Explore the twelve essential skills professionals need to stand out from the crowd and accelerate their career.

Learn the six habits of the most successful people in history. Hal Elrod describes how they changed his life—and how they can change yours, too.

There’s no such thing as overnight success. Success is built gradually, and the good news is that you’re probably already doing things to be successful. This audio-only course shows you how to build on what you’re already doing to give yourself that slight edge toward success. Find out how to enhance your ability to make critical choices, as well as how to keep learning and train your mind for success. Discover four tools you can use to keep moving on a positive path, then learn about ways to cultivate positive habits and take the three steps needed to make your dreams a reality.

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Adapt time-tested songwriting principles used by the masters to better craft your own original material. Learn how to add an outro, experiment with multiple bridges, and more.

Learn songwriting techniques to look at tunes through a different lens. Discover how to play with melody, form, and chords to gain a fresh perspective when a song has you stuck.

Discover a more productive songwriting process. Learn how to set up your space, reduce distractions, develop your chords and lyrics, work with a cowriter, and publish your songs.

Leverage the power of content on LinkedIn to become a thought leader. Create an authentic voice and grow your audience with tips from a Linked Top Voice for the UK.

Learn the secrets of being a superboss, from motivating employees to driving successful results. Discover how to foster creativity and top performance in your team every day.

Seeing people as people dramatically increases productivity at work and in life. Learn more about this surprising skill in this course adapted from How to Be Awesome at Your Job.

Learn how to optimize your meetings with research-based strategies in this audio-only summary of professor Steven G. Rogelberg’s book.

Learn time management and find out how to get into the zone and do your best work with Dr. Christine Carter, bestselling author of The Sweet Spot.

Discover how legendary figures in American culture became so successful and how you can use the lessons they learned to achieve your own goals.

Jeff Weiner has led LinkedIn, the world’s largest network of professionals, for over 10 years. In this course, he shares his take on what it means to be a great leader.

No matter who you are, how wealthy or powerful or healthy you are, you only have 24 hours in a day. Do you often find yourself wondering if you’re spending those hours in the most effective way? Do you live in denial about what you can actually accomplish in any one day? Then check out this audiobook summary of Elizabeth Grace Saunders’ The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment, a practical guide to living a life by design instead of impulse. It provides step-by-step strategies for planning your days around the commitments that really matter to you, setting up effective routines, and finding people to help you stay on track. It also reveals the importance of dealing with emotional baggage like guilt and shame, which can derail even the best-laid plans.

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Approach project management from a new perspective: by exploring what NOT to do. Learn the 10 most common mistakes project managers make and how to avoid them.

Learn about the top challenges facing PMOs—and how to overcome them.

Learn the flaws behind three negotiation-related myths: win win, the need for trust, and getting to yes vs. starting with no. In this course, adapted from the American Negotiation Institute podcast Negotiate Anything, Kwame Christian discusses these common negotiation myths with Allan Tsang, negotiation coach and consultant at Oblinger and Tsang, and explores how to use the truth to your advantage. They discuss examples that show why the myths don’t work in real life and address concerns you may have about challenging conventional wisdom.

This course was created by the American Negotiation Institute. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Photographer and Strobist publisher David Hobby explores what to see, eat, and shoot in Dubai, the ultramodern crown jewel of the United Arab Emirates.

Strobist.com founder David Hobby offers a city-specific vignette that makes a trip to Hong Kong much more accessible, productive, and enjoyable to the first-time photo traveler.

Strobist.com founder David Hobby offers a city-specific vignette that makes a trip to London much more accessible, productive, and enjoyable to the first-time photo traveler.