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Anne Bruce is an accomplished, best-selling author.  Her books offer real-world strategies you can use immediately.

So, relax, pour yourself a cup of coffee and see how you can benefit from these strategic titles.

Bruce's four-part approach empowers you to get where you want in life by adopting a free-agent mindset, taking intelligent risks and building self-esteem, setting a course for balance in work and life, and discovering and developing your personal strengths.

Coming in May!  
Anne's new leadership book.

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Speak for A Living:  The Insider’s Guide to Building a Profitable Speaking Career - Order now! 

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"There has never been a better time to be a professional speaker.  Anne provides you with what you need to know and what you need to do, in order to get more bookings and have the kind of impact and influence you really want to have with the audiences you serve best.  Keep this book handy, refer to it often, and you hold in your hands the tool for entering and advancing in the world of professional speaking."  

Mark LeBlanc  -   Professional Speaker

Be Your Own Mentor
Now Available!

Successful career and life coach Anne Bruce knows how you can find happiness, fulfillment, and success at work and in life-and it's not by hiring a coach! Be Your Own Mentor delivers a unique, do-it-yourself process for identifying your hidden talents, abilities, and passions and developing them on your own.

Discover True North

This one-of-a-kind formula for success helps unlock your personal and professional potential and passion. Included are worksheets, life compasses, a variety of navigational tools, and inspirational quotations. In just 4 weeks this life-altering program will help you to make the most of yourself and enrich the world around you. For volume discounts, contact McGraw-Hill Special Sales Account Manager, Jennifer Nier-Swindells at (212) 904-5437, or order direct from amazon.com.

How to Motivate Every Employee 

Anne's latest release in Hardback from the Mighty Manager Series—How to Motivate Every Employee (McGraw-Hill) $12.95, available in bookstores everywhere!

Your employees want to be motivated, to be inspired to do their best work, and to perform at their highest levels. Your job as a manager is to help your team to achieve their goals and succeed! You do that by creating a motivating environment. This book is a no-nonsense resource that will guide you in exactly how to do this.

All of Anne's books on motivation, as well as her highly popular seminars and keynotes on the subject, will give you and your colleagues all that you need to develop effective strategies for hiring the right people who will keep your business in business, while creating a powerful culture that makes them want to stay.

Now Available! — Perfect Phrases for Employee Development Plans! 
Over 1 million Perfect Phrases books sold to date!

"For the past several years I have had the honor and pleasure of working with Anne Bruce. When we first spoke about a potential Leadership/Management program for a Fortune 500 client of mine, Anne offered the most real-world, exciting and innovative leadership modules I'd seen. We rolled out the program and it was a huge hit. 

We continue doing this program for this client to this day and it's been adopted as their official leadership training. Since then, we've introduced Anne and her training programs to several of our clients. Our clients love Anne’s training and mentoring programs—so much so that once a program is offered, all seats fill within 15 minutes! 

I wish everyone seeking training programs the good fortune to meet and 
work with Anne."

J. Samay, International Technologies Group

Leaders - Start to Finish:  A Road Map for Developing and Training Leaders at All Levels   Leaders - Start to Finish can be  ordered by telephone from ASTD Publishing at (800) 628-2783 or visit their Website at www.astd.org. Motivating Employees Motivating Employees is a featured book in the McGraw- Hill Briefcase Books Series. Motivating Employees can be found in bookstores, or you can order online at amazon.com. To order by telephone, please call (800) 262-4729.  Volume discounts are available.  Call  (800) 842-3075 or contact Keri Trachtenberg at (212) 904-5427. Best Practices In Customer Service Case Studies and Strategies  Anne is a featured author in this special release from HRD Press, with a chapter on Coaching Service Associates. To order call (800) 466-4401.  Please use code BPCS.

Building A High Morale Workplace Now available in bookstores and at amazon.com, Anne's new release - Building A High Morale Workplace - an inspirational and practical approach to creating hope and morale in your organization. Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance Problems (McGraw-Hill, 2005) is Anne's newest release on workplace communication.  Best Practices In Customer Service Anne is a featured author in Best Practices In Customer Service , whose chapter on "Authentic Coaching: Get the Best from Customer Service Providers," is now available in paperback by AMACOM. Purchase these books through amazon.com for fast, convenient service.