Human Leadership

Through this groundbreaking material, you now have the missing keys to a truly extraordinary experience in leadership and life. Our AQ (Awareness Quotient) provides you with the foundational understanding needed to take your journey of leadership service much further and deeper than ever before. Our IQ and our EQ have certainly brought us far. Yet it is our AQ that serves as the foundation for both of these.

Running a golf club is hard work, and for the average manager, there's a lot on the to-do list, from members coming through the door to dealing with the committee, from ensuring F&B is running smoothly to making sure the course is up to scratch. And that's before we even get to dealing with the staff! People management is one of the hardest tasks in any organization, but in a golf club, it can be even more challenging. This book is designed to help you navigate those challenges, keep you out of the rough, and run your club safely, legally, and profitably.

The perils of a disengaged workforce are well known - low productivity, high employee turnover, and failure to meet organization-wide goals. Less well known is what to do about it. How do you create a workforce that is always ready, able, and eager to take the organization to the next level? You have to create a magnetic culture. As CEO of leading employee survey and HR consulting firm HR Solutions, Inc., Kevin Sheridan knows how it's done - and in Building a Magnetic Culture, he shares all his secrets.

Perhaps the biggest lie in business is "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." Of course that simple aphorism has been proven wrong many times. John Wanamaker, the retail magnate, is famous for saying: "I spend a lot of money on advertising and I know half of it is wasted. Trouble is, I don't know which half." The same is true of accounting, law, and even top management. Hugging a Cloud acknowledges that fact of business life, and goes a step further.

People are what make companies great. Good leaders know this and spend time, effort, and money taking care of the people who work for them so that their business results are phenomenal. So, why is it that so many people are still miserable at work? Experts around the world offer countless ideas and techniques and training for elevating the joy (and performance) of workers. And still, we fail. Things must change.

With this book, I want to help you learn about the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and to be more comfortable working with it, help you comply with the law, help your employees benefit from it, and help you guide your managers work with employees in using it. Most people who use FMLA need it for a legitimate reason, but some employees may be taking advantage of the law and claiming leave fraudulently. Inside, learn what is required of employers and employees, what qualifies for FMLA, and gain advice on preventing misuse and abuse of FMLA.

This audiobook will be your comprehensive guide to understanding the concepts of persuasion and how to apply them through all areas of your life. Mastering these techniques will quickly improve the quality of your life. This audiobook is an essential tool for anyone who wants to lead and influence others and ultimately take control of one's own life.

In Ain’t Nobody Really Happy at the Bottom...Except Catfish, author J. W. Neal helps the listener navigate out of the murky waters of mediocrity so prevalent in today’s “settle-for” mentality. Acknowledging that we all face temporary setbacks and perceived failures in life, the author emphasizes the definitive word temporary. By focusing on three fail-safe components and then flowing in their natural repercussions the listeners is guided from a “ho-hum” mediocre existence into a life of challenge, power, and victory.

Everyone has a belief system. This may be religiously influenced, but often it's a product of the person's personality and experiences. There are certain actions that our belief systems tell us are "right" and "wrong." These are often subconscious. Whether we intend to or not, we take our belief systems with us to work. It is a manager's job to understand the belief system of every team member and its effect on efficiency and productivity.

This qualitative research focuses on risk management in the supply chain of industrial entomology companies that are mass-rearing insects for human food or for feed for farmed animals. This research presents answers to such questions as what are the risks related especially to the entomology industry, what are the reasons behind the risks, and finally how the risks can be mitigated.

When you find your unique genius and purpose, what we'll call innate ability development occurs, and you build and live your life from that place. You literally light your life on fire and become a productivity powerhouse!

Kaizen, skills, integration: three words that 20 years ago didn't mean anything, today they mean a lot. Our economy and society rotate around these concepts. Which role do they play in our life? Furthermore, we all know that the globalization is making our system changing so fast that we literally have to run! And who wins the marathon at the end? The business with the best players. The most motivated, the most skilled-matching team.

Freedom to Be Happy explores the association between individual happiness and group performance at work. The book introduces happiness philosophers, reviews the evidence, and interviews practitioners on the frontline who are building thriving work cultures. Subjects include money and happiness, motivation, happiness, HR, marketing, employee happiness, happiness philosophy, the Stoics, the history of happiness, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, equality, and the future of work.

This playbook anchors you to the notion that your environment dictates your performance and that you alone are responsible for adopting a position of leadership, exercising regularly, and managing your diet to stay healthy in body and mind, while being accountable for all that you do in the world. Think of this book as your call to arms to be brave, have fun and lead by example at work and in life.

Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, entertainment, security, and hygiene habits. But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart - yet. We're clearly seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of capability and how such products can enhance our lives.

Ignite your employees and infuse a real connection within your teams! Forge new partnerships utilizing field-tested ceremonies that promote human connection! Dare to set an intention which will transform your workplace! Connection within a team doesn’t happen by accident; it happens with intention. With actionable skill building activities which elevate emotional and spiritual intelligence (EQ and SQ), Amy Lynn Durham gives you step-by-step tools to help improve employee morale—and profitability.