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The Best Audio Programs for Your Personal & Professional Development

The Art of Being Assertive

The Art of Being AssertiveBeing assertive often is confused with being aggressive. Learn the difference and how it can be a positive influence in your life.

Assertiveness is a choice you make for yourself. And in this excellent audio program you develop the skills to stand up for your rights in a positive way. You'll be able to express anger and disagreement constructively, while preserving relationships.

By implementing the strategies you know how to deal calmly and confidently with all kinds of people and get the results you want. This powerful audio presentation will teach you, through everyday situations, appropriate assertive responses that will lead to long-term success in your business and personal lives. You'll learn how to:

  • Stand up for yourself without violating the rights of others
  • Handle difficult people and situations with ease and assurance
  • Present a confident, authoritative image
  • Say "no" and make it stick
  • Increase your self-esteem
  • Understand the behavior of other people
  • Deal positively and effectively with conflict and confrontation

Your Online Price $99.95. Includes four audio-CDs, workbook and free shipping.


Business Grammar and Usage for Professionals

Do you wish your spelling ability was on a par with your selling ability? Do grammatical errors interfere with an otherwise solid presentation? Do you freeze at the thought of writing a letter or panic before making a presentation?

You're not alone! This program is a must for anyone in a people position! Thousands of professional men and women across the United States have seen their self-esteem, their communication skills and their careers skyrocket with this easy-to-learn series. Here's what you'll learn:

  • The grammar rules you can't do without
  • The "less is more" concept
  • The 4 most common punctuation errors
  • The 25 words that rob your speech of forcefulness
  • Visual tricks that help catch hard-to-find errors
  • How to use names and titles correctly
  • The 5 business communication "red flags"
  • 3 critical steps to foolproof spelling
  • Tips for building your word power - fast!
  • How to demystify punctuation with easy rules that clarify and simplify
  • Guidelines for writing clearer, livelier sentences
  • How to avoid embarrassing grammar blunders in conversation
  • Why a casual, friendly tone is preferred in business writing today
  • Secrets for making your points confidently and professionally

Your Online Price $99.95. Includes six audio-CDs, workbook and free shipping.


How to Handle Difficult People

Take charge! Don't be a target for difficult people anymore. Get more positive results from people than you ever thought possible. There's at least one in every job or business - that person whose sole purpose seems to be to make your life miserable.

You don't have to fall victim to these people. Learn to deal effectively with difficult people and tough situations through the powerful, effective principles taught in this series. Here's what you'll learn:

  • How to avoid the stress of personality conflicts
  • Controlling yourself: how to be sure you're not a part of the problem
  • Belief filters: what they are and how to adjust yours
  • To identify different types of difficult behavior and what lies behind each
  • A powerful formula for changing your attitude
  • The secret to bringing out the best in all types of people
  • Understanding the role that self-esteem plays in problem behavior
  • How to use the 7 communication keys to ease tension and smooth out problems
  • The secret to keeping cool when you are under attack
  • How to overcome your fear of confrontation so you can defend yourself

Own How to Handle Difficult People, a six audio-CD series with workbook- for just $99.95. Free shipping & handling!


How to Manage Projects, Priorities & Deadlines -The Art of Getting It Done

In our working life, we wear many hats. Add these workplace roles to responsibilities at home, and time becomes a precious commodity. Sometimes it all seems too much to handle. Doesn't it?

Luckily, knowing how to manage and prioritize things can help you lead a more balanced, and fulfilling life. That's where this audio program comes in.

How to Manage Projects, Priorities & Deadlines is a proven system that teaches you and the members of your organization how to create a winning game plan and set realistic, yet challenging, goals.

You'll learn how to:

  • Multitask and juggle multiple projects
  • Conquer procrastination and overwork
  • Use small steps that lead to big results
  • Make every second count by minimizing distractions
  • Control the flood of information that crosses your desk
  • Identify which project management tools, techniques and technologies really work
  • Deal with crisis, conflict and change

Get How to Manage Projects, Priorities & Deadlines, the entire system, including workbook, assessments, checklists and audio CDs - for just $99.95. Free shipping & handling for orders within the U.S.!


How to Communicate with Power, Diplomacy and Tact

Essential Skills for Effective Communication By Bob Tracz

Communication is the key when it comes to career success. Get your ideas heard and the recognition you deserve. In this program you get the latest methods for improving your leadership style and personal effectiveness,with dozens of techniques for communicating with confidence and authority.

Gain a thorough understanding of the mechanics of communication through a series of exercises, examples and anecdotes. Analyze your communication “weak spots” and learn how to avoid the problems they cause. Develop methods for being assertive, without being either too passive or too pushy. Understand how to convey your expertise and be perceived as a leader. Find out how to use finesse to get your point across and persuade your listeners.

Here’s what else you learn:

  • Powerful tips for effective communication

  • Develop grace, tact and the confidence to express yourself.

  • How to eliminate ineffective speech patterns

  • The best ways to handle difficult personalities and confrontation

  • The secrets to being an “active listener” — a hidden strength

  • How to handle mistakes and misunderstandings

  • How to speak up and get your point across in meetings and discussions

Get How to Communicate with Power, Diplomacy and Tact, including workbook and audio CDs- for just $99.95. Free shipping & handling for orders within the US!


How to Reach Your Personal Best

How to Reach Your Personal BestLet How to Reach Your Personal Best help you understand the Perspective that drives the Attitude that influences the Behavior that creates the Results!

This brand new release provides sound advice to improve your career, personal life and yourself.

Paramount to accomplishing your Personal Best is this: Believe that you can have what you truly want. Sounds easy — but much easier said than done. We’re so conditioned to accept limitations that it’s difficult to deny the power these conditions hold over us. The rule bears repeating — Believe that you can have what you truly want

Apply the principles in this program and determine that you will create a new order in your life. You’ll learn:

  • What 5 lifelines will allow you to turn powerlessness into power-packed performance

  • How to stretch your mind and body beyond your comfort zone

  • To believe that you can have what you truly want

  • The power of belief — your beliefs will become your reality

  • That your perspective is your choice — it is your responsibility to change it

How to Reach Your Personal Best comes with six audio-CDs and a workbook. It's available for only $99.95. That includes free shipping for all US orders and our exclusive 60-day money back guarantee!


Effective Coaching

 Effective CoachingThis brand new audio CD program teaches you how to make the transition from manager to leader by showing you how to build better employees & create High-Performance relationships & teams.

Michael Caruso is great to listen to and his examples are realistic. You'll be applying what you learn in the first day. Effective Coaching will make you indispensable, and give you the skills to gain the respect of your staff and climb the corporate ladder more quickly. The program is essential listening for serious managers, supervisors and team leaders.

    You'll learn how to:

  • "Reprogram" yourself to think more like a coach, less like a manager
  • Unlock the potential in every member of your team
  • See your people as your greatest asset and why that's so important
  • Know when to coach, when to mentor, and when to counsel your employees
  • Utilize four critical behaviors you must develop as a leader — listening, giving feedback, encouragement, and recognition
  • Navigate the five stages every team must go through in order to grow and reach maximum effectiveness
  • Earn respect and see why it is more important that just "being liked"

And so much more! You get this excellent, audio-CD program for only $99.95 (USD). We provide FREE shipping for all US orders.

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The Secrets to De-Junking Your Life

Learn to take control, organize, prioritize and get more doneAll of us carry around harmful physical, mental, spiritual and emotional baggage that can interfere with our success, creativity and ability to love. This life management system teaches you the secrets to taking control, organizing, prioritizing and getting more done.

End the frustration and discover how to:

  • Uncover your own biggest personal time-wasters … and eliminate them!
  • Take control of the paper blizzard that threatens you on a daily basis.
  • Find more free time — immediately — to spend how you want.
  • Stay organized permanently with a maintenance plan intact.
  • Stay focused on the task at hand — eliminate distractions.
  • End frantic searches for misplaced and lost items once and for all.

Don't flounder around in "a sea of stuff." Reach for this audio program — It's a real lifesaver! The new super-organized you will be more productive, more efficient, happier and much less stressed than you ever dreamed.

Peggy Doolittle is my favorite female speaker. She empowers you without resorting to empty motivation insincerity. You'll got a lot out of listening to this program.

     Your investment for the De-Junking Your Life Audio Program is only $99.95 (USD). That includes six audio -CDs, your workbook and shipping and handling charges! (You'll receive your CDs in 10 business days) Please note that orders outside the US may be subject to a nominal shipping charge.

 


Money Mastery

Money Mastery - Your Guide to Financial Prosperity and Triumph Over DebtTired of just getting by? Ready to take charge of your financial future? Money Mastery will give you an ultra-easy, proven success formula and money-tracking system for making your money work for you and to become debt-free sooner.

From credit cards to investing, Money Mastery will change the way you spend and save money.

Click here for more information on this life changing money management and software system.

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Thinking Outside the Lines - Power Thinking for the 21st Century

Thinking Outside the LinesImagine a future filled with fresh and exciting ideas that you come up with in only seconds, a future brimming with creative solutions to problems that have plagued you forever, a future jam-packed with innovation for you and your team. Got the picture?

That's exactly the "tomorrow" that can be yours today, thanks to this audio CD program, Thinking Outside the Lines. The program offers you the mental tools, thinking techniques and brain-tickling tips you need to turn your perspective sideways, deal with change and find new approaches to problem-solving, decision-making and much, much more!

Each CD includes exercises that will enhance your learning experience and help you retain the essential power thinking concepts you learn.

Here's what you'll learn:

  • A 6-part personal action plan for applying power thinking to all areas of your life.
  • To break negative thinking habits that may be sabotaging your success.
  • 10 essential principles for thinking and living more creatively.
  • Practical tips for generating great ideas - fast!
  • Simple-to-use problem-solving strategies.
  • To give your power thinking skills an instant boost with simple relaxation techniques.
  • Strategies for combating 10 negative behaviors in others that drag you down.
  • To unleash the creative potential of your team with a surefire action plan.
  • How your perspective can positively or negatively affect your results.
  • How to blast away mental blocks with 3 highly effective techniques.
  • To teach others how to get out of their thinking ruts ­ and watch creativity and innovation soar throughout your organization!

Now you can have them all for just $99.95. FREE shipping and handling!

 


The Winner in You - Be Your Own Hero

The Winner in You teaches you how to be successful personally and professionally  Which kind of person are you: one who watches things happen or one who makes things happen? Do you dream of success, only to sit on the sideline and watch others attain it?

  The Winner in You Audio CD Program teaches you how to access innovative success strategies that will ignite your inner drive to take action in your life and to form life-changing habits!

  Whether you want to become stronger in your personal life — a better parent, lover, friend, son or daughter — or you're looking for professional guidance, this program is for you!

  Unlock the mysteries of motivation by learning proven strategies guaranteed to make you a winner. Discover the practical tools you need to get motivated — and stay motivated — on your journey to success.

  Learn how to take control of your future, your goals, your time, your thinking and your actions. Make excellence a part of your life, and your life will soon become EXCELLENT all the time.

Author Joe Gilliam shows you how to:

  • incorporate a positive mindset in all facets of your life;
  • set goals AND make an action plan to reach them;
  • incorporate motivation and use it to attract others to you;
  • overcome the fear of failure, procrastination and rejection;
  • put the power of daily affirmations to work for you;
  • form productivity-boosting habits that lead to success and mastery over your environment;
  • stop "talking" about your dreams and start achieving them;
  • believe in yourself;
  • And so much more!

Why wait any longer to achieve the success you deserve? Get the entire 4 Audio CD program PLUS the follow-along workbook for only $99.95 (USD).

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Choose From These Great Audio Programs...

The Art of Being Assertiveness

How to Handle Difficult People

How to Manage Projects, Priorities & Deadlines -The Art of Getting It Done

Money Mastery

Secrets to De-Junking Your Life

Thinking Outside the Lines

Winner in You - Be Your Own Hero

Why audio learning?

Audio learning is the best way to get new information quickly. Busy schedules and the complexity of life often prevents us from staying on the competitive edge and acquiring the skills necessary to stay viable, profitable and marketable in the workplace -- and in our personal lives.

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Whether you're in your car driving, or exercising or showering, or even on hold on the phone, there is ALWAYS time to listen to audio programs. That means that there is always time to improve our lives and our fortunes.

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