The act of self-navigation is a critical capability. It requires that you stay engaged and focused on your goal, while steering through the continuous “whitewater” of twenty-first century life. You can’t do it while on autopilot; your virtual GPS will only work if it is set to a destination that you have carefully chosen. Hands-on navigation, with your eye on the compass in the midst of change and ambiguity, has become essential for success. Every decision about major issues - your education, your career, your relationships, your family life, where you choose to travel or to live - is an act of navigation that will influence the course of your entire life. In this book, you will learn how to set and follow a course that will take you as far as you want in a direction that you are capable of going. Using a “personal compass,” you will understand and work with the deep values and authentic motivations that drive you while recognizing and overcoming the internal and external obstacles on your way. You will devise a practical plan to accomplish the results you dream of achieving. Whether working alone or with a coach, this book will help you become the captain of your life and career. Self-Navigation is based on a model developed by one of the co-authors that is used globally by multinational companies and leaders to help them navigate their careers, their teams, and their organizations through the complexities of the current business environment.

Self-Navigation: A Compass for Guiding Your Life and Career

Self-Help

Barnes, B. Kim

Goz, Aviad

Success

Johari Press

Influence is a skill-set that everyone needs; yet the necessary techniques and fundamentals of exercising influence are rarely taught. In this revised edition of Exercising Influence, Kim Barnes draws on her thirty years of consulting, teaching and observation to demystify the process of influencing others. This vital resource teaches how to accomplish more with less effort. It shows readers how to create work, family, and community relationships that are more balanced and mutually rewarding, and to take charge of their lives in a powerful, ethical, and productive way. 
Exercising Influence uses a practical real-world model that will help readers discover how to: <ul>
<li>Develop effective influence behaviors and a strategic and tactical approach to influence</li> <li>Plan for influence by preparing, setting clear goals, implementing, and reviewing an influence opportunity</li> <li>Design and apply an approach to real-life situations</li> <li>Resolve problems and conflicts</li> <li>Create relationships that are more balanced and mutually rewarding</li> <li>Accomplish far more in their organization with less effort</li> <li>Take charge of their professional lives in a powerful, ethical, and productive way.</li> </ul>

Exercising Influence, Revised Edition

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Pfeiffer

Designed to accompany the book, Exercising Influence: A Guide for Making Things Happen at Work, at Home, and In Your Community, the Discussion Guide uses a practical real-world model that will help you facilitate discussions with participants about how to: 
<ul>
<li>Develop effective influence behaviors and a strategic and tactical approach to influence.</li> <li>Plan for influence by preparing, setting clear goals, implementing, and reviewing an influence opportunity.</li> <li>Create relationships that are more balanced and mutually rewarding.</li> <li>Accomplish more in organizations with less effort.</li> <li>Take charge of their professional lives in a powerful, ethical, and productive way.</li> </ul>
 Ideal for trainers, facilitators, and coaches, the Discussion Guide includes both the book and the Self-Study Guide.

Exercising Influence: A Discussion Guide for Team Leaders and Group Facilitators

Based on Kim Barnes bestselling book Exercising Influence, this Self-Study Guide shows you how to reflect on your “career” as an influencer and provides you with a structure for further growth and the development of your influence skills. Once you complete this guide you will have the basics needed to build relationships that will garner positive results in and outside your sphere of work. 
Step by step the Guide will help you discover how to: · Apply the concepts and tools to an upcoming influence opportunity · Clarify the information by applying each chapter’s ideas to a real situation · Think through important influence opportunities · Journal personal reflections about your growth as an influencer and leader

Exercising Influence Workbook: A Self-Study Guide

We all need to influence others in order to build relationships and achieve results in our personal and professional lives. This book contains practical ideas and tools for exercising influence in all aspects of life to accomplish more with less effort. Readers will learn how to create work, family, and community relationships that are more balanced and mutually rewarding, and to take charge of their lives in a powerful, ethical, and productive way.

EXERCISING INFLUENCE: A Guide for Making Things Happen at Work, at Home, and in Your Community

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Barnes & Conti Associates Inc

The Compass: How to Navigate Your Life and Career in Times of Change

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

Change minds, guide opinions, and shape emotions with the power of effective influence Exercising Influence is your guide to accomplishing more with less effort. Demystifying the process of influencing others, this book shows you how to develop effective influence behaviors, plan an influence approach, set goals, resolve problems, and build better relationships. Revised and expanded to provide more actionable advice across industries and sectors, this third edition has updated examples and resources and features all-new chapters on influencing through social media, influencing your team, and applying research findings of neuroscience, and behavioral economics.. You'll create work, family, and community relationships that are more mutually rewarding as you apply a practical, real-world model for developing this seldom-taught skill. Influence is a skillset that everyone needs, yet the necessary techniques and fundamentals are rarely made explicit and shared. This book is a vital resource for anyone who wants to achieve better outcomes at work, at home, or in the world at large, helping you make important things happen and create relationships that matter. <ul>
<li>Develop a strategic and tactical approach to influence that gets results.</li> <li>Resolve problems and conflicts, and build more balanced relationships.</li> <li>Do more with less, increase your impact on others, and take greater charge of your life.</li> <li>Take advantage of new methodologies that build your skills as an influencer.</li> </ul>
Influence is a timeless topic for business leaders and others in positions of power, but the world has evolved to the point where everyone needs these skills. No matter your job, role, rank, or function, if you want to get things done you need to know how to influence up, down, across, and outside the organization. With improved skills, you can steer opinions, impact decisions, and sway the undecided. If you're ready to see what you're capable of, Exercising Influence will show you how to take charge of your professional and personal life in a powerful, ethical, and productive way. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119071585.html

Exercising Influence: A Guide for Making Things Happen at Work, at Home, and in Your Community

wiley

Sarah Hawthorne is a successful organizational consultant. She has big plans to overhaul Martech Corporation’s outdated business model, so she’s surprised when the CEO hires an eccentric business guru named Scorpio who claims to be Martech’s savior. Scorpio and his cronies plan an executive retreat at a posh Napa Valley resort, and despite her misgivings, Sarah agrees to participate  The retreat is a disaster. Scorpio is more of a cult leader than a corporate consultant, and Martech’s executive team rebels against Scorpio’s intense and inflammatory tactics. They don’t realize, however, that he won’t be a problem much longer. The next morning, Scorpio is found dead in the sauna. Sarah immediately throws herself into solving the mystery of Scorpio’s murder, much to the annoyance of her husband. But soon she unlocks old employment secrets, broken promises, and shady financial alliances, all while fighting off her growing attraction to one of the murder suspects. Scorpio isn’t the only one who ends up dead, however, and Sarah’s powers of deduction eventually put her in the danger zone. Murder On Retreat, the sequel to Murder On The 33rd Floor, is the second in B. Kim Barnes’s series of witty mysteries starring Sarah Hawthorne.

Murder on Retreat: A Corporate Mystery (The Corporate Mystery Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Why do teams settle for bad ideas or kill good ones? Popular consultant, Kim Barnes' unique process of Constructive Debate shows how teams can create better ideas and outcomes by eliminating obstacles to honest discussion, creativity, and collaboration. In too many organizations, great ideas and unusual solutions can be suppressed, ignored, or attacked. Departments defend their turf, and people choose what is safe over what is better. Honest opinions often show up in the "meeting after the meeting" because people fear conflict or repercussions. Bad ideas move forward, and good ideas die, which can lead to disastrous results--financial or otherwise. Luckily, there is a workable path out of this dysfunction. Kim Barnes's process of "Constructive Debate" shows how to establish conditions that encourage the free exchange, discussion, and development of ideas and eliminate conditions that prevent potentially useful ideas from getting a hearing. By using this tested model, any company or team can improve outcomes and bring out everyone's best ideas.

Building Better Ideas: How Constructive Debate Inspires Courage, Collaboration and Breakthrough Solutions

Business Culture

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Are you an internal consultant―a staff member who serves in a consultative role within your organization? Then you need this hands-on guidebook to help you better understand your role and improve your performance.
Whether you're a change agent, trusted advisor, or someone who serves in varying capacities, it's important to design your job, develop a formal agreement, and build your practice.
Consulting on the Inside provides a solid background for internal consultants and serves as a roadmap for cultivating a successful career. You'll learn how to:
<ul>
<li>maintain an outsider's objectivity while applying an insider's knowledge of the organization</li>
<li>build relationships but be up-front about challenges and issues</li>
<li>design your role to fit the client's needs and the organizational situation</li>
<li>handle roadblocks and deal effectively with difficult clients</li>
<li>market your consulting services within the client organization.</li>
</ul>
You'll find a thorough examination of the eight phases of the consulting process, a comprehensive analysis of the differences between internal and external consultants, and success stories demonstrating the personal qualities you need to build trust and relationships. Consulting on the Insidealso provides a complete toolbox for getting the job done, including tips and techniques, checklists, forms, a sample hiring agreement, and ready-to-use agendas.
With this book in your hands, you'll be able to apply your expertise, influence and personal skills to multiple roles within your organization, and balance the tension between being an insider and needing to give honest, direct feedback to your colleagues. As an internal consultant with a well-founded practice, you can provide competent, collaborative advice to help solve problems, improve performance, and increase your organization's effectiveness.

Consulting on the Inside, 2nd ed.: A Practical Guide for Internal Consultants

Scott, Beverly

Industries

Association for Talent Development

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