Personal Development books
Delve into personality development by reading these eBooks. Learn how to manage your stress, become more assertive and how to improve your personal confidence. These personal development books are written by experienced coaches and trainers. Take a look!
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Creative Problem Solving
This book debunks the perceived mysteries and complexities of creativity and problem solving.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Successful Time Management
Do you make the most of your time or are you always chasing your tail? Do you use to-do lists?
How to Overcome Procrastination
This eBook explains how to overcome the obstacles that prevent you from starting difficult high-priority tasks.
Control Your Stress & Manage Your Time!
An innovative, unique approach to the nature of stress and the concept of time, enriched with easy to apply techniques aimed to help the reader successfully control stress and effectively manage time.
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.
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.
Maximising Your Potential
This book will guide you on your own self-development through life.
Bad writing and how to avoid it
This book may make you laugh out loud, but it will also highlight the dangers of sloppy writing and the necessity to write to achieve unambiguous clarity.
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.
Stress measurement in less than one minute
Drawing on the scholarly writings of the late professor Richard S. Lazarus, the book presents the development of the Emotional Stress Reaction Questionnaire (ESRQ).
Psychopathic Leadership
This e-book contributes to the literature regarding the disturbing number of “white collar psychopaths” present within organisations today.
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?
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!
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.
Goal Keeping
Don't just set goals, achieve them! Learn how with this straightforward guide and simple, step-by-step tools. Uncover what holds you back and create genuine motivation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Effective Discipline
This eBook will help the reader manage discipline confidently and successfully at work.
Visual Notetaking
Visual notetaking describes the process of converting what you see, think and hear into images and words. This holistic approach will have you creating visually stunning and engaging notes.
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.
Stress and Work/Life Balance
My guiding aim in writing this book was to make it readable, down to earth and useful.
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.
Learn How to Live Stress-Free!
This book is for everyone – from an individual who needs to effectively manage their own stress to a manager who has to deal quickly with any stress-related problems at work.
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.
Time to be productive
In this digital age of speed, technology offers challenges as well as benefits.
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.
The Art of Personal Effectiveness
In this collection, you’ll find around 500 quotes on the theme of Personal Effectiveness.
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.
Models for Personal Development: A K to Z Guide
This is a K to Z guide of the best models currently available for those interested in personal development. People keen on self-development including line managers will find it of particular interest.
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.
Models for Personal Development: An A to J Guide
This is an A to J guide of the best development models currently available for those interested in personal development. People keen on self-development including line managers will find it of partic
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.
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’.
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.
What is Creativity & Why Does it Happen?
Creativity is creating something that wasn’t there before; seeing novel relationships between ideas and things. You need a certain level of IQ to be creative but a high IQ doesn’t guarantee creativit
Connecting with people
This book teaches a powerful blend of the two most crucial conversation skills, empathy and assertiveness.
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...
The Little Book of Nutrition
This book is not about dieting, it is a book about discipline.
Managing Resistance to Change
Change is inevitable and often appears to be a constant feature of many workplaces. This book will cover the essential theory and practical tools to manage resistance to change.
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.
Learn How to Speed Read
The more you have to read, the less time you have for everything else, so a faster reading speed pays back with every document. In this book, we give you a practical toolkit to speed up your reading.
Your Boss: Sorted!
An antidote to discontentedly putting up with things, the book can be your first step to a better future.
Having Difficult Conversations
Research shows that 25% of people put off having a difficult conversation for over a year. This book examines techniques and approaches to undertake honest and positive conversations in no time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Managing Stress
I think all of us have to work under a lot more pressure nowadays that at anytime in history.
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.
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?
Talent Retention
Skilled people are the core of a successful business. This practical book reveals how leading companies tackle retention and gives you five proven methods to inspire the best talent to stay with you.
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.
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.
Hidden Communication Skills Revealed!
Stand out from the crowd by practising your hidden communications skills!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Maintaining Career Fitness
This books show how you can become and remain career fit.
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.
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.
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.
A practical guide to creative problem solving
Everything in this book is practical, not theoretical. All of the exercises and tools can be used time after time, by yourself and with others, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
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 “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.
Uncovering Mindfulness
This book looks at the personal and professional, the universal and the particular, and, the theory and the practice. It has one simple ambition, to help everyone live a richer and a more fulfilled li
Office politics
For everyone working in an organisation this title offers valuable guidance to help you navigate successfully towards your objectives.
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.
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.
How to Train your Mentor
It is hard to know what to do when you are in the middle of a mentoring relationship, as a Mentee, and are uncertain whether you are getting the best value from your Mentor. This book will help you wi
Am I Happy with my Job?
Want to change career? Need a new job? Not sure if your skills are good enough? Here is an alternative way to not only attract the right job but also get on track towards long-term fulfilment at work
Cool It!
Do you: · Have to manage emotional and volatile staff? · Have to deal with angry customers?
The 25-Hour Day
This e-book has been written to enable you to find an additional hour in your day.
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.
Entrepreneurship: Preparing for uniqueness
This book starts from a supposition that the reader wishes to take a journey towards a more creative and entrepreneurial approach in their lives and provides a clear path forward to make this happen.
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.
The Essential Guide to Candidate Experience
Candidate experience is the journey from job application to employment. This guide will help HR professionals, recruitment practitioners to understand, create and measure great candidate experience.
The Experts Teach: Time Management
In "The Experts Teach: Time Management", we bring together 25 articles from the top experts on managing time.
Connected Leadership
This book outlines 12 traits of connected leadership, shows their powerful impact on cultivating a thriving corporate culture, and highlights ways a leader can seek to develop them for maximum impact.
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.
Time Management Strategies for an ADHD World
H. Taylor suggests that the increase in ADHD during a time when there is a rapid increase in technology is no coincidence, and that merging paperwork and high-tech is not only possible but desirable.
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.
How to organize your work, home and life
Time is an important non-renewable resource that can be used more effectively by organizing your work, your office and yourself. In this book, time management expert H.Taylor explains step-by-step.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An Introduction To Holistic Time Management
Just as holistic medicine treats the whole person, so holistic time management goes beyond efficiency and effectiveness and applies the strategies necessary to lead a healthier and fulfilling life.
The Art of Addressing Situations In The Moment
Being able to speak up to situations in real time is one of the most important skill sets you could learn. What if you could respond professionally, clearly, and concisely so that your words counted?
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.
Employee Wellbeing and Stress Management
This book helps to develop an understanding of stress, its causes, signs and symptoms, as well as the impact it can have on people personally and professionally.
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
Hurry, Hurry, Every Second Counts!
If you have perfected the art of ’crisis management’ and not ‘managing your time,’ then use the proven tips and simple strategies in this book will take you from ‘crisis mode’ to ‘management mode’!
Corporate Wellness
This tool kit contains a methodology and questionnaires to support you in improving your workplace wellness.
Finding a Panacea for Stress
The book illustrates the ways and methods through which people irrespective of color, creed, nationality and gender can control their emotions, thoughts and lifestyle in order to overcome stress.
Total Wellbeing: From Stress to Success
The tools in this book can be used in the real world during everyday activities, and throughout your lifetime to maintain a calm, productive, fulfilling and meaningful existence.
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.
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.
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
Internal time management: slowing the pace of life
In this book, time management expert Harold Taylor uses a holistic approach to time management to explain how you can prevent this from happening by managing your internal time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Strengthen your brain’s executive skills
You can cope with any weaknesses and even strengthen them. This book shows you how.
When Does & How Does Creativity Happen?
The subconscious plays a vital role in creativity. Many famous inventions were inspired by dreams or serendipitous events. Creative people tend to be avid notetakers. Brainstorming is a great way t
How to Reduce Occupational Stress
A self-help guide and an approach to manage and reduce occupational stress of your business organization and improve the mental health of your people based on seven principles of ancient Greek wisdom.
Creating Authentic Assertion
Be the best version of yourself with the help of this Assertive Development Trilogy finale.
The Experts Teach: Stress Management
In "The Experts Teach: Stress Management", we bring together 25 articles from the top experts on stress management.
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.
How to say no when you want to say yes
Most people realize that it’s virtually impossible to say “yes” to everything and still get their own work done properly. But it is difficult to say no. This book explains how you can resist the urge
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.
Where Does Creativity Occur & Who is Creative?
Both sides of the brain are involved in creativity. Exercise, sleep and meditation facilitate creativity. It can happen at work, home or during play. Universities and cities are great creativity hu
Learning Models and Styles
This is a user friendly book, giving the learner essential knowledge about learning models. It will accelerate your learning ability and help you easily understand the difficult concepts in learning.
Am I Happy with Others?
Is work good except for one really annoying person? Do you sometimes feel like screaming or quitting your job? Don’t despair! Keep your sanity and job by using these straightforward practices.
Learning: 70-20-10
This book provides guidelines as to how people can ensure effective learning through the adoption of the 70:20:10 model.
The Ultimate Success Formula
This book is about how to lead a successful and fulfilling life. Success doesn’t necessarily mean fabulous riches or fame. It means leading a purposeful, meaningful, contented and principled life.
How Adults Learn
Take a journey with this e-book and find out how adults actually learn; the barriers they overcome, and the techniques they can use to enhance learning.
Old failures and new successes
In this book the concept of success is developed from the perspective of acknowledging failure as a natural fact not only in our personal life but also in our business life.
How to succeed from failure to failure
In this book the concept of success is developed from the perspective of acknowledging failure as a natural fact not only in our personal life but also in our business life.
Learning with Technology
E-learning, including on-line and social media, is the use of information communications technology in education and training.
Employer Brand
An effective employer brand is an organisation’s secret weapon in the war for talent. Use our practical guide to develop, communicate and manage a brand that is right for your organisation.
Am I Happy with my Work Situation?
You love your job but not the over load, pressure or way things are done. Learn the magic to change things inside and outside of your role.
Prepare for your Dream Job
In this book you will find different techniques and strategies to figure out what your dream job might look like and how to go about landing it.
Guidance and Counselling in Schools
This book is an attempt to provide an insight into the way guidance and counselling programme needs to be organised in schools, and will be useful to educators as well as counsellors.