Self management & Self development books
These self management and development books will help you perform better in your professional and private life. Learn how to improve your confidence and motivation, how to become more effective and how to maximize your potential.
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Personal Confidence & Motivation
Do you have the self belief and confidence to make a difference? Do you “just know” that you’ll succeed no matter what?
Soft Skills
This book provides practical guidelines to develop soft skills in order to shape up the overall personality. It will be of use to all - particularly final year graduate/post-graduate students.
Dealing With Difficult People
If you are ready to handle the annoying and troublesome people in your life then Dealing with Difficult People is for you.
The Little Book of Inspiration
It’s fun doing things slightly better and this book is about small ideas that can have a big impact.
Maximising Your Potential
This book will guide you on your own self-development through life.
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.
Thinking Skills
This eBook will cover all kinds of thinking skills and will make you see that your brain is the most powerful organ you possess.
How to Overcome Procrastination
This eBook explains how to overcome the obstacles that prevent you from starting difficult high-priority tasks.
Creativity at Work
What is creativity? And can we learn it? The need to be creative at work has never been more urgent. This book shows you how.
Face the Future
Disruption is all around. How do you disrupt yourself before you are disrupted? Let “FACE THE FUTURE” be your guide to deeper understanding. Learn about exponential growth and how you can benefit.
Sleep: a time management strategy
In this brief book, Harold discusses the importance of sleep and its impact on personal productivity, organizing skills, and health and well-being.
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.
Building Bridges across Cultural Differences
This book discusses differences in cultural values and norms. Why do we feel challenged when interacting with culturally different people, and how can we improve the outcomes of such interactions?
How to be successful, despite yourself
This book will help you overcome various difficulties you may experience in taking the first steps to start the journey towards success in your chosen career direction.
Daily Planning
Master Daily Planning and give yourself space to breathe and develop. Become more effective and efficient, do more in less time, reduce stress, free up time for development and be a super planner!
Creative Problem Solving
This book debunks the perceived mysteries and complexities of creativity and problem solving.
Setting Your Vision And Defining Your Goals
This book will guide individuals and business owners alike through the process of establishing a personal mission statement that helps provide clarity and a sense of purpose.
How to Improve your Workplace Wellness: Volume I
This is the first of the 3-volume practical book on managing and improving Workplace Wellness describing ‘The H4u Wellness Approach’ and all its aspects, principles and components.
Become the leader you are
‘Become the Leader You Are: Self-Leadership through Executive Coaching’ is a mini-manual for high-quality leadership, self-leadership and self-coaching. Each chapter gives insight and practical tips.
50 Ways to be more creative at work
In 50 ways to be more creative at work, Rachel Coffey - the new voice in creativity and expert business communication coach - outlines 50 ways to boost your creativity and that of your colleagues.
Manage your personal energy
Much has been written on managing time; but any gains will be neutralized if you don’t also manage your energy. This book explains how to generate more energy and avoid energy loss.
Time of your Life
Time Management is about the HOW: which techniques and systems can I use to free up as much time as possible? There are all kinds of systems around, that all have their merits and pitfalls.
Assertiveness
Assertiveness is one of the most important skills you can learn today. It changes the way you communicate, deal with conflict, and your own relationship with yourself.
The Art of Personal Effectiveness
In this collection, you’ll find around 500 quotes on the theme of Personal Effectiveness.
The Experts Teach: Maximising Your Potential
In "The Experts Teach: Maximising Your Potential", we bring together 27 articles from top experts on how to make the most of your personal talents.
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.
Boost your memory – and sharpen your mind
This book explains how to increase your powers of memory and recall by using your brain’s natural ability to visualize and associate.
Wellbeing at Work
Looking after your health and creating a sense of wellbeing is key. We explore the impact of nutrition and exercise, and help you manage stress and pressure effectively.
Hidden Communication Skills Revealed!
Stand out from the crowd by practising your hidden communications skills!
Success over Stress at Work
This collection of short stories is packed full of expert advice on how to overcome stress & perform at your peak.
70 Ways to Thrive at Work
Easy ways to develop your motivation, resilience, leadership skills and help you achieve more goals. Discover what the most successful people do. It’s all in 70 bite-sized chunks.
Time to be productive
In this digital age of speed, technology offers challenges as well as benefits.
Goal Setting for Success
‘Goal Setting for Success’ is a very practical book which takes you through the key stages and principles of setting and achieving your goals.
The Experts Teach: Assertiveness
In "The Experts Teach: Assertiveness", we bring together 25 articles from the top experts on assertiveness. They will show you how to become a confident person at home and at work.
The Little Book of Nutrition
This book is not about dieting it is a book about discipline.
Swim Out to Your Ship
Imagine living the life you really want, getting up each morning feeling excited about the day ahead. Read Swim Out to Your Ship & develop the attitude and the will to go out & get what you want.
Finding yourself
When we see people being authentically themselves we call it things like “individuality” and “charisma” - yet how can we be our true selves when we have so many demanding roles to fulfil in life?
How to Excel through Self-Development
This book covers everything from choosing courses that are right for you to how to excel in school work, study, writing exams, managing stress, memorizing information and managing time.
Self-Managed and Coach Led Stress Management
There are many books on stress and coaching. The unique feature of this one is that it: (a) rests on a solid theoretical ground and (b) presents a number of scientifically developed practical tools.
Managing the use of technology
This book reviews the good, the bad and the ugly of technology, identifies how and where it consumes excessive amounts of time, and suggests how we can manage the use of technology.
The “Managing You” Workbook
In “The “Managing You” Workbook”, we’ll take you on a journey to discover the most valuable resource in your life: You.
Managing Anxiety at Work
The workplace is full of people trying to cover up their insecurities, and yet we think it’s just us! This book will allow you to break free from the anxiety ‘habit’.
There’s no “I” in TEAM
Wherever you work, it's almost certain that you'll be part of a team. The ability to work as an effective team member is something all employers look for in their staff.
Your Boss: Sorted!
An antidote to discontentedly putting up with things, the book can be your first step to a better future.
Self Leadership
Read this book to improve your understanding of leadership and equip yourself with practical exercises, to enable you to be an effective leader at work and elsewhere.
How to ask for what you want at work
This book helps you to articulate your message and say “no” to taking on extra work; it shows you the way to delegate and ask for a pay rise or promotion.
Connecting with people
This book teaches a powerful blend of the two most crucial conversation skills, empathy and assertiveness.
Successful Learning Techniques
This book is an attempt to suggest some techniques which can be practised and adopted in order to pursue learning of various subjects in a systematic manner.
Practical Mindfulness
Wisdom teachings and practical exercises to help deepen your awareness and significantly reduce your stress. How can you become more mindful? Start from right here, right now...
Develop A Goal-Setting Mindset
This book could have been titled “goal-setting simplified.” The process is easy, since we are all goal- oriented by nature. This book shows you how.
Am I Happy With My Direction?
Where is your career going? Are you happy at work? This down-to-earth guide will help you uncover deep desires, identify specific needs and align to a more fulfilling life path.
How to Negotiate Your Workload
Want to have more control over your work? This eBook explains how to negotiate your workload to a manageable level without alienating your boss.
Strategic Thinking and how do I get it?
This book provides the reader with clear explanations of the necessary skills, real life examples, and exercises to help develop their own Strategic Thinking abilities.
Overcoming Perfectionism
We live in a world where the pace of life is phenomenal. We have to work harder, faster, more efficiently, longer hours and with less job security than ever before.
The Little Book of Winning
The idea of this book is to give you something to keep with you, to share with colleagues, but overall as a reminder of how to win in a tough environment.
Soar with Confidence
This book explores the topic of confidence to get clear as to what it is and provides tools, techniques and strategies to help boost your confidence levels.
How to Become a Successful Freelance Trainer
This eBook covers all you need to know about setting yourself up as a freelance trainer, from thinking about why you want to do this, to setting up your working space.
Maintaining Career Fitness
This books show how you can become and remain career fit.
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.
Seven Milestones For a Better Life
Your Self-Help Guide TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE with Golden Rules, Recommendations and an Action Plan based on Maxims, Quotations and Guidance of noted ancient Greek thinkers of the Pre-Classical Age.
Self-Confidence at Work
The goal of this book is to progressively build your confidence through a combination of initial belief injected by vivid visualization, body language techniques and self-efficacy.
Starter Guide to Social Media
Are you looking to take advantage of social media for you or your business? With easy-to-understand introductions to all social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. this book has it all!
The Village That Could
This entertaining story could change your life. You could just read it for fun, but there’s more to it than you might expect.
What is Effective Goal Setting?
This eBook puts in plain words how to use the theory of goal setting to set practical and motivational targets for you and your team members.
Uncovering Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a hot topic. It is Tomorrows World today. It can change lives – change society – change the future, and ‘Uncovering Mindfulness: In Search Of a life More Meaningful’ tells you how.
Your Assertive Development Journey
There is a growing realisation that for organisations to thrive in today’s marketplace there are a new set of performance rules to play by to maintain a competitive advantage.
The Role of the Brain in Learning
Discover the brain’s role in learning. It’s the most important but least understood part of the human body and we get little instruction on how to use and look after it. The acronym LONE is a mental
How to keep your life in balance
This book presents a variety of suggestions and strategies – including organization, simplification and mindfulness – so that you can keep work and busyness from threatening a balanced lifestyle.
The way of the road warrior
This book helps business travelers balance and integrate simple practices of fitness, fueling, centering, and safety to improve personal and professional performance and wellness - on & off the road.
What successful people really do: Part 2
Includes how to start and build strong relationships. The chapters on negotiation and persuasion will help you get what you need while preserving your relationships at work and at home.
Procrastinate less & get more done
95% of people admit that they procrastinate, and it is impossible to stop completely; but by simply reducing procrastination, they can greatly increase personal productivity.
How to manage Interruptions
This eBook explains how to protect one’s self from unnecessary interruptions. It describes a variety of tactics you can incorporate into your work routine to remain amenable and productive.
Cool It!
Do you: · Have to manage emotional and volatile staff? · Have to deal with angry customers?
What successful people really do: Part 1
What objective researchers have discovered about people who succeed. In Part I: Choices to liberate you to achieve more, a special kind of optimism and how to manage anger, anxiety and depression.
Office politics
For everyone working in an organisation this title offers valuable guidance to help you navigate successfully towards your objectives.
Experiential Learning
Experiential learning is learning through experience and is the most memorable and effective way of learning. The text is illustrated with diagrams, acronyms and quotations to help you with.
What successful people really do: Part 3
This book will give you some valuable and practical ideas to help you develop your skills as a leader.
Strengthen your brain’s executive skills
You can cope with any weaknesses and even strengthen them. This book shows you how.
Creativity in action
The aim of this book is to release the innate creativity within you, and to provide actual exercises and examples of creativity in action.
SMARTERS Approach: Set & Achieve All Your Goals
Do you want to set; challenging, appropriate & strategic goals? Using 8 unique templates you will learn the skills, tools & strategies to set & achieve all your goals & those you set with & for others
Mastering the Power of Assertive Dialogue
This second book of the Assertive Development Trilogy, explores how to galvanize your internal beliefs and enrich your leadership interactions to create outstanding results.
Overcome Your Obstacles
This is a powerful e-book that contains numerous hints and tips to help you to understand your stress behaviour more clearly, supporting you to overcome your obstacles and move forward with your life.
How to Develop Competencies
This eBook explains how to develop the competencies of each member of your team whilst adding value to the whole organization.
How to Improve your Workplace Wellness: Volume II
This is the 2nd of the 3-volume practical book on managing Workplace Wellness containing plans and policies that complement the Wellness Approach outlined in volumes 1 and 3.
iEvolve – Mastering Performance & Success
This personal development book offers insightful and practical ways to restore the equilibrium and our well-being.
How to Improve your Workplace Wellness: Volume III
This is the 3rd of the 3-volume practical book on managing Workplace Wellness containing personal wellness actions that complement the Wellness Approach detailed in volumes 1 and 2.
Creating Authentic Assertion
Be the best version of yourself with the help of this Assertive Development Trilogy finale.