A Peer-to-Peer group made up of people with similar interests can be the premier learning tool of them all if structured correctly. Who better to learn from than group members who have already learned life's lessons the hard way? In Peer-to-Peer groups: Learning from those you trust you'll learn: • How to create and facilitate a collaborative and caring team of peers • The long list of benefits that peer-to-peer teams provide to their participants • The three core values that every peer-to-peer team must have • How to vet and recognize the members that will best fit your team • The keys to becoming a crackerjack facilitator of all meetings, peer-to-peer and otherwise • The many tricks required to making a team meeting click. • Developing an agenda that works for everyone • The difference peer-to-peer teams can make in your community

Peer to Peer Groups: Learning from Those You Trust. (CoolREADs)

Business & Money

Schell, Jim

Management & Leadership

Lights On Publishing

This book is written for those of you who are considering an entrepreneurial career but have not made up your mind. If you’re going to risk your life’s savings by starting your own business, you need to know what you’re up against and whether or not you have the skills to succeed.IN THIS HANDBOOK YOU’LL LEARN:• Why people choose to become entrepreneurs.• The difference between a small business owner and an entrepreneur.• The number one common characteristic of successful entrepreneurs.• Whether entrepreneurs are born or made.

So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? Wait, Read This Book First!: A Handbook to Help You Determine if This Risky, but Rewarding, Career Is for You (CoolREADS)

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

The purpose of this book is to help you reshape your entrepreneurial ecosystem, with the intended result of creating an environment for your community’s entrepreneurs to succeed. The ultimate goal of creating successful entrepreneurs? Job creation! IN THIS HANDBOOK YOU’LL LEARN: • How to take an inventory of your community’s current ecosystem and then reshape it. • How to find the right champion to lead the reshaping process. • How to create a steering committee of key community business leaders. • The six key elements of every successful ecosystem.

How to Make Your Community's Economy Sizzle: A Handbook for Reshaping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Creating Jobs in the Process

Social media marketing for today’s small business owners and managers can be a daunting task. When do you start? Where do you focus? How do you measure success? This handbook will answer all of those questions and more. IN THIS HANDBOOK YOU’LL LEARN: • Why your business needs social media marketing. • How to build your brand’s marketing presence within the social media world. • How the various social media outlets work. • Which social networks are best for your business and why.

Social Media Strategy For Businesses: Learn How To Build Awareness, Increase Sales & Create A Community Of Brand Loyalists (CoolREADS)

Thomas, Elisabeth (Lis)

When entrepreneurs and small business owners have problems, they grit their teeth, hitch up their pants, and work harder, when they should be working smarter. Knowing how to understand and apply the numbers on your financial statements is the first step to working smarter. IN THIS HANDBOOK YOU’LL LEARN: • What your financial statements can tell you about how to successfully manage your business. • How to understand your balance sheet—the most telltale financial statement of all. • How to use your profit-and-loss statement to determine your business’s direction. • How to understand and forecast cash flow while avoiding the three giant suckers of cash.

A Handbook On How To Use Your Financial Statements To Manage Your Business: Understanding Your Financials: The Number One Determinant Of Small Business Success (CoolREADS)

A significant number of Americans choose not to retire. That number is rising rapidly as our lifespans increase and our savings can't keep pace. There are plenty of options available for those who elect to continue to work, some of which need to be invented, some of which already exist. The keys to find both options can be found in this CoolREAD. In this WeeBook you'll learn: • Why a traditional “retirement” does not work for some people (could you be one of them?) • Why retiring at age 55 or 60 doesn’t work anymore – for many of us and for our nation. • Why today’s four stages of life have replaced yesterday’s three stages. • How to determine which of the many “encore career” choices can best work for you.

Why Retirement SUCKS For Some of Us, Anyway and What To Do About It: A Handbook For Life After Your Day Job Goes Away (CoolREADS)

Business Culture

The Board of Directors is unquestionably the most important piece of the nonprofit puzzle; It can make or break an organization. But you can’t solve a puzzle with a board that’s not performing. In how to recharge your nonprofits Board of Directors, you’ll lean: • How the Entrepreneurial Team model works and why it replaces the old models. • How to determine whether or not you have a dysfunctional board of directors. • How to assemble a new board—or restructure an existing one. • How to measure your board’s effectiveness. • How to make board members accountable without having to follow up. • How to build responsible teams that do the board’s most important work. • How to make board meetings impactful, short, and fun.

How to Recharge Your Nonprofit's Board of Directors: A Handbook for Restructuring and Re-Energizing Your Nonprofit's Board of Directors (CoolREADS)

This book is for those who want to make a palpable difference in someone's like through mentoring. Besides making the mentee’s work or life better, mentoring can also benefit the mentor. Everyone wins in a successful mentoring relationship.In this CoolREADS handbook you’ll learn: • The many benefits of mentoring, to both mentee and mentor• The skills and traits needed to be a successful mentor• Why asking questions is so important to the mentoring process and how to ask the right questions• How to develop accountability in a mentoring relationship• How to organize and run a successful mentor-ship session

The Magic of Mentoring Inspiring and Enriching Lives: A Handbook for Helping Others Achieve Their Potential in Business and Life. (CoolREADS)

This book has been written for the young professional, as well as those who think young. The book details 101 lessons learned over a successful career. It provides vision, ideas, direction, guidance, and wisdom, in order to help the reader avoid career potholes, while helping them move to the fast lane. These lessons are from several critical professional categories including: Leadership, Networking, Sales, Communications, and more. These are lessons learned in the day to day efforts of a changing work life. Because many lessons touch the area of understanding and working with people, this book is timeless. As much a reference guide vs just another cover for the shelf, this book is filled with direct, common sense lessons that will help put you ahead of the pack. No theory here, this book will assist the reader in all of the areas, called soft skills, for success in this new world of work. We sincerely hope you enjoy this book. It is one to call on as you would a mentor, when a simple answer just will not do. Thank you.

Jump the Line 101 Lessons for Professional Success

Dillon, Jack

Job Hunting & Careers

The Grand Tug of War: Buying and Selling in the Real World

Skills

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