The Assertiveness Workbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships
by Randy J. Paterson, Ph.D.

From the back cover: Learn how to build confidence, express your ideas, say “no” without guilt, and stand up for yourself in life, love, and on the job – all with the proven, simple, step-by-step method available to you in The Assertiveness Workbook .

Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
by Carol S. Pearson

From the back cover: In this bold and original work, Carol S. Pearson shows that the heroic quest isn't just for certain people under special circumstances. Exploring the many heroic paths available to each of us, at every point in our lives, her innovative program enables us to live heroically by activating and applying twelve archetypes in our lives.

Coaching into Greatness: 4 Steps to Success in Business and Life
by Kim George

From the back cover: Internationally acclaimed business coach and consultant Kim George provides an easy-to-master process for coaches, business owners, and leaders to bring out innate greatness and achieve peak performance. Individuals can step out of their safe but stagnant lives and, without struggle, do the things they most want to do by understanding and developing a revolutionary kind of intelligence, called Abundance Intelligence (AQ).

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for College Students
by Marcy Levy Shankman and Scott J. Allen

From the back cover: Because the campus environment provides a rich array of diversity and opportunities for honing leadership skills, college students are in the unique position of having a “learning lab” at their disposal.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership is a groundbreaking book that combines the concepts of emotional intelligence and leadership in one model – emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL). This important resource offers students a practical guide for developing their EIL capacities and emphasizes that leadership is a learnable skill that is based on developing healthy and effective relationships. Step by step, the authors outline the EIL model (consciousness of context, consciousness of self, and consciousness of others) and explore the twenty-one capacities that define the emotionally intelligent leader.

Leadership, the authors explain, is within everyone’s ability to develop and is not just for those in official roles in formal organizations. The book explores the concept of leadership as a process among people working together productively in the group rather than simply a top-down phenomenon.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership offers a clear and engaging perspective on leadership as well as a practical guide for applying leadership skills. The book offers tools for reflection on the concepts of leadership. It also provides students with exercises to learn more about themselves, work more productively with others, improve relationships, and be more effective in demonstrating their leadership.

Exploring Leadership
by Susan R. Komives, etc.

Synopsis: This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. Exploring Leadership incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors’ work in the field. The second edition contains expanded and new chapters and also includes the relational leadership model, uses a more global context and examples that relate to a wide variety of disciplines, contains a new section which emphasizes ways to work to accomplish change, and concludes with concrete strategies for activism.

First Things First Every Day: Because Where You're Headed Is More Important than How Fast You're Going
by Stephen R. Covey

From the back cover: Stephen R. Covey and the Merrills have shown millions of readers how to balance the demands of a schedule with the desire for fulfillment. Now the principles they introduced in First Things First are distilled for everyday reading. Let First Things First Every Day be your guide to the rich relationships, the inner peace, and the confidence that come from knowing where you're headed, and why.

Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
by Donald T. Phillips

From the back cover: Lincoln on Leadership is the first book to examine Abraham Lincoln’s diverse leadership abilities and how they can be applied in today’s complex world. Using lively anecdotes, dramatic descriptions, and Lincoln’s own words, corporate manager and historian Donald Phillips reveals – from the pragmatic to the unconventional – the techniques and strategies that rallied a nation and transformed Lincoln’s image from country bumpkin to the most revered and honored president this country has ever known.

Already acclaimed by America’s top leaders as an indispensable guide, Lincoln on Leadership is an executive handbook that offers proven, time-tested solutions to the tough problems all leaders face today.

The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
by Michael P. Nichols, Ph.D.

From the back cover: “What is true listening and why, the author asks, has it become a near rarity in modern life? Nichols shows how to utilize this art to improve and repair relationships with spouses, lovers, relatives, children, friends, and colleagues, and even how to boost one's own ‘listenability.' He also explains what listening isn't, explaining why people don't listen and listing obstacles to listening (especially defensiveness owing to emotional overreaction). Humor, true life examples, and simple exercises make this a practical and even entertaining self-help guide…” – Publishers Weekly

Messages: The Communication Skills Book
by Barbara Pachter

From the cover: Improve your relationships and personal effectiveness by mastering: body language, sexual communication, making contact, assertiveness, negotiation, public speaking, self-disclosure, active listening, influencing others

The Nature of Leadership
by John Antonakis, Anna T. Cianciolo, and Robert J. Sternberg

From the back cover: Leadership scholars have made many inroads in understanding leadership. However, making sense of thousands of studies and hundreds of books is a difficult task, which is why many still incorrectly think that leadership is an elusive phenomenon. The Nature of Leadership is the first concise and integrated volume that addresses current issues in leadership research, including emerging topics such as gender, culture, and ethics.

People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts
by Robert Bolton, Ph.D.

From the back cover: A wall of silent resentment shuts you off from someone you love…You listen to an argument in which neither party seems to hear the other…Your mind drifts to other matters when people talk to you…

People Skills is a communication-skills handbook that can help you eliminate these and other communication problems. Author Robert Bolton describes the twelve most common communication barriers, showing how these “roadblocks” damage relationships by increasing defensiveness, aggressiveness, or dependency. He explains how to acquire the ability to listen, assert yourself, resolve conflicts, and work out problems with others. These are skills that will help you communicate calmly, even in stressful, emotionally charged situations.

The Power of Positive Confrontation
by Barbara Pachter

Synopsis: The next time someone treats you badly, don't start yelling or vow to get revenge. But don't quietly walk away either. Instead, just WAC'em! "WAC" is Barbara Pachter's formula for finding the words to make you "polite and powerful" in virtually every kind of difficult conversation. It's a combination of traditional business etiquette, good manners, and a decent concern for another person's feelings, employing the techniques of assertive-but not aggressive-behavior. This leads to positive confrontations, situations in which you deal with unpleasant people in a way that's neither nasty to them nor demeaning to you, but does get them to change their ways. "WAC," the acronym for this approach, stands for the three things you need to find out in every conflict: What: what's really bothering you? Ask: What do you want the other person to do or change? Check-in: Find out what the other person thinks about changing his behavior. For each of these steps, Pachter offers detailed instructions and dozens of real-life illustrations. For example, to find out what's really bothering you, you need to avoid generalizations and concentrate on the specifics of the individual situation. Don't simply label the other person's behavior as "selfish." Instead ask yourself what the specific behavior is that makes you believe he or she is being selfish. Pachter also shows you how to use the "WAC'em" technique to be polite and powerful in writing, in "cyberspace," and in a wide variety of sticky situations. And she tells you what to do when you find yourself getting "WAC'ed." The Power of Positive Confrontation will give you the skills you need to lead a more conflict-free life.

Promoting Well-Being: Linking Personal, Organizational, and Community Change
by Isaac Prilleltensky and Ora Prilleltensky

From the back cover: Isaac and Ora Prilleltensky have spent many years studying wellness and well-being from a community perspective, and have practiced in a variety of settings where wellness is emphasized. Promoting Well-Being builds on their knowledge base to connect treatment with prevention, counseling with advocacy, and personal change with community change and social justice. This resource is unique in showing how these areas can work in unison to enhance the well-being of individuals and the community alike.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey

From the back cover: “Few students of management and organization – and people – have thought as long and hard about first principles as Stephen Covey. In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , he offers us an opportunity, not a how-to-guide. The opportunity is to explore ourselves and our impact on others and to do so by taking advantage of his profound insights. It is a wonderful book that could change your life.” - Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence

10 Simple Solutions to Shyness: How to Overcome Shyness, Social Anxiety & Fear of Public Speaking
by Martin M. Antony, Ph.D.

From the back cover: We all could use a little reassurance before that big presentation or at that party where we don't know a soul. This book breaks down the symptoms of shyness into three manageable parts: physical discomfort, anxious thoughts, and bothersome behaviors. The ten simple solutions provide easy-to-learn ways to overcome each. Once you master these techniques, they will become your constant companions, providing you with courage, poise, and composure when you need them most. Keep this book in your pocket or purse – in no time at all, you'll be socializing and speaking in public with confidence and élan.