Resources and Recomended Reading
We are often asked which books, videos, articles or associations we recommend.
It depends a lot on what your area of interest is and your preferred learning style as to what might float your boat, however here are some we would recommend looking at:
Leadership Books
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven R Covey is a great book to dip in and out of. The habits are easily explained and followed and really do make a difference to how effective you are.
Resourceful Entrepreneur’s Guide to Business – How to Succeed in Challenging Times by Christine Miller. A great set of articles from a wide range of leaders including a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and also one from Hazelbranch founder Toby Buckle. Not that we are biased!
Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard is an inspirational book for anyone who aspires to excellent customer service.
Inspiring Videos
I recommend you view this video from TED on how leaders inspire action
This one of Steve Jobs address at Stamford University is great when thinking about your purpose
This is a great one for ethics and leadership The Childrens Fire
NLP
There are so many books out there for NLP it is hard to know where to start.
We would personally recommend NLP Principles in Practice by Lisa Wake. It is easy to read, practical, highlights many of the best tools and techniques and uses an evidence based approach.
Another good sourse of information on NLP is the ANLP. This governing body has a good reputation and its publication Rapport magazine produces some interesting articles whilst the Acuity and Research in NLP give the latest research and evidence to support and develop NLP.
The NLP conference is a great place to get up to date with the latest NLP techniques and theory as well as having good introduction sessions.
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