Coaching and Motivational books
Learn more about motivation theories by reading our coaching and motivational books. Find out how to coach your employees and keep them motivated. Our eBooks will also help you develop your emotional intelligence and performance.
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Creative Problem Solving
This book debunks the perceived mysteries and complexities of creativity and problem solving.
Personal Leadership - The 7 Leadership Levels
A guide and exercise book for those of you who want more self-awareness. Use yourself as the management tool - and become a leader in your own life.
Emotional Intelligence
This textbook introduces the reader to what Emotional Intelligence is and how they can improve their own.
A Practical Guide to a Productive Day and Life
This book will make you discover several productivity tools that will help in boosting your productivity. You will learn to use these tools and strategies to set, manage and keep an eye on your goals.
The Myths and Realities of Teamwork
The book focuses on the key milestones that mark a team’s journey to high performance, without being naïve to the challenges and the pitfalls; hence the title The Myths and Realities of Teamwork.
The Art of Problem Solving
Learn 7 step-by-step techniques and time-tested methods to tackle even the most complex problems, avoid costly mistakes and become a confident decision maker with The Art of Problem Solving.
High-impact interpersonal skills
This e-book explores how leaders can develop the high-impact inter-personal skills which will make them both more effective and more successful.
Being Manager, Leader and Coach
A practical book that covers several areas where the new or less experienced manager might have questions and need some guidance. A book where you will find a lot of useful tips, tools and exercises.
Emotional Intelligence Secrets
In “EQ Secrets” you’ll discover how to raise your self-awareness and enhance your self-confidence.
The Experts Teach: Training Skills
In "The Experts Teach: Training Skills", we bring together 25 articles from the top experts on training and development.
Icebreakers
Originally, an icebreaker was used at the start of a training course to “break the ice” between people who were out of their normal workplace environment and perhaps feeling nervous and apprehensive.
Models for Coaches/Mentors
This is an A to Z guide of the best coaching models currently available. Line managers and coaches interested in the further development of their staff will find it of particular interest to help them
Models for Managers
This is an A to Z guide of the best management models currently available. Line managers interested in the development of their staff will find it of particular interest to help them reach their full
Team Management & Coaching
A good manager will coach their employees to reach their full potential. Coaching, mentoring, training and counselling are similar but different.
The Secrets to Workshop Success
The Secrets of Workshop Success eBook is a must read for everyone who is considering presenting a workshop, seminar or training.
Dealing with Conflict and Complaints
Not many people like to deal with conflict, do you? Perhaps it’s the difference of opinion or if someone is getting aggressive towards you, but it’s not a pleasant experience.
How to get the most from coaching
When you are facing a dilemma, the last thing you need is a bad coaching experience. This book takes a step-by-step approach to understanding coaching, finding a coach and maximising the experience.
The Power of Coaching
When global leaders like Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, states getting a coach was "The best advice I ever got", you know coaching isn't going away any time soon.
Learn How to Speed Read
The more you have to read, the less time you have for everything else, so a faster reading speed pays back with every document. In this book, we give you a practical toolkit to speed up your reading.
Models for Trainers: A J to Z Guide
This is an J to Z guide of the best models currently available for learning facilitators/trainers. The models range from Kirkpatrick’s Training Evaluation model to the VAK Learning model.
Lift off Agile Teams - Iterations
This workbook contains a set of tools and techniques to help Scrum Masters, facilitators, Agile Coaches and Agile practitioners to lift off Agile teams during iterations.
Lift off Agile teams – Team Transformation Process
This book contains a set of tools and techniques to help Scrum Masters, facilitators, Agile Coaches and Agile practitioners to lift off Agile teams.
Models for Trainers: An A to I Guide
This is an A to I guide of the best models currently available for learning facilitators/trainers. The models in this guide range from the ADDIE model to the Input/Process/Output/Model.
The Coach’s Handbook
This manual contains a step-by-step process to enable you to run a series of 10 coaching sessions for individuals or groups who wish to embark on a personal journey of self-development.
Talent Retention
Skilled people are the core of a successful business. This practical book reveals how leading companies tackle retention and gives you five proven methods to inspire the best talent to stay with you.
Hidden Communication Skills Revealed!
Stand out from the crowd by practising your hidden communications skills!
50 Ways to lead your sales team
Are you the Leader your people deserve? 50 Ways to lead your sales team will give you the tools and opportunity to answer that question.
Maximizing People Potential
Is working with, and through, people important to getting results? If so, the aptitudes and skills in this book should be of value to you.
9 ways to understand what motivates us
This e-book offers numerous hints and tips to help you better understand yourself and others.
Working with Humans
The Missing Manual for the Human Being, explains what motivates us and sets out a framework in which people will get on with each other, engage, perform well and be loyal to the company.
Leadership and motivation
This book provides an insight into the interrelationship between leadership and motivation and will be useful to aspiring as well as practising managers.
Management by Metaphors
Learn how to work with metaphors and construct your own. For thousands of years (Religious) leaders have been influencing people with their metaphors. Including sixty metaphors you can use right away.
Blended Learning
Explore the advantages of choosing a blended learning approach to training and how to introduce it for the maximum benefit of both your organisation and your learners.
Developing your Inner Coach
Develop your Inner Coach is a practical yet thought provoking book, enabling you to change your inner critic into a positive partner that lets you be at your best, and say yes to opportunities.
How to Train your Mentor
It is hard to know what to do when you are in the middle of a mentoring relationship, as a Mentee, and are uncertain whether you are getting the best value from your Mentor. This book will help you wi
How to successfully Delegate
There are ten rules all successful delegators use to ensure you must undertake to ensure that any task you delegate motivates and empowers the individual. This eBook explains those ten rules.
Supervisory Skills
This book provides an insight into the role of a supervisor.
Executive Leadership Coaching
How to unlock your leadership potential by taking your skills to a new level: Coaching, Communications, Influence, Gravitas, Values, Vision, People, Change and Goals.
Connected Leadership
This book outlines 12 traits of connected leadership, shows their powerful impact on cultivating a thriving corporate culture, and highlights ways a leader can seek to develop them for maximum impact.
Training and Development
This book highlights the need for training and development of employees at all levels in various types of organizations, and also suggests methods for doing so.
Training Skills
Training skills are essential in the modern business organisation. Instead of seeing training as a reward or punishment, today’s savvy businesses know that training is an absolutely vital function.
Managing through Change
This textbook introduces the reader to what managing change is all about. Change is the only constant so it’s important that you know how to manage and drive through change.
How to Develop Emotional Intelligence
This eBook will help you to develop your own and your team's collaborative working skills.
Conflict, Discipline & Grievance
Managers should know how to handle different conflict situations in a satisfactory conciliatory manner. Conflict can be interpersonal, group or organisational.
Motivation Skills
So just what is motivation? Just how can you motivate yourself and others? In this book we’ll cover the main motivational theories and what they mean in the real world.
The Experts Teach: Managing Performance
In "The Experts Teach: Managing Performance", we bring together 26 articles from the top experts on performance management.
Performance Management
Whether you are a manager yourself or a member of staff being managed you will no doubt come face to face with the performance management process!
Coaching Tools and Techniques for Managers
More and more organisations are turning to coaching to develop people. This book is for managers who want to learn to use powerful coaching tools to support and challenge their teams to greatness.
The Best Principles of Coaching
This eBook will give you an understanding of the principles behind a successful coaching program and what it can achieve for your team.
Coaching Skills for Managers
This book is a very gentle introduction to coaching, written particularly for new managers and supervisors who wish to introduce coaching tools and techniques into their skillset.
Supportive Leadership
Leadership in the 21st Century needs a paradigm change!
How to Improve Motivation
Do you know what really motivates you? More importantly, do you know how to motivate others?
Gamification in Business
The book covers the benefits and downsides of gamification. It addresses the need to ensure your gamification design hits the right note with your target audience.
What is Performance Management?
This eBook explains the principles behind performance management and describes how they apply to each stage of the appraisal process.
The Performance Management Journey
Performance management is not an isolated event. It’s an ongoing activity throughout employment. This book runs through employment events, looking at how they link to the management of your employees.
Coaching and Mentoring
This textbook introduces the reader to what being an outstanding coach is all about.
Successful Coaching Skills and Models
This eBook describes the seven key skills that are needed for successful coaching and explains how to use coaching models; including GROW based and solution focused coaching.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
This eBook helps you to understand the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership, a concept used routinely in most businesses and professional training programs.
Savvy Performance Management
This book is for anyone who has ever tried to manage people’s performance and is convinced there must be a better way.
Dealing with Chronic Mondayitis
This book is a useful guide for those who are new to HR or managing teams.
The 7 Qualities Of Brilliant Executive Coaching
This book attempts to provide an objective and simplified summary of the most updated facts and elements from well documented studies and literature, complemented by practical examples.
Solution Focused Mentoring
This excellent study book briefly and clearly describes how you can help your Mentees in the most effective and respectful way. You’ll learn it The Solution Focused Way: with hope and energy. Enjoy!
Facilitation Skills
Letting people act is, for traditional managers, a frightening concept and brings with it the fear that people will do nothing and not perform.
The Experts Teach: Motivation
In "The Experts Teach: Motivation", we bring together 25 articles from the top experts on the meaning and practice of motivation.
Running a Successful Executive Coaching Business
In this book you will find tips on getting started, what coaching qualifications you might need and how to make your mark in the corporate world to earn real executive coaching fees.
The Experts Teach: Emotional Intelligence
In "The Experts Teach: Emotional Intelligence", we bring together 25 articles from the top experts on emotional intelligence (EQ).
Compassionate Coaching in the Corporate World
An evidence-based, easy introduction for professionals such as leaders, managers, HR professionals & coaches into a hot topic in the field of people development and talent management – Compassion.
Cognitive Behavioural Coaching for Anger at Work
This e-book will provide you with step by step instructions demonstrating how cognitive behavioural coaching techniques can help you to learn to use your anger positively.
How to Measure Emotional Intelligence
This eBook explains how you can measure emotional intelligence, helping you decide which aspects of it offers you the most opportunity for improvement.