Workplace Motivation

Maverick marketing whiz Mike Veeck offers you his simple, no-fail formula for business success!

Drawing on his own experience and the success stories of clients and others who have benefited from his philosophy, Veeck shows how fun, creativity, and passion can bring out the best in an organization and an individual.

The "Fun Is Good" philosophy applies to everyone, whether you're the CEO or lower on the totem pole.

This book takes everything that three remarkable authors - a corporate strategist, the former acting director of the CIA, and a world-renowned magician - have learned about magic and packs it into a unique framework that captures the best of this art form and relates it directly to lessons applicable to a wide variety of business enterprises. The authors' objective is not to create a new generation of magicians, but to adapt nine strategies of the world's greatest magicians and inspire boundless imagination, bolster innovation, energize leadership, and spark success in any business.

Why do managers usually fail when it comes to motivating employees, in particular salespeople? What should they do instead? In answering those questions, author Mike Crandall recommends many innovative strategies inspired by the work of David Sandler, creator of the Sandler Selling System. To get the most from your organization, you need to understand why people show up for work and tie that reason to your company's mission. Crandall's book is about motivating yourself, your team, and your company at optimum levels.

Once upon a time, people wrote fables featuring untrustworthy ravens, wicked wolves, insincere monkeys, and power-hungry lions. Told repeatedly through generations and spread throughout the world, classic stories abound in which noble heroes and heroines matched wits with these typically treacherous beasts. But what's that you say? You feel as though you're surrounded by just these sorts of characters at work? Well, you're not alone.

Employees can be cynics and skeptics. Both have much in common. They’ve been disappointed, deceived, and at times, devastated. Most workplaces are loaded with the working wounded - men and women who have been let down by their leaders, managers, coworkers, or even the culture of their workplace. They live for Fridays. Could that be yours? Is your workplace one where employees can’t wait to clock out? Would you like to discover how you can create a workplace where the best and most talented people line up to get in? You can!

Through laugh-out-loud humor and down-to-earth advice, Procrastination for Overachievers shows you how to use your procrastination habits to your advantage, avoid the guilt trap, and make productivity a lot less stressful—and a lot more fun.

We all travel along various rivers in life, which means at any moment we can find ourselves navigating their uncertainty—whether a global pandemic, a new boss, a shift in employment, business restructuring, a new role on a team, the birth of a child, divorce, or responding to a setback on a project or personal goal. Change is going to happen. It's a fact of life. Understanding your reactions and making good choices could make the difference between capitalizing on an opportunity or resisting and missing an important chance.

« How do you get to keep your job, advance your career, overcome your fear of unemployment, and achieve greater peace of mind? And above all, how do you do all this in an environment which is becoming ever more complicated and competitive? William Alexandre provides pragmatic answers to these questions and more in Survive, Adapt and Succeed in Today's Workplace. William Alexandre raised himself from hardship and failure to become a respected expert in a major international group. In the space of just a few years, he succeeded in kick-starting his career and multiplying his salary by nine.

Many organizations approach the issue of employee engagement and motivation by tapping into age, gender and other stereotypes. Motivation and Performance challenges these notions, bringing together evidence that group differences are often exaggerated and that getting to the heart of what really motivates individuals is what's most important. This book is a practical guide to ensuring that organizations consider all motivators - job security as well as the need for personal growth - to improve employee satisfaction, boost organizational productivity and reduce staff turnover.

How many people find senses of purpose in their jobs? Unfortunately studies show that most do not. Their bodies may put in long hours, but their hearts and minds never punch in. And that's a terrible dilemma for organizations trying to motivate their workforces to do more with less.

¿Qué pasaría si en lugar de este escenario se propiciara la felicidad en el trabajo como fin para ser felices como personas, y viceversa? A esta gran pregunta da respuesta Santiago Vázquez y lo hace desde la Psicología Positiva. Para el autor es imposible trabajar y vivir de otra forma y más cuando de aquí a que podamos jubilarnos tendrán que pasar unos cuantos años. Si vamos a trabajar 40 años o más, ¿podemos renunciar a intentar ser felices? La respuesta es un no rotundo.

These are the essences of Coach Carter's basic building blocks for winning in life. From learning about the quality of one's character to the love of learning - as well as the importance of self-discipline and spirituality - Coach Carter takes you through his own life experiences and shows you how you, too, can become successful in your everyday life.

Based on Norman Vincent Peale's classic best seller, and written in cooperation with the Peale Center, this program provides a practical way for each of us to develop the 10 traits of a positive thinker, which can turn defeatist behavior into productive actions, overcoming the toughest of challenges with powerful, positive results.

Si no estás contento con tu actual situación laboral, si quieres averiguar cómo se podrían hacer mejor las cosas, si buscas una mayor satisfacción en el trabajo y una vida menos agitada, este libro te indicará el camino. Daisley comparte los resultados de sus descubrimientos a través de 30 sencillas recomendaciones que son aplicables a todos los aspectos de la vida profesional del siglo XXI, y que combinan inspiración, experiencia empírica y soluciones prácticas y realistas en igual medida.

Wie arbeiten wir in Zukunft zusammen, was macht wirkungsvolle Führung aus, wann stiftet Arbeit Sinn und was ist wichtig, damit wir in unseren Jobs mehr Freude empfinden? Manager, Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter stehen in unserer Arbeitswelt im Wandel gemeinsam vor der Herausforderung, Zusammenarbeit sowohl wirtschaftlich erfolgreich als auch menschlich gesund zu gestalten.

In this insightful book, former director of the World Business Forum Eduardo Braun introduces a new vision of leadership: the new CEO - someone who puts people, cultures, and emotions first. Through thousands of hours of conversations with world-class leaders, Braun has identified five key roles leaders can use to inspire people to strive for greater success, and in turn change the world for good.

Exception to the Rule links ancient wisdom with contemporary science on high performance, teamwork, and engagement. Building an organizational culture based on classical virtues - of trust, compassion, courage, justice, wisdom, temperance and hope - is both strategically smart and a better way to live. Exception to the Rule walks you through the steps of helping everyone in your organization focus on character defined by virtue.

What role do Aristotle's four transcendent virtues - truth, beauty, goodness, and unity - play in the workplace? In this program, Tom Morris argues that Aristotle's virtues must be present in our modern business environment if real excellence is to flourish, and shows us how we can avert a spiritual crisis in our business lives by looking to the wisdom of the ancient philosophers.

Why do even great leadership books leave out the soft skills? Probably because soft skills are not flashy. But soft skills are critical to graceful leadership, and you will find the stories and strategies to hone them, with this book. National Distinguished Principal and leadership advisor Jessica Cabeen understands the soft skills better than most. In Lead with Grace Cabeen shows you how to seamlessly integrate authenticity, empathy, integrity, and the power of vulnerability into your daily work.

Goals is for anyone in the workplace who wants true success at work and at home. Designed after the Business Goals program, Jud Boies developed this practical guide for achieving what we want most while building relationships along the way. This book follows the life of Todd Hanson, a fictional character who reaches amazing success through the Business Goals program. Everything Todd goes through has happened in real life to people who have adopted the principles in this unique system.