It’s easy to focus on the big things when you’re a leader – strategy, presentations, projects, deadlines. But it’s the little things that make all the difference: the day-by-day micro-interactions that build (or break) relationships. By paying attention to everyday habits, behaviours and language, you can transform both how you show up as a leader and the results you achieve – in just 6 minutes!
If you’re a fundraiser or social entrepreneur keen to secure large gift for any kind of social cause you need to be able to ask the right people for the right money in the right way. But how do you do that?
In this ground-breaking book, global experts Bernard Ross and Clare Segal share their approach – used by major fundraising organisations from UNHCR in the Middle East to MSF in the US and from UK’s Oxford University to MEF Museum in Argentina – which has been used to secure gifts up to $110m in a single ask.
Whether you’re an experienced fundraiser looking for new ideas, a newbie keen to get to the right approach fast, or a board member anxious to help out, you’ll find the answers you’re looking for inside. The book also has a special social bonus – every copy you buy will result in a donation to the WHO foundation to pay for a Covid 19 vaccine in a developing nation. “One reasonably useful book = one life-saving vaccine.”
Even if you’re used to managing small teams, you’ll find the dynamics of a big team very different. As projects scale up in size and complexity, the skills you need to manage effectively change. It’s less about the technical aspects of project delivery, more about integrating different sub teams into a cohesive whole.
Luckily, team specialist and major projects advisor Tony Llewellyn is here to provide the practical guidance you need to set up and run an effective team of teams – in just 6 minutes!
‘This is a deep and rewarding exploration of human motivation’ The Financial Times
‘Powerful and profound’ – Matthew Syed
‘This book will change your outlook on everything.’ – Clare Balding
Reimagining success in sport, business, education, politics and life.
In this compelling examination of our obsession with winning, Cath Bishop draws on her extraordinary mix of experience to trace how increasingly narrow concepts of winning constrain our personal and professional lives. How do we redefine success in order to explore our potential more effectively over the long- term? In this second edition, Cath adds fresh insight from working with leaders who are putting The Long Win into practice and offers additional tips and strategies to leaders looking to unlock sustainable high performance.
Cath is a triple Olympian, World Champion and Olympic silver medalist in rowing. In her career as a diplomat, she specialized in stabilization policy for conflict-affected parts of the world. She now works as a coach and consultant, advising on leadership, performance and culture across business, sport and education, and teaches on Executive Education programmes at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. She is a globally sought-after speaker.
‘It’s not often you can say a book will change your life, but this certainly could.’ Daily Mail
‘Anyone interested in motivation should read this book and think deeply.’ Margaret Heffernan
Chosen by the Financial Times as one of its Best Business Books 2020
When you think about communications, you might immediately think about speaking. But listening well is the foundation of leading well; it’s essential if you want people to listen to you. And most leaders have little idea how to go about it.
Janie van Hool has been helping leaders understand the simple but powerful principles of listening conversations to build trust and engagement for more than 20 years. Now she’s showing you how to supercharge your own communication, in just 6 minutes!
Janie van Hool is an award-winning professional actor and communications expert. RADA-trained, she began her career as a professional actor in the theatre and on TV. Her academic research in Performance Psychology together with her experience as a performer has given her a unique perspective on how to articulate messages with confidence and skill, and informed her work as a coach, advisor and skills teacher to business leaders.
Stop justifying marketing. Start architecting growth.
Too often, CMOs find they’re speaking a different language to the rest of the boardroom. Creativity and commerciality clash. Growth stalls. The exact opposite of what marketing leaders — and their boardroom peers — intended when investing in marketing.
There is a better way. Marketing leaders should be the architects of growth, building a marketing ecosystem that operates strategically across three dimensions: audience attention, business outcomes and growth strategy. A marketing ecosystem that shows impact, links to outcomes, and leads to recognizable revenue.
Drawing on her own boardroom experience and other real-world examples, Emma Pownall shows business leaders and marketers how to build ecosystem thinking, translate marketing strategy into business priorities, and elevate the role of marketing to be strategic, commercial and creative to drive attention that leads to action – the very reason marketing does matter to growth.
Lynne’s Laws have been honed from personal experience of leading a pioneering small law firm.
Lynne Burdon shares stories from her own experience as founder and leader of two successful firms to illustrate the principles of leadership that are essential to create a successful business.
She reveals the practical steps to success: creating a great place to work which will attract and retain the best staff and thus deliver outstanding service to clients.
Work should be meaningful and fun: these principles will show you how to make this true for yourself and your organisation.
If Sunday evenings make you feel sick, it’s a sure sign you’ve fallen out of love with your job. But guess what? You – and only you – can change things! Whether you’re feeling stuck in your career, frustrated with your boss or just a bit meh, Beth Stallwood is here to help you rediscover your work mojo.
Life’s too short to be miserable at work, and only you can fix this. Discover how to upgrade your working day, in just 6 minutes!
High-achieving in life, but not in love? The Love Funnel shows intellectually curious, successful singles how to bring the same clarity, intention and strategy they use in their careers to their dating lives. Harvard MBA and boutique matchmaker Shannon Lundgren has distilled her years of experience matching top-tier professionals into a practical, strategic system for finding a great partner.
You might not realize it, but your professional success has already taught you many of the strategies you need to stand out from the competition and attract the right partner. The Love Funnel™ framework will help you refine your dating brand, define your true “right fit” and navigate today’s dating world successfully.
If you’re successful, busy and tired of apps and poor-quality dates, this book gives you a clear, proven playbook to align belief, strategy, inner game and in-the-field execution, so that you can move confidently towards the relationship you want.
***WINNER BUSINESS SELF-DEVELOPMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR: BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2022 ***
As a leader, you work hard at crafting effective messages. You aim to influence, persuade, present. You have a voice, you have a platform… but is anyone listening?
The reality is that the people you’re talking to are distracted. They’re listening at a rate of 125–250 words per minute, but they’re thinking at 1,000–3,000 words per minute. That gap means they’re likely to miss 75% of what you say.
And guess what? It’s the same when it’s your turn to listen. What are you missing? At the very least, if your people don’t feel heard or understood by managers and leaders, trust is eroded, frustration increases and engagement is reduced.
You need to listen and be heard…but most of us have never learned how.
The Listening Shift will show you how to be a listening leader. Find out:
Janie van Hool is an expert leadership advisor in the art of communication. In the last 20 years, her practical, accessible solutions-focused approach to communicating has allowed hundreds of leaders to engage, inspire and influence their listeners.