Development Tools

The Best development tools to maximize your personal and professional growth

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GREAT LEADERS ARE GREAT LEARNERS

If you are reading this, then you are ahead of most entrepreneurs when it comes to furthering your professional and personal development goals. I believe anyone can succeed if they prepare themselves for the next level in their life and careers. To do so, you must take advantage of every opportunity to learn and grow as a leader in business and at home.

WHAT IS PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT?

Personal growth (development) is the process by which a person recognizes himself or herself and continually develops himself or herself to reach his or her full potential. Personal growth is an important part of a person's growth, maturity, success and happiness.

WHAT IS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT?

Professional growth (development) essentially refers to gaining new skills and work experience that can help you reach a goal in your career. And since we're going through an ever-changing job market, keeping yourself up-to-date with trends will give you a better chance to distinguish yourself among others for years to come.

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Emerson De Oliveira

Entrepreneur

Masterclass

Like any well-rounded nerd, I went through a phase of watching every TED Talk that was released. Not all the topics appealed to me, but I got something out of being exposed to a broad range of ideas. After a time, the 18-minute power lecture format began to wear on me, so I started to look for other platforms that provide the same value as TED.

I discovered MasterClass: An online education platform providing A-list content by A-list instructors.MasterClass is one of the highest profile education platforms online right now.

I couldn’t resist signing up and getting access to instructors who are absolutely the best in the world at what they do. The first class I took was by Martin Scorsese. I love the movies and Martin Scorsese is one of my favorite directors in Hollywood.

Scorsese was articulate, provided a behind the scenes perspective about movie making I wouldn’t find on any other platform. I was amazed at the production value of the courses; it was comparable to Netflix and TED talks. I recommend everyone to explore all that MasterClass has to offer, it may be just the right fit for you.

QuickBooks University

5.6 million businesses trusts Quickbooks for all their accounting needs. However, not all 5.6 million business owners are using Quickbooks to manage and grow their businesses effectively.

According to a study conducted by Bloomberg BNA, “New technology paired with human error is a leading cause of accounting mistakes, with more than a quarter (27.5%) of professionals reporting that incorrect data had been manually input into an enterprise system at their firms”.

In other word, small and large businesses are much more likely to grapple with tax, accounting personnel, hiring and retention problems than actual subject matter or rule deficiencies. More than a quarter of businesses struggle with manual, incorrect tax data entry.

QuickBooks University provides entrepreneurs like yourself with easy to understand video tutorials. Your questions are answered by QuickBooks experts – and it has never been easier, more affordable, and faster to master the Quickbooks software!

Rich Dad Summit

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about maximizing their time and money. He is an entrepreneur, educator, and investor who believes the world needs more entrepreneurs who will create jobs.

With perspectives on money and investing that often contradict conventional wisdom, Robert has earned an international reputation for straight talk, irreverence, and courage and has become a passionate and outspoken advocate for financial education.

The Rich Dad Summit was a 2-day online event designed specifically for business leaders who want to:

Maximize unscheduled time
Learn best business practices
Create new systems to scale business growth

Now anyone can get access to the Rich Dad Summit. Robert took the 2-day live event and built a digital platform around the content. In other words, if you missed it, you can now access the content online.

Metabolic Cooking

As a successful entrepreneur Karine Losier made it her goal to educate busy professionals about healthy dietary habits.

Losier is a chef and the co-author of Metabolic Cooking, she has a strong passion for food, fitness, and culinary adventures. She gets excited about challenging the commonly used techniques that most chefs turn to while seeking out healthier alternatives. In here cookbooks Losier helps busy professionals understand:

Metabolic nutrition profile. Know what is safe to eat at different times of the day.
Metabolic adaptation phenomenon food cycling.
Thermocharged fat burning ingredients

Karine holds a master’s degree in psychology so she is fully aware of all the psychological struggles that busy entrepreneurs face with regards to their eating habits and diets. Thus, she understands the importance of good nutrition that tastes great and serves to motivate business leaders to stick with healthier habits by challenging commonly held psychological believes.

Reading Head Start

It’s absolutely essential to get a head start on reading fundamentals at an early age. Not only does early reading lead to reading success as kids continue to grow, but it serves as an accurate predictor of academic success across the board, at every level, and in every subject.

In short, it becomes nearly impossible for students to catch up if reading skills are not mastered at an early age. Reading Head Start founded by Sarah Shepard, was created to specifically address this incredibly critical issue. I along with other parents and educators agree that this award-winning e-book and learning program stand at the top of the heap as one of the most effective and kid-friendly early reading programs on the market today.

More than 5 million families have used this exceptional program. And 9 out of 10 of these families agree that enrolling their child in Reading Head Start is one of the smartest decisions they have made! Successful leaders educate and share their knowledge with others. Why not start with the people closest to you.

Secret Guitar Teacher

Learn to play the guitar. Secret Guitar Teacher offers well-structured guitar courses to suit every level of ability. Courses are available online to subscribers or downloadable to your favorite device. The site features fantastic learning resources including hundreds of video lessons, printable tabs and audio files. Get unlimited email support from experienced teacher Nick Minnion.

Nick believes in teaching every person according to their aspirations, learning style and ability. He keeps his teaching style flexible, aiming to help students reach their own goals rather than working to a rigid framework.

That’s why he created the Secret Guitar Teacher. Packed with learning resources that Nick himself has written and produced over the years, the website can enable anyone to learn how to play guitar at their own pace, in their own way.

Online Paint Lessons

Learn how to paint. Unplugging from the daily business grind and developing new hobbies will lead to a more productive you in the office. At Paint Basket Online Painting Lessons you’ll find over 100 free online art classes and art tutorial to explore.

There are lessons in oil painting, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, pencil drawing, pastel drawing as well as pen and ink drawing. There are even classes in lesser known art forms like scratch board drawing.

It doesn’t matter if you are brand new to art or have been an artist for years, Paint Basket Online has lessons to suit your current ability. They add new content weekly, most lessons have a text tutorial and a narrated time lapse video for you to follow. All material on Paint Basket Online Lessons are free to you.