Career Growth Bookshelf

Unleashing the Power of Executive Coaching to Transform Your Leadership and Life

by Scott Osman, Jacquelyn Lane, Marshall Goldsmith

What the world’s most influential leaders know is that the secret to achieving that effectiveness is becoming coachable. And in order to do so, one must be ready to engage in the process of betterment, starting with investing in yourself in order to give the most back to your organization, team, and the world.

The Science of Succeeding with People

by Vanessa Van Edwards

Learn shortcuts, systems, and secrets for taking charge of your interactions at work, at home, and in any social situation. These aren’t the people skills you learned in school. This is the first comprehensive, science backed, real life manual on how to captivate anyone—and a completely new approach to building connections.

The Complete Guide to ChatGPT Resume, Cover Letter, Interview, and Job Search Success

by Jeremy Schifeling

Career Coach GPT is the world's first AI-powered career guru. So if you're ready to go beyond generic advice from career blogs and get the bespoke guidance that only a private coach can provide, get ready for Career Coach GPT. And get ready to build a career - and a life - you love!

How Leaders Become Courageous, Wise, and Steady in an Anxious World

by Jennifer Garvey Berger

Using adult development theory, Berger explains the four predictable stages of leadership maturity and wisdom, and how to accelerate growth toward the third and fourth stages. Whether you're a seasoned leader or an emerging coach, Changing on the Job is a roadmap to cultivating courageous, wise, and steady leadership in an uncertain world.

How to Build Value Through Values

by Fred Kofman

Conscious business means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. A conscious business fosters personal fulfillment in the individuals, mutual respect in the community, and success in the organization. Achieve what really matters in the workplace and beyond.

Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

by Joseph Grenny

Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want. Learn how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

Master the Secret Language of Charismatic Communication

by Vanessa Van Edwards

Cues – the tiny signals we send to others 24/7 through our body language, facial expressions, word choice, and vocal inflection – have a massive impact on how we, and our ideas, come across. Our cues can either enhance our message or undermine it. Learn how to convey power, trust, leadership, likeability, and charisma in every interaction

How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Learn how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. Design and build your career and your life—joyful, creative and productive—one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness—and a New Freedom—at Work

by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Designers don't analyze, worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way forward. Learn how design thinking can transform our present job, and how it can improve our experience of work in times of disruption.

Harness the Power of the #1 Predictor of Success

by Dr. Travis Bradberry, Dr. Jean Greaves

It’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things. Explore a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills: 1) Self-Awareness; 2) Self-Management; 3) Social Awareness; and 4) Relationship Management. Assessment included.

Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time

by Susan Scott

Master positive change through powerful communication. In this guide, which includes a workbook and The Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, Scott teaches you how to transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across.

Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

by Adam Grant

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.

The Science of Achieving Greater Things

by Adam Grant

Progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess—it’s about the character you develop. Explore how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize your potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.

Seven Languages for Transformation

by Robert Keegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey

In this intensely practical book, Harvard psychologists Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey help each of us arrive at our own particular answers that can solve the puzzling gap between what we intend and what we are able to accomplish.

How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

by Marcus Buckingham

You've long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this. Learn how to decode the real truth of what you love—what engages you and makes you thrive.

Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS

by Shirzad Chamine

Learn the secret to defeating ten well-disguised mental Saboteurs. Positive Intelligence (PQ) measures the percentage of time your mind is serving you as opposed to sabotaging you.  While your IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence) contribute to your maximum potential, it is your PQ that determines how much of that potential you actually achieve.

Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work

by Marcus Buckingham

In the years since the publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have come to the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people, you must build on their strengths. This is an indispensable guide for building on your strengths to further your career and lead your team.

The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen

Explore why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging. The authors offer a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace. They blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice.

Resolving the Heart of Conflict

by The Arbinger Institute

The Anatomy of Peace uses a fictional story to powerfully show readers the way to transform conflict. We learn how they come together, how they help parents and children come together, and how we too can find our way out of the personal, professional, and social conflicts that weigh us down.

A Framework for Building a Life You Can Thrive In

by Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Design the most important project of all: your life. This notebook allows you to dig deeper into your curiosities, motivations, and skills; define your goals; and track your progress. Work through innovative option-generating tools and exercises.

Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

by Steven J. Stein, Howard E. Book

Learn how the dynamic of emotional intelligence works. By understanding EQ, you can build more meaningful relationships, boost your confidence and optimism, and respond to challenges with enthusiasm-all of which are essential ingredients of success.

Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment

by Marshall Goldsmith

“We are living an earned life when the choices, risks, and effort we make in each moment align with an overarching purpose in our lives, regardless of the eventual outcome.” But for many of us, that pesky final phrase is a stumbling block. Not being attached to the outcome goes against everything we’re taught about achievement and fulfillment.

A Proven Formula to Open Up and Own the Room

by Timothy J. Koegel

It's often reported that the number one fear among American adults is public speaking. But in today's competitive business world, effective communication is a crucial skill, and the cost of being less than effective is quite high.