Manager's Guide to Motivating Employees 2/E


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Briefcase Books: Manager’s Guide to Motivating Employees More than 700,000 Briefcase Books sold! A manager’s guide to inspiring employees to work at peak performance—to improve organizational culture and help meet the bottom-line About the Book Manager’s Guide to Motivating Employees is the perfect primer for managers looking to jumpstart the work ethic, excitement, and company synergy by engaging and motivating their employees. This new edition provides entertaining case studies and examples of how readers can create an environment in which employees feel passionate about their jobs and put the best of them in everything they do. Written specifically for today’s busy manager, Briefcase Books feature eye-catching icons, checklists, and sidebars to guide managers step by step through everyday workplace situations. Key Selling Features Proven tactics for creating relationships and ensuring effective communication to get the optimal performance from employees Clear definitions of key terms and concepts Practical advice for minimizing the possibility of error Examples of successful management Specific planning procedures, tactics, and hands-on techniques Market / Audience Managers of all levels About the Author Anne Bruce (Sacramento, CA) is a nationally recognized speaker, workshop leader, and author. Her books include the Briefcase Books Be Your Own Mentor and Building A High Morale Workplace and Perfect Phrases for Documenting Employee Performance Problems.




28 Days to a Motivated Team


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You can learn to significantly increase employee motivation within just a few weeks. It's no secret, great leaders are motivators and experts at team building. They know not just how to motivate individuals, they have also mastered the skill of motivating teams and groups of people leading to superior team performance. Written for busy managers and drawing on the latest research, 28 Days to a Motivated Team provides leaders with a step-by-step guide for how to increase both individual and team motivation. Over a 4-week period, managers are led on a journey of discovery, self-reflection and environment creation that will support team motivation. Managers who are able to help employees increase employee motivation also increase employee engagement leading to greater job performance. While a manager cannot directly instill motivation in a person, 28 Days to a Motivated Team will help you better understand how each employee's natural motivation and drive can be unleashed, creating greater satisfaction and vitality in work and life. Utilizing the most contemporary motivation science available, Jones shares the key factors that set the stage for the ultimate state of mind, motivation. Motivation doesn't happen by accident, it is a process of intentional behaviors on the part of the manager that creates an environment that supports the natural motivation that each person already has within them. Readers will learn: -What really motivates people in a team environment -The 4 motivation styles used over the past 5000 years -The 3 questions that determines team motivation -The 5 proven factors that support or hinder individual and team motivation -How to facilitate great team meetings -Dozens of tips for how to be a better team leader and manager -Daily tips for motivating at the individual and team level -Access to the Team Motivation Assessment and The Motivating Manager Planner Most managers and leaders believe that combining a group of motivated people will automatically produce a motivated team that will collaborate effectively and achieve team goals. "This is far from the truth" says Dr. Jason Jones. In his straight to the point book, 28 Days to a Motivated Team, Jones explains why, in a team setting, it is so important for a manager to build an environment that supports motivation at an individual level and a team level. Team building starts with understanding each person's needs and motivators and then building a plan to connect each person's work and environment. Dr. Jones asserts 3 key questions every person asks when involved in a team environment and when the person's success is dependent upon other team members. The perception of each team member, related to these questions, will determine the person's level of energy and focus for the team's goals. 28 Day to a Motivated team is not just a set of ideas or tips, it is a 4 week program that will help you kick-start your team to increase employee motivation, employee engagement, and significantly increase performance.




Managing Motivation


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This slim motivation guidebook was written to bridge the gap between the academic research on motivation and to present it in a form that is useful to the practicing manager. In essence, the book presents a theory of motivation and how to use it without ever mentioning the word "theory". The goal of the book is to give managers a kind of mental model to use in thinking about motivation and to show them how to use this mental model for practical management actions to diagnose and improve motivation of subordinates. The book is written in three sections: Understanding Motivation, Diagnosing Motivation and Improving Motivation. The book incorporates case studies and many examples of how to successfully manage motivation.




The Manager's Pocket Guide to Motivating Employees


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This practical guide concisely outlines the steps to creating and maintaining a fun, energized, and highly motivating work environment where employees want to work and stay. Motivation techniques are made simple and direct in this focused guide for managers and leaders.




Motivating Employees


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In a fast-paced, engaging style, Motivating Employees reveals how Southwest, Disney, and other legendary companies have turned themselves into "motivating organizations, workplaces that inspire employees to do excellent work because they want to! Entertaining case histories and examples show how you can create an environment in which employees feel passionate about their jobs and put the best of themselves into everything they do. Tips, tools, and techniques in Motivating Employees will show you how to reawaken the pioneer spirit in your organization, and teach your employees to tap their own motivational energy for extraordinary creativity, desire, and work output.




One More Time


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Imagine overseeing a workforce so motivated that employees relish more hours of work, shoulder more responsibility themselves; and favor challenging jobs over paychecks or bonuses. In One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? Frederick Herzberg shows managers how to shift from relying on extrinsic incentives to activating the real drivers of high performance: interesting, challenging work and the opportunity to continually achieve and grow into greater responsibility. The results? An ultramotivated workforce. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough management ideas-many of which still speak to and influence us today. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers readers the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world-and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.







Managing for People Who Hate Managing


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Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities—all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it? Don't panic. Devora Zack has the tools to help you succeed and even thrive as a manager. Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Zack introduces two primary management styles—thinkers and feelers—and guides you in developing a management style that fits who you really are. She takes you through a host of potentially difficult situations, showing how this new way of understanding yourself and others makes managing less of a stumble in the dark and more of a walk in the park. Her enlightening examples, helpful exercises, and lifesaving tips make this book the new go-to guide for all those managers looking to love their jobs again.




Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees


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The first book on supporting and developing Hispanic employees in any organization Identifies three overarching concepts that shape Hispanic culture and explores how they influence workplace behavior and expectations Written by a distinguished Hispanic author and authority on Hispanic economic behavior Hispanics are the largest minority group and the fastest growing demographic in the United States—they are already 15% of the population and 22% of the workforce, and it’s estimated that by 2050 those numbers will go up to 36% and 55% In this much-needed new book Louis Naevar helps non-Hispanic employers and colleagues understand how Hispanics see the business world—and the world in general—so they can better support and develop this dynamic group of workers. Drawing on his own ethnic background and years of experience as director of the organization Hispanic Economics, Nevaer identifies three concepts that shape Hispanic culture and often result in behaviors and beliefs very different than, and sometimes seemingly at odds with, those of non-Hispanics. He explores subtle nuances within the Hispanic community—which is no more monolithic than the “European” community—that will help employers appreciate differences and tensions between Hispanic workers. With this as an overarching framework, and using a wealth of specific examples, Nevaer shows how to develop Hispanic-friendly approaches in every aspect of the modern workplace, from recruitment, retention and evaluation to training, mentoring, and labor relations. As Hispanics become an ever-larger segment of the workforce, organizations who fail to make them feel welcome and valued risk losing access to a significant source of talent and innovation, not to mention a connection to a major evolving market. Managing Hispanic and Latino Employees is an invaluable resource for creating an environment where Hispanic workers feel comfortable, recognized and rewarded.




Motivating Hispanic Employees


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