Leadership Library Inventory A-M

Audio Cassettes


Achieveing Excellence: How To Implement The New Excellence-Oriented Management Principles In Your Department

Lou Heckler, CareerTrack Publications

With this audio briefing, achieve higher output, increased quality, quicker response and greater profits. There's been a revolution in business. Companies are operating leaner and cleaner. New emphasis is being placed on people, customers and quality. Now you can get on top of the key elements of the "excellence approach" to management, with this fast-moving audio briefing. Even better, you'll learn how to put the principles of excellence into action--company-wide, department-wide or just within your team.

4 tapes - 60 minutes each


Advanced Executive Leadership Skills: A Self-Paced Learning Sytem In Advanced Leadership Skills

Xerox Learning Systems, Xerox Corporation

You will learn the four most critical skills identified in the executive leadership study. Supporting: You'll learn how to guide the efforts of others and earn people's wholehearted cooperation. Ensuring Understanding: You'll learn a subtle way to open lines of communication so you'll understand others' ideas, opinions and needs--and they will want to hear and act on your suggestions.

Enhancing Value: You'll learn how to respond to work or ideas that aren't acceptable to you in a way others will accept and act on without defensiveness or hard feelings. Managing Conflict: You'll learn how to turn potentially acrimonious disagreements into opportunities for creative problem solving in a way that prevents polarization between you and others.

2 tapes - 60 minutes each


Assertiveness: The Right Choice

Cal LeMon, Ph.D., National Press Publications

Assertiveness is a choice you make for yourself--to stand up for your rights in a positive way...express anger and disagreement constructively, while preserving relationships. This tape shows you how to get what you want without being pushy. 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; Learn which words and phrases to use, which to avoid; Understand the behavior of other people; Deal positively and effectively with conflict and confrontation.

4 tapes - 60 minutes each


Basic Business Vocabulary

A. Rae Price, Ph.D., CareerTrack Publications

Learn to understand the language of investing to make sound financial decisions; Simplify insurance jargon to know if your coverage is adequate--or if you're paying too much; From ARM's to Ginny Mae's--use real estate terms with confidence; Master commonly used foreign terms and expressions--a must in today's international marketplace; Demystify the "legal-ese" in contracts and written agreements; Overcome common word mistakes and misuses that undermine your professional credibility; and much more.

6 tapes - 60 minutes each


Building & Maintaining High Energy

Vivian Quiring, CareerTrack Publications
 
When you're full of energy everything seems to go right, doesn't it? work is easier and more fun. You play harder and enjoy it more. And life's problems don't loom as large as they sometimes do. Wouldn't it be great if you could always have more than enough energy...if your "energy bank account" was never running low and you never had to worry about an "overdraft" or burnout. Well, it's not as for fetched as it sounds - and these tapes are going to convience you it's a realistic goal all of us can shoot for.
 
2 tapes - 45 miunutes each

Career Tape - Career Skills

CareerTrack Publications
 
No Description Available
 
1 tape - 100 minutes

The Best of Careertrack-Volumn II

CareerTrack Publications

Tape 1: Leadership Training; How to Delegate Work and Ensure It's Done Right; Confident Public Speaking; Business Writing Skills.

Tape 2: Dealing With Difficult People; Exceptional Customer Service; Political Savvy; Self Esteem and Peak Performance.

2 tapes - 80 minutes each


Confident Public Speaking: How To Turn Your Listeners Into Doers, Believers and Buyers

Roko Paskov, CareerTrack Publications

In this tape you will learn how to: use gestures to punctuate your presentation; Two never-fail techniques for engaging a "dead" crowd; Specific high-power words that always sell your listener; How to win over a hostile group; How to overcome preparation procrastination: The one thing to do immediately when you take on a presentation; What to do when someone asks a question and our mind goes blank; Talking in "headlines" and "one-liners" Likability factors: How to get them on your side in the first minute; Plus: A quick "tune-up" so you can review important points right before you speak.

4 tapes - 60 minutes each


THE COURSE IN WINNING

Denis Waitley, Nightingale-Conant Corporation

  1. Healthy Self-Esteem
  2. Decisive Goal-Setting
  3. Super Self-Image
  4. Driving Self-Motivation
  5. Superb Self-Control
  6. Solid Self-Discipline
  7. Positive Expectations
  8. Expanding Self-Dimension
  9. Keen Self-Awareness
  10. Charismatic Self-Projection

2 tapes each topic - 60 minutes each


Creativity Lecture

Roger Von Oech, Nightingale-Conant Corporation

No Description Available

1 tape - 60 minutes


The Effective Manager Seminar

Brian Tracy, Nightingale-Conant Corporation

  1. The Creative Manager
  2. Delegating and Supervising
  3. The Excellent Manager
  4. Executive Time Management
  5. How to Hire; How to Fire
  6. How to Sell Well
  7. Leadership: The Critical Difference
  8. Managing Meetings that Get Results
  9. Marketing Strategy for Fast Growth
  10. Motivating People Toward Peak Performance
  11. Negotiating Strategies and Tactics
  12. Pathways Toward Personal Progress
  13. Setting Business Strategy
  14. Superior Sales Management

14 tapes - 60 minutes each


Feel The Fear & Do It Anyway

Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. Nightingale - Conant Audio

Are you afraid of making decisions? Of being alone? Of intimacy? Asserting yourself? Public Speaking? Ending a relationship? Starting a new job? Fear doesn't have to hold you back from happiness or success. You can change your relationshiop with fear. In this program Susan Jeffers teaches compassionate concepts and highly effective exercised that help you unravel the complexities and reverse the effects of fear.


 

First Time Manager: How To Master The Essential Skills Of Management

Joan Iaconetti and Patrick O'Hare, CareerTrack Publications
 
Here's what you will learn...A step-by-step approach to mastering management. 1) Start off strong: Resist the most dangerous temptation new managers face; The essential questions you must ask your first week on the job; Learn 3 ways to let your boss know you're a self-starter; know if you're "making the grade" in the first month' 2) Master management essentials; Manage paperwork; Separating the "must read" from the "can wait"; Delegate vs. dump; Assigning work for top results; Reward your people when raises are out of the questions; Build a team of giants; Hiring right the first time; 3) Use advanced management strategies; Avoid cheating yourself out of your next promotion; Get past the myths of motivation; The truth about the #1 motivator (it's not money); Know if you're leading or managing; A simple test that will tell you; Make performance reviews something you and your people look forward to and benefit from.
 
6 tapes - 47 minutes each

First Things First

Steven R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, & Rebecca R. Merrill, Covey Leadership Center, Inc.
 
The First Things First Audio Learning System Workbook contains application exercises and instructional information.
 
6 tapes - 60 minutes each

How To Delegate Work And Ensure It's Done Right

Dick Lohr, CareerTrack Publications

In this tape you will learn how to:


How To Lead A Team

Training for the "manager turned team leader"

Sheila Paxton, CareerTrack Publications

Are you new to teams? Are you leading a team that's new to you? In this program, you'll discover exactly what it takes to spearhead a successful team. You'll learn to foster team identity by building trust, dealing constructively with conflict and boosting the individual capabilities of your people. And you'll hear fascinating real-world interviews and examples of what works...and what doesn't.

4 tapes - approx. 25 min. each  (includes workbook)


How To Prepare A Winning Proposal: An Effective System To Sell Your Product, Project or Idea

Pat Cramer, CareerTrack Publications

Get your proposal accepted enthusiastically. Save yourself hours of frustration. This two-tape audio program gives you a clear-cut system for writing compelling proposals--faster and more easily.

2 tapes - 60 minutes each


How to Survive Your College Days

G. Brown, CareerTrack Publications

Advice your guidance counselor never gave you! 73% of all high school students go to college...but how many last more than the first year is another story. It's all a matter of survival. This light-hearted, irreverent and terribly honest audio program lays it on the line about what to expect in college--and how to survive. As G. Brown puts it, "...college isn't that bad of a deal. It's a time for excitement and for dreams." In short, college is an experience--and after you're equipped with the skills and "savvy" presented in this program, it will be one of the best experiences of your life.

2 tapes - 60 minutes each


How You Can Be More Creative

Roger Von Oech, Nightingale-Conant Corporation

No Description Available

6 tapes - 40 minutes each


Image And Self-Projection For Today's Professional Woman

Dr. Julie White, CareerTrack Publications

Here's what you'll learn:

4 tapes - 60 minutes each


Investor's Hotline: Investment Intellegience From The World's Top Free Market Experts

Audio Alert, Inc.

No Description Available

1 tape - 70 minutes


It's All Within Your Reach: How To Live Your Dreams

Mike Wickett, Nightingale-Conant Corporation

Energizing yourself to Win Bigger in Life:

6 tapes - 60 minutes each


Leadership Training

Lou Heckler, CareerTrack Publications

Getting the job done isn't enough these days. Today's organizations need more. More innovation. More decisive action. More risk-taking. More pull-out-the-stops performance. Now more than ever, we need ability. People who have it aren't just sought after--they can write their own ticket. Forget the old saying, "Leaders are born." It's simply untrue. Leaders are leaders because they've mastered certain skills and qualities. And by using those skills they ignite excellence in themselves and everyone around them. Lou Heckler outlines in clear, concise detail the qualities of leadership and the step-by-step techniques that you will need to put them into action. Listen--and then write your own ticket to career success.

4 tapes - 60 minutes each


Life Balance For Women

Bee Epstein, Ph.D., CareerTrack Publications

It's not easy to have it all. Especially for today's woman. You know the frustrations well. Your job demands extra hours and energy. Your family deserves love and attention. And on top of it, you need private time for recreation--and relaxation. You'll learn:


Listen: It's Easy To Master Today's Top Business Books In Minutes

Fast Track

No Description Available

2 tapes - 60 minutes each


Listening: The Quiet Side Of Communication

M.J. Weeks, American Management Association

No Description Available

1 tape - 60 minutes


Making Meetings Work

Gayle Carson, CareerTrack Publications

We've all witnessed meetings that waste time. People who take forever to get to the point. Discussions that go nowhere. Not to mention stuffy conference rooms, stiff chairs and sloppy visuals. Your meetings do not have to be that way. Now you can learn to conduct meetings that move quickly...keep people interested...and achieve your objectives. In this program, you'll learn how to plan, organize and lead a highly productive meeting.

2 tapes - 60 minutes each