RECOMMENDED AUDIO & DVD PROGRAMS

Self improvement reflects one's true commitment toward personal growth and leadership development.

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Great leaders understand that their journey toward personal growth is, in fact, a journey - it's not a single event or destination.

The journey is on-going and never-ending.

Leadership-Tools.com has researched a number of self improvement programs. Many of the programs we've reviewed DO NOT appear here simply because the material did not meet our high standards.

Many of the self improvement programs we reviewed were good - but in order to make it to "Recommended" status, the self help or personal improvement program must be GREAT.

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Tools We Recommend Business Planning Leadership Development Sales Management Customer Service Team Building

Experts We Trust Zig Ziglar Anthony Robbins Brian Tracy Phil McGraw Ken Evoy David Riklan

At times our patience was tested, but we knew that in the end the following statement will always remain true:

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."

So we kept looking until we found what we were looking for - outstanding leadership and self improvement programs.

Programs from leading experts whom we are proud to introduce to our valued readers.

The self improvement programs that we accepted as "high quality" and worth your investment of time and money, are listed and categorized below for your convenience.

Take a quick tour of these recommended leadership and self improvement programs. PICK ONE program that interests you. Invest in yourself.

Begin to discover things about yourself and the world that you had no idea even existed. Learn and Grow.

Improve your leadership skill-set so that you can become a more effective leader, and a happier and healthier individual.

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- John Wooden

Business Planning

• Brian Tracy - The Ultimate Goals Program

  (This product is located at the bottom of the second page once you click on the Brian Tracy link.)
  This program is one of the most complete and effective goal-setting and goal-achieving programs on the market. Brian Tracy takes you through a simple, step-by-step system that you can use immediately to help achieve anything you really want out of life.

• Ken Evoy - SBI (Site Build-It)

  No matter what personal or professional service you have to offer, you now have the power to profit locally as well as globally using the Internet. Work from home and earn 24/7. This program shows you how to use the Net, and your passion, to build a powerful business online.
  NOTE: SBI is the product we use to create and maintain Leadership-Tools.com, Highly Recommended!

Leadership Development

• Meet The Giants

  Tap into the ideas, strategies and mindsets of the world’s top entrepreneurs and business experts. Listen to countless hours of exclusive conversations with the best entrepreneurs on the planet - and now is your opportunity to listen in as a subscriber to MeetTheGiants.

• Tony Robbins - The Time of Your Life (RPM)

  Anthony Robbins offers many quality products, but none compare to The Time of Your Life. You'll master the RPM (Rapid Planning Method) system and experience real achievement instead of mere movement. You'll eliminate overwhelming tasks, maximize your fulfillment, produce the results you truly desire and have a lot of fun doing it.

• John C. Maxwell - The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

  Truly amazing how one book and one person can so thoroughly tap into the topic of leadership. Every universal law learned during this read is a gift to yourself. Simply outstanding. We also highly recommend the audiobook as Dr. Maxwell is a great speaker.

• Zig Ziglar - A View From The TOP

  This wonderful self improvement program is based on Zig’s personal belief,"that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy."

• Dave Ramsey - The Total Money Makeover

  A terrific book with a tremendous amount of helpful information in the areas of personal finance and specifically regarding the importance of debt reduction/elimination. Ramsey is highly entertaining with a hardcore message that is simple, yet extremely effective. A great read.

• Jim Rohn - The Day That Turns Your Life Around

  Those whose lives really do change in dramatic ways can almost always trace the change back to something simple - one subtle, unsuspecting moment - one episode, one realization, one action. One seemingly insignificant step that put them on a completely different path that and ultimately led them to their dreams.

• Bill Phillips - Body For Life

  Change Your Mind - Change Your Body - Change Your Life. Imagine just 12 weeks from now, having the lean, healthy body you've always wanted and not having to turn your life upside down to get it. No-nonsense here, cut fat and get fit.

• Dr. Phil McGraw - Life Strategies

  This is a plain-talk, entertaining way to learn to take control of your life, right now. Learn the Ten Laws of Life that every person needs to know to improve virtually every aspect of your life. Wonderful stories you will remember forever.

Sales Management

• Zig Ziglar - Sell Your Way To The Top!

  Put money in your pocket. Discover 44 proven ways to close a sale, 5 basic reasons why prospects don't buy, 24 negative words to avoid, and more. Sell Your Way To The Top is full of money-making, deal-closing techniques that can bring huge rewards.

Customer Service

• Zig Ziglar - Customer Service (Ziggets Series)

  Ziggets offers businesses a virtual gold mine of employee training in bite-sized, easy to implement lessons. The "Customer Service" module covers: How to Create Loyalty With Your Customers, Handling The Irate Customer, Creating A Positive Image With Customers, Handling Customer Complaints, Customer Service As a System, How to Be Better, Faster and Different From The Competition, Meeting and Beating Customers' Expectations, and The Importance of Attitude in Delivering Sensational Service.

Team Building

• Patrick M Lencioni - Five Dysfunctions of a Team

  This is a genuinely significant book for anyone who works in a team environment, whether at work, in sports, in the community, at home, etc. Of all the business books I have read on team building, "Five Dysfunctions" stands at the top of the pack.

• Zig Ziglar - Team Development (Ziggets Series)

  This module covers: Creating A Supportive and Positive Atmosphere, Working With Difficult People, Handling Confrontation, Giving and Receiving Praise, Measuring, Recognizing and Rewarding Team Results, Creative Problem Solving, The Road to Self Improvement, The Role of the Team Leader, and Dealing With Pressure and Deadlines.

Zig Ziglar

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"You can have anything in life you want, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want."

Zig Ziglar is the world's foremost authority on motivation and self improvement. He is an internationally renowned speaker and authority on high-level performance. Zig's I CAN course is taught in more than 3,000 schools; and hundreds of companies and businesses utilize his tapes, books, and videos to motivate and train their employees effectively.

He has taught his values-based principles for becoming a more effective persuader and person to sales organizations, church groups, schools, and businesses. And he has reached thousands more through numerous television and radio appearances and through his popular audio and video training programs.

Years ago, Zig Ziglar walked away from a record-setting sales career to help other people become more successful in their personal and professional lives. His background in successful direct sales has made Zig one of the world's foremost sales trainers. His name is synonymous with confidence, motivation and success.

A master at motivational speaking, Mr. Ziglar has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Fortune, Success and Esquire magazines, and has appeared on the Today show, 20/20, 60 minutes and The Phil Donohue show.

Zig Ziglar's unique brand of logic and enthusiasm is overwhelming. Just a brief exposure to Zig makes a fan of anyone. He has that rare ability to make audiences comfortable and relaxed, yet completely attentive. As an author, he has written nine successful books on self improvement topics, including the perennial best-selling seller, See You At The Top, with over two million copies in print.

He has grown from a one-man show to chairman of the Zig Ziglar Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Zig has traveled millions of miles thoughout the world as a speaker and lecturer on the subjects of self help, self improvement and self reliance. His self improvement books have been translated into many languages including Spanish, French, and Korean.

"Not only is Zig Ziglar the world's greatest motivational speaker, he's a talented writer on self improvement, who sells the good old American principles of honesty, integrity, dependability, and supreme effort to learn professional skills."
- Robert H. Schuller, Founder and Pastor, Crystal Cathedral,Garden Grove, California.

Tony Robbins

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"People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."

Since 1984, millions of people have enjoyed the warmth, humor, and dynamic presentation style of Anthony Robbins' corporate, sales, and self improvement seminars. He has been a peak performance consultant to the executives of such organizations as IBM, AT&T, American Express, McDonnell-Douglas, and the United States Army, as well as professional sports teams, such as the Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners, and gold medal-winning Olympic athletes develop their own personal power to achieve.

A millionaire by the age of twenty-four, Anthony Robbins is an entrepreneur and the founder of nine companies. He is a best-selling author of many self improvement books and popular audio-learning programs, and is considered the nation's leader in human development training.

He is the founder and chairman of the board of Robbins Research International, Inc., the research and marketing arm of his personal development businesses.

Deeply committed to contribution and making a difference, he has established the Anthony Robbins Foundation as a philanthropic organization dedicated to assisting those individuals who would not otherwise be reached. By enabling our nation's youth, elderly, homeless, and prison population to tap their own personal power, the Foundation empowers these often-forgotten members of our society to become students of self improvement and valuable contributors as well.

Brian Tracy

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"More people are becoming successful at a faster rate than at any other time in history. There have never been more opportunities for you to turn your dreams into reality than there are right now."

Brian Tracy is one of America's leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. He's a dynamic and entertaining speaker with a wonderful ability to inform and inspire audiences toward peak performance and high levels of achievement.

He addresses more than 400,000 men and women each year on the subjects of personal and self improvement, including the executives and staff of IBM, Arthur Andersen, McDonnell Douglas and The Million Dollar Round Table. His exciting talks and seminars on leadership, sales management and personal effectiveness bring about immediate changes and long-term results.

Brian is the Chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in San Diego, California, with affiliates throughout America and in thirty-one countries worldwide.

He has traveled and worked in over 80 countries on six continents and speaks four languages. He is an avid reader in management, psychology, economics, metaphysics and history and he brings a unique perspective and style to his talks. He has the remarkable ability to capture and hold audience attention with a fast-moving combination of stories, examples, humor and concrete, practical ideas that get results-fast.

He is the author/narrator of countless best-selling self improvement audio-cassette programs, including: The Psychology of Achievement, Breaking the Success Barrier and How to Master Your Time. Brian Tracy has produced more than 300 different audio and video self improvement and learning programs covering the entire spectrum of human and corporate performance. These programs, researched and developed for more than 25 years, are some of the most effective learning tools in the world.

Dr. Phil McGraw

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"The next several weeks months and years are going to go by whether you are doing somethingabout your life circumstances or not."

Dr. Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D. has worked in the field of human functioning, self improvement and strategic life planning for over 20 years. As a professional psychologist, he is a nationally syndicated talk show host, giving matter-of-fact, expert advice on human behavior and life planning where he has become known to millions as "Dr. Phil."

Drawing on 25 years experience in psychology, self improvement and human functioning, Dr. Phil deals with real issues that arise in the real world with his signature "tell it like it is" style. His best-selling books have been published in 27 languages with over 5 million copies in print, making him one of the world's most sought-after public speakers.

In concert with his books and television work, Dr. Phil contributes a monthly self improvement column in O, The Oprah Magazine. He is also an avid golfer, tennis player, scuba diver, and little league baseball coach. He lives in Texas with Robin, his wife of 25 years, and their two sons, Jay and Jordan.

Dr. Ken Evoy

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Ken Evoy is the founder of SiteSell Inc. and the creator of the revolutionary website-building system, SBI. He is also the author of a series of widely-acclaimed e-commerce books and courses, which have empowered hundreds-of-thousands of people and small businesses around the world to succeed on the Web. Due to Dr. Evoy’s efforts, the SiteSell brand is highly respected by top influential Internet business personalities around the world.

Dr. Evoy’s business philosophy is to offer the absolute best tools and information available on the market in the most accessible format and at the most affordable price. He feels strongly that every small business can be empowered to use the Internet to leverage their income-building potential -- whether it is to build an e-business, grow an existing offline business, or create a secondary income stream.

It is with this in mind that SiteSell has developed its breakthrough Web site-building, hosting, e-marketing solution that delivers real traffic and guaranteed results to novices and savvy pros alike.

Dr. Evoy was born in Montreal, Canada and holds degrees in science and medicine from McGill University.

David Riklan

101 Great Ways To Improve Your Life

David Riklan called on some of the top leadership experts around today, including such names as Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley, Hale Dwoskin, Paul Scheele, Joe Vitale, Mike Brescia and many more of the World's Leading Experts.

101 leading experts answered David's call and have joined together to give you the most amazing, proven and simple ways to immediately change your life for the better.

Just think! You'll have access to 101 of the greatest secrets gleaned from top experts in the self-improvement industry; it's like having the greatest minds in self-help sitting with you in your living room, revealing their most treasured secrets.