Audiobooks by Tommy Spaulding

The Gift of Influence: Creating Life-Changing and Lasting Impact in Your Everyday Interactions

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Heart-Led Leader comes an empowering manifesto on how to use influence to "make a real difference in the lives of those you interact with at work, in your home, and wherever you may roam" (Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager) "Tommy Spaulding has such a profound gift for storytelling and for collecting wonderful people and experiences."-Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers Researchers estimate that the average person will influence up to eighty thousand people over the course of their lifetime-or 2.8 people daily. That's a stadium full of people each of us affects in ways positive or negative, sometimes without our realizing. What if we paid attention to this fact? Would we live differently? Would we lead differently? Would we put down our phones and be more present with the people in front of us? Tommy Spaulding believes the answer is yes. In this compelling and deeply personal book, Spaulding explores how we can be more mindful and effective in wielding the influence that each of us has over others-in our careers, our everyday interactions, and the relationships we cultivate throughout our lives. Sharing stories from exceptional leaders-from entrepreneurs who have made an impact far beyond their businesses to a teacher who changed the lives of thirty-six students with a simple classroom lesson-Spaulding gives us a simple recipe for leading a life that matters, including • the power of asking "What's your story?" • the secret to turning transactions into true interactions • showing up meaningfully for people in need instead of saying "Let me know how I can help." For business leaders, educators, parents-everyone who works with people-The Gift of Influence is an essential read on the daily actions that add up to a meaningful life.

Tommy Spaulding (Author), Robert Creighton, Tommy Spaulding (Narrator)

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The Heart-Led Leader: How Living and Leading from the Heart Will Change Your Organization and Your L

In his first book, It's Not Just Who You Know (which rose to #2 on the New York Times bestseller list), world renowned leadership speaker and former CEO of Up with People Tommy Spaulding talked about the power of building genuine and lasting relationships both personally and professionally. In his new book, The Heart-Led Leader, Spaulding turns his focus to ourselves - to who we are. Authentic leaders, Spaulding says, live and lead from the heart. The values and principles that guide our lives and shape our ability to lead others is far more important than our title, or our ability to crunch numbers, or the impressive degrees we display on our walls. To effect true transformational change, heart-led leaders draw on the qualities of humility, vulnerability, transparency, empathy and love. Illustrated with stories from his own life, and from some of the exceptional leaders he has met and worked with over the years, Spaulding unpacks what those qualities mean, talks about the 18-inch journey from the head to the heart - from our intellect to our emotions - and shows us how to incorporate them into our careers, into how we manage and lead others, and into how we live our lives. It is a vision of leadership that has the power to transform everything we do, and the lives of everyone we touch.

Tommy Spaulding (Author), L.J. Ganser (Narrator)

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It's Not Just Who You Know

In It's Not Just Who You Know, Tommy Spaulding-the former CEO of Up With People-has written the new How to Win Friends and Influence People for the twenty-fist century. Success-in business and in life-is all about relationships. In this powerful guide to reaching out to others, Spaulding takes Dale Carnegie's classic philosophy to the next level-how to create lasting relationships that go well beyond mere superficial contacts and "second floor" relationships. Tommy Spaulding learned at a very young age that he was not destined to be an academic star. He may have gotten a 4.0, but only if he added his high school and college GPAs together. The reason he found academics so challenging, he discovered later, is that Tommy is dyslexic. But his dyslexia didn't hold him back-in fact, it helped him to develop the talents he did have. For Tommy is a natural leader; he realized early on that he had a unique ability to connect with others, whatever their age or background. As a teenager, he was given a copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People by his father, and it quickly became his bible. He became a national finalist for the DECA Entrepreneurial Business competition in high school, and ran successfully for senior class president. He went on to become the CEO of Up With People, one of the largest nonprofit international leadership organizations in the world. At every step, Tommy learned that the secret to getting ahead was reaching out for the support and insight and influence of others. None of us achieve great success alone. We need the help of other people. In this candid, revealing book, Tommy expands upon the principles that Dale Carnegie outlined 75 years ago, and shows us how to take them one step further to accomplish the impossible in our lives and careers. To invite others to be genuine partners in our lives and success, Tommy explains, you have to first be interested in other people. It's not just who you know, or what they can do for you, but what you can do for them. Motives matter. Establishing a deeper connection is about authenticity, not manipulation. Reciprocity, not selfishness. Every relationship is a two-way street; we never know when a chance encounter can change the direction of our life. In the bestselling tradition of Dale Carnegie's classic, It's Not Just Who You Know shows how each and every one of us can use the power of netgiving-of helping others-to expand our world and achieve our goals, and make a difference in our job, our career, and our community.

Tommy Spaulding (Author), Dustin Rubin (Narrator)

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