Personal Effectiveness

Developing your skills and career

Ask any senior executive for the qualities they value in a leader and their reply will usually include two attributes: self-awareness and a lifelong commitment to learning and development. This is the key to personal effectiveness, business success and career progression. As a manager or leader, it is not simply how much we know that matters but how we react to what we do not know.

This series of toolkits explains how to develop your skills in several key areas, as well as heightening your self-awareness, accelerating your learning and building your career success.  

Titles in the series

1. Advanced Negotiating Skills 

2. Developing Your Career Success

3. Effective Negotiating

4. Entrepreneurial Decision Making 

5. Influencing People, Handling Conflict and Being Assertive

6. Inspiring Trust

7. Managing Time and Stress

8. Personal Development Planning

9. The Successful Leader's First 100 Days  

About Leadership Checklists

Each toolkit (or checklist) is typically 10-20 pages and includes the following sections:

• Overview and benefits – what it is and why it matters
• Action checklist – the core: what to do and how to do it
• Things you can do – practical ideas and insights to ensure success
• Dos and don’ts – quick guide to the essentials
• Avoiding pitfalls – how to ensure success and avoid mistakes
• Key questions – designed to stimulate thinking and identify areas for improvement
• Further action – work-based suggestions to enhance skills and success
• Further information – details of books, organizations and online sources

Our writers not only bring top-level practical experience but also inquisitive minds, a dislike of jargon and fads, and the ability to write for leaders.

Entrepreneurial Decision Making

This toolkit explains how to make the best possible business decisions – and avoid thinking that is flawed or weak.
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Developing Your Career and Succeeding at Interviews

This toolkit will help you develop a rewarding career, helping you to do well in interviews and gain the job you want.
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Managing Time and Stress

This toolkit explains how to manage time and stress for yourself and others.
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Advanced Negotiating Skills

This toolkit explains how to reach a lasting agreement and deal with complex or significant negotiations.
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Effective Negotiating

This toolkit provides practical techniques and guidance to develop effective negotiating skills.
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Inspiring Trust

This toolkit explains how to develop as a trusted, inspiring leader.
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Personal Development Planning

Personal development planning enables you to move from where you are to where you want to be – this toolkit explains how.
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The Successful Leader's First 100 Days

This toolkit explains the issues the new boss needs to consider as well as techniques to apply that will help you succeed as a new leader.

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Influencing People, Handling Conflict and Being Assertive

This toolkit provides practical techniques to help you develop your influence and communicate successfully, as well as preventing and handling conflict.
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Toolkits are fully comprehensive, action-oriented and sold with unlimited rights to reproduce, adapt and distribute within your organization
Purchases are available online and can be accessed at any time via your account