Personal Development
Best Selling books on personal development
Putting together a list of excellent books on any subject is always a highly subjective exercise. Nonetheless it is often useful to try to sort through the clutter and at least try to assemble some worthy nominations based on a book’s quality or popular appeal (and all the books on this list have regularly topped the best selling and popular lists internationally and all carry between 4 and 5 star ratings on Amazon.com). The list of Top 20 of the best books on Coaching and Mentoring below includes only those written in the last 5 years (2007-2012)…
read moreMust have personal development books
I sure you’ve heard this before, but a reminder is always good. Two critical success factors in personal and professional development are (1) choosing the right kind of people with whom to associate and (2) reading books that will stretch you personally and professionally. Regarding the people with whom we associate, Jim Rohn said it best: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Additionally, Dan Miller writes: “Do you know that most people earn within 20 percent of the average income of their closet friends” ( No…
read moreSuccess Stories personal development
It’s classic: We go about our lives, striving to achieve the next big thing, and the itch to be successful clouds the importance of taking care of our inner self, of nurturing our well-being. Sometimes we have to experience a traumatic event before the alarm bells start screaming in our minds. Five years ago I experienced that traumatic situation when I was sexually molested and exploited. I fell into a depression, crying myself to sleep every night, eating poorly and losing weight, and I had absolutely no sense of my reality. Up until that point…
read moreAction plan template personal development
Before we go on, to give you an idea of how this is going here’s some feedback from staff who participated in the trials so far: Manager Comments: It generated some really useful insights and I think we both came away with a much clearer picture of where is at and where his interests lie. The activities worked really well because didn’t have an ultra-clear A -> B route in mind, so the large amount of time spent on generating ideas was well spent. We really liked how the action/plan grids help you visualize the ideas. Individual Comments:…
read moreTemplate for personal career development plan
As a business leader, one of your primary roles is to help your team members improve and achieve their professional goals. Of course, your motivation isn’t entirely selfless. The more your employees grow and add to/refine their capabilities, the more they will be able and motivated to contribute, and the more successful your company will be. As a manager, then, it’s your job to determine the best way to motivate and enable your employees’ career development and to monitor their progression. By working closely with them, you can also proactively…
read morePT personal development Industri
Burn a light for Social Impact We have built our company from scratch and decided on a location in a very rural area in a very small city of Ngawi, East Java. When we started our business, we knew that we could use machines and set up semi-automatic machines to make our products. But we chose not to. We believe that handmade means more hands, more jobs, less crime and a happy village. So what we do is we hand mould, pour and craft wherever possible. Handmade candles bring more love and passion and are transferred from the passionate hand that…
read moreBooks About personal development
We have all these experts giving us different rules for how to manage our health, our relationships, our finances, our spiritual development, etc. But why should we compartmentalize our lives like this? Why should growth be so complicated? I wanted to find a smarter, simpler approach - a set of universal principles that we can trust no matter what problems or circumstances we face in life. Like many others in the field, I d been writing about the branches of personal development, but what was really needed was a book about the roots
read more