The Pitbull of Personal Development? and New York Times best-selling author is back with advice on the dumb things people do to sabotage their success.
What do people really want? They want what they've got. It's a simple formula. You have what you want because your actions produced your results. Not your words, and certainly not your wants.
Transferring Learning to Behavior: Using the Four Levels to Improve Performance
Since its creation in 1959, Donald Kirkpatrick's four-level model for evaluating training programs - reaction, learning, behavior, and results - has become the most widely used approach to training evaluation in the corporate, government, and academic worlds. However, trainers today are feeling increased pressure to prove whether instruction is worth its cost. And calculating and presenting results (Step 4) becomes tricky when, despite training, workers aren't fulfilling Step 3: applying what they've learned to their behavior. This book takes on this age-old challenge, first examining why learned concepts don't make it into practice, then offering solutions that will work in the real world.
Leading Change in Your School: How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results
Using real examples of elementary and secondary schools that have moved change from rhetoric to reality, a giant in the field of school leadership explains how teachers and administrators everywhere can make sure change efforts lead to better results. Whether your school needs to improve literacy, inspire great teaching, increase attendance, reduce dropout rates, reform grading, or reach any other accountability, let Douglas Reeves equip you with what you need to succeed.
Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
Despite promises of “fast and easy” results from slick marketers, real personal growth is neither fast nor easy. The truth is that hard work, courage, and self-discipline are required to achieve meaningful results—results that are not attained by those who cling to the fantasy of achievement without effort.
This book will help students understand the comments that they receive on their essays and improve their essay results accordingly. Covering areas such as what tutors are looking for in essays and how to interpret your results, the book focuses on seven common weaknesses that students can understand and improve upon. There is also a vital section on how to be more creative in assignments and also where to go for more help. This is an essential companion for all those students who have received essays back and had no idea how to begin to address the concerns the lecturer has raised.
The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results
What happens when ordinary people are taught a system to make extraordinary money? Richard Dennis made a fortune on Wall Street by investing according to a few simple rules. Convinced that great trading was a skill that could be taught to anyone, he made a bet with his partner and ran a classified ad in the Wall Street Journal looking for novices to train. His recruits, later known as the Turtles, had anything but traditional Wall Street backgrounds; they included a professional blackjack player, a pianist, and a fantasy game designer
