Ever wonder why an important relationship just isn't working in the way you want? Want to improve your personal impact so that people sit up and take notice? Ever feel your communications aren't receiving the rave reviews they deserve? Ready to get out of autopilot? In a handful of short chapters, this insightful book will help you notice how you get fixed sometimes in the way you speak and behave with others - even in the way you work with yourself. It'll give you quick clarity about the small changes you could make - changes that will create a big difference in the success of your relationships, the impact of your messages and the success of your communications. It's time to Change Gears!

Get out of autopilot and provide greater development. Cut through the pointless propaganda that to be good at developing people, you're supposed to take 'the one best approach'. Increase the impact you make in less time. Learn to Coach-Sell-Teach-Tell (TM) In this provocative, common-sense book, Mark Dando shows you how to stack together four powerful approaches to developing people in the essential skills that really make a difference to their ability to perform. Providing simple clarity, he outlines the neurological implications and learning objectives for each approach; describes how to increase effectiveness by keeping things simple; and explores the key skills of connecting and listening that will make all the difference to what you do. As a result, you'll help people to high performance more quickly, save yourself time to concentrate on your own work, and be more confident that you know what to do and why for maximum impact.

"...when he could hear his mum, Gran, and Gramps snoring, Jake crept downstairs, treading light on the flooring... Jacob worries that he's top of the naughty list this year. So, he decides to kidnap Father Christmas to make sure he still gets a full stocking. Told in rhyme, with beautiful colour illustrations, children and grown-ups will love guessing together the shocks and surprises that await Jacob when his naughtiness creates big problems.

Feeling frazzled by work? Feeling tired by life? Would you like to know what's going on? And how you can feel better? Here's a book to help you realise how you're contributing to your own frazzlement. Then, work out how to reduce the abuse, and build your resilience. Summarising and simplifying a wealth of current writing and research from neuroscience and related fields of personal well-being, 'Don't Strain LittleBrain' presents a compelling picture of what we do to ourselves on a daily, sometimes hourly basis, and what we could do instead. This book describes thirteen everyday activities and disciplines which, when we get them just right, make all the difference. It offers practical insights into the challenges to overcome, and the simple solutions which can make this possible. You'll get a better understanding of what you're doing, and how you can do things differently, so that you feel stronger and more resilient. Ready to reduce the strain? Let's get started - LittleBrain will thank you for it.

"This is the story of a boy who was rude, He didn't pick his nose, or play with his food, But the thing that he did was awful to see, And it came as a shock to his family." When Sam starts yawning all kinds of strange things begin to happen. Told in rhyme and illustrated with beautiful simplicity, children and adults will giggle together as they find out why nothing and no one is safe when a little habit goes too far.

Had enough of meetings where it's all you can do to get through them? Want to bring more impact to your presentations, and enjoy them more? And what if you could stop the overload of information you and your colleagues put up with every day? If you're happy to think a little differently, and stop being a corporate robot, this book's for you. 'Kill The Robot' invites you to start thinking more independently about your communication. In a handful of short, punchy chapters, we'll explore half a dozen provocative communication principles which can make everything different. Packed with personal examples and anecdotes, and chock full of practical tips on how to make use of these simple ideas, you'll quickly work out how to increase your impact and your effectiveness. So, if you want to be more of an individual again, enjoy making presentations or make meetings more productive, let's get on...

Want to get more done in your life...? Want to create more space for yourself...? Want to transform the way you look at your time...? You do? Here's how we can help: A small book, full of big ideas. A powerful book, short enough to read in the bath before the water goes cold. A provocative book to get you thinking differently in no time. Drawing on insights gained through coaching thousands of people since 2000, Mark Dando and Doug Richardson have put together a hard-hitting attack on the key thinking patterns to be addressed, in order to help you get more of the important things done. In addition they offer straightforward hints and tricks to help you change the way you manage time and yourself, and therefore drive improvements in your personal productivity. So, do you want to make the important things happen in your life or not? Don't think about it any longer - you're wasting time. Find an hour...run a bath...read this book...Make things different.