The Career Equation® allows coaches and talent professionals to offer their clients and staff the clarity to enable them to take meaningful action. Whether it is to commit fully to the work they are doing, to make a lateral move within their existing firm, or to try something completely new, the Equation addresses the self-knowledge and self-management needed for them to own their careers. We all have unique talents and skills and the Equation can help people find their place in the world of work. The reader will learn how to: •Make use of The Career Equation® •Create a career design •Prepare their clients for a career conversation •Help their clients overcome mental barriers This book will change the way coaches, mentors, career advisors and performance professionals support their clients to achieve maximum satisfaction from their work. “The Career Equation is exceptionally swift and effective, simple to learn, share and use with talent at all stages of their career.” James Sparrow, Chief Executive Officer EMEA at Savills “The Career Equation is must-read text for parents, personal tutors, HR managers, team leaders, careers advisers and coaches. An easy guide for importance career conversations in our ever-changing environment.” Dr Helen Smith, Faculty Head of Coaching and Mentoring for Business and Law, Department of People and Performance “This book is a great resource for career professionals, offering tools and ideas that get to the heart of what we mean by career success.” John Lees, Author of How to Get A Job You Love “This book helps to discover the simple and effective model that has enabled me to have valuable career conversations, and more importantly, see the positive results when individuals are making the choices aligned to their strengths and passions.” Aneta Jajkowksa, People & Organisation Partner / Your Career Plan Accredited Coach Erica Sosna is a career consultant expert, a TEDx Speaker, founder of Career Matters and bestselling author of Your Life Plan. Erica’s work has transformed the career direction and aspirations of professionals all over the world. Her company, Career Matters, accredits professional coaches in her Career Equation method. Find out more at www.ericasosna.com

"The Career Equation is exceptionally swift and effective, simple to learn, share and use with talent at all stages of their career." -James Sparrow, Chief Executive Officer EMEA at Savills "The Career Equation is must-read text for parents, personal tutors, HR managers, team leaders, careers advisers and coaches. An easy guide for importance career conversations in our ever-changing environment." -Dr Helen Smith, Faculty Head of Coaching and Mentoring for Business and Law, Department of People and Performance "This book is a great resource for career professionals, offering tools and ideas that get to the heart of what we mean by career success." -John Lees, Author of How to Get A Job You Love "This book helps to discover the simple and effective model that has enabled me to have valuable career conversations, and more importantly, see the positive results when individuals are making the choices aligned to their strengths and passions." -Aneta Jajkowksa, People & Organisation Partner / Your Career Plan Accredited Coach The Career Equation(R) allows coaches and talent professionals to offer their clients and staff the clarity to enable them to take meaningful action. Whether it is to commit fully to the work they are doing, to make a lateral move within their existing firm, or to try something completely new, the Equation addresses the self-knowledge and self-management needed for them to own their careers. We all have unique talents and skills and the Equation can help people find their place in the world of work. The reader will learn how to: -Make use of The Career Equation(R) -Create a career design -Prepare their clients for a career conversation -Help their clients overcome mental barriers This book will change the way coaches, mentors, career advisors and performance professionals support their clients to achieve maximum satisfaction from their work. Erica Sosna is a career consultant expert, a TEDx Speaker, founder of Career Matters and bestselling author of Your Life Plan. Erica's work has transformed the career direction and aspirations of professionals all over the world. Her company, Career Matters, accredits professional coaches in her Career Equation method. Find out more at www.ericasosna.com

Life is not what you get out of it . . . it’s what you put back in. Yet our current means for summarizing life’s work, from resumes to salaries, are devoid of what matters most. This is why the work we do is often bad for our wellbeing, when it should be making us happier and healthier. What are the most meaningful contributions we can make? This is Life’s Great Question. Life is about what you do that improves the world around you. It is about investing in the development of other people. And it is about efforts that will continue to grow when you are gone. Life’s Great Question will show you how to make your work and life more meaningful, and greatly boost your wellbeing. In this remarkably quick read, author Tom Rath describes how finding your greatest contribution is far more effective than following talent or passion alone. More than a book, each copy includes a code for an online program that identifies the most significant contributions you can make. This deeply practical book will alter how you look at your work and change the way you live each day.

An Intelligent Career is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, with clear guidance and support on taking charge of your own destiny, seeking continuous learning, collaborating with others, recognizing and acting on fresh opportunities, determining when it is time to move on, and much more.

Focusing on career planning, this book sets out a five-point plan of action which includes networking, job search strategies and successful interview techniques. It includes information for MBA students, along with CV advice, and ideas and suggestions about portfolio careers.

Kaye and Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well-intentioned development event or process to help with career development.

The formula for Lean success! Toyota veterans reveal how to build continuous improvement into your company’s DNA Ever since Toyota introduced the revolutionary Toyota Production System (TPS), businesses have tried to replicate Toyota’s success. Few have succeeded over the long term. What businesses have failed to realize is that TPS calls for a fundamentally different way of thinking. Now, at long last, here is a straightforward guide that make sense of the thinking culture behind Toyota’s phenomenal success. In its pages, authors Tracey and Ernie Richardson speak from the heart as Toyota employees who worked in the Kentucky factory when the company was first introducing its people-first approach in the U.S., and went on in the ensuing decades to teach Lean thinking around the world. In The Toyota Engagement Equation, the authors take you through Toyota’s own journey of discovery. This deep dive into the company’s game-changing work practices reveals how employees were developed, how they were taught to spot and define problems through standardization, how they were coached to solve them, and how they were encouraged to improve their thinking as they moved forward. And you’ll see how Toyota developed this simple but profoundly effective approach into an overall management system—and how you can achieve amazing results in your company through the same system. In the world of Lean design and implementation handbooks, The Toyota Engagement Equation stands out as a fresh, unique, and authoritative guide to building your business into the Toyota of your industry. As the authors see it, TPS has now evolved to the “Thinking People System!”

To stay on top, companies need to do more than just tread water—they need to grow. And that means that their employees need to develop and improve their skills at the same pace. More than ever, managers are being encouraged to improve employee performance through effective coaching, but so few of them have the time—or the knowledge—it takes to do it successfully. Brian Emerson and Ann Loehr have spent years showing some of the country’s top companies how to develop their most promising employees. Now in this helpful manual they guide managers through every step of the coaching process, from problem solving to developing accountability. Readers will discover:the top 10 tips every manager should know before he starts to coach • how to handle difficult conversations, conflicting priorities, and problem team members • how to hold follow-up meetings after goals and priorities have been set • sample questions they can adapt to various situations • examples of common problems and how they can use coaching to address them.Clear, practical and straightforward, this is an invaluable tool that will help all leaders coach employees, colleagues, and themselves to excellence.

In today’s work environment, the lines between our professional and personal lives are blurred more than ever before. Whatever is happening to us outside of our workplace—whether stressful, painful, or joyful—follows us into work as well. We may think we have to keep these realities under wraps and act as if we “have it all together.” But as Mike Robbins explains, we can work better, lead better, and be more engaged and fulfilled if—instead of trying to hide who we are—we show up fully and authentically. Mike, a sought-after motivational speaker and business consultant, has spent more than 15 years researching, writing, and speaking about essential human experiences and high performance in the workplace. His clients have ranged from Google to Citibank, from the U.S. Department of Labor to the San Francisco Giants. From small start-ups in Silicon Valley to family-owned businesses in the Midwest. From what he’s seen and studied over the years, Mike believes that for us to thrive professionally, we must be willing to bring our whole selves to the work that we do. Bringing our whole selves to work means acknowledging that we’re all vulnerable, imperfect human beings doing the best we can. It means having the courage to take risks, speak up, have compassion, ask for help, connect with others in a genuine way, and allow ourselves to be truly seen. In this book, Mike outlines five principles we can use to approach our own work in this spirit of openness and humanity, and to help the people we work with feel safe enough to do the same, so that the teams and organizations we’re a part of can truly succeed. “This book will offer you insights, ideas, and tools to inspire you to bring all of who you are to the work that you do—regardless of where you work, what kind of work you do, and with whom you do it. And, if you’re an owner, leader, or just someone who wants to have influence on those around you—this book will also give you specific techniques for how to build or enhance your team’s culture in such a way that encourages others to bring all of who they are to work.”