Get Ahead! Stay Ahead! shows you how to build a surefire career kit you can take with you wherever yo go. Best-selling author Dianna Booher outlines, with real-life examples, the 70 most important skills, traits, and attitudes you need to lead a successful, self-directed career...ensure your freedom and independence...assess your marketable skills...promote your career growth...and create a personal "master plan" for attaining your goals. Life happens better with a plan. Learn the marketable skills that will make you a hot property - now and in the future. Skills such as speaking authoritatively and persuasively before a group; planning and sticking to a budget; leading productive meetings; selling yourself, your ideas, your products; negotiating win-win outcomes; taking calculated risks; and many more.
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How to Be the Kind of Person Bosses Love to Hire-Want to Promote-Can't Do Without! We all know that nothing in the work world is the way it used to be. Jobs change, technology changes, companies merge, restructure, and "rightsize." But you can survive-and thrive!-in this whirlwind, if you learn how to create your own job security. Start by rating your own career fitness by taking the Career Fitness Inventory. Get Ahead! Stay Ahead! shows you how to build a surefire career kit you can take with you wherever you go. Best-selling author Dianna Booher outlines, with real-life examples, the 70 most important skills, traits, and attitudes you need to lead a successful, self-directed career... ensure your freedom and independence... assess your marketeable skills... promote your career growth... and create a personal "master plan" for attaining your goals. Life happens better with a plan. Learn the marketable skills that will make you a hot property-now and in the future. Skills such as: Speaking authoritatively and persuasively before a group; Planning and sticking to a budget; Leading productive meetings; Selling yourself, your ideas, your products; Negotiating win-win outcomes; Taking calculated risks;... and many more. Use this book to take charge of your destiny! Whether you stay in your current job, look for another job, or go out on your own, Get Ahead! Stay Ahead! will provide the blueprint you need to be the architect of your own success.
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Dianna Booher helps organizations to improve productivity through effective communication: oral, written, interpersonal, and organizational.
As author of 45 books, published in 26 countries, and in 20 foreign languages, Dianna has published with Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, Warner, McGraw-Hill, Random House, Thomas Nelson, and Berrett-Koehler. Her latest books include
--Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader
--Communicate with Confidence!: How to Say It Right the First Time and Every Time (Rev. Edition)
--The Voice of Authority: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know
--Booher's Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy Ways to Correct the Most Common Errors
--Speak with Confidence!: Powerful Presentations That Inform, Inspire, and Persuade
--E-WRITING: 21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication
--From Contact to Contract
--Get a Life Without Sacrificing Your Career
Several have been selections by major book club selections.
Dianna has been interviewed by Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, FOX, CNN, CNBC,USA Today, National Public Radio, Dr. Laura Radio Show, The New York Times, Forbes.com, Washington Post, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Boardroom Reports, Investor's Business Daily, Working Woman, Industry Week, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Success, Entrepreneur, among other national radio, TV, and newspapers.
Executive Excellence Publishing named her as one of the "Top 100 Thought Leaders" of America and one of the "Top 100 Minds on Personal Development." She holds a master's degree in English from the University of Houston.
Dianna is founder and CEO of Booher Consultants, a leading communications training firm, whose clients include 145 of the Fortune 500 organizations, plus numerous governmental agencies. Booher trainers have taken Dianna's communication principles and techniques to organizations on six continents.
Programs offered by her firm include business and technical writing, proposal writing, presentation skills, customer service communication, interpersonal skills, resolving conflict, effective meetings, listening, and personal productivity.
Booher Consultants, Inc., has received vendor-of-the-year awards from clients such as IBM and Frito-Lay for Booher's overall impact on the organization.
Dianna's clients most often describe her keynotes at major conferences and conventions this way: "So many practical ideas I can use immediately" ... "Inspiring--you make me want to go out and do it now!"..."High energy!"
She delivers very focused keynotes and programs addressing clients' specific communication issues as well as programs on personal growth topics.
Dianna has received the highest awards in the professional speaking industry, including induction into the National Speakers Association's CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame®. Additionally, Successful Meetings magazine named Dianna on its list of 21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.
As author of 45 books, published in 26 countries, and in 20 foreign languages, Dianna has published with Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books, Warner, McGraw-Hill, Random House, Thomas Nelson, and Berrett-Koehler. Her latest books include
--Creating Personal Presence: Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader
--Communicate with Confidence!: How to Say It Right the First Time and Every Time (Rev. Edition)
--The Voice of Authority: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know
--Booher's Rules of Business Grammar: 101 Fast and Easy Ways to Correct the Most Common Errors
--Speak with Confidence!: Powerful Presentations That Inform, Inspire, and Persuade
--E-WRITING: 21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication
--From Contact to Contract
--Get a Life Without Sacrificing Your Career
Several have been selections by major book club selections.
Dianna has been interviewed by Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, FOX, CNN, CNBC,USA Today, National Public Radio, Dr. Laura Radio Show, The New York Times, Forbes.com, Washington Post, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Boardroom Reports, Investor's Business Daily, Working Woman, Industry Week, McCall's, Cosmopolitan, Success, Entrepreneur, among other national radio, TV, and newspapers.
Executive Excellence Publishing named her as one of the "Top 100 Thought Leaders" of America and one of the "Top 100 Minds on Personal Development." She holds a master's degree in English from the University of Houston.
Dianna is founder and CEO of Booher Consultants, a leading communications training firm, whose clients include 145 of the Fortune 500 organizations, plus numerous governmental agencies. Booher trainers have taken Dianna's communication principles and techniques to organizations on six continents.
Programs offered by her firm include business and technical writing, proposal writing, presentation skills, customer service communication, interpersonal skills, resolving conflict, effective meetings, listening, and personal productivity.
Booher Consultants, Inc., has received vendor-of-the-year awards from clients such as IBM and Frito-Lay for Booher's overall impact on the organization.
Dianna's clients most often describe her keynotes at major conferences and conventions this way: "So many practical ideas I can use immediately" ... "Inspiring--you make me want to go out and do it now!"..."High energy!"
She delivers very focused keynotes and programs addressing clients' specific communication issues as well as programs on personal growth topics.
Dianna has received the highest awards in the professional speaking industry, including induction into the National Speakers Association's CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame®. Additionally, Successful Meetings magazine named Dianna on its list of 21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.
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