase their appreciation for you!
The Art of Possibility, Transforming Professional and Personal Life: I use the ideas and principles from this book every single day. To be able to see the possibilities in every situation equips you with the most wonderful kind of freedom and energy. From the first page on, this powerful book by Rosamund Stone Zander and her husband, conductor Benjamin Zander, takes you on a lively story-filled journey of success. And, not just any success but the kind of wonderful artistic successes that you can bring to your own journey. If I had to start my life (or career) over, this would be on my list of the first ten books to read. Skeptical? Read the table of contents and browse the text -- it's sure to pull you in.
The Power of Intention, Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way, by Wayne Dyer. I always enjoy watching Dr. Dyer on PBS, and this book is one of his most readable and most inspiring. In a way, it's a culmination of Dr.Dyer's work to date, with a focus on how you can create a successful life built on creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, peaceful abundance, and receptivity. It's filled with wisdom such as this: "We must raise ourselves to the levels of energy where we are the light we seek , where we are the happiness we desire, where we are the love we feel is missing, where we are the unlimited abundance we crave. By being it, we attract it to us."
Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton: Personal development that allows you to focus on your strengths, rather than trying to fix your "weaknesses". Centered around thirty-four themes of strengths, and including an online assessment for people who buy the book, this book is powerful research-based evidence in favor of how you can be truly authentic and use your gifts to create the life you want.
