Congratulations to Cultivate client Beers + Cutler for winning a 2009 Apollo Award! The Apollo awards are presented by Helios HR and SmartCEO Magazine. The award recognizes Washington DC area companies that do a superior job promoting and investing in employee development. Way to go B+C!!
A list of all the winners can be found here: http://www.helioshr.com/PR-2009-06-05.php
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After taking a break from audiobooks so we could add 100+ podcasts to the library, we’re back to audio. 21 great additions to the library! Up next? Queues!
How To Have A Great Day Everyday!
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
How to Get to the Top: Business Lessons Learned at the Dinner Table
Emotional Freedom
Nonviolent Communication
Speaking Peace
Showing Up for Life
10-10-10: A Life-Transforming Idea
The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference
The Smartest 401(k)* Book You’ll Ever Read: Maximize Your Retirement Savings the Smart Way! (*Smartest 403(b) and 457(b), too!)
Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America’s Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
The Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons Learned from the Trailer Park to the Corner Office
The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable…About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life
The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable…About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life
The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health
Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance
Leadership Is an Art
The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days
Be Happy Without Being Perfect: How to Break Free from the Perfection Deception
Ageless Memory: Simple Secrets for Keeping Your Brain Young-Foolproof Methods for People Over 50
Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, New Edition, Updated and Expanded: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power
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Over the last week we’ve added a significant new section to the Cultivate library – a directory of podcasts that fit within our theme of personal & professional development.
To start we’ve added 75 podcasts, and we’ll be adding more in the coming months. Why did we add podcasts?
- It adds a downloadable component to the library for people who want to use their MP3 player or blackberry
- It allows us to add content that just isn’t available on audiobooks. We can begin to address more niche areas that our customers employees are interested in.
- Podcasts keep fresh content constantly coming in to the library.
You can access the podcasts by clicking on the ‘Podcast’ category once you’ve logged in to the library. Feel free to contact us with any questions – hope you enjoy the additions!
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Today 18 new titles were added to the library – ranging from Social/Emotional Intelligence to Sales to Persuasion. Enjoy!
The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First
Managing Transitions, 2nd Edition: Making the Most of Change
Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Enough Already!: Clearing Mental Clutter to Become the Best You
Who: The A Method For Hiring
Squawk!: How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting Results
The Power of Presence
Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000: Running a Business in Today’s Consumer-Driven World
The Heart of Change
Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference
Stumbling on Happiness
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
Mindfulness @ Work - A Leading with Emotional Intelligence Conversation with Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Power of Truth: A Leading with Emotional Intelligence Conversation with Warren Bennis
Working with Presence: A Leading with Emotional Intelligence Conversation with Peter Senge
What Makes a Leader?: A Leading With Emotional Intelligence Conversation with Jack and Suzy Welch
The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently about Sales
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10 new audio titles have been added to the library. There are a number of exciting new titles being released over the next few months and we’ll add them to the library just as soon as we can get our hands on them! Have a suggestion for a title, or a ‘type’ of title? Email us!
Here are two examples. One of the titles from this month is ‘Talent is Overrated’ – a client employee suggestion and a great fit to the library. Late last year we had a request for ‘titles that would help me learn new words/vocabulary’. What a great idea! A few months later the vocab titles are some of our most popular. Keep the ideas coming.
The titles are:
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success – Thomas Nelson
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life - Highbridge
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Leaders At All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis
The No Complaining Rule: Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work
The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable
See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work
Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies from a Life at Disney
Cut to the Chase: And 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time
Buyology
January 2009 New Titles
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DVD's, Podcasts, or Online Video?
For the past few months we’ve had a poll on most of the library homepages asking whether you’d like us to focus on adding more DVDs, Online Video, or Podcasts. Well the results are in and it’s…..a tie! Overwhelming support was given to two of the options – DVD’s and Podcasts.
So today we’ve added 14 more DVD’s – including some more workout videos, a number of pregnacy fitness/health videos, and some cooking DVD’s. Please let us know what you think and what else you’d like to see added!
We’re currently working on adding Podcasts – that’s a larger project but we’re on the case. Podcasts are exciting because it will allow us to point people towards material that just isn’t available in an audiobook.
Here are the DVD’s we added. All of them have been added to the DVD category (clever, we know) and to the New titles For 2008. Enjoy!
New DVDs for Cultivate December 2008
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We’ve been nominated for an award called The Crunchies – which focuses on tech based startups. You can help us out by voting for us. The good news? It’s only 2 clicks!
It’s quick and easy – click on the badge below, and then on the Nominate button. You can vote every day (and we would certainly appreciate that) but we’ll be happy with 1. Feel free to let other people know as anyone can vote for us. Thanks for your vote!
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Yesterday we sent out our November newsletter to almost every one of our subscribers. Obviously that generates a big rush of orders, and we’re always amazed at the variety of titles that get ordered. Here’s a few examples just from yesterday:
I think the lesson to take away from all these orders is the importance of having a broad range of employee development resources (and having a broad definition of ‘employee development’.) Every company in America is made up of employees just like the ones who ordered these titles.
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Here’s a site we think our users will appreciate! If you like books, and you like lists, then this is a site for you. It’s called Flashlight Worthy Books. Their tagline says it all – ‘Recommending books so good they’ll keep you up past your bedtime’ There is a business, self-help, and parenting section (as well as many many more.)
Check them out at:
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25 new titles have just been added to the library. A number of new management & leadership titles, parenting titles, organization, and personal development & growth. Many have audio clips and for a few we’ve added podcasts with the authors created by the publishers.
All have been added to the appropriate category, or can be found at the bottom of the New Titles – Added In 2008 category (the one at the top of the list.) We’d love to get your feedback, so feel free to comment on this post to let us know what you think.
Enjoy!
The titles are…
New Titles For Cultivate Employee Development November 2008
The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America
The Art of Influence: Persuading Others Begins With You
Silos, Politics & Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers that Turn Colleagues into Competitors
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
On the Fly Guide to Balancing Work and Life
On the Fly Guide to Building Successful Teams
Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
Me Inc: How to Master the Business of Being You…A Personalized Program for Exceptional Living
Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool
Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child’s Attitude, Behavior & Character in 5 Days
Master Strategies for Higher Achievement: Set Your Goals and Reach Them – Fast!
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
The Four-Day Win: How to End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace Four Days at a Time
It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
Healthy Sleep: Fall Asleep Easily, Sleep More Deeply, Sleep Through the Night, Wake up Refreshed
Inside Drucker’s Brain
It’s Our Ship: The No-Nonsense Guide to Leadership
It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t
Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
The Angel Inside: Michelangelo’s Secrets For Following Your Passion and Finding the Work You Love
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