book selection for professional book clubs

Book Highlights 

Learn how the language you utilize can have a direct impact in results. Techniques to understand others and their motivations. 

Key Points

How language can be used to understand others perspective.

 Achieve the results you want in your personal and professional life. 

How to communicate effectively. 

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How to establish habits that will lead you to success.  Overcome the obstacles that could prevent you from achieving your goals. 

Key Points

How to promote teamwork and collaboration. 

How to continue to grow personally and professionally. 

Be proactive not reactive.

Time management.

Book Highlights

Why people do what they do in life and business. How to create and change habits.

Key Points

How to choose and keep your desired habits.

Use will power to train your brain to focus on your goals. 

How to create team culture by creating positive habits.  

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Managing individuals effectively it’s not easy. Balance between employee encouragement and focus on business results.  Make employees more productive and align with organization to achieve goals. 

Key Points

How to bring the best out of the people you lead. 

Learn how to set goals effectively.

Use feedback to empower and motivate the individuals you lead. 

How to re-direct in order to change negative behavior. 

Book Highlights

The mind is great at creating stuff but it is terrible at tracking.  Learn how to manage time and the to do list, keeping sight of the big picture. 

Key Points

Time management.

How to prioritize and free your mind.

How to track life and get things done. 

Stress free productivity.

Workshop Highlights

A look at what happens when leadership, middle management, and front line  employees, are all on the same page in regards to change. Anything can be accomplished regardless of challenges or obstacles. 

Key Points

Steps process to successful change.

How to get everyone engaged and involved in the engine of change.

Looking at leadership styles.

 Book Highlights

 How to develop more effective coaching methods to produce great results. 

Key Points

How to get in the habit to ask questions instead of offering advise and answers.  

Empower people by allowing them to find answers and discover their own wisdom.  

Make coaching sessions impactful.  

 Book Highlights

Learn the truth about what really motivates people.  How to motivate your team without external rewards.


Key Points

Learn the three elements of true motivation.

How to put elements into practice to empower and achieve results. 

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Explains the principals of trust, but also helps cultivate trust in your self and how it impacts culture and results. 

Key Points

Learn what to do to increase trust to achieve employee retention, and productivity. 

Inspire people to contribute their best work and ideas. 

Book Highlights

Discussions about gender inequality and why women are still underrepresented in the global workforce.  How women can take the lead and hold the flag of women high. 

Key Points

Treat your career like a jungle gym.

Strike a balance between ambition and appeal.

How to lean in your career. 

Book Highlights

Talk about ideas, methods, strategies, and techniques for salespeople to sell faster and easier than ever before. 

Key Points

How to get better in the key areas of selling: From prospecting to closing & getting referrals. 

Setting goals to achieve them.

Understand why people buy.

Book Highlights

How to identify and develop a plan to overcome your own mistakes. Understanding how accountability will empower teams.

Key Points

How to prioritize and execute. 

Learn how to motivate, guide and drive teams to success.

Become a more powerful leader. 

Book Highlights

Self-empowerment, it recognizes obstacles in life but it encourages individuals to work hard to achieve their goals and dreams. How to defeat self-defeating tendencies.

Key Points

How to free yourself from self-limiting beliefs.

Stop holding your self back with excuses.

How to recognize fear as a positive indicator.

Book Highlights

Tips and advice for individuals that feel the need to apologize for pursuing their dreams and wanting more out of their career and life. 

Key Points

How to become more productive.

How to shed the guilt about being ambitious.

How to be more driven.

Book Highlights

Chinese military that is considered the definitive work of military tactics and strategy. It has greatly influenced business strategy.

Key Points

Foundation of many military, legal and business tactics.

Tactics of warfare that can translate into business.

Book Highlights

Guide to creating public speeches and becoming an effective speech-giver and story teller. 

Key Points

How to overcome stage fright.

How to increase your influence. 

Individuals starting to speak in public. 

Book Highlights

Mindset determines the way individuals deal with difficult situations and obstacles.  This books discusses how to achieve your goals by changing your mindset. 

Key Points

How mindset influences behavior. 

How to maximize your potential.

Book Highlights

Story about a boy that is working on his life long dream of becoming a Samurai Warrior.  The adversity becomes a powerful lesson that can be applied in life and business. 

Key Points

How to fall in love with the process of becoming great.

How to become great by doing what greatness requires. 

How to be  consistently faithful to the process. 

Love the controllable. 

 Book Highlights

Step-by-step approach to having your toughest conversations with less stress and more success.
 

Key Points

How to start difficult conversations.  What is not said is as important as what is.
 

Book Highlights

Proven formula for executing the most important strategic priorities. 

By following the 4 Disciplines, leaders can produce breakthrough results, even when executing the strategy requires a significant change in behavior from their teams.

Key Points

Focus on the wildly important  oAct on lead measures.

Keep a compelling scoreboard.

Create a cadence of accountability.  

Book Highlights

Virtual Selling is the new normal. To remain competitive, salespeople, account managers, entrepreneurs, and business professionals must shift the way they engage prospects and customers. There is no turning back.

Key Points 

The psychology of virtual. 

How to conduct effective sales calls. 

5 step prospecting guidelines.  

Social branding.  

Blended channels to create a powerful process.   

 Book Highlights

The secret for creating magic in our careers, our organizations, and our lives is simple: outstanding leadership--the kind that inspires employees, delights customers, and achieves extraordinary business results.

Key Points 

Everyone is important. 

Burn the free fuel: appreciation, recognition, and encouragement. 

Give people a purpose, not just a job.  

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Guide to becoming a great leader and putting together a high performing team. Leadership vision is only sustainable via team effort.
 

Key Points 

How to Build a High Performing Team. Improve Employee Engagement. 

Why Diversity and Inclusion Matters. How to Transform Yourself into the Leader your team needs.   

Book Highlights

How to get maximum effort and peak performance from each of his players in the manner that best served the team. 

Key Points

12 Lessons in Leadership. 

Outlines the mental, emotional, and physical qualities essential to building a winning organization.  

Book Highlights

Discover why mindset-based, cognitive approaches haven’t worked for you in the past and exactly how Imposter Syndrome affects your performance and causes so much stress - and worse.

Key Points

Understanding impostor syndrome.

Crushing limiting beliefs.

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Reveals the unexpected ways that well-intentioned leaders undermine their teams, explains how to recognize the myths and misperceptions that drive these behaviors.

Key Points

How to make diverse teams feel engaged. 

Creating stronger relationships and inspire greater productivity. 

Book Highlights

It exposes the gender data gap . Talk about what created an invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.

Key Points

This book is data and statistic driven.

Our discussion during this book club is not one of blame, but one of empowerment. 

How can we become the change we want to see?  

Book Highlights

Individuals who start with WHY never manipulate; they inspire. The people who follow because they want to.
 

Key Points 

Clear vision of what it truly takes to lead and inspire.  

This book is for anyone who wants to inspire others or who wants to find someone to inspire them.   

Book Highlights

An essential book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and building a cohesive, innovative culture. 

Key Points

Understanding what makes for great teamwork. 

Facilitate healthy cooperation and productivity. 

Improve skills for team building.  

Book Highlights

Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognizing the potential in people. 

Key Points

Leaders who are looking to make a difference.  

Leading by example.  

Empowering individuals.