Fierce Conversations, (Susan Scott)
The Leadership Challenge, (Kouzes and Pozner)
The Art of Possibility, (Zander and Zander)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit, (Steven R. Covey)
The Magic of Thinking Big, (David Schwartz)
Leading With Questions, (Michael Marquardt)
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, (Marshall Goldsmith)
Working With Emotional Intelligence, (Daniel Goleman)
How to Win Friends and Influence People, (Dale Carnegie)
Strengths Finder 2.0, (Tom Rath)
The Thin Book of Naming Elephants (Hammond and Mayfield)
Appreciative Team Building (Diana Whitley)
Beyond the Wall of Resistance, Unconventional Strategies That Build Support for Change (Maurer)
Ground Rules for Effective Leadership, (Roger Schwarz—Schwarz Assoc.)
Culture of Inquiry, (Nancy Axelrod, Board Source)
Good to Great, (Jim Collins)
Who Moved My Cheese, (Johnson and Blanchard)
The 360 degree Leader, Be a People Person, (John C. Maxwell)
Enjoy the Ride, (Steve Gilliland)
Never Eat Alone, (Keith Ferrazzi)
Happy For No Reason, (Marci Shimoff)
Leadership Passages, (Dotlich)
The Speed of Trust, (Stephen M.R. Collins)
The Emotional Energy Factor, (Kirshenbaum)
Smart Questions, The 7 Powers of Questions, (Dorothy Leeds)
A Whole New Mind, (Daniel Pink)
The Power of Full Engagement, (Loehr and Schwartz)
Vital Friends, (Tom Rath)
Transparency—How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor ( Bennis and Goleman)
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Leader to Leader Institute
Established in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the Leader to Leader Institute furthers its mission—to strengthen the leadership of the social sector—by providing social sector leaders with essential leadership wisdom, inspiration and resources to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social sector organizations.
Board Source - "Building Effective Nonprofit Boards"
BoardSource, the premiere voice of nonprofit governance, is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations by strengthening their boards of directors.
Talent Management - "Solutions for Today; Strategies for Tomorrow"
Ken Blanchard Companies - "The Leadership Difference"
The Ken Blanchard Companies® is a global leader in workplace learning, productivity, performance, and leadership effectiveness solutions. We help companies improve their performance, productivity, and bottom-line results.
Marshall Goldsmith Library - "Helping successful leaders become even better"
Marshall is one of a select few advisors who have been asked to work with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams. He also delivers top-rated keynotes, seminars and workshops.
Fierce Inc. - "It's not what you think . . . it's what you say"
We are experts in cultural transformation. A provider of top-tier in-house corporate training. A source of leadership development and training programs for success-minded organizations and individuals with a deep commitment to developing their strengths and producing exceptional results.
Authentic Happiness University of Pensylvania Positive Psychology Center
Authentic Happiness has almost 700,000 registered users around the world. You are welcome to use all of the resources on this website for free.
Soft-Skills Development Suite 101 - "The genuine article Literally Feelers and Thinkers at Work."
Myers Briggs or MBTI and how you make decisions at work
Harvard Business Online - Harvard Business Publishing Access HBR Online
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Mind Tools - "Essential Skills for an Excellent Career"
The Johari Window is a communication model that can be used to improve understanding between individuals within a team or in a group setting. Based on disclosure, self-disclosure and feedback, the Johari Window can also be used to improve a group's relationship with other groups
CAPT.org - Center for Applications of Psychological Type
For over 30 years, CAPT has supported personal growth and development for thousands of
people throughout the world. Through the products and services we offer, you will find books, self-help assessments and training workshops related to the positive development of personality. Our goal is to help you and others find greater satisfaction and happiness at home and at work.
Gifted Leaders - "Liberating Personal & Organizational Potential"
To bring joy and fulfillment to individuals and transform businesses and organizations into renewed workplaces where leadership is broadly distributed and all the constituent parts function cooperatively to achieve exceptional results.
Star Thrower - "Helping you Create Your Future"
Star Thrower Distribution offers the best training and development video and multimedia tools available. Star Thrower creates programs that develop people's ability to think rather than react. Our programs help institute real change; individual change that can make a fundamental difference in the way an organization behaves.
Roger Schwarz & Associates, Inc. - "Helping People get Better Results and Build Stronger Relationships - Often in Ways they didn't think possible"
Roger Schwarz is an organizational psychologist and founder and president of Roger Schwarz & Associates. He teaches, consults, and writes about facilitation, managing change and conflict, and developing effective work groups. For more than twenty-five years, Roger has served as facilitator and consultant to Fortune 500 corporations, federal, state, and local government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.
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