Capstone Rights Guide:

Spring/Summer 2013

How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase Your Personal Appeal/Gillespie 1

The Power of Doing Less: How to Spend Your Valuable Time on Things That Really Matter/Joseph 2

How To Talk To Absolutely Anyone: Confident communication in every situation/Rhodes 3

Clarity: Clear Mind. Better Performance. Bigger Results/Smart 4

How to Succeed with People/McGee 5

Mindfulness: Become more successful, confident and happy through living in the moment/Hasson 6

The Snowball Effect: Communication Techniques to Make you Unstoppable/Bounds 7

Resilience: How to cope when everything around you keeps changing/Webb 8

Assertiveness: How to be Strong In Any Situation/Potts 9

Straight to Yes: Asking with Confidence and Getting What You Want/Iman 10

Dream It, Do It, Live It: 9 Easy Steps To Making Things Happen For You/Newton 11

Entrepreneur Revolution/Priestley 12

What's Stopping You Being More Confident?/Kelsey 13

Contents:

Author Information 14 & 15

1

How To Be Interesting: Simple Ways to Increase

Your Personal Appeal David Gillespie, Mark Warren

An irreverent, colourful guide to becoming more

interesting and successful by gaining self-knowledge

and building your confidence and charisma.

In addition to having scads of acting and writing

credits between them, the authors are co-founders of

a unique organization. Called The Speechworks, it is a

group of performance-based professionals who draw

upon their professional expertise to teach clients—

including businesspeople from Fortune 500 and FTSE

100 companies, sports stars, politicians, actors,

writers and celebrities—the skills they need to

communicate more effectively, to impress others with

charisma and find greater success at work and in life.

In this wildly funny, irreverent and practical guide they

share their proprietary formula for achieving a

heightened and sustained level of interestingness.

•Practical tips for achieving everyday interestingness,

along with personality tests to aid self-knowledge.

•Tons of fascinating quotes, outrageous humour and

vibrant visual material—including mindmaps and

infographics.

•Everything you need to increase your personal

appeal, engage more effectively with those around

you and lead a more enjoyable and fulfilling life.

978-0-85708-406-4 / 0-85708-406-2

192 pp. Pub: 15/03/13

Business Self-Help

2

The Power of Doing Less: How to Spend Your

Valuable Time on Things That Really Matter

Fergus O'Connell

Separate the work that works from the work that

hurts. Ever wished for more hours in the day? Do

you dream of jumping on your desk and screaming

‘enough’ for all to hear? You’re not alone. We’re all

feeling overworked and exhausted. Since the

collapse of the banks we’re all being told you have

to ‘do more with less’ and that you’re ‘lucky to have

a job’. It’s exhausting. Well there is another way.

Just…do less. The Power of Doing Less shows how

toiling until you drop is NOT the way to progress

and succeed, it shows that learning when and how

to say ‘no’ is the life skill you need most.

This book will make your life simpler, better and

more profound by separating the work that

matters, from the work that’s not important. And

you won’t waste hours of your precise time reading

this book either – it’s short, sharp and fun to read

with colourful illustrations and inspiring quotes.

The Power of Doing Less covers:

• How to avoid overload and burn out.

• Mastering the work/life balance.

• The philosophy of action.

• How to become an expert decision maker.

• The benefits of work-sharing.

978-0-85708-421-7 / 0-85708-421-6

Business Self-Help

192 pp. Pub: 14/06/13

3

How To Talk To Absolutely Anyone: Confident

communication in every situation

Jamie Smart

Be a people magnet!

Improving your people skills and becoming a people-

person is a surefire route to success, happiness,

and confidence. We’ve all looked enviously across

the room at that person who seems to effortlessly

interact with everyone – humorous, confident and

well liked. That person is confident with people they

don’t know, they have no fear of rejection, they can

handle difficult situations with apparent ease. Well

now you can too. How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone

will show you exactly how to develop better

communication for better results. With Mark

Rhodes’ sound advice you will be able to build

rapport with absolutely anyone.

Learn how to:

• Overcome fear of rejection.

• Be confident with people you don’t know.

• Deal with difficult situations.

• Get better outcomes from disputes.

• Communicate better to win you more business

and more sales.

• Be more effective at networking at both business

and social events.

978-0-85708-402-6 / 0-85708-402-X

224 pp. Pub: 21/06/13

Business Self-Help

4

Clarity: Clear Mind. Better

Performance. Bigger Results Jamie Smart

Learn to clear your mind and think like a winner.

How to effortlessly keep a clear head and profit from the

clarity of thought that a clear mind brings -- being more

intuitive, more resilient, more agile, making connections,

thinking more creatively and finding your natural

motivation.

We all have so much going on. A million different

projects, to-do lists longer than your arm. We all worry

about things -- money, deadlines. With all this buzzing

around in our heads it's often a nightmare trying to

concentrate on one thing. What if someone could show

you how to empty your mind of all the noise? If you could

be shown how to de-clutter your mind and concentrate

on one important thing? Well Jamie Smart, state-of-mind

specialist, can do just that -- with Clarity he will show you

how to get real clarity of thought. You'll learn how to clear

your mind and become less stressed and more

productive -- and as a result, more confident in your

abilities.

Clarity will help you to:

• Greatly improve your concentration and ability to think

clearly.

•Reduce stress levels and increase productivity.

•Grow your confidence and self-belief.

•Find innovative solutions to problems and make

progress on goals and dreams.

•Trust your intuition and improve your decision-making.

•Build stronger relationships through better

communication.

978-0-857-08448-4 / 0-857-08448-8

280 pp. Pub: 15/02/2013

Business Self-Help

5

How to Succeed with

People: Remarkably easy

ways to engage, influence

and motivate almost anyone Paul McGee

Let’s face it, if you want any sort of success in life you’re

going to have to deal with other people at some point. All

success requires input from other people – even if

you’ve invented something in your bedroom, eventually,

you’re going to need to interact with people to take it to

the next level. And even if you don’t desperately hanker

after success, you surely want to be liked, have friends,

and get on well with people? Learning how to better

communicate and interact with others can really help to

improve your life – from ensuring you enjoy parties more

to turning you into a roaring success magnet. So whether

you dread social events with a passion and spend

evenings cringing in a corner, or just want to have better

relationships at work and in life, then How to Succeed

With People, written in Paul’s characteristic down to

earth, approachable style, can help you become a

people magnet.

Learn how to:

•Hold people’s attention when you talk.

•Listen/react properly to what others are saying or

doing.

•Better confront, complain and deal with difficult

conversations.

•Give compliments and praise.

•Deal with interviews, networking events, difficult

conversations and more.

978-0-85708-289-3 / 0-85708-289-2

216 pp. Pub: 12/04/13

Business Self-Help

6

Mindfulness: Become more

successful, confident and

happy through living in the

moment Gill Hasson

There’s nothing mystical about mindfulness. To be

mindful simply means to be aware of and engage with

what’s happening right now, in the current moment.

This book explains mindfulness in a clear, accessible

way, making you believe you can do it. You will learn

that, whatever your circumstances, mindfulness can

bring so much to your life, in any situation.

This book outlines how a mindful approach can help

you in your everyday life to:

•Establish more helpful, positive ways of thinking and

behaving.

•Be more open and accepting.

•Manage your attention so that unwanted thoughts

cannot crowd your mind; stop ruminating about the

past or worrying about the future.

•Cope more effectively with stress and have a more

confident and calm approach to life.

•Manage painful emotions such as anger, guilt, worry

and anxiety.

•Bring about positive changes in your relationships.

•Achieve a new level of self–awareness and self–

understanding.

This is mindfulness made easy; you will learn that

mindfulness in not all in the head it’s also a way of

being – it’s about what you do; your actions and your

behavior.

978-0-85708-444-6 / 0-85708-444-5

224 pp. Pub: 05/07/13

Business Self-Help

7

The Snowball Effect: Communication Techniques

to Make You Unstoppable Andy Bounds

The long-awaited follow-up to the international bestseller The Jelly Effect. Communication is supposed to cause something. That’s the point of it. So, what do you want to achieve following your communication? Do you want someone to answer ‘yes’? Do you want to improve your relationships? Do you want people to understand exactly what you’re talking about, first time? Whatever you want to achieve, you’ll need decent communication to get there, and expert and bestselling author Andy Bounds is here to show us exactly how to nail your communication. Using the same conversational style that made The Jelly Effect so popular, The Snowball Effect is packed with short, rapid fire sections complete with visuals and special features to help us get serious results from our communication. The Snowball Effect explains how to; •Get more done, more quickly: Communication techniques that save you a week a year. •Persuade more people to say “yes”: How to convince others, in ways that leave you both feeling comfortable. •Enjoy your job more: How to improve relationships with everyone you work with. •Get things right first time: Deliver work that impresses, and is exactly what they wanted. •Eliminate the negatives: What to say, to remove the frustrations and stresses you feel all too often.

978-0-85708-397-5 / 0-85708-397-X

296 pp. Pub: 01/02/13

Business Self-Help

8

Resilience: How to cope

when everything around you

keeps changing Liggy Webb

Bounce back from whatever life throws at you.

Stressful situations are a fact of life. Job insecurity,

financial burden, relationship doubt are all too familiar.

Some people approach them with confidence and poise,

facing change and challenges head on. Others back

away slowly into a corner and become quivering wrecks

at the mere thought of them. So what is it that makes

some people cope with these adverse situations so well?

It’s not about what is happening to you, but how you

react to it. It’s about your resilience.

Happiness guru Liggy Webb is here to help us all find

positivity and inner strength to cope with stressful

situations. Arming you with a personal toolkit to handle

day to day challenges, and providing strategies for

thriving in uncertain times Liggy shows you how to

increase your ‘bouncibility’ and bounce back from

whatever negative things life throws at you:

•Timely topic with governments across the world

promoting happiness on the one hand and dealing with

vast economic uncertainty and austerity on the other.

•Easy to digest, anecdotal and practical guide with lots

of common sense advice.

•Contains timely examples and tips tailored for coping

with difficult times

978-0-85708-387-6 / 0-85708-387-2

Business Self-Help

244 pp. Pub: 15/02/13

9

Assertiveness: How to Be Strong In Any Situation

Conrad Potts, Suzanne Potts

Put your foot down.

You don’t have to be a pushy so-and-so to get what

you want. There are ways to ensure you assert your

presence and take charge of situations that will

make you happier, healthier and more successful.

It’s about building your self-esteem and controlling

your own destiny. So don’t be a push over – let this

title show you how to deal with any situation with

self-assurance and confidence. From asking for a

pay rise, to dealing with your family – Assertiveness

has practical advice for dealing with a whole host of

situations, both at work and at home.

•Includes practical solutions to a range of universal

problems.

•Deals with assertiveness in business, family and

social situations.

•Covers topics like ‘dealing with your boss’, ‘dealing

with finances’, ‘asking for a pay rise’ and ‘saying no

at work’.

978-0-85708-368-5 / 0-85708-368-6

224 pp. Pub: 29/03/13

Business Self-Help

10

Straight to Yes: Asking with

Confidence and Getting

What You Want Haider Imam

Make yourself a “yes” magnet.

You’ve finally plucked up the courage to ask for

something. The afternoon off. A pay rise. Then comes

that crucial moment where you wait with baited breath

for the response. It’s tense, but it doesn’t have to be.

You just need to master the art of ‘the ask’.

Taking a direct, light-hearted, wholly practical approach,

Haider Imam zooms straight in on that moment of truth

providing a set of proven tools and techniques for

getting to ‘yes,’ every time. He instils readers with the

confidence to ask bigger, more often and even ask for

the impossible – and to get it.

•Based on sound psychological principles, Straight To

Yes! offers tons of winning ways to make requests that

get you to ‘yes’

•Wholly practical in style and content, the book

features accessible, straightforward techniques readers

can put into action immediately

•Designed for quick-reference while on the move, it

affords instant access to specific, step-by-step, single-

page techniques as needed

978-0-85708-375-3 / 0-85708-375-9

240 pp. Pub: 18/01/13

Business Self-Help

11

Dream It, Do It, Live It: 9

Easy Steps To Making

Things Happen For You Richard Newton, Ciprian Adrian Rusen

Make life a dream

Be a dreamer…just make sure your dreams become a

reality! Dream It, Do It, Live It is a practical project

management guide for your life. It maps out 9 simple,

easy-to-follow steps that will take your dreams from

fantasy to reality. And these steps are realistic,

understandable and 100% do-able. It’s all about being

clear on exactly what you’re dreaming of, thinking it

through thoroughly, drawing out your action plan,

actually taking action and seeing it through to the end.

The next step is to dream up the next thing! Never stop

dreaming – even when you achieve your dreams,

dream afresh. The world is your oyster and now you

have the manual to get you through it!

•A highly illustrated book to be picked up and referred

to with each new dream!

•Can be applied to any dream, be it climbing Mount

Everest or starting your own business.

•Shares the real experiences of 4 people who achieved

a variety of different dreams.

978-0-85708-456-9 / 0-85708-456-9

224 pp. Pub: 10/05/13

Business Self-Help

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Entrepreneur Revolution Daniel Priestley

Now is the age of the entrepreneur – don’t get left

behind.

The world is embarking on a new age. The age of the

entrepreneur, the agile small business owner, the

flexible innovator. The days of the industrial age are

over. It’s time to break free from the industrial

revolution mind-set, quit working so hard, follow your

dream and make a fortune along the way. The slow

dinosaurs of the industrial age are being outpaced by

fast-moving start-ups, ambitious small businesses and

technological innovators.

Entrepreneur Revolution is a master class in gaining an

entrepreneurial mind-set, showing you how to change

the way you think, the way you network, and the way

you make a living. Successful entrepreneur Daniel

Priestley will show you how to embrace the

Entrepreneur Revolution and thrive in the new age.

•From a successful entrepreneur who is reaping the

rewards of the entrepreneurial age.

•How to shift your mind-set and think like an

entrepreneur.

•Ways to adapt your lifestyle to be more successful.

978-0-85708-416-3 / 0-85708-416-X

240 pp. Pub: 08/03/13

Business Self-Help

13

What's Stopping You Being

More Confident? Why

Smart People Can Lack

Confidence And What You

Can Do About It Robert Kelsey

What’s Stopping You? has sold over 40,000 copies in

the UK alone, in just one year. It’s helped thousands

and thousands of people overcome their fear of failure

and start to achieve their goals. Now Robert Kelsey is

offering his unique approach to this bestselling self-

help topic, confidence. According to Robert, it’s not

something that can simply be injected into us through

motivational exercises and positive thinking. What’s

Stopping You…Being More Confident? highlights the

key reasons why you might be lacking confidence in the

first place, what causes self-doubt or makes you feel

less able than others. Then we are shown how to turn

this around, by examining the traits that make

someone confident.

•Follow-up to the groundbreaking bestseller, What’s

Stopping You? with the same very candid approach to

self-help.

•A road-map to help us break down the barriers that

make us shy away from achieving our full potential.

•How to recognise what you’re good at, but also what

you’re not good at.

•Includes tactics for maintaining self-assurance and

learning how to apply these in real-life practical

situations.

•Based on extensive research and personal

experience.

978-0-85708-309-8 / 0-85708-309-0

256 pp. Pub: 14/12/12

Business Self-Help

Actor, David Gillespie and writer,

Mark Warren have many acting

and writing credits between them

in TV, film, stage and publishing.

As founders of The Speechworks

they brings years of experience

from the worlds of film, TV,

theatre, presentation, psychology,

advertising, PR, journalism and

voice production. They use this

experience and insight to teach

the skills and techniques that

professional performers employ

and help clients harness them

with confidence.

Fergus O’Connell is the

bestselling author of Simply

Brilliant (Pearson) and other titles.

His books have been translated

into 12 languages. He is one of

the world’s leading authorities on

project management and getting

things done in the shortest

possible time. Fergus has written

for The Sunday Business Post,

Computer Weekly and The Wall

Street Journal.

Mark Rhodes made his fortune by

setting up a successful software

company which he sold in 2001.

Since then he has made it his

mission to find out exactly how he

achieved this success and pass

that wisdom onto others. He is

now a Business Mentor,

International Speaker and Trainer

in Success. His clients include top

brands such as The Body Shop,

Virgin Cosmetics and DK. He has

recently been hand-picked to be a

‘Millionaire Mentor' for the

Entrepreneurs' Business

Academy, a joint venture between

the EBA and James Caan, ex-

panelist from top-rated BBC

series Dragons' Den.

Jamie Smart is a state-of-mind

specialist, a leading trainer and

entrepreneur. He has been

teaching people how their minds

work and how to lead happy

successful lives for 13 years. He

has a large, global audience who

follow him, read his articles,

attend his programmes,

workshops and retreats and buy

his products.

Paul McGee is one of Europe’s

leading self-help authors and

motivational speakers and

coaches. He has spoken in 31

countries to date and is the

author of several books. His

simple yet profound messages

have spread across the globe

both in public and private sector

organisations. Building on his

academic background in

behavioural and social

psychology, Paul is also a trained

counsellor and a performance

coach.

Author Information 14

Andy Bounds is a Communication

Consultant, working with blue chip

organisations all over the world.

He is the author of the

international bestseller The Jelly

Effect which has sold 30,000

copies worldwide. Awarded the

title Britain’s Sales Trainer of the

Year, and described by

AstraZeneca’s Global

Communication Director as “a

genius, whose advice can’t be

ignored”, Andy’s insights stem

from the fact his Mother is blind.

This has given him a lifetime’s

experience of communicating

from someone else’s point of

view. Andy speaks on the subject

at 30-40 major conferences per

year in over 20 countries.

Gill Hasson is a freelance

journalist and writes articles on

personal development and

relationships for a variety of

magazines, including

Psychologies and Take A Break,

and for a number of websites. As

well as delivering adult education

courses in personal development

in Brighton, she is an associate

tutor for the University of Sussex

where she teaches career and

personal development and

academic study skills. She

delivers training in child and

adolescent development to

preschool, youth and social

workers, teachers and parents.

With Sue Hadfield she is the

author of two books, How to be

Assertive in Any Situation and

Bounce: Use the Power of

Resilience to Live the Life You

Want. She is the sole author of

Brilliant Communication Skills and

Brilliant Emotional Intelligence.

Liggy Webb is a leading expert in

the field of Modern Life Skills. As

a presenter, consultant and

author she is passionate about

her work and improving the

quality of people's lives. She is an

international consultant for The

United Nations and the founding

Director of the Learning Architect,

a consortium of learning and

development experts who

specialise in behavioural

effectiveness. She is actively

involved with

www.actionforhappiness.org and

works with the NHS, UCAS, the

British Association of Counselling

and Psychotherapy, ASDA and

many other reputable companies

and organisations.

She has written for the Wall Street Journal,

the Daily Mail and Woman's Weekly. She is

the author of four books, The Happy

Handbook, How to Work Wonders, Thank You

and How To Be Happy.

Author Information 15

Suzanne Potts is an expert in assertiveness

who specialises in keynote speaking for

industry conferences, corporate events and

charity forums. Her passion for spreading

assertiveness and negotiation skills into

cultures, industries and countries has taken

her to the war-torn territories of the former

Yugoslavia, the military culture of Pakistan,

Belarus and other communist-style Republics.

She works within all industry sectors including

retail, banking, pharmaceutical and charity.

Since becoming the Director of Teamskills,

audiences throughout the world have

benefited from Suzanne's expertise. Conrad

Potts is a psychologist and corporate training

consultant. He specialises in change

management, performance improvement and

motivation, and has led numerous change

management programmes for multi-national

organisations. He has appeared both on BBC

and ITV programmes as the "resident

psychologist". Conrad has lived and worked

throughout the UK, Europe, Russia, Middle

East and the South Pacific, and for many

years had taught at the London Business

School, and lectured at Imperial College and

Manchester Business School. The authors

developed their skills and training profile with

Ken & Kate Back, who were the leading

authorities on Assertiveness in the 80s and

90s. With more than 60+ years’ experience

between them, Conrad and Suzanne are

positioning themselves as their natural

successors.

Haider Imam was UK Sales Trainer

of the Year 2007, and works at

home & abroad with global brands

teaching influencing skills, sales,

negotiation and leadership. He has

been training for ten years, and is a

speaker and writer for the Institute

of Sales & Marketing Managers. He

has clients such as EDF Energy,

Merlin (Tussauds, Legoland, Sea

Life, etc.) ADS (the UK Aerospace,

Defence & Security body) and more,

as well as links at Sage UK, Nando's

and others.

Richard Newton and Ciprian Rusen

are both experienced project

managers, having delivered projects

worth millions of dollars. Richard is

the author of the bestselling Project

Management book The Project

Manager, as well as several other

titles on the topic. Ciprian runs his

own technology blog with over

240,000 monthly visits. They both

speak regularly at a variety of

events.

Daniel Priestley is a successful entrepreneur, international

speaker and author. Daniel started out as an entrepreneur at

21 years old and has since built several successful

businesses in the UK, Australia and Singapore. He runs

Triumphant Events, is the Managing Director of Ecademy,

and is the author of Key Person of Influence (Sept 2010).

Robert Kelsey is a

financial journalist

turned City banker

turned

entrepreneur.

Currently he is the

Founder and CEO

of a financial PR

agency. He is also

the bestselling

author of What’s

Stopping You?

2011’s personal

development

smash-hit. Robert

has been a self-

help addict for

years but after

working with the

London

Association for

Counselling &

Psychotherapy he

decided he could

do it better. So he

did just that - to

great success.