Walt Hopkins – författare

Need to get active support from others in order to achieve results? "Make Your Mark! How to Influence in Organisations" helps readers influence more effectively in any kind of organisation. A wise man once described effective influencing as 'the ability to move an idea from your mind to my mind and to move me with the idea'. These nineteen words sum up what you need to do to influence effectively. "Make Your Mark! How to Influence in Organisations" will guide you through each of these steps towards effective influencing: developing your abilities, clarifying your ideas, choosing your strategies, connecting with the people you are influencing and finally getting what you want. "Make Your Mark! How to Influence in Organisations" begins with the increasing need for organisational influencing skills and follows with the benefits readers will get from investing their time in developing their influencing skills.

A bucket list is a list of things to do before you die. This book is a guide to ways to live before you die. Whether you have a bucket list or not, the stories and insights in this book offer you seven clear ways to lighten—and enlighten—your life before you kick the bucket. George Simons and Walt Hopkins (international consultants in their mid-seventies) have learned a lot about living well while getting older—and they generously and intimately share those learnings with men and women concerned about ageing. If you are getting older—or if you know someone who is—this is a provocative, funny, and insightful guide to living a lively and meaningful life as the years go by.“With Mark Twain-like humor and age-old wisdom…it's a guide to kicking out what brings you down and picking up the things that make you happy.”Patrick Schmidt, Strasbourg, France. Author of In Search of Intercultural Understanding.“I think it will be a phenomenon. Justlike people say ‘it's on my bucket list’ I think they will say ‘it’s on myChucket List’ or my Ducket List or whatever.”MarianneErdelyi, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Coach, trainer, and consultant.

A wise man once described effective influencingas “the ability to move an idea from your mind to my mind and to move me withthe idea”. Those few words sum up what you need to do to influence effectively.Passportto Results is ahandy, pocket-sized workbook which should beused alongside Influencing for Results inOrganisations, to guide you through that process: developing yourabilities, clarifying your ideas, choosing your strategies, connecting with thepeople you are influencing, and getting what you want. Based on 30 years ofdevelopment in 30 different countries Influencing for Results in Organisationscombines theory, success stories, and a seven-step planning guide to help you expandyour range of influencing skills. It will move you from occasionally getting what you want – and not knowing how you gotit—to frequently getting what youwant – and knowing how you did it, so that you can do it again.

The Castle Process guides you through three stepsin designing your life and your career: identifying your Powers fromyour past, setting Priorities on your preferences now, andgathering Possibilities for your future. This 45th Anniversary Edition ofthe Castle Process now comes in a box. Inside the box, in addition tothe new Castle wall poster, you get the updated 80-page CastleGuide, a Journaling Passport, a Passport to Results, and a set oftranslucent sticky notes. As you move through the exercises in the Castle Guide,you develop your own answers to the seven Lifetime Questions—How, Where, What,Who, Why, How Much, and When. You put your answers on the towers of the Castle—using the translucent sticky notes. That means you can adjust and update thosesticky notes as you continue designing your life and career. And because thestickies are translucent you can still see the solid towers of the castlesupporting the dreams that you are taking seriously.About the Author: Walt Hopkins is theauthor of Influencing for Results in Organisations and A Goal Is A Dream Taken Seriously andis the co-author of Seven Ways to Lighten Your Life Before You Kick theBucket. Walt is a Member Emeritus of the NTL Institute and isthe founder of CastleConsultants International. Walt and his colleagues have used theCastle Process with thousands of people in Africa, Asia, Europe, and NorthAmerica.

Influencing for Results in Organisations packaged with Passport to Results workbook and activity cards. Combines theory, success stories, and a 7-step planning guide. Based on 30 years of development in 30 different countries. Created by a master teacher who is also a master learner.A wise man once described effective influencing as “the ability to move an idea from your mind to my mind and to move me with the idea”. Those few words sum up what you need to do to influence effectively. Passport to Results is a handy, pocket-sized workbook which should be used alongside Influencing for Results in Organisations, to guide you through that process: developing your abilities, clarifying your ideas, choosing your strategies, connecting with the people you are influencing, and getting what you want.Based on 30 years of development in 30 different countries Influencing for Results in Organisations combines theory, success stories, and a seven-step planning guide to help you expand your range of influencing skills. It will move you from occasionally getting what you want – and not knowing how you got it—to frequently getting what you want – and knowing how you did it, so that you can do it again.