Audiobooks by Andy Smith

Practical Appreciative Inquiry: How to Use This Leading-Edge Coaching Method Confidently with Teams

Do you love the idea of Appreciative Inquiry, but you’re not sure how you would put it into practice? This book is the step-by-step guide to get you started using it confidently with teams and small groups. Author Andy Smith has over 15 years’ experience of facilitating Appreciative Inquiry processes. He has trained hundreds of people in how to put the theory of Appreciative Inquiry into practice – now let him share with you practical tips and formats for implementing each stage of the process. “It’s a highly practical handbook for both newbies and experienced facilitators.” – Robyn Stratton-Berkessel, author, Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions, and host, Positivity Strategist Podcast. In this book you’ll discover a practical, scalable process that you can use to: - Structure a team coaching session that will change thinking and generate results - Quickly get diverse groups talking freely to each other - Get everyone collaborating on creating a shared vision - Unleash the creativity of everyone in the team to generate new ideas - Get from vision to action plan in less than two hours, with an engaging, participative method that involves the whole team... Plus the book gives you a clear explanation of the principles that underpin Appreciative Inquiry and – crucially – how to apply them in practice. There’s also a summary of more recent discoveries in neuroscience that explain why Appreciative Inquiry works so well – and which every coach, leader, and change agent needs to know about. “This is a great how-to book on using Appreciative Inquiry. Andy does an excellent job weaving the what, how, and why into a step-by-step guide' - Cheri Torres, co-author of Conversations Worth Having Buy Practical Appreciative Inquiry and get started using this leading-edge change method today.

Andy Smith (Author), Andy Smith (Narrator)

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Start Up. Scale Up. Sell Up.: For tradies who want to make more profit and fast-track freedom.

Trying to figure out why you're stuck at this stage of your trade business journey? Your business model is wrong. That's the problem. Working harder has got you to this point. Now, it's time to work smarter. Start Up. Scale Up. Sell Up. is for trade business owners who want to make more money and fast-track financial freedom. Life is short. Don't waste time reinventing the wheel. This book has all the answers. Andy and Angela Smith, fellow trade business owners and co-founders of Lifestyle Tradie — an award-winning education program — have changed the lives of thousands of tradies and their families since 2009. With the right systems in place, your life will change for the better, too. Yes, you could be next...

Andy Smith, Angela Smith (Author), John Bonasera (Narrator)

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The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change

Lots of books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Some explain how to use these and other tools to compete in business. But no book addresses one of the biggest desires among 18-34 year olds: how to harness the incredible power of the new social media to make a difference, to do something that really matters. The goal of this book is simple: to help you achieve a singular goal by harnessing social media. To create political change, the way the Obama campaign did. To foster economic justice by making micro-loans easily available, the way Kiva has done. To save the life of a friend diagnosed with cancer. In all these cases, there is a single, measurable goal. You may not have money but you have the energy and focus. And you are wondering how to use social media to achieve your goal--allowing you to do so more quickly, effectively, and powerfully. The Dragonfly Effect is what happens when you coordinate four small activities to produce big results. It's named after the only insect that is able to move in any direction--with tremendous speed and force--when its four wings are working in concert. This book will teach you four key skills, explain how to coordinate them, and show you how to harness them to the social media to achieve disproportionate results. Part I presents the story that led to the Power of Social Technology class at Stanford, showing all four wings of The Dragonfly Effect working together. Part II will teach you each of the four skills. Its illustrated with examples and includes practical tips from the social technologists who engineered the Obama campaign, the founders of Kiva and eBays World of Good, story-tellers from Pixar and leaders from Facebook, Twitter and Google. Part III is your Dragonfly Toolkit, which will get you started on using all the most important social media tools without having to read a whole book about each of them. Its got Andys Cheat Sheets, specifically designed for people who are not at all technically proficient. Linked to this book youll find a website where you can find a community of other readers, like you, who will share their experiences, tools, and other resources. It will keep you updated on new ways to use the power of social technology to improve the life of just one individual or cultivate social change.

Andy Smith, Carlye Adler, Chip Heath, Dan Ariely, Jennifer Aaker (Author), Andy Smith (Narrator)

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