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When it comes to investing and providing for retirement, you have three broad options: interest bearing investments, shares, and property. Pensions allow you to invest in the first two but fees are high and returns lacklustre.This book explains each of your investment options and shows why direct leveraged property investment, often referred to as buy-to-let, could be the best option for the broadest range of people to achieve financial freedom and a comfortable retirement. You will also gain an understanding of how to finance properties, tax structuring, portfolio management and, for business owners, why property is the best hedge against business volatility while building tax effective passive income.Read this book to: Understand your investment options Learn why pensions aren't all they're cracked up to be Why leveraged property investment can give great returns with low risk Grasp the fundamentals of investing in property for wealth creation Start putting in place a plan for achieving financial goals

MANY PARTS OF THE CARE SECTOR ARE IN CRISIS......but investing in, designing and operating a care home proved to be one of the most rewarding things I've ever done - professionally and financially.In this book I share my perspective on what you and your team need to deliver in order to make the experience the best it can possibly be for residents, while you build a sustainable, valuable business. The mint ice cream? That story is a distillation of everything I've learned. To make your care home brilliant and successful you must listen to your residents and fit your 'systems' around them rather than you. Moreover, there's no reason why excellent care should be available only to those who can afford to pay a premium.Read this book, and learn how to: Design your home around your residents' needs Define what your 'promise' to residents will be Bring a team together to deliver those promises Put 'systems' at the heart of everything you do Successfully market your homeIf you want to achieve excellence and profitability in the care sector, this is the one book you should read.

HOW DO YOU BUILD A LOW RISK, HIGH REWARD PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS? Housebuilding can be an incredibly rewarding, enjoyable, profitable business, provided you get it right. The Housebuilding Handbook takes you through the 7 stages of the property development process, giving real-world, experienced insights into how to build your business through the ups and downs of challenging markets. If you have a desire to start and scale a professional, sustainable property development business that will stand the test of time, then reading this book is essential.Once you've read this book you'll be able to: Identify and avoid the big mistakes that can seriously affect your business growth Have more clarity and confidence to move forward on the right deals Adopt proven systems and strategies that will minimise your risk and maximise your reward Survive and thrive through economic ups and downs Build a business that will have a positive impact for generations to come

Limitless Energy, Laser Focus and Peak PerformanceLimitless contains twelve strategies to enable you to biohack your way to exceptional performance. As well as getting to grips with sleep,diet, meditation and exercise you will learn about fasting, smart drugs, light therapy, Heart Rate Variability training, toxin exposure, cold therapy, ketogenic diets and time-efficient exercise. Each chapter references leading scientific research from some of the world's best doctors and is packed with actionable advice, top tips and case studies.When you read this book, you will understand: Why sleep quality is vital and how to dramatically improve it The power of light and why it's critical to your energy and Performance How to manage your emotional state, remove stress and build resilience Which supplements and nootropics have the biggest impact on your energy, focus and performance How to hack your brain for better cognitive performance, Limitless breaks conventional wisdom to provide a holistic approach to massively increase your energy levels, enhance your focus, and boost your performance through hacking your own biology. Sit back, buckle up and keep an open mind, as Nick Powell shares tips, techniques and secrets previously reserved for his private clients.

When you speak do others listen?Does your message land?Do people act upon your words?In business and in life, great communication is the key to getting exceptional results. If you want to be more persuasive, have more gravitas, and build better relationships this book will show you how.Starting his career as an actor, author Dominic Colenso starred alongside some of the UK's most famous performers. He now works with businesses around the world, helping individuals and teams take centre stage and deliver outstanding performances. In IMPACT, he reveals the six ingredients for communicating effectively in any situation.This book will give you simple tools and techniques to:• Banish your nerves and grow your confidence• Increase your authority and physical presence• Flex your style to suit any audience• Plan what to say without the need for a script• Speak to people's hearts as well as their mindsWhether you're just starting out, managing a small team, or leading a large organisation this book will ensure that you always make the right impact.

HOW DO WORKING MOTHERS FIND CALM AND CONTENTMENT?The pressures of running a home and holding down a job can leave working mothers feeling overwhelmed and muddling their way through each day. Merely keeping on top of the responsibilities and to-do lists takes all of your time. Creating a life where you can enjoy each moment feels like an impossible dream.Jacqueline Shakespeare is on a mission to change this and believes every working mother deserves to be contented in every area of their life. This warm-hearted book gives you simple to follow skills, principles and advice to help you on your journey to a calm and fulfilling life.Read In This Moment to:• Balance each area of your life harmoniously and without guilt• Strengthen your mindset for a resilient, kind, and considered life• Prioritise and create time for the things you enjoy• Build meaning into your work and unlock your professional potential• Be a role model for your children and those around you

Do you aspire to further develop your organisational, management and leadership ability and succeed in whichever executive post or situation you find yourself?Do you want to succeed in creating and delivering outstanding value?Then, this is your ultimate guide to achieving Executive Excellence!Executive Excellence will help you to excel in your role and drive business success by creating and delivering extraordinary value to the delight of the organisation's customers, shareholders and all other stakeholders.Read this book and deepen your knowledge on:• What comprises the 21st-century executive's world: business models, value streams, enterprise architectures and generic subprocesses• Process management approaches and how they are exercised by successful executives• The essence and differences of the management process and the leadership process, and how successful executives practise and combine them• Developing your organisational, management and leadership competences and competencies to become an even more successful executiveExecutive Excellence is an essential manual for executives at all levels, from the aspiring young MBA graduate, to the executive who is running a department or a project, to the chief executive who is heading a division or organisation.

Are you fed up running your construction company? Sick of not being paid what you are worth? Stressed out with poor cashflow and low profits? Would you like to have a proven strategy to give you more time, freedom and money?Building Your Future is a practical business guide designed specifically for business owners in the construction and service industry who want to grow a highly successful and profitable business while reclaiming more time and freedom.Read this book and apply the Greg Wilkes' DEVELOP principles to:• Win more projects without compromising profit• Run your business like a well-oiled machine• Attract and direct your sub-contractors more effectively• Grow your construction business profitably and successfully• Earn more money with less stress

GET MORE LEADS BY EMBRACING DIGITAL MARKETINGMany businesses still operate offline, honouring traditional business methods and utilising personal relationships. This works to a point but what happens when your market becomes saturated? How can you continue to reach your business objectives without a steady stream of leads? How can you stand out from the crowd or keep digital-savvy upstarts at bay? Could a digital marketing pipeline give you an edge over your competition?The six simple steps in this book will enable you to build an effective digital marketing strategy to complement, support and grow your traditional marketing methods so that you can continue to attract enough leads to sustain consistent and steady growth in your business.Read Get Online to: Debunk common misconceptions about digital marketing and social media Plan an effective, sustainable lead-generating marketing strategy in 6 easy steps Know how much you should spend on digital marketing to get results Create content that really connects with your audience Nurture prospects and convert them into paying customers If you want to embrace all the opportunities digital marketing provides, this book provides solid, easy-to-understand advice that works.

All the world's a stage, and the greatest role you'll ever get to play is you. As the 'Coach in Your Pocket', Diana Theodores shows you how to bring your fuller, authentic self forward to get great results for women at all levels of the career ladder. Whether you need to rouse your team, pitch to the board, influence stakeholders, give feedback, speak to one person or 1000 - you'll discover that you have everything you need to shine in every role you play. A great read for men too, this uplifting, inspirational book will give you: • An irresistible invitation - to ignite your fire, grow your wings and lift off into your best personal performance • Dynamic tools - for fuller presence and engagement in all your environments • Pointers - to break limiting habits and beliefs • Evidence - transformative results from client case studies • Inspiration - to reclaim your creative powers and upgrade your impact

Stop trying to do everything yourself.The REAL Entrepreneur is for every business owner who wants to do more but feels that their business is taking over their life. It will help you build a business that works for you and enable you to become truly entrepreneurial in your outlook and approach. Packed with practical tools and techniques, you will learn how to avoid distraction, overwhelm and fire-fighting, and build a great team around you so that your business can thrive.The REAL Entrepreneur will enable you to…• Look at your business in a new, more entrepreneurial, way• Find out how to scale your business without it consuming you• Learn how successful entrepreneurs build resilience• Uncover the secrets of forming and managing great teams• Discover what it means for you to get 'up and out' of your businessIf you want more consistency, structure and certainty in your business but don't know how to go about changing things, read this book.

Taking inspiration and insight from the world's most innovative organisations, The Innovation Ecosystem identifies the four elements they all share, providing you with a step-by-step guide to doing it in your business. When you read this book you will understand how organisations such as Google and IKEA continue to innovate and grow.You will also discover how to: Set a clear innovation strategy that aligns to your business objectives Inspire your leadership team to encourage, enable and reward innovation Measure innovation and put structures and processes in place to ensure it is protected from 'business as usual' Turn employees into innovators by giving them the tools, knowledge and space to innovate This book is a must-read for business leaders who want to understand how to unlock the creative potential of their people and deliver sustainable innovation in their business.

Today's leaders are navigating rapidly evolving technology, organisational uncertainty, financial pressure and changing client demands. At the same time employees expect leaders to be purpose-driven, authentic, inspiring, inclusive and to create an environment where they feel safe to discuss mental health. Balancing the many demands on leaders at work, and at home, requires resilience.Angela defines resilience as the ability to take the challenges and changes of life in your stride and say "yes" to the opportunities that excite you.The resilience habits in this book are entirely within your control, simple to understand, quick to do, can be done anywhere, cost no money and require no kit.

One-size-fits-all is dead.A mass-market, standardised approach to hospitality and foodservice, with its cookie- cutter outlet design, people development and menu strategy is not working for your guests anymore. Modern consumers are dissatisfied with uniformity and yearn for empowerment and self-expression.Customisation, personalisation, bespoke and tailored experiences are a growing part of 21st century life. The very pervasiveness of customisation makes the trend what it is today: an expectation.Your guests are in control, they have more choices than ever before, and they command the conversation. Your business just became personal.Read this book to: Understand why providing customisation and bespoke service is too important to ignore Stand out from the 'sea of sameness' by creating memorable, individual experiences Develop your people so they deliver the bespoke experiences your customers require Focus on your brand throughout your guests' journeys across all your consumer touch points Craft your menus to inspire and delight your ever more discerning guests Bespoke will help raise your game in the competitive world of hospitality, providing you with fresh insights needed to steer a course to customer delight, loyalty and ultimately your business success.

Future Proof Your Career is a practical book which deals with one of the great problems of modern life: how to make it through a 50-year career when all the rules for career success have changed.Professionals in organisations all over the world are too busy to find time to think strategically about their next ideal career move. This book will provide you with the latest insights into the future of work, the future skills you'll need to succeed and, most importantly, it will enable you to anticipate change before it happens.Sharing a rich mix of fresh insights, real life stories and best practice career models to stay ahead in your career, this book will help you to: Understand how you will be impacted by the Future of Work Prepare for the changing structure of organisations Develop the critical skills that increase your market value Clarify your ideal next role and why you want it Learn the new rules to stay employable, marketable and highly paid for life If you are curious, ambitious and determined to succeed in the future, this book is for you.

Think, Do, Show is a refreshing, simplified reboot of an agile 2.0 framework. This book presents a proven model which elegantly brings rapid continual delivery, close team collaboration, and people-centric focus together to truly empower delivery.If your job relies on you to rapidly deliver beautiful looking software that people love to use, then after reading this book you will be able to… Map out only the features you need to fix the problem(s) you're trying to solve Create a simplified delivery schedule that everyone can understand and buy into Cut through corporate fog to ship software that adds value to your business and people's lives Supercharge the delivery arm and give your team clear objectives Build a tribe of passionate followers and supporters within your organisation

Inclusion and Diversity isn't a fad or the latest business initiative. It's not a tick box exercise and it's so much more than the now annual reporting requirements of disparity in pay. Ultimately - it's here for good!For a real and sustainable difference to be made, organisations need to adopt a more holistic approach to Inclusion and Diversity. This however requires focus, a break with ingrained traditions, a shift in mindsets, a re-design of organisational culture and a change in leadership behaviour.Teresa's unique tribe5 Diversity & Inclusion(TM) methodology set out in this book provides Board Directors and their Leadership Teams with a path to follow, enabling them to take Inclusion and Diversity off the 'too difficult' pile and move forward with confidence.Business Leaders, Directors and HR Professionals should read this book to: T - Take Stock - establish the truth in relation to your current Diversity and Inclusion positionR - Raise Awareness - understand why Inclusion and Diversity is important to gaining a competitive advantageI - Inspire and Involve - recognise the benefits of an internal culture which inspires and involves everyoneB- Build for the Future - embrace Inclusion and Diversity to improve and sustain talent attraction and retentionE - Embed - ensure that Inclusion and Diversity is infused and firmly embedded within your organisation's cultureCreating an environment where people feel a sense of belonging when they come to work, where they feel respected and valued for their unique difference, isn't just about doing the right thing - it will enable you to attract top talent and outperform your competitors.

Exploring the elite team concept with lessons gleaned from the Special Forces, and injecting those qualities into the workplace, is a sure-fire way to create a thriving business. If you're a business owner and want to achieve results in a way that feels great, this book is for you. It presents a compelling new methodology enabling you to design, develop and lead high-performing, autonomous teams. You'll learn how to: Inject clarity, cohesion and commitment into your organisation Understand three powerful and fundamental principles of leadership Eliminate the friction that occurs within a growing team Boost your power to influence and communicate effectively Leverage the full creative potential of your team Develop the three core skills necessary for exponential results Build an organisation that's fit for purpose in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The notion that all you need is a technically competent data team in order to succeed in generating value from data is popular but totally wrong.Every organisation needs to do something with data to remain competitive. You can hire the most technically competent team, pay for all the top technology, build the most sophisticated algorithms, and yet still fail to see value from data. This is because unlocking value from data is no longer a technical challenge but a leadership one.This book, a product of over a decade of research, introduces the leadership keys to enable you to meet your strategic objectives by helping you: Demystify the unnecessarily complicated data jargon Develop a plan that links data and AI directly to your business outcomes Prepare the organisation for success by making the necessary team, and cultural, changes Applying the principles outlined in this book will transform your business and accelerate the growth of your company.

Why do some businesses dominate online whilst others constantly play catch up?Will your digital marketing strategy make you the most visible business in your sector?Digital marketing remains a relatively new discipline and most organisations are still learning how best to achieve the visibility they need online.This book is your blueprint for building your own best practice digital marketing strategy so that yours can be the business that wins the most leads and sales in your sector. Read this book to learn: The five mindsets of digital marketers - and the one mindset the winners in each sector always adopt The four elements that are always in place when a business is dominating its sector online How to build a foundation of great digital assets to enable best-in-class digital marketing in your organisation How achieving mastery in strategic digital marketing also makes for a great career path and a great lifestyle

IT'S TIME TO MAKE YOUR GAME-CHANGING IMPACTWhen you change your game, you create yourself and you start to allow the world to see the true you. Through 56 insightful lessons, Baiju will help you discover who you really are, create a game plan for becoming more entrepreneurial, and up your game in order to make positive impact in your life and the lives of others.Whether you're an entrepreneur, student, employee, volunteer, business owner, speaker, or coach, the lessons in this book will show you the way to love what you do, doing what you love, and making a real difference.

HAVE YOU FALLEN OUT OF LOVE WITH THE WAY YOU WORK, WANT TO WORK IN A DIFFERENT WAY OR DO SOMETHING NEW BUT ARE UNSURE WHERE TO START?This book will help you get clarity on what is important to you and how you want your future to look so you can identify your driving values and the goals that you want to achieve.It will enable you to develop your confidence and consider different ways of thinking that will move you forward, as well as understanding what your options are.You will learn from case studies of real women how you can change the way that you work and create a life that you love.Ruth will help you identify what you want to do and the steps to take you there. When you've read this book, you will be able to: Identify where you currently are Clarify what has been stopping you make your move Understand what your options are Create your goals and vision Develop a clear plan of action to move forward

If there is one thing that Kirsty Hulse claims to have in common with Winston Churchill, Frida Kahlo and Isaac Newton, it is that she does her best work in bed.Technology has revolutionised the world of work so that we no longer need to be at work to get work done. A desire to be freelance, and to work remotely, has crept into our collective consciousness, and no amount of of¿ce beanbags is going to change that. Whether you work for yourself, would like to, or have a team of employees to keep happy, embracing independent, remote working has incredible power to make you actually enjoy your working life.The ongoing shift to normalising ¿exible working is not only a cultural one, but a logistical one. Packed with personal, funny and often eye-opening stories of Kirsty's own journey, this book will help you: Develop a routine and rhythm to keep you, or your team, productive and motivated Manage the fear and mitigate the stresses of being your own boss Create a structure for developing remote teams and in¿nitely scale your potential Convince and reassure you that absolutely nobody has any idea what's going on

The hospitality industry in the UK often gets a bad press as it is perceived to be an industry of low pay and long hours. There is so much more to it than that.Hospitality is all about welcoming people. No matter what walk of life you are from, our doors are always open. Get excited as you explore your passion for helping and serving others. The information in this book will make you proud to work in the hospitality industry.Star Quality Talent follows the careers of hospitality professionals from humble beginnings to where the industry has led them. It gives tips on how to get ahead and move from a stagnant job to having a fulfilling career. As you read, you will:• Discover the extent of the world of hospitality and the opportunities available• Be inspired by the amazing real-life stories of hospitality professionals• Find the connections between the different sectors, job roles and industry bodies• Learn how to get involved with this industry so you too can have a rewarding hospitality career

Release the Music within. No struggle. No limits. Just play.A revolutionary new understanding of the mind is transforming the field of performance psychology, making it easier than ever before for musicians to bring out the best in themselves and make music as nature intended. Not only that, but it offers renewed hope for sufferers of anxiety, depression and a whole host of other psychological disorders.Following his own struggles, explorations and insights, working both as a professional musician and a Head of Music in London schools, Nick Bottini is now a performance coach working in the music industry. He wrote ‘Just Play’ for musicians who know that they are capable of more – to help them uncover a simpler way, not only with music and creativity, but ultimately, with themselves.50% of all author royalties will go to support ‘Music Minds Matter’, the 24-hour mental health helpline set up by Help Musicians UK. For more information visit www.musicmindsmatter.org.uk.

Do you worry that your child is lacking confidence, isn't doing as well at school as they could be, or is struggling with their behaviour as they negotiate the challenges of adolescence?The Warrior Method gives parents a four-step character development programme based on martial arts that you can use to transform your children's lives at any age just as it has transformed the lives of thousands of young people in the UK. Use this proven method to develop your child's character and equip them with the self-assurance to negotiate problems now and as they become adults.In this book you will learn how martial arts can:• Improve your child's behaviour and reduce your stress• Give your child a Black Belt mindset and high levels of confidence• Massively improve your child's focus, concentration and school results• Ensure your child is bulletproof to the effects of bullying• Support your child through adolescence and ensure a promising future

Do you ever feel like you are stuck in a story someone else wrote for you?Are you ready to become the hero of your own story?In this book, psychologist and coach Nadjeschda takes you on a journey of self-discovery that leads towards deeper self-awareness, self-acceptance and ownership. She offers no easy answers, recipes or ten-step solutions. Instead, you will find out how you became the person you are today, discover how your brain creates your reality and wake up to the possibilities this holds for reinventing yourself.Conscious You will make you think, laugh, understand and feel hopeful about who you are and who you can become.