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Let’s face it - keeping good employees is hard in today’s competitive job market, with its ever-increasing demand to do more with less. Are you trapped in the hire, train, repeat cycle because your best employees keep leaving? Does it feel like whenever you get someone trained and working like a well-oiled machine, they tell you they are leaving because of company culture or lack of growth opportunities?

Business owners today are constantly faced with difficult challenges and eight of 10 new businesses will not survive the first five years. Competition is difficult and building a sustainable, profitable business is arguably the most challenging sport in all of business today. In The Ultimate Business Tune Up, Rich Allen combines the experiences of his father’s own small business, his personal experiences running and growing a business, and his learning from advising hundreds of small business owners into a powerful, step-by-step guide for small business owners everywhere.

Align, part one of a three-part series, shares four simple steps that transforms the way leaders lead and renew their self-confidence. Through the process Align offers, leaders develop the courage to connect with their team in a meaningful way and start winning together. Through Align, leaders will learn to create alignment within their organization and develop a culture built on employee fulfillment.

Opting out of this race entirely, many are choosing to go a different route. Owning a franchise is a great option for professionals who are finally ready to stop making a living and start designing a life. Franchise ownership provides a path to create a life of financial security without the lifestyle that traditional jobs demand.

Achieve success. Create balance. Experience fulfillment. It’s the elusive trifecta every working woman desperately seeks. Do you find yourself trying to be everything to everyone? Do you run yourself ragged but still feel something is missing? The struggle is real and all too common. Paula Brown Stafford and Lisa T. Grimes are two award-winning, c-suite executives who together have accumulated 60 plus years of work experience at the highest levels, 60 years of marriage, and raised four successful children.

Written in the style of a business "tell-all", Adventures in Franchise Ownership lays out what successful franchisees do that you won’t find in most owner’s manuals and includes franchisee Christy Wilson Delk’s good, bad, and really tough days before her successful exit 15 years later. Franchisees, like most small business owners, experience times of extreme frustration, lapses in motivation, and often exit before reaching their potential and their goals.

Workforce disruptions, new technologies, and tight budgets place enormous pressure on professional association continuing education teams. Old learning formats and pricing models are failing. The risk of irrelevance is imminent as competitors step into the market creating targeted learning programs faster and cheaper. Tracy King is in the trenches with you, working with dozens of associations like yours, concerned about meeting the needs of their evolving industry while remaining the content authority. And she now shares the Enterprise framework she developed for her clients.

Kathleen Black has worked with thousands of agents and hundreds of teams to solve this problem. After transforming 80 percent of her clients into top one percent producers, her tried, tested, and true strategy shown within The Top 1% Life helps real estate agents make it home in time for dinner, spend their nights and weekends with their loved ones, find some help that actually makes a difference, get their business organized and self-sufficient so everything doesn't depend on them, quit being on call 24/7, and take an actual vacation—without their phone.

To create an effective space, landscapers must design, build, and maintain that space. To create an effective life, we must design, build, and maintain that space too. Discover Your Sweet Spot equips you to create the life you want. Using a landscaping metaphor and written in a conversational tone, author Scott Fay reveals seven proven steps that enabled him to achieve a unique blend of personal and professional success.

Career Clarity for Nurses helps nurses uncover what they really want from their job that will make their career direction obvious and natural. As a travel nurse, Karen Wade spent years working side-by-side with nurses in facilities across the country where she felt and heard about almost universal job stressors.

Power Recruiting unfolds the mystery of how to effectively recruit for every industry. Diana Y. Ji is the founder and president of Bongene Search, an executive search firm dedicated to handling critical talent search needs in the biopharma industry. In Power Recruiting, she brings her 20 years of experience in corporate talent acquisition and executive search fields to teach hiring managers and recruiting professionals.

Roll Up Your Sleeves has a biblically based storyline to help leaders get through their wilderness to their promised land. Roll Up Your Sleeves is a not a clinical approach to managing stress, but more of a collection of common-sense approaches that is helpful for leaders in their leadership and life.

Through The Crooked Rim, Pam Borton inspires hope, confidence, and a powerful belief that resilience and mental toughness are attainable. For more than 30 years, she has coached these principles and guided elite NCAA players and now corporate athletes to their own Final Fours…and she shows listeners that they can do it, too. This is a personal playbook to master one’s own mindset for success.

Stand Up addresses the growing need for women to enter the narrative of how American culture is presently being shaped and leave their mark on a world screaming for relevance, excellence, and truth. Stand Up is a battle cry for women to take a posture of readiness and action, determine their purpose, plan for successes, and overcome the loneliness that threatens this silent majority.

The face of publishing has changed drastically in recent years, and the 21st century promises to bring the most dramatic alterations to the publishing paradigm to date, calling for an overall revision of the structures and attitudes with which authors set up shop. By following the way of The Entrepreneurial Author, new and seasoned authors alike will discover that achieving and maintaining a professionally and personally balanced life is the way to achieve emotional and financial success, now and in the 21st century.

Written by Cheryl Liew-Chng, award-winning global HR consultant on work-life issues and professional development, The 24-Hour Woman offers wisdom and tools from successful women around the globe. The 24-Hour Woman shares strategies for navigating life by focusing first on legacy. Then it lays out case studies and simple daily changes to help you thrive - starting today - and extending through every 24-hour period you live.

Authentic leadership comes from inside - a place where logic meets emotion, where people connect with people, where character is contagious, strategy is simple, and people believe they are making a difference and are changing the world they live in.

After experiencing career humiliation in 2006, Leesa Ward embarked on a journey of growth, discovery, and personal development. She discovered that her calling is to help people move on from being humiliated and shamed by their careers. In Get Over Being Humiliated, women learn how to practice gratitude and thankfulness as a way of healing, create the best support system of people who inspire them, change their mindset from one of guilt and self-deprecation to one of empowerment, forgive themselves, and ask forgiveness from those around them.

A storyteller at heart, Myers offers listeners plenty of solid tips and practical advice that any entrepreneur and small-business owner can appreciate and apply. But he also challenges these same entrepreneurs and small business owners to get "out of their comfort zone" and embrace creative new strategies such as employee accountability and second chances, niche marketing, and using your book as your hook.

Are you so frustrated with your job that you want to quit? You consider yourself a highly-motivated worker who has done everything to get promoted, and yet it still hasn’t happened. Your career is important, and you don’t want to leave it to chance. It’s time to make a change. For over 20 years, executive leadership coach and author Sonya L. Sigler has successfully guided company founders, team leaders, and their employees on how to break through career barriers. With the right tools, they can become powerful storytellers, reframe their goals, and take action on their career.