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Capstone Rights Guide:
Spring/Summer 2013
How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal/Gillespie 1
The Power of Doing Less: How to Spend Your Valuable Time on Things That Really Matter/Joseph 2
How To Talk To Absolutely Anyone: Confident communication in every situation/Rhodes 3
Clarity: Clear Mind. Better Performance. Bigger Results/Smart 4
How to Succeed with People/McGee 5
Mindfulness: Become more successful, confident and happy through living in the moment/Hasson 6
The Snowball Effect: Communication Techniques to Make you Unstoppable/Bounds 7
Resilience: How to cope when everything around you keeps changing/Webb 8
Assertiveness: How to be Strong In Any Situation/Potts 9
Straight to Yes: Asking with Confidence and Getting What You Want/Iman 10
Dream It, Do It, Live It: 9 Easy Steps To Making Things Happen For You/Newton 11
Entrepreneur Revolution/Priestley 12
What's Stopping You Being More Confident?/Kelsey 13
Contents:
Author Information 14 & 15
1
How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase
Your Personal Appeal David Gillespie, Mark Warren
An irreverent, colourful guide to becoming more
interesting and successful by gaining self-knowledge
and building your confidence and charisma.
In addition to having scads of acting and writing
credits between them, the authors are co-founders of
a unique organization. Called The Speechworks, it is a
group of performance-based professionals who draw
upon their professional expertise to teach clients—
including businesspeople from Fortune 500 and FTSE
100 companies, sports stars, politicians, actors,
writers and celebrities—the skills they need to
communicate more effectively, to impress others with
charisma and find greater success at work and in life.
In this wildly funny, irreverent and practical guide they
share their proprietary formula for achieving a
heightened and sustained level of interestingness.
•Practical tips for achieving everyday interestingness,
along with personality tests to aid self-knowledge.
•Tons of fascinating quotes, outrageous humour and
vibrant visual material—including mindmaps and
infographics.
•Everything you need to increase your personal
appeal, engage more effectively with those around
you and lead a more enjoyable and fulfilling life.
978-0-85708-406-4 / 0-85708-406-2
192 pp. Pub: 15/03/13
Business Self-Help
2
The Power of Doing Less: How to Spend Your
Valuable Time on Things That Really Matter
Fergus O'Connell
Separate the work that works from the work that
hurts. Ever wished for more hours in the day? Do
you dream of jumping on your desk and screaming
‘enough’ for all to hear? You’re not alone. We’re all
feeling overworked and exhausted. Since the
collapse of the banks we’re all being told you have
to ‘do more with less’ and that you’re ‘lucky to have
a job’. It’s exhausting. Well there is another way.
Just…do less. The Power of Doing Less shows how
toiling until you drop is NOT the way to progress
and succeed, it shows that learning when and how
to say ‘no’ is the life skill you need most.
This book will make your life simpler, better and
more profound by separating the work that
matters, from the work that’s not important. And
you won’t waste hours of your precise time reading
this book either – it’s short, sharp and fun to read
with colourful illustrations and inspiring quotes.
The Power of Doing Less covers:
• How to avoid overload and burn out.
• Mastering the work/life balance.
• The philosophy of action.
• How to become an expert decision maker.
• The benefits of work-sharing.
978-0-85708-421-7 / 0-85708-421-6
Business Self-Help
192 pp. Pub: 14/06/13
3
How To Talk To Absolutely Anyone: Confident
communication in every situation
Jamie Smart
Be a people magnet!
Improving your people skills and becoming a people-
person is a surefire route to success, happiness,
and confidence. We’ve all looked enviously across
the room at that person who seems to effortlessly
interact with everyone – humorous, confident and
well liked. That person is confident with people they
don’t know, they have no fear of rejection, they can
handle difficult situations with apparent ease. Well
now you can too. How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone
will show you exactly how to develop better
communication for better results. With Mark
Rhodes’ sound advice you will be able to build
rapport with absolutely anyone.
Learn how to:
• Overcome fear of rejection.
• Be confident with people you don’t know.
• Deal with difficult situations.
• Get better outcomes from disputes.
• Communicate better to win you more business
and more sales.
• Be more effective at networking at both business
and social events.
978-0-85708-402-6 / 0-85708-402-X
224 pp. Pub: 21/06/13
Business Self-Help
4
Clarity: Clear Mind. Better
Performance. Bigger Results Jamie Smart
Learn to clear your mind and think like a winner.
How to effortlessly keep a clear head and profit from the
clarity of thought that a clear mind brings -- being more
intuitive, more resilient, more agile, making connections,
thinking more creatively and finding your natural
motivation.
We all have so much going on. A million different
projects, to-do lists longer than your arm. We all worry
about things -- money, deadlines. With all this buzzing
around in our heads it's often a nightmare trying to
concentrate on one thing. What if someone could show
you how to empty your mind of all the noise? If you could
be shown how to de-clutter your mind and concentrate
on one important thing? Well Jamie Smart, state-of-mind
specialist, can do just that -- with Clarity he will show you
how to get real clarity of thought. You'll learn how to clear
your mind and become less stressed and more
productive -- and as a result, more confident in your
abilities.
Clarity will help you to:
• Greatly improve your concentration and ability to think
clearly.
•Reduce stress levels and increase productivity.
•Grow your confidence and self-belief.
•Find innovative solutions to problems and make
progress on goals and dreams.
•Trust your intuition and improve your decision-making.
•Build stronger relationships through better
communication.
978-0-857-08448-4 / 0-857-08448-8
280 pp. Pub: 15/02/2013
Business Self-Help
5
How to Succeed with
People: Remarkably easy
ways to engage, influence
and motivate almost anyone Paul McGee
Let’s face it, if you want any sort of success in life you’re
going to have to deal with other people at some point. All
success requires input from other people – even if
you’ve invented something in your bedroom, eventually,
you’re going to need to interact with people to take it to
the next level. And even if you don’t desperately hanker
after success, you surely want to be liked, have friends,
and get on well with people? Learning how to better
communicate and interact with others can really help to
improve your life – from ensuring you enjoy parties more
to turning you into a roaring success magnet. So whether
you dread social events with a passion and spend
evenings cringing in a corner, or just want to have better
relationships at work and in life, then How to Succeed
With People, written in Paul’s characteristic down to
earth, approachable style, can help you become a
people magnet.
Learn how to:
•Hold people’s attention when you talk.
•Listen/react properly to what others are saying or
doing.
•Better confront, complain and deal with difficult
conversations.
•Give compliments and praise.
•Deal with interviews, networking events, difficult
conversations and more.
978-0-85708-289-3 / 0-85708-289-2
216 pp. Pub: 12/04/13
Business Self-Help
6
Mindfulness: Become more
successful, confident and
happy through living in the
moment Gill Hasson
There’s nothing mystical about mindfulness. To be
mindful simply means to be aware of and engage with
what’s happening right now, in the current moment.
This book explains mindfulness in a clear, accessible
way, making you believe you can do it. You will learn
that, whatever your circumstances, mindfulness can
bring so much to your life, in any situation.
This book outlines how a mindful approach can help
you in your everyday life to:
•Establish more helpful, positive ways of thinking and
behaving.
•Be more open and accepting.
•Manage your attention so that unwanted thoughts
cannot crowd your mind; stop ruminating about the
past or worrying about the future.
•Cope more effectively with stress and have a more
confident and calm approach to life.
•Manage painful emotions such as anger, guilt, worry
and anxiety.
•Bring about positive changes in your relationships.
•Achieve a new level of self–awareness and self–
understanding.
This is mindfulness made easy; you will learn that
mindfulness in not all in the head it’s also a way of
being – it’s about what you do; your actions and your
behavior.
978-0-85708-444-6 / 0-85708-444-5
224 pp. Pub: 05/07/13
Business Self-Help
7
The Snowball Effect: Communication Techniques
to Make You Unstoppable Andy Bounds
The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestseller The Jelly Effect. Communication is supposed to cause something. That’s the point of it. So, what do you want to achieve following your communication? Do you want someone to answer ‘yes’? Do you want to improve your relationships? Do you want people to understand exactly what you’re talking about, first time? Whatever you want to achieve, you’ll need decent communication to get there, and expert and bestselling author Andy Bounds is here to show us exactly how to nail your communication. Using the same conversational style that made The Jelly Effect so popular, The Snowball Effect is packed with short, rapid fire sections complete with visuals and special features to help us get serious results from our communication. The Snowball Effect explains how to; •Get more done, more quickly: Communication techniques that save you a week a year. •Persuade more people to say “yes”: How to convince others, in ways that leave you both feeling comfortable. •Enjoy your job more: How to improve relationships with everyone you work with. •Get things right first time: Deliver work that impresses, and is exactly what they wanted. •Eliminate the negatives: What to say, to remove the frustrations and stresses you feel all too often.
978-0-85708-397-5 / 0-85708-397-X
296 pp. Pub: 01/02/13
Business Self-Help
8
Resilience: How to cope
when everything around you
keeps changing Liggy Webb
Bounce back from whatever life throws at you.
Stressful situations are a fact of life. Job insecurity,
financial burden, relationship doubt are all too familiar.
Some people approach them with confidence and poise,
facing change and challenges head on. Others back
away slowly into a corner and become quivering wrecks
at the mere thought of them. So what is it that makes
some people cope with these adverse situations so well?
It’s not about what is happening to you, but how you
react to it. It’s about your resilience.
Happiness guru Liggy Webb is here to help us all find
positivity and inner strength to cope with stressful
situations. Arming you with a personal toolkit to handle
day to day challenges, and providing strategies for
thriving in uncertain times Liggy shows you how to
increase your ‘bouncibility’ and bounce back from
whatever negative things life throws at you:
•Timely topic with governments across the world
promoting happiness on the one hand and dealing with
vast economic uncertainty and austerity on the other.
•Easy to digest, anecdotal and practical guide with lots
of common sense advice.
•Contains timely examples and tips tailored for coping
with difficult times
978-0-85708-387-6 / 0-85708-387-2
Business Self-Help
244 pp. Pub: 15/02/13
9
Assertiveness: How to Be Strong In Any Situation
Conrad Potts, Suzanne Potts
Put your foot down.
You don’t have to be a pushy so-and-so to get what
you want. There are ways to ensure you assert your
presence and take charge of situations that will
make you happier, healthier and more successful.
It’s about building your self-esteem and controlling
your own destiny. So don’t be a push over – let this
title show you how to deal with any situation with
self-assurance and confidence. From asking for a
pay rise, to dealing with your family – Assertiveness
has practical advice for dealing with a whole host of
situations, both at work and at home.
•Includes practical solutions to a range of universal
problems.
•Deals with assertiveness in business, family and
social situations.
•Covers topics like ‘dealing with your boss’, ‘dealing
with finances’, ‘asking for a pay rise’ and ‘saying no
at work’.
978-0-85708-368-5 / 0-85708-368-6
224 pp. Pub: 29/03/13
Business Self-Help
10
Straight to Yes: Asking with
Confidence and Getting
What You Want Haider Imam
Make yourself a “yes” magnet.
You’ve finally plucked up the courage to ask for
something. The afternoon off. A pay rise. Then comes
that crucial moment where you wait with baited breath
for the response. It’s tense, but it doesn’t have to be.
You just need to master the art of ‘the ask’.
Taking a direct, light-hearted, wholly practical approach,
Haider Imam zooms straight in on that moment of truth
providing a set of proven tools and techniques for
getting to ‘yes,’ every time. He instils readers with the
confidence to ask bigger, more often and even ask for
the impossible – and to get it.
•Based on sound psychological principles, Straight To
Yes! offers tons of winning ways to make requests that
get you to ‘yes’
•Wholly practical in style and content, the book
features accessible, straightforward techniques readers
can put into action immediately
•Designed for quick-reference while on the move, it
affords instant access to specific, step-by-step, single-
page techniques as needed
978-0-85708-375-3 / 0-85708-375-9
240 pp. Pub: 18/01/13
Business Self-Help
11
Dream It, Do It, Live It: 9
Easy Steps To Making
Things Happen For You Richard Newton, Ciprian Adrian Rusen
Make life a dream
Be a dreamer…just make sure your dreams become a
reality! Dream It, Do It, Live It is a practical project
management guide for your life. It maps out 9 simple,
easy-to-follow steps that will take your dreams from
fantasy to reality. And these steps are realistic,
understandable and 100% do-able. It’s all about being
clear on exactly what you’re dreaming of, thinking it
through thoroughly, drawing out your action plan,
actually taking action and seeing it through to the end.
The next step is to dream up the next thing! Never stop
dreaming – even when you achieve your dreams,
dream afresh. The world is your oyster and now you
have the manual to get you through it!
•A highly illustrated book to be picked up and referred
to with each new dream!
•Can be applied to any dream, be it climbing Mount
Everest or starting your own business.
•Shares the real experiences of 4 people who achieved
a variety of different dreams.
978-0-85708-456-9 / 0-85708-456-9
224 pp. Pub: 10/05/13
Business Self-Help
12
Entrepreneur Revolution Daniel Priestley
Now is the age of the entrepreneur – don’t get left
behind.
The world is embarking on a new age. The age of the
entrepreneur, the agile small business owner, the
flexible innovator. The days of the industrial age are
over. It’s time to break free from the industrial
revolution mind-set, quit working so hard, follow your
dream and make a fortune along the way. The slow
dinosaurs of the industrial age are being outpaced by
fast-moving start-ups, ambitious small businesses and
technological innovators.
Entrepreneur Revolution is a master class in gaining an
entrepreneurial mind-set, showing you how to change
the way you think, the way you network, and the way
you make a living. Successful entrepreneur Daniel
Priestley will show you how to embrace the
Entrepreneur Revolution and thrive in the new age.
•From a successful entrepreneur who is reaping the
rewards of the entrepreneurial age.
•How to shift your mind-set and think like an
entrepreneur.
•Ways to adapt your lifestyle to be more successful.
978-0-85708-416-3 / 0-85708-416-X
240 pp. Pub: 08/03/13
Business Self-Help
13
What's Stopping You Being
More Confident? Why
Smart People Can Lack
Confidence And What You
Can Do About It Robert Kelsey
What’s Stopping You? has sold over 40,000 copies in
the UK alone, in just one year. It’s helped thousands
and thousands of people overcome their fear of failure
and start to achieve their goals. Now Robert Kelsey is
offering his unique approach to this bestselling self-
help topic, confidence. According to Robert, it’s not
something that can simply be injected into us through
motivational exercises and positive thinking. What’s
Stopping You…Being More Confident? highlights the
key reasons why you might be lacking confidence in the
first place, what causes self-doubt or makes you feel
less able than others. Then we are shown how to turn
this around, by examining the traits that make
someone confident.
•Follow-up to the groundbreaking bestseller, What’s
Stopping You? with the same very candid approach to
self-help.
•A road-map to help us break down the barriers that
make us shy away from achieving our full potential.
•How to recognise what you’re good at, but also what
you’re not good at.
•Includes tactics for maintaining self-assurance and
learning how to apply these in real-life practical
situations.
•Based on extensive research and personal
experience.
978-0-85708-309-8 / 0-85708-309-0
256 pp. Pub: 14/12/12
Business Self-Help
Actor, David Gillespie and writer,
Mark Warren have many acting
and writing credits between them
in TV, film, stage and publishing.
As founders of The Speechworks
they brings years of experience
from the worlds of film, TV,
theatre, presentation, psychology,
advertising, PR, journalism and
voice production. They use this
experience and insight to teach
the skills and techniques that
professional performers employ
and help clients harness them
with confidence.
Fergus O’Connell is the
bestselling author of Simply
Brilliant (Pearson) and other titles.
His books have been translated
into 12 languages. He is one of
the world’s leading authorities on
project management and getting
things done in the shortest
possible time. Fergus has written
for The Sunday Business Post,
Computer Weekly and The Wall
Street Journal.
Mark Rhodes made his fortune by
setting up a successful software
company which he sold in 2001.
Since then he has made it his
mission to find out exactly how he
achieved this success and pass
that wisdom onto others. He is
now a Business Mentor,
International Speaker and Trainer
in Success. His clients include top
brands such as The Body Shop,
Virgin Cosmetics and DK. He has
recently been hand-picked to be a
‘Millionaire Mentor' for the
Entrepreneurs' Business
Academy, a joint venture between
the EBA and James Caan, ex-
panelist from top-rated BBC
series Dragons' Den.
Jamie Smart is a state-of-mind
specialist, a leading trainer and
entrepreneur. He has been
teaching people how their minds
work and how to lead happy
successful lives for 13 years. He
has a large, global audience who
follow him, read his articles,
attend his programmes,
workshops and retreats and buy
his products.
Paul McGee is one of Europe’s
leading self-help authors and
motivational speakers and
coaches. He has spoken in 31
countries to date and is the
author of several books. His
simple yet profound messages
have spread across the globe
both in public and private sector
organisations. Building on his
academic background in
behavioural and social
psychology, Paul is also a trained
counsellor and a performance
coach.
Author Information 14
Andy Bounds is a Communication
Consultant, working with blue chip
organisations all over the world.
He is the author of the
international bestseller The Jelly
Effect which has sold 30,000
copies worldwide. Awarded the
title Britain’s Sales Trainer of the
Year, and described by
AstraZeneca’s Global
Communication Director as “a
genius, whose advice can’t be
ignored”, Andy’s insights stem
from the fact his Mother is blind.
This has given him a lifetime’s
experience of communicating
from someone else’s point of
view. Andy speaks on the subject
at 30-40 major conferences per
year in over 20 countries.
Gill Hasson is a freelance
journalist and writes articles on
personal development and
relationships for a variety of
magazines, including
Psychologies and Take A Break,
and for a number of websites. As
well as delivering adult education
courses in personal development
in Brighton, she is an associate
tutor for the University of Sussex
where she teaches career and
personal development and
academic study skills. She
delivers training in child and
adolescent development to
preschool, youth and social
workers, teachers and parents.
With Sue Hadfield she is the
author of two books, How to be
Assertive in Any Situation and
Bounce: Use the Power of
Resilience to Live the Life You
Want. She is the sole author of
Brilliant Communication Skills and
Brilliant Emotional Intelligence.
Liggy Webb is a leading expert in
the field of Modern Life Skills. As
a presenter, consultant and
author she is passionate about
her work and improving the
quality of people's lives. She is an
international consultant for The
United Nations and the founding
Director of the Learning Architect,
a consortium of learning and
development experts who
specialise in behavioural
effectiveness. She is actively
involved with
www.actionforhappiness.org and
works with the NHS, UCAS, the
British Association of Counselling
and Psychotherapy, ASDA and
many other reputable companies
and organisations.
She has written for the Wall Street Journal,
the Daily Mail and Woman's Weekly. She is
the author of four books, The Happy
Handbook, How to Work Wonders, Thank You
and How To Be Happy.
Author Information 15
Suzanne Potts is an expert in assertiveness
who specialises in keynote speaking for
industry conferences, corporate events and
charity forums. Her passion for spreading
assertiveness and negotiation skills into
cultures, industries and countries has taken
her to the war-torn territories of the former
Yugoslavia, the military culture of Pakistan,
Belarus and other communist-style Republics.
She works within all industry sectors including
retail, banking, pharmaceutical and charity.
Since becoming the Director of Teamskills,
audiences throughout the world have
benefited from Suzanne's expertise. Conrad
Potts is a psychologist and corporate training
consultant. He specialises in change
management, performance improvement and
motivation, and has led numerous change
management programmes for multi-national
organisations. He has appeared both on BBC
and ITV programmes as the "resident
psychologist". Conrad has lived and worked
throughout the UK, Europe, Russia, Middle
East and the South Pacific, and for many
years had taught at the London Business
School, and lectured at Imperial College and
Manchester Business School. The authors
developed their skills and training profile with
Ken & Kate Back, who were the leading
authorities on Assertiveness in the 80s and
90s. With more than 60+ years’ experience
between them, Conrad and Suzanne are
positioning themselves as their natural
successors.
Haider Imam was UK Sales Trainer
of the Year 2007, and works at
home & abroad with global brands
teaching influencing skills, sales,
negotiation and leadership. He has
been training for ten years, and is a
speaker and writer for the Institute
of Sales & Marketing Managers. He
has clients such as EDF Energy,
Merlin (Tussauds, Legoland, Sea
Life, etc.) ADS (the UK Aerospace,
Defence & Security body) and more,
as well as links at Sage UK, Nando's
and others.
Richard Newton and Ciprian Rusen
are both experienced project
managers, having delivered projects
worth millions of dollars. Richard is
the author of the bestselling Project
Management book The Project
Manager, as well as several other
titles on the topic. Ciprian runs his
own technology blog with over
240,000 monthly visits. They both
speak regularly at a variety of
events.
Daniel Priestley is a successful entrepreneur, international
speaker and author. Daniel started out as an entrepreneur at
21 years old and has since built several successful
businesses in the UK, Australia and Singapore. He runs
Triumphant Events, is the Managing Director of Ecademy,
and is the author of Key Person of Influence (Sept 2010).
Robert Kelsey is a
financial journalist
turned City banker
turned
entrepreneur.
Currently he is the
Founder and CEO
of a financial PR
agency. He is also
the bestselling
author of What’s
Stopping You?
2011’s personal
development
smash-hit. Robert
has been a self-
help addict for
years but after
working with the
London
Association for
Counselling &
Psychotherapy he
decided he could
do it better. So he
did just that - to
great success.