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Peak Strategies offers books and CD packages to get you on your way to feeling more confident, to relieving stress, to enhancing performance, and to motivating others. Gwynne Dawdy has written books on weight loss and emotional eating and on motivation and inspiration. Both books are described below and are available for purchase. Be one of many who purchased these books and offered rave reviews about their help with weight loss, confidence, or enhanced performance. Remember: YOU CAN SUCCEED! and Peak Strategies designs all of the tools so they help you reach that peak of success. These books are available through this website, or through Amazon.com Books Gwynne's latest book is a hit with project managers, HR personnel, and generally anyone who works with others! The Social Compass: Time Tested Methods to Communicate Better, Understand Others, and Keep Your Project & Team at the Top, is a reader-friendly text with fantastic, easy to use tips on how to promote excellence or greater productivity. Studies cite that over 33% of a manger's day is spent correcting miscommunication. 33%! With this book, readers are able to immediately use strategies to decrease the amount of ineffective communication and increase performance and morale.
This book was designed from a nation-wide survey of project managers and city professionals. The most common pet peeves and problem people problems are compiled and responses or suggestions are included.
Do you work with problem people? Do you have pet peeves in your office? Often, they impede productivity and decrease performance for the entire team. How do you manage them?
Many common pet peeves and problem people problems are addressed in this book, including strategies to handle these issues.
One book by Gwynne N. Dawdy that will behoove many people is now published. It is called Gimme Chocolate! (I've Had a Bad Day). How to Win the War with Weight and Overcome Emotional Eating. It discusses the need to recognize, understand, and prevent emotional eating in order to truly live a wholesome life and be able to maintain a healthy weight.
Calling All Yo-Yo Dieters! Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to maintain your goal weight? Have you tried so many fad diets that you may not be able to remember them all? Well, this book focuses on the very reason why people struggle with weight loss or weight maintenance! So often we tend to neglect the emotional and psychological reasons behind the war with weight. By neglecting these needs, people tend to bounce from one weight to another, never quite understanding the reason why. With this book, you will be able to pinpoint this reason. You will be able to recognize your inner strengths and areas needing improvement. You will be able to take assessments that can aid in your perception of body image, stress management, and emotional eating. You will learn about our psychological needs, about the food advertisements geared towards those needs, and about different methods to fulfill those needs without emotional eating. If you have struggled with your weight, if you find you may be a stress eater, a bored eater, an angry eater, an elated eater, or a depressed eater, using the tools in this book can enhance your weight loss and weight maintenance progress. You CAN be successful! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gwynne N. Dawdy is a National Certified Counselor, professional coach, speaker, and author. She utilizes her experience and education to help others understand the psychology behind emotional eating and weight loss. She prides her practice on helping others succeed. Purchase this book at a discount for $11.95: A second book authored by Gwynne N. Dawdy deals with the abilities and methods used to motivate yourself and others and in doing so, increase performance levels and confidence. It is Motivation & Inspiration: How to Move Mountains.
The author also provides effective guidelines to increase motivation and to master common trials. These obstacles and solutions include: ¨ Communication Blunders: Learn to prevent and resolve conflict, and to enhance performance with effective communication.¨ Feedback Follies: Understand the best ways to give feedback and evaluate tasks. ¨ Performance Problems: Recognize performance problems and utilize the tools to solve those issues. ¨ Low Self Confidence: Understand the need for empowerment, creativity, and control. Discover how to increase self confidence which leads to higher motivation. ¨ Reinforcement Ruts & Punishment Problems: Not all forms of reinforcement or punishment are effective. Learn which may work best for you in your situation. ¨ Self talk Issues: Self talk can make or break a person. Utilize tools to harness the power of self talk and unleash the power of positive!
“Gwynne Dawdy’s book, Motivation and Inspiration: How to Move Mountains, is the exact tool I needed to pursue my dreams in developing my company. I am thankful for her sharing her knowledge and recipe for success” – Vickie Cusimano, President, VIC Standards “Ms. Dawdy exposes the fuzzy thinking that hinders our vision for the future, our choices for good, and our expectations of positive results. She emphasizes the positive and makes change attainable with the tools she gives. This book is great reading to have, not only for oneself but also for others in a family, a team, or a work group” – Jan Jungewaelter, Mechanical Engineer, NASA “Motivation and Inspiration is packed with wonderful ideas on how to inspire motivation and increase performance. I highly recommend owning it if you work with people” – Sean Pekron, Foreign Language Instructor “Gwynne Dawdy’s methods work! My wife and I have had the amazing opportunity to experience this first hand as our daughters have grown under her guiding principles. Gwynne has that rare combination of being able to both teach and motivate. I strongly urge everyone to employ her methods” – Bill Hutchison, Systems Administrator
Purchase this book for the discounted price of $11.95: You can also
purchase this book through
Amazon.com To purchase these books by check or money
order, or to purchase in greater quantities for your company, you may contact Peak Strategies at
ps@peakstrategies.net or call the
toll free number for more information: 1 (866) 280 5896. These books sell at
retail price for $13.95, but you may order through Peak Strategies for the
discount price. If you wish to order this book, you may also
write to Peak Strategies with a check and money order to P.O. Box 7034,
Woodland Park, CO 80863. Social Compass Profile Having attended my programs, many people have asked to use the profiles for their teams. I would love to assist others in enhancing their communication and team productivity. While this is not the same as attending the program (and I think everyone realizes this), the knowledge is beneficial to all involved. Profile packets are available on an individual basis to those who have attended my program with request by email. Cost is dependent upon number requested. Typically, a profile and score sheet is $5. Discounts are available for larger quantities. For more information, email ps@peakstrategies.net Gwynne Dawdy has been using relaxation, guided imagery, deep breathing and mental rehearsal to increase optimum performance levels and decrease anxiety for several years. Finally, Peak Strategies is able to offer three of her CD's which entail the above strategies within each topic.
The three audio CD's available through Peak Strategies include
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Your Questions & Challenges Are Discussed In This Book:
Stress
Management and Goal Setting CD
