Brilliant Personal Development

Description

This book will lead readers through the four major areas of personal development to show them how to achieve a happy, successful and fulfilling life at home and at work:

1) Readers will find out more about themselves, what drives them and what they’re good at. 2) They will learn about the essential ‘life tools’ to build their confidence and effectiveness. 3) They will discover the powers of body language, rapport and persuasion to engage and impress whoever they meet. 4) Finally, this book will focus on professional life; how to build their presenting, negotiating, networking, managing skills, and much more, to help them take their career wherever they want to.

Written by a psychologist with extensive experience helping people hone their life and work skills, and with lots more material online, this is your essential guide to an all-round successful life.

Online support – each chapter will have extra exercises online, with this added content the reader will get more than a book.

Brilliant Personal Development is your one-stop shop for an all-round successful life. From helping you to map out what you’re good at and what you want to do with your life, to equipping you with all of the major life skills you’ll need along the way (including self-esteem, self-confidence, assertiveness, body language and stress reduction), it’s your essential guide to becoming the very best you can be.

Brilliant outcomes:

• Understand yourself better – what you’re good at, what you want to do.
• Perfect your life skills, including confidence, assertiveness, self-esteem.
• Reduce stress, build better relationships and much more.

It only takes one person to develop your life – you!

 

Brilliant Personal Development is your one-stop shop for an all-round successful life. From helping you to map out what you’re good at and what you want to do with your life, to equipping you with all of the major life skills you’ll need along the way (including self-esteem, self-confidence, assertiveness, body language and stress reduction), it’s your essential guide to becoming the very best you can be.

 

Brilliant outcomes:

 

Understand yourself better – what you’re good at, what you want to do.

Perfect your life skills, including confidence, assertiveness, self-esteem.

Reduce stress, build better relationships and much more.

About the author

Acknowledgements

Before you begin

The way this text works

Introduction: first things first

1 The makings of brilliant personal development

2 Two things you might need … and a warning

PART 1 Getting started

3 Luck or effort?

4 Discovering you

5 Discovering your core beliefs

6 Discovering your values

7 Discovering your strengths

8 Developing your vision

9 Developing your mission

10 Developing and achieving your goals

11 Developing your motivation

12 Gaining support

PART 2 Getting development fit

13 Achieving self-esteem

14 Achieving self-confidence

15 Achieving success out of failure

16 Achieving assertiveness

17 Dealing with change

18 Achieving relaxation (and reducing stress)

PART 3 Understanding people

19 Understanding other people

20 Body language and rapport

21 Building your network

Final words

Index

Max Eggert is a psychologist and author of numerous books including, Perfect Interview Answers (Random House, 2006), Body Language at Work (MPB, 2010) and Brilliant Body Language (Prentice Hall Life, 2010).

Your essential guide to an all-round successful and happy life. This book will help you build your confidence, discover the powers of body language and persuasion and develop essential business skills to enhance your career. Written by an experienced psychologist, this book comes complete with online support, to provide your ultimate guide to a fulfilling life at work and at home.