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Quotes and Questions on Leadership: Powerful Quotes and Insightful Questions to Sharpen Your Leadership Skills

This book is unlike any other book on leadership you have encountered before. It’s a unique work that consists of 270 self-contained leadership messages. These quick, practical messages cover over 90 topics that are strategic to world-class leadership. Each message contains four powerful QUOTES related to a key leadership topic, and four insightful QUESTIONS to facilitate deeper reflection on topics such as • Leadership and Self-Mastery • Leaders as Motivators • Leadership and People Skills • Leaders are defined by Results • Leaders as Simplifiers • Leadership and the wise use of Power • Leaders as Coaches • Leadership and Attention to Detail • Leaders as Master Communicators • Leadership and Stress • Leadership and the Power of Expectations • Leaders as Change Agents, and more. “Quotes and Questions on Leadership” is not only a book of CAREFULLY SELECTED leadership quotes from all over the world; it’s also a book of simple, yet provocative questions to further stimulate your thinking regarding your own leadership. It is not intended to be read once and put away. It is intended to be read quickly from cover to cover and then REREAD, message by message, day by day. Business leaders, coaches, military leaders, educators, trainers and others will find in this book a quick, dynamic leadership message to KICK-START each and every work day of the entire year. These brief messages, read and applied daily, will have a tremendous impact on how you influence and lead others. By combining powerful quotes on leadership with insightful questions about your own leadership, the results can be quite impressive. Underline your favorite quotes and questions. Use them in your team meetings and daily huddles. Discuss the topics with your peers. INSPIRE the people around you! It all starts with a simple process: Read the quotes, reflect on the questions, day by day. Time and providence will do the rest. Enjoy!

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Vital Information and Review Questions for the NCE, CPCE and State Counseling Exams: Special 15th Anniversary Edition

This new edition of Vital Information and Review Questions for the NCE, CPCE and State Counseling Exams sticks to the successful structure of the previous versions, each of which has demonstrated to be a valuable resource for anyone preparing for these difficult exams. Two new Discs have been added to this new edition, bringing the total to 20 audio CDs and over 20 hours of programming.

The material covered on the CDs is arranged into nine major areas, containing explanations of terms, concepts, and inter-relationships between subjects. Key definitions, theories and techniques are discussed, and appraisal, research, and evaluation methods are presented in an easily-understood format. The set also includes 325 tutorial questions, supplemented with additional information on all nine major areas of the National Counselor Examination. Two new CDs present “Cutting Edge Ethics,” an illumination of the huge changes from the past that were set forth by the ACA’s 2005 Code of Ethics, and “Ask Dr. Rosenthal, ” in which Dr. Rosenthal shares correspondence he has received from listeners who have contacted him with specific questions or asked for additional explanations of material.

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Spiritual Connection in Daily Life: Sixteen Little Questions That Can Make a Big Difference

How often do you find moments of deep peace and satisfaction in your day-to-day life? How often does connection with other people, the divine, or nature make you feel more alive? How often are you touched by a sense of awe-inspiring beauty, compassionate love, or pure joy? For many of us, these kinds of experiences tend to be fleeting and all too rare. Fortunately, new research is suggesting that a regular practice of paying attention to experiences like these can help any of us find them more often and cultivate richer, deeper, and more satisfying lives. In Spiritual Connection in Daily Life, Lynn Underwood introduces her Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES), which is comprised of sixteen simple, multiple-choice questions that invite us to become more attuned tothese extraordinary experiences in ordinary life. The DSES is the definitive set of questions for measuring the experience of spiritual connection and has been used in hundreds of studies, translated into over twenty languages, and used around the world by counselors, therapists, nurses, social workers, clergy from multiple faiths, and business leaders. Spiritual Connection in Daily Life offers a step-by-step guide to using the DSES to improve our abilities to sense the “more than” in the midst of our days. Embraced by people from many different cultures, religious traditions, and professional backgrounds, the DSES doesn’t require any extraordinary experience like hearing divine voices or embarking upon a dramatic religious conversion. Nor does it belabor the exact definition of “spirituality.” Rather, it simply invites us to focus on aspects of our daily lives such as deep peace, sense of inner strength, longing, and compassionate love. The sixteen questions also provide a common, nonpolarizing language for communicating with others about the role of the “more than” in our lives. Adherents of all faith traditions, as well as people with no religious leanings whatsoever, have experienced profound and lasting benefits from having these experiences, including improved health behaviors, better relationships, decreased stress and burnout, and improvements in daily mood. Now all of us can reap these same long-term benefits with just a little bit of self-reflection and Dr. Underwood’s expert guidance.