Leading Your Team

This e-book covers the difference between ‘leadership’ and ‘management’, developing a flexible leadership style (depending on the needs of your team members), leading the team through stages in its development, developing a vision and motivating team members.

It draws on the work of Thought Leaders such as Ken Blanchard, Bruce Tuckman, John Adair and Jim Collins.

The M.A.G.I.C Circle - Strategic and Business Planning for Nonprofits

This e-book provides a handy and effective method to create a strategic plan for your team, department or organisation from scratch. It does away with jargon and demonstrates a systematic and step-by- step approach to identify key challenges, and take the right steps to meet them. The publication includes an overview of the ‘Magic Circle’ planning method, how to get the mission right, gathering information to inform the plan, undertaking analysis, setting organisation goals, the importance of evaluation, managing change and key planning models and tools to improve your practice.

Introduction to Project Management

Covers a wide range of critical Project Management skills, including the ‘3Ds’ of Project Management (Design, Delivery and Development), establishing risk, clarifying outcomes and measuring success, creating a Work Breakdown Structure, understanding the skills, talents and people you will need, costing the project, timetabling, scheduling and sequencing, managing quality issues and much more.

High Impact Presentation Skills

Using our specially designed ‘PRESENT’ Model this e-book will give the reader the tools to prevent problems, prepare properly, build rapport with the audience, use the audio visual equipment professionally, create an effective presentation structure, use audience engagement techniques, manage nerves and deal with troublesome audience members.

Negotiating and Influencing

This e-book covers the Key Principles of Influencing People (based on the work of Dr. Robert Cialdini and others), how to create rapport, build relationships and get results, using language to influence, using body language to influence, the advantages of ‘Principled Negotiation’, how to achieve ‘Win/Win Solutions’ and how to deal with ‘hardball’ negotiators.

Peak Performance – Becoming the Best You Can Be

Incorporating a number of classic management psychology models and theories (from Richard Wiseman to Frederick Nietzsche; from Stephen Covey to Professor Robert Winston), this e-book looks at how ‘peak performers’ operate. You’ll learn a powerful 8 stage goal setting technique, how to use the power of the unconscious mind to unburden yourself from self-imposed limitations, how ‘self-talk’ and ‘visualisation’ techniques can be used to relieve stress, improve energy levels and focus and ultimately help you achieve more in your work and personal lives. You’ll find out what top businesspeople, sportsmen and women, actors, musicians and other professionals have in common when it comes to setting and achieving ambitious goals.

The 10 Golden Rules of Not-For-Profit Marketing

This introduction to marketing will help the reader to create an outline marketing strategy. From analysing your key ‘publics’ to defining and prioritising your marketing goals, and from sending powerful messages to ‘customerizing’ your approach for maximum impact, you’ll be taken through a step by step process deliver an effective marketing plan.

21 Techniques to improve Your Time Management and Transform Your Personal Effectiveness

Prioritise more effectively, delegate successfully, learn how to say ‘no’ (nicely!), manage your meetings more effectively, cope with interruptions and tackle procrastination. Use these simple techniques to transform your effectiveness at work, bring down your stress levels and achieve more!