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Improve engagement, productivity, and motivation with effective employee recognition Recognizing and Engaging Employees for Dummies gives you the tools and information you need to improve morale, productivity, and personal achievement with a successful employee recognition program. Written by a world-leading authority in employee recognition, this book walks you step-by-step through the design and implementation process and describes the incentives...
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Productivity Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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English
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People do their best work when they are motivated. This may sound obvious, but while people managers instinctively agree with the centrality of motivation at work and its impact on employee engagement, their practices do not follow. With so much "real work" to do every day, how can managers also carve out time to learn, engage, build relationships, tap motivation, encourage development, and inspire? The problem is a false dichotomy between the world...
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McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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Its time to stop spinning your wheels and make the most of your time by aligning your actions with your priorities. This super-practical guide to personal success is packed with no-nonsense tips that will get anyone where they want to be in business and in life. --
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Psychology of learning and motivation volume 70
Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource
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English
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Knowledge and Vision, Volume 70, the latest release in the Psychology of Learning and Motivation, features empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning, to complex learning and problem-solving. Topics in this new release include Memorability: How what we see influences what we remember, The impact of prior knowledge on visual memory, Neural dynamics of visual...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 online resource
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English
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"After spending the last 30 years helping organizations and leaders reach peak performance, Quint Studer has pulled together his best practices, tools, tips and tactics for engaging employees, revitalizing cultures, and creating high performance companies. All his tactics and tools are easy to understand and implement. It will be comprehensive and will cover things like change management, leadership, communication styles, employee training and engagement,...
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McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
©2009
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1st ed.
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1 online resource (xxiv, 276 pages) : illustrations
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English
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"Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success presents a unique opportunity to study under the man ESPN hails as 'the greatest coach of the 20th century.' Practicing character-based leadership before the term was invented, John Wooden consistently led his legendary teams to victory and has since taught countless business leaders his fundamentals for achieving and sustaining success. This unique tutorial introduces you to his core fundamentals of...
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Berrett-Koehler Pub
Pub. Date
Ã2010
Edition
2nd, rev. and expanded ed.
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1 online resource (xxvi, 228 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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"Building engagement is crucial for every organization. But the traditional top-down coercive change management paradigm--in which leaders "light a fire" under employees--actually discourages engagement. Richard Axelrod offers a better way. After debunking six common change management myths, he offers a proven, practical strategy for getting everyone--not just select committees or working groups--enthusiastically committed to organizational transformation....
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Gildan
Pub. Date
2019.
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Unabridged.
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1 online resource (1 audio file (01 hr., 34 min., 45 sec.))
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English
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Make Your Own Damn Cheese is an engaging book that feeds off of the success of Spencer Johnson's New York Times bestseller Who Moved My Cheese, and Deepak Malhotra's ensuing response and Wall Street Journal bestseller, I Moved Your Cheese.
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FT Press
Pub. Date
2009
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1 online resource (ii, 21 pages)
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English
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Praise for The Truth About Getting the Best from People "Finally, a no-nonsense primer for leaders on how to build ... and keep ... extraordinary talent. This book should be in the briefcase of every exec in the world and should be pulled out every day for a refresher on how to be a real leader." Dan Walker, Former Chief Talent Officer for Apple, Inc. "A fun and easy-to-read blueprint on understanding and creating engagement within a team. No high...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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1 online resource : illustrations
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English
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For nearly six decades Outward Bound USA's education programs have shaped the lives of tens of thousands of participants. Strangers are put in an unfamiliar and unpredictable setting, where to succeed they must develop a sense of teamwork, resilience, self-confidence, and a focus on the greater good. But, Mark Brown asks, isn't the modern world just as unpredictable and challenging as any mountain or desert? He shows how the same principles that bind...
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HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2009
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1 online resource (1 audio file)
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English
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In concise chapters, best-selling author Steve Chandler delivers over 50 powerful ideas guaranteed to stimulate fantastic sales success. Drawing on is extensive experience in the field, and using the most up-to-date psychological tools available, Chandler illustrates ways for both the novice and the seasoned pro to reach new heights of business prosperity. The joy of selling introduces powerful thinking processes that will help the reader to develop...
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AMACOM/American Management Association
Pub. Date
©2012
Edition
International ed.
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1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations
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English
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Olympic athletes don't get to the top simply because of athletic genes (nature) or determined parents (nurture). Like all performers in pressure situations, their exceptional drive comes from a third factor: an inner desire to be the best they can be. The Winning Factor reveals how to ignite the passion and the resolve required to succeed. As someone who has trained both Olympic athletes and Fortune 500 executives, Peter Jensen knows how to translate...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1.
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1 online resource
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English
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"An inspirational fable that guides you to use positivity to reach your goalsIn a pet store, there lives a negative dog. He's constantly growling and barking--no wonder no one wants to take him home! One day, the "big dog" of the store takes him aside and explains that he has two choices: continue to be the negative dog that nobody wants, or become the positive dog that will lead to a better outcome. Whichever one he "feeds" will grow. In this delightfully...
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Publisher
LID
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Primera edición.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
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Español
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Somos nosotros mismos, que podemos hacer autocoach siguiendo las propuestas que Miguel Udaondo expone en este libro. Al hacer autocoach con nosotros mismos las metas pueden ser las mismas que si contratáramos a un profesional, sólo que en esta modalidad el diálogo debe ser interno. El autor asegura que es un proceso fácil para el que son precisas dos condiciones: saber a dónde se quiere llegar y trabajar para acrecentar el conocimiento propio...
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New World Library
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English
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""Helps creative people make progress toward their goals with 15-minute exercises. Addresses procrastination, lack of focus, and time-wasting habits, as well as writer's block, fear of failure, and self-sabotage"--Provided by publisher.
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Bibliomotion, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 online resource (x, 181 pages) : illustrations
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English
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Organizations are facing an engagement crisis. Regardless if they are customers, employees, patients, students, citizens, stakeholders, organizations struggle to meaningfully engage their key constituent groups who have a precious and limited resource: their time. Not surprisingly, these stakeholders have developed deflector shields to protect themselves. Only a privileged few organizations are allowed to penetrate the shield, and even less will meaningfully...
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Publisher
Capstone Pub
Pub. Date
2011
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1 online resource
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English
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Conquer complacency and transform your team into a happy, winning crew. Polar Bear Pirates are highly focused, successful characters, they can't help but motivate everyone around them and just like you; they love to have some fun. In their latest quest, they take on the Sleepwalkers, the workplace zombies who are with you in body but never take a step beyond the ordinary because their minds have drifted into sleep mode. Going through the motions,...
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