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Play to Your Strengths
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By Andrea Sigetich and Carol Leavitt

Even savvy organizations can make big mistakes, like expending precious resources of time, money, and energy to repair a leader’s weaknesses, only to achieve ... mediocrity. No leader achieves greatness by fixing a weakness; strengths lead to excellence.  

Based on their combined 50 years consulting to corporations, the authors turn the ineffective and misguided “weakness” paradigm topsy-turvy and build a compelling argument for boosting strengths in all leaders. When leaders leverage their strengths, they are enormously successful and incite engaged, productive, and successful employees.  

Leaders and managers — whose plates are already overflowing with priorities, rising expectations, and critical problems — are neither inspired nor motivated to overcome weaknesses, especially when the payoff is negligible. Play to Your Strengths urges leaders to discover, engage, and leverage strengths — in themselves and others — to achieve spectacular results. This is the first book providing hands-on, practical tools to identify and amplify strengths to improve engagement, high performance, and satisfaction. This new system for developing leadership capacity builds self-esteem as it assists organizations in creating employee-development strategies that really work.  

Play to Your Strengths will captivate leaders and managers who crave stellar performance and fascinate anyone who brings passion, fervor, and a desire for excellence to his or her leadership, whether in a Fortune 100 giant or a small start-up. The reality is that we already possess strengths; we just need to play to them!

“With Play to Your Strengths, Andrea and Carol are opening doors for leaders to find greater satisfaction and success by applying a new philosophy of professional development.”  
—Lois Peters Vallerga, FACHE, former vice president of organization development, St. Charles Medical Center and Cascade Healthcare Community  

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How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stress
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By Anna Maravelas

An alarming 88% of Americans cite hostility, desk-rage, and workplace incivility as top concerns. How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stress will help executives, supervisors, and managers – and the people who work for them – protect pride, profit and productivity from these disabling emotions.

Responding to frustration with blame and defensiveness is not human nature; it is a reflexive response that can be changed. This book will show you how to protect productivity and maintain unity between leaders and employees, even during periods of uncertainty and rapid change.  

You’ll learn how to:
•  Handle the daily onslaught of frustration without losing momentum, mood or confidence.
•  Avoid the conflict and cynicism that drains profits, resources and relationships.
•  Discover why anger makes people irrational, lonely, and depressed  and how to quickly calm agitated colleagues and customers.
•  Experience the fiscal and personal benefits of being “hard on the problem and soft on the people.”
•  Replace bitterness about the past with shared responsibility for the future.
•  Create a blame-resistant, emotionally resilient workforce.

How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stress is the insider’s guide to achieving fiscal and emotional successes that energize and sustain workforces. For more than a decade, these universal principles have saved organizations millions of dollars.

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6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses
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By Stephen E. Kohn and Vincent D. O'Connell

Here’s an easy-to-read, sensibly presented review of six indispensable human relations practices used by the bosses everyone admires – and likes to work for – the most. With a combined fifty years of experience helping companies resolve “people problems” in the workplace, management coaches and leadership trainers Kohn and O’Connell guide managers through a sensible, incremental model of supervisory “people skills” development.

For the busy manager seeking effective and timely results from leadership development training, this book is a springboard for solid professional growth and accelerated success in the development of all-important people management skills.

“This is a wonderful book for managers to read. It is comprehensible, concise and filled with useful wisdom on the human aspects of leadership.”
—Mike Wilk, Partner and Practice Leader, Ernst & Young

“The 6 Habits of Highly Effective Bosses provides an excellent training model that a manager can both fully appreciate and easily implement.”
—Raymond G. Steitz, V.P. of Global Human Resources, Warner Chilcott Laboratories

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151 Quick Ideas to Inspire Your Staff
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By Jerry R. Wilson

For most businesses, attracting new employees and getting your existing employees to succeed is a never-ending task. It’s often rooted in inefficient hiring practices, misunderstood motivational techniques, inadequate training, and high employee turnover. The results: Low productivity and poor performance, leading to lower revenue, unhappy customers, and endless management headaches. Jerry Wilson’s 151 Quick Ideas to Inspire Your Staff takes the mystery out of motivating employees to achieve personal and business success.

The basic concept: Inspire your employees to create and maintain delighted repeat customers!

This book demonstrates that business owners don’t have to constantly replace employees or use artificial incentives and harsh methods to get employees to help the business succeed. Wilson shows business owners and managers how to do it themselves without the pain and suffering. And you don’t have to invent any new approaches, concepts, or buzz words to do it! Just follow some of Jerry Wilson’s 151 proven ideas and discover amazing results…fast!

Jerry Wilson has spent more than 25 years researching what his clients–businesses large and small–need to do to be successful in today’s marketplace by hiring and motivating the right employees. These powerful ideas work! Each is presented in a bite-sized package that allows instant execution. No long chapters with endless justifications, pontifications, philosophy and personal stories. Just 151 great, practical ideas any business manager and owner can use to make an immediate difference in his or business success.

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Bridging the Generation Gap
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By Linda Gravett and Robin Throckmorton

Miscommunication…
Employee conflict…
Work ethic debates…
Loyalty issues…
Varying wants and needs…

If you are a manager, human resources professional, or business owner, you are faced with these types of issues every day. But why?

Because currently, there are five generations in the workplace: Radio Babies (born during 1930-1945); Baby Boomers (1946-1964); Generation X (1965-1976); Generation Y (1977-1991); even some Millennials (1991 and later). Each of them has a different perspective, based on their upbringing and daily lives. The key to making encounters  between the generations successful is learning to understand the point of view of each generation and respect their differences.

The individuals and organizations that do this will be the ones to succeed. This book will show you how.

Authors Gravett and Throckmorton take a dynamic approach to the situation by writing in two distinct voices — as a Baby Boomer and a Gen-Xer — using a “point-counterpoint” approach to identify differences and similarities across generations.

They share hands-on experiences, real-life cases, recommended solutions, and ground-breaking research on how members of any generation can better relate to minimize conflict, miscommunication, and wasted energy. You will learn what each generation thinks of the others and how each wishes the others viewed it.

Bridging the Generation Gap is filled with strategies and solutions you can implement immediately to help build your own bridge between the generations.

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100 Ways to Motivate Others
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By Steve Chandler

How Great Leaders Can Produce Insane Results Without Driving People Crazy

"It's hard to believe that so much powerful practical wisdom can be packed into such an easy to read book. It's a voyage into the pure essence of what really works. I've already ordered it for my entire staff." - Ron Hulnick, President, University of Santa Monica

100 Ways to Motivate Others is the culmination of many years of successful leadership coaching and training by best-selling author Steve Chandler and attorney Scott Richardson, and the natural follow-up to Steve’s two previous best-sellers — 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Reinventing Yourself. Chandler and Richardson have crafted a vital, user-friendly, inspirational guide for executives, managers, and professionals … and those aspiring to reach their level.

100 Ways to Motivate Others draws on the success of live workshops, seminars, and personal coaching programs on communications and leadership. These seminars, done for such organizations as Banner Health, General Dynamics, Scripps Hospital, Wells Fargo Banks, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and M&I Banks, appeal to managers, teachers, parents, CEOs, and coaches everywhere.

The first step in motivating others is for you, if you’re the leader wanting the motivation, to realize that, “If there’s a problem, I’m the problem.” Once you truly get that, then you can use these 100 ways. After you’ve learned to motivate yourself, Steve and Scott will help you learn:

• How to slow down and enjoy a new level of focus
• Why multitasking is a myth, not a strength, and keeping life simple and straightforward is the goal
• The power of building on your peoples’ strengths
• How to avoid the damaging inclination to obsess about people’s weaknesses
• A simple and creative way to hold people accountable
• How to enjoy cultivating the art of supportive confrontation.

This book inspires extremely tough-minded leadership that gives the gift of clarity and vision to every person following the leader.

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Ask the Right Questions, Hire the Best People, Third Edition
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By Ron Fry

“So, tell me about yourself.”
“Have you ever been fired?”
“What are your salary requirements?”

These are just three of the questions you might think you have to ask when you’re interviewing a potential new hire. Maybe they’re the questions you dreaded when you were on the other side of the desk. But are they the questions that will identify the best candidate for the job?

Look no further than Ron Fry’s Ask the Right Questions, Hire the Best People. The best-selling author of 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions and 101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview takes you step-by-step through the hiring process. Whether you’re replacing an employee who’s leaving or creating a new position in your organization, Ron Fry shows you how to write a concise and accurate job description, then how to translate it into a realistic set of search criteria.

Ask the Right Questions, Hire the Best People also shows you:
• How to attract the best applicants.
• What to look for when you’re screening resumes.
• What questions you should ask in the interview…and when to ask them.
• How much to read into a candidate’s “body language” and whether you should trust the gut feeling you get from watching them.
• How to listen more effectively to what the applicant is really telling you.
• How to probe for information the applicant doesn’t want to reveal.
• The right way (and time) to negotiate salary.
• What questions the law permits and forbids.

Whether you’re an interviewing novice or a seasoned pro, you’ll find all the answers you need in Ask the Right Questions, Hire the Best People!

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One volume, softbound, published in 2010.
Rules of Management: A Definitive Code for Managerial Success
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By Richard Templar

Managers are expected to be leaders, innovators, magicians, dynamic motivators, stern but fair judges, diplomats, politicians, therapists, financial wizards, warriors, and saints. They must deliver on executive mandates, no matter how crazy.

For some people, it’s a breeze. They glide effortlessly through the hassles and politics, getting raises, promotions, results. They know the rules of management. Rules for managing a team – and managing yourself. They’re surprisingly easy to learn and live by, and Richard Templar has brought them all together in one quick, irreverent book.

Templar covers everything from setting realistic targets to holding effective meetings, finding the right people and inspiring loyalty. Learn when and how to let people think they know more than you (even if they don’t) – and recognize when they really do! Discover how to adapt your style to each team member ... get people to bring solutions, not problems ... create your own private game plan for success, complete with Plans “B” and “C” ... capitalize on luck ... manage stress and stay healthy ... get respect … and take charge of your business and your life.
Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates ... and Other Difficult People: Using Emotional Intelligence to Survive and Prosper
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By Roy H. Lubit

Many managers engage in destructive behavior that does considerable harm to their subordinates, their organization and eventually themselves. Whether they are narcissistic, unethical, rigid or aggressive, or simply depressed, anxious or burned out, working with them can be a nightmare. Moreover, they can do serious damage to their organizations by diverting energy from productive work, damaging cooperation and knowledge sharing, impairing retention of the best people, weakening morale, and making poor business decisions.

In Coping with Toxic Managers, psychiatrist and organizational consultant Dr. Roy Lubit shows you how to develop your emotional intelligence and protect yourself and your organization from the destructive impact of toxic managers. While there are many organizational consultants who utilize psychological insights in their work and psychologists who consult to organizations, Dr. Lubit's depth of training and experience in psychiatry, organizational behavior and organizational consulting provides a basis for unique insights.
The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want
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By David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer

Enthusiastic employees far out-produce and outperform the average workforce – they step up to do the hard, even “impossible” jobs.

Most people are enthusiastic when they're hired: hopeful, ready to work hard, eager to contribute. What happens? Management, that's what. The authors tell you what managers do wrong, and what they need to do instead. It's about giving workers what they want most, summarized in the Three-Factor Theory: to be treated fairly; to feel proud of their work and organization; and to experience camaraderie. Sounds simple, but every manager knows how tough it can be.

Nostrums, fads, and quick-and-easy solutions have abounded in the management literature, but swiftly go out of style when they fail to meet the test in the workplace. The authors provide research-grounded answers to crucial questions such as: Which leadership and management practices can have the greatest positive performance impact? What does employee satisfaction really mean? What's the relationship between employee satisfaction, customer loyalty, and profit? This book details exactly how to create an environment where enthusiasm flourishes and businesses grow.