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Find Your Great Work by Michael Bungay Stanier

Find Your Great Work is a practical tool kit for managers, leaders, and anyone who wants to find, start and sustain work that matters.

In it you?ll learn:
  • The difference between Bad, Good and Great Work.
  • The Five Great Work Truths: the fundamental insights that open up new Great Work possibilities
  • The 12 Great Work Maps: simple and powerful exercises to help you identify, begin and sustain your own Great Work.
  • Great Work resources: a wide range of resources to help you with your Great Work
The 12 Maps are quick to grasp, fast to complete and flexible in how and when you use them. The powerful exercises draw upon the latest strategic, developmental and coaching wisdom.
  • You?ll use the first three maps to help define what Great Work is for you.
  • The next three maps are for focusing on where you want to do your Great Work and helping to define choices you?ll need to make.
  • Maps 7 to 9 help you generate new possibilities, tapping into some of the most powerful creativity and brainstorm structures there are.
  • And the final set of three maps move you into action mode, so that you?re actually doing something with your new insight and commitment to Great Work.
Fast can be powerful, simple can be profound.

Einstein said, ?Things should be as simple as possible, and no simpler.?

You?ll be able to use all the exercises in Find Your Great Work straight away for immediate effect. That?s because each exercise has been stripped down to be as simple as possible while ensuring each exercise will generate new and powerful insights.

Purchase Find Your Great Work here.

 

 


Get Unstuck & Get Going On The Stuff That Matters by Michael Bungay Stanier

This coaching tool is currently only available at:
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I have PERSONALLY used this tool and have found it provocative, creative and VERY useful. Use it individually, in your teams, or for coaching clients. It combines 125,000 different ways to get unstuck with the Action Acceleration Sheet, a powerful and efficient self-coaching process.
 

Get Unstuck & Get Going - a powerful self-coaching tool for personal
and professional breakthroughs
   



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Sailing From Burnout to Balance and Bounty CD Set

  • Does the job that turned you on now seem to turn you off?
  • Are you working more and enjoying it less?
  • Does life seem to be leading you rather than you leading a life?
  • Are you struggling to handle the demands of too much to do and too little time?
  • Are you seeking to find meaning and purpose in your life?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, this four CD series is for you. BE WARNED. This is not time management course. It asks you to dig deeper; to look closer at what you choose to put in the blocks we call "time"; to discover the work you were meant to do.

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

  • The critical difference between work and job.
  • The power of self-talk and how to handle it.
  • The power of words to create reality.
  • A new model for balance.
  • The myth of overwork.
  • And more.

Click here to download the ledger sheets in Adobe Acrobat format (suitable for PC's and Mac's)

   

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Hard Cover

Gifts From The Mountain won 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award? for best gift book/small format.

Gifts from the Mountain
Simple Truths for Life's Complexities

Whether you are a world-weary worker juggling the demands of a hectic life or a seeker of soul-satisfying experiences, this deceptively simple book is your key to refresh, renew, rethink and recharge.

Inspired by the challenges of backpacking through the Sierras, I discover metaphors for understanding the mundane and the magnificent, the difficult and the delightful, the ordinary and the extraordinary in our 24/7 world. Join this walk in the wilderness to discover fresh perspectives, practical practices and laugh-out-loud-joy in the process.

You'll find wisdom expressed in a beautiful, economical, easy-to-read-and-grasp fashion that helps your spirit soar and your mind expand. You'll discover mountains about being, doing, living, and working. Simple truths for trekking through life await in this mountain university.

FREE Bonus?Conversation Firestarters

To help you use this book as a way of engaging in deeper conversations, I've written three conversation fire-starters. One is for leaders. One is for coaches. And one is for companions.

Click here to download which ever one resonates for you.

Please let me know how you have used them and what questions you created on your own. You can write me at eileen@eileenmcdargh.com

?Beautiful in its simplicity and rich, timeless wisdom.?

John L. McCranie
Education Chair
Florida Club Manager Association

"The natural world has a knack for being able to cut all our complications and confusions down to size. And that's exactly what Eileen McDargh does with this lyrical book, showing us through observations on the backpacking trail that the path ahead is right in front of us--if we're really looking. She certainly is, finding lessons for use at home and work in the tenaciousness of a high- altitude flower, the unexpected whims of the elements, and the danger of false confidence on the downhill track. Books that shine the mirror of nature back on us often wind up stuck in the gates from triteness. Not this one. The writing is superb. I kept thinking, I wish I'd seen that on the trail. I wish I'd written that. If you love the outdoors, are a hiking fan, or just want to get some wise words from a pathfinder who can clarify decisions in work or life, check this little book out. It gets you off the bullet train and lets you see the forest AND the trees."

Joe Robinson, author of Work to Live
and founder of ESCAPE Magazine

"Your words and writings deeply moved us, given our love for the hiking and the outdoors as well as our hurried personal and professional ?life? schedules. We hope to have the opportunity to meet you in person sometime in the future. Until then, Happy Trails!"

Seth & Tia Wolkov

?What a treasure! This is an eloquent, singular work that transcends words on a page to become an eloquent masterpiece. It not only embodies the heart and spirit of the author; it captures the heart, mind and spirit of the reader. I?m using this as a model for my clients to show how to craft a one-of-a-kind book.?

Sam Horn,
author of POP! Stand Out in Any Crowd
and 15-time Emcee of the world-renowned
Maui Writers Conference

Here's to your journey?your footnotes for walking through life!

   


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The Resilient Spirit
Staying Right Side Up in an Upside Down World
(can be customized with a company logo, special dedication, and more)

The events of 9-11 proved that our spirits are larger than we ever imagined. We can do amazing things - collectively and individually. This small book gleans wisdom from the ordinary and extraordinary, offering simple reminders of powerful actions that produce resilient results. As one client told me, "this is a book I keep on my desk and open everyday. There's always the right lesson staring at me." After all, we can use a boost every now and then!

Our spirits need encouragement. We believe in the power of the human spirit to overcome great odds, to make bold moves, to change the course of history. We know the energy and skill of the talented men and women in all of our communities. And we know that our spirits need encouragement to stay the course in a world of challenge and complexity.

Each of us has great strength to overcome odds. We just need to be reminded at times. Consider this little book your "booster shot". Let it spike the antibodies so that you'll not only survive but thrive in your work, your life, and our world.

After all, we ARE in it together.

(This book can be customized and delivered in bulk for the employees in your company!)

Softcover, 48 pages, ISBN 0-962319-01- 5

Eileen,

I heard you speak in Nashville at the Administrators meeting.  I read your book, The Resilient Spirit, received at the meeting.   You are truly an inspiration!  I recently changed positions in the company and have had some difficulty adjusting and having regrets.   Your book has empowered me to look deeper into myself to see why I'm unhappy at work.   As you say, I need to "stop whining and start winning" and realize I have the power to change things for the better.   I'm looking forward to reading your book, Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live.   Thank you, Eileen, for helping others, like myself, get back on track when it feels like our world is falling apart. 

You are a blessing!

Kathy Donoghue
P&G

   



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Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live
Revised for the New Millennium

If you are an overworked executive, an entrepreneur, a stressed-out employee who knows there's more to life than receiving a paycheck, then this book is for you. In this latest revision, you’ll find information that is both timely and timeless.

Here is step-by-step supportive advice—based on the experience of real people who have made advantageous career choices—that will enable you to find and maintain a life by design and not default.

Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live is a totally engrossing, valuable book that leads the reader through an evaluation of his/her strengths and needs and demonstrates an intriguing method to define a true work pattern. How to integrate it into the reader's life is the triumph of this guide—which is a virtual map to job and personal success.

Heralded as an outstanding contribution to good self management by Dr. Kenneth Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager, McDargh's book "explores how to balance making a living with making a life and offers a process for doing both."

"I read the first edition of this book many years ago.  It has remains on the bookshelf behind my desk within grabbing distance ever since.  This edition is even better.  It is replete with suggestions, anecdotes, tips and ideas.  Best of all, you get to know Eileen.  It’s almost like having a good friend take you by the hand to help you make an important life transition."

Beverly Kaye
Founder/CEO:  Career Systems International
Co-Author: Love It Don’t Leave It:
26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work

"This book is written so eloquently and speaks to your heart so warmly that you feel like you have the author sitting beside you whispering encouraging words of support into your ears! The author has a way of sharing strategies that are simple, yet very powerful and effective. I highly recommend this book!"

"As a working single mother, I'm always on the look out for help with balance in my life. This book offers practical suggestions and made me realize I am not alone in dealing with day-to- day stress. This book would be an excellent gift for relatives, friends or employees!"

   


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Magnetic picture frame and work/life balance scrabble board. 

Picture yourself on vacation. You can put a 4 x 6 photo in the frame by punching out the heavy duty magnetic words and make your own reminders of life choices. Arrange the words on a file cabinet, your refrigerator, maybe even the frame of your computer monitor. Have fun—and be reminded.



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"I would like to congratulate you on your motivational speech that was presented at the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses in September.  It was truly inspiring and very uplifting.  The feedback that we received from conference participants was excellent.  Again, congratulations on such a wonderful presentation.

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