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Stuck in a job that's boring you to tears? Slogging away at a business that's never quite taken off? Still can't decide what you'd rather do? It's time to say 'enough'. The world has changed. It's now possible for anyone to make a living from doing the things they love. The only problem is that no one has shown you how. Until now. Based on life-changing ideas and tools proven with tens of thousands of people over the last decade, F**k Work Let's Play is your blueprint to create a work-life full of fun, freedom and creativity; something more like play than work. Packed full of stories from people who turned a passion into a living - or even a multi-million-pound business - you'll discover 10 secrets to transform your working life, starting today. There's no need to suffer unfulfilling work a moment longer. Whether you want to start a business, create your ideal job, or change the world, F**k Work, Let's Play is your guide to doing what you love and getting paid for it.

This revision resource is the smart choice for those revising Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Medicine in Britain, c1250-present. It focuses on the skills you need to answer the questions in the exam and included a full-length practice paper.

This revision resource is the smart choice for those revising Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88. It focuses on the skills you need to answer the questions in the exam and included a full-length practice paper.

Feel good and function well with the help of Resilience. Resilience is your key to surviving and thriving in an ever more challenging world. This highly practical book gives you the tools and techniques to deal with the minor irritations and major events which life throws at us. Based on the latest research and original cases from around the world, Jo Owen reveals the 10 habits of mind which anyone can learn to bounce back and sustain high performance. Especially relevant for the changing world of work, Resilience shows how you can build a better future through self-belief, strengthened connections and a positive mindset. Learn the ten habits that make a difference. Resilience whats stopping you?

Meet With Impact gives you 40 exciting, engaging and easy visual tools to help make your meetings more productive and useful. Stuck in the same old slide-deck rut? There is a better way, and its explained right here. Like it or hate it we spend too much of our time in meetings, and even though many of these meetings may be deathly they are super important to our organisations. But they dont have to be so dull. Instead of reaching for your slide deck when you have an important meeting coming up, youll find practical inspiration that will help you plan a powerful meeting that gets stuff done. With 40 tools that are colour-coded by type or use, you will be able to select a tool quickly and easily plus make notes for next time. Covering face-to-face and virtual meetings, youll spend less time in pointless meetings and get a reputation for running the best meetings.

This business book is great for leaders, middle managers and entrepreneurs interested in the following categories; Small Business Entrepreneurship Marketing Strategy Branding Customer ExperienceMake it easy for customers to choose you; whatever your business, product or service. With customers now subconsciously weighing up their massively expanded options in terms of purchase friction (how easy it is to spend) and shopping reward (the extras inherent to the buying experience); your job is to make it easy for them to choose you When is high friction bad? Friction includes frustrations like putting a coin in a supermarket trolley lock, too many clicks, and hidden frictions from awkward presentation, process and offer. Reward includes quality of business support, amazing retail environments, even emotional issues such as trust and belonging. When is high friction good? What value do different customers place on friction and reward across different buying scenarios? How can I benchmark against competitors? And, where are the big opportunities and where should we focus effort and resource? How do I market improved experiences to win customers? Friction Reward teaches you how to understand, measure and improve every single possible customer interaction by applying techniques outlined in the book to your customer experiences and organisations.Readers will: Create easier, faster and improved customer experiences by reducing friction and increasing reward. Discover how reducing friction attracts new customers, increases spend from existing ones and gives you a competitive advantage. Understand how the world's leading retailers, B2B sellers and public service providers are winning using these insights. Learn how to apply practical tools and technologies to their own customer and user scenarios both online and in the physical world.

Things move fast. Leaders need to create impact in each moment, to not lose that moment.Creating impact is a positive, powerful and authentic way to demonstrate youre taking charge, get more from your team and drive business results. But to succeed, you need to create the impact you WANT and need rather than relying on what you HAVE. The Leaders Guide to Impact will show leaders how to create the impact that will help them connect with others in a respectful way, to create trust, get others to listen to them, influence effectively, drive results and much more. And most importantly, the book will also show leaders how to do it in an authentic way that supports your reputation and brand effectively. Managing and creating impact is not a nice to have, its a business necessity. Impact is such an important and not really talked about topic. This book is about how impact starts from within. Tim Noble, Vice President, Global Head of Sales, ICE Data Services If there is one book you read on leadership, this is it. Be the best leader you can possibly be, by taking control of your impact on those around you. Vanessa Vallely, OBE, Managing Director, WeAreTheCity , Author of Heels of Steel Mandy Flint is an international expert on teams, cultural behavioural change and leadership impact. She is CEO of Excellence in Leadership and works across the world delivering transformational change programmes and C-suite coaching. Mandy studied at Harvard Business School and is a fellow of the London Metropolitan Business School. She is also an established speaker at leadership and cultural change events. Elisabet Vinberg Hearn is an international expert on leadership impact, teams and people-first digital transformations, operating as leadership strategist, speaker and executive coach. She is co-founder of Think Solutions and CEO of Katapult Partners. Elisabet has an MBA in Leadership & Sustainability and has studied Sustainability Management at Cambridge University and AI strategy at MIT CSAIL. Mandy and Elisabet have written two multi award-winning books on team leadership.

The Speaker's Coach

Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Foundation Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 Student Book

Agile Strategy is a practical guide for managers responsible for setting the strategic direction of their organisations in increasingly dynamic markets. Through its frameworks, tools and real-world examples, it explains how to transform business performance through greater organisational agility. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION Why do we need a new book on strategy?The pace of change is increasing, and strategic management is not keeping up. More than one in four (28%) strategic initiatives fail to meet their original goals and business intent[1], with insufficient agility identified as one of the top three barriers to successful strategy implementation[2].The square peg of traditional strategy vision, mission and blue-sky exercises; the separation of strategy from implementation no longer fits the round hole of increasingly dynamic markets. It is time for a new approach.How is Agile Strategy different?Agile Strategy distinguishes itself from other strategy and agile books currently available in that it is: Designed for large organisations: Much of the writing on agile techniques addresses start-ups or small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which operate under very different constraints and freedoms. Agile Strategy is written for large organisations who want to be more agile. Commercially-led: The approach is not a lightly airbrushed business rewrite of agile software development practices, but rather a fundamental rethinking of commercial and operational business practices. Practical: It is anchored in innovative and robust concepts but designed as a practical how-to guide: a book for practitioners, written by a practitioner. Results-focused: Whilst addressing a broad range of organisational topics, the book is grounded in the definition and delivery of measurable business benefits.Why should I read it?Agile Strategy offers four key benefits to its readers: A clear framework (RADAR) A single, easy-to-grasp guiding principle: The Horizon Measurable benefits A practical approachI hope you not only enjoy reading about this innovative new approach, but also go on to realise the full potential of your organisation by implementing it. Good luck!Ralph Fernando[1] Project Management Institute (2017) Pulse of the Profession[2] The Economist Intelligence Unit (2017) Closing the Gap: Designing and Delivering a Strategy that Works

In just 10 minutes a day, Coaching on the Go gives you the tools to be an effective leader. As a busy leader you know that coaching is an important tool for you to bring out the best in people in a most human and natural way. Coaching on the Go shows you how to coach your team in bite-sized chapters, so you can learn on the go on a flight, on your commute to work - and put it into action right away. Split into two parts:1. The Main Flight learn the core coaching skills by following the story of the aircrew chapter by chapter. Each chapter covers a key coaching issue with activities to help you deal with similar situations in your leadership.2. The Pilots Manual - develop your expertise even further by taking a deeper dive into the skills of coaching. With advanced coaching models and leadership theory, youll find extra activities and ideas to develop your coaching prowess with colleagues, team members and others around you. Great leaders coach. And with this book so can you. Great leaders coach. And with this book so can you.Tim Pilkington, Chief Executive, World Vision UKIn a fast-paced world, Coaching On-the-Go is structured to get to the heart of the matter quickly,making the content digestible and actionable.Selina Millstam, VP, Global Head of Talent Management, Ericsson.Most coaching books tell you how to coach. This one shows you.Paul Smith, bestselling author of Lead with a Story and The 10 Stories Great Leaders TellA novel and useful way to think about coaching. Relevant to every leader.Sheelagh Whitaker, Global NED and author of Evaline: A Feminists Tale

The retail landscape is changing. Will your business adapt or die? Reinventing Retail sets out the new rules of the industry and will help you devise a strategy to survive and thrive. All around us traditional businesses are disappearing - undone by savvy and nimble new entrants and by failing to keep up with changing consumer demands. The world has changed beyond recognition in the last 20 years and it is not enough for retailers to launch a website and a Facebook page and proclaim themselves ready for the future. To reclaim and retain your customers, you need to reinvent yourself from the ground up. Reinventing Retail is your roadmap to understanding the new rules of the industry so you can develop your strategy to reclaim market leadership. Explore: Rule 1: Someone is going to sell your product at cost or even less. Rule 2: Everyone knows everything - nothing is a secret Rule 3: Reputation matters and will make or break a business Rule 4: Location matters, but for different reasons than it used to Rule 5: Knowing your customer is key - flying blind wont end well Rule 6: If a product or process can be dis-intermediated or simplified, it will beReinventing Retail will help you understand the changing retail landscape and build a strategy to stay ahead. An essential survival guide for retailers.Peter Pritchard, CEO, Pets at Home A must-have for anyone in retail - use this and you should be able to work out how to thrive.Professor Christopher Bones, Dean Emeritus, Henley Business School; Professor Emeritus, Alliance Manchester Business School; Chairman, Good Growth Ian has written a practical, no-nonsense and inspiring guide to the new commercial landscape which will be invaluable for retailers all around the world. Justin Linger, Managing Partner, Barracuda

If you are studying forensic science, or a related course such as forensic chemistry or biology, then this book will be an indispensable companion throughout your entire degree programme. This one-stop text will guide you through the wide range of practical, analytical and data handling skills that you will need during your studies. It will also give you a solid grounding in the wider transferable skills such as teamwork and study skills. This third edition of Practical Skills in Forensic Science builds upon the excellent foundation of its predecessors and provides an easy-to-read guide to help you develop the skills you need to succeed. It retains the key features of earlier editions, with a layout that explains the essential elements of practical techniques and procedures in a step-by-step manner to help you understand their application in the context of forensic science. Features include: Coverage of a wide range of practical aspects from fingerprint recovery, trace evidence examination, bodily fluid examination and DNA analysis, as well as broader skills such as tackling numerical problems and passing exams. Case examples, guidelines for documentation and reporting results, plus advice on the legal aspects of forensic science provide you with an understanding of the professional role of a forensic scientist. New material on personal development planning, learning styles, e-learning and avoiding plagiarism. Updated sections on software for graphical and statistical analysis. Worked examples and How To boxes provide practical guidance and support. Key points highlight critical features of methodology. Use of margin tips, definitions and illustrations throughout. Additional sources of further study identified for every chapter. Safety notes highlight specific hazards and appropriate practical steps to minimise risk. Study exercises (and answers) in each chapter help to reinforce learning. ALAN LANGFORD is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Criminology and Forensic Sciences at Northumbria University, UK; JOHN DEAN is Professor of Analytical and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Graduate School at Northumbria University, UK; ROB REED is Professor of Biomedical Science and Director of Undergraduate Science Programs at CQUniversity, Australia; DAVID HOLMES is Director of Collaborative Programs in Applied Sciences at Northumbria University, UK; JONATHAN WEYERS is Director of Quality Assurance at the University of Dundee, UK; and ALLAN JONES is Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Award Fellow in Ecology, Environmental Science and Zoology at the University of Dundee, UK.