Profit from the Positive: Proven Leadership Strategies to Boost Productivity and Transform Your Business, with a foreword by Tom Rath
Gebonden Engels 2013 9780071817431Samenvatting
You're constantly challenged to grow your business, increase productivity, and improve quality—all while reducing or keeping budgets flat. So what's a manager to do?
You've streamlined processes. You've restructured. You’ve sought customer and employee feedback. You've tried everything. Now, try something that works. Profit from the Positive is a practical, groundbreaking guide for business leaders, managers, executive coaches, and human resource professionals. Whether you lead three employees or 3,000, this book shows you how to increase productivity, collaboration, and profitability using the simple yet powerful tools from the new field of Positive Psychology.
Featuring case studies of some of the most forward-thinking and successful companies today—Google, Zappos, and Amazon, to name a few—Profit from the Positive provides over two dozen evidence-based tools you can apply immediately. Learn how to:Set habits, not just goals Recognize the Achoo! effect Stop asking the wrong questions Hire for what's not on the resume Turn strengths into a team sport Preview, don't just review, performance
The best part? These strategies don't cost a dime to implement! Trained by Dr. Martin Seligman, who is known as the father of Positive Psychology, Margaret Greenberg and Senia Maymin translate the scientific research and make it accessible to the business world.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: You’ve Tried Everything. Now Try Something That Works
Part I It’s About the Leader
1 The Productive Leader: It’s More Than Time Management
2 The Resilient Leader: Give Yourself a Psychological Kick in the Pants
3 The Contagious Leader: Control Your Emotions, Not Your Employees
4 The Strengths-Based Leader: Capitalize on What’s Right
Part II It’s About the Team
5 Hiring: The Fitness Test
6 Engaging Employees: Bring Out the Best Versus Get the Most
7 Performance Reviews: Change ’Em or Chuck ’Em
8 Meetings: From Energy Buster to Energy Booster
Part III Putting It All Together
9 The Positive Deviant: Three Things I Can Start Today
Appendix A: All 31 Tools Featured in Profit from the Positive
Appendix B: Is a Strengths-Based Approach a Good Fit for Me?
Appendix C: Turn Strengths into a Team Sport
Appendix D: Frequent Recognition and Encouragement (FRE)
Appendix E: The Five FRESH Themes
Appendix F: Good Reads
References
Reading and Discussion Guide
Acknowledgments
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
