Transform your organization into a "best place to work" by using brain-friendly strategies. It is an understatement to say that this is a difficult time to be a part of the American workforce, for employees and employers alike. The transformational drivers and trends existing in the current workforce create myriad challenges. The Brain-Friendly Workplace addresses the workplace challenges that closely rely on and affect people, such as upheaval in management, new and different employee motivato…
How to handle difficult discussions in the workplace. Packed with practical and pragmatic suggestions and methods for dealing with the tough stuff at work, this unique and helpful book features simple diagnostics, models, and processes that you can put to use immediately.
Consultant Buckingham started the strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world. Now that the movement is in full swing, Buckingham's new book provides a six-step, six-week experience that will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths. Buckingham shows you how to seize control of your assets and rewrite your job description under the nose of your boss. You will learn: why your strengths aren't "what you are good at" and your weaknesses aren't "what you are bad at"; how to use th…
Anything worth doing is worth planning, tracking, and executing with excellence. Project management is the science and art of ensuring projects come in on time, on budget, and delight clients and users. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) can make every phase of a project and every relationship among project members run more effectively and efficiently. This booklet offers overviews of the MBTI instrument and of project management. It goes on to discuss the 16 types of teams and how their s…
Introduction to Type and Teams has improved! This new edition, authored by Elizabeth Hirsh, Katherine W. Hirsh, and Sandra Krebs Hirsh, helps individuals understand how their MBTI results relate to their contributions on a team. It features new descriptions of the eight preferences and their effects at work, along with an in-depth exploration of six core issues: communication, team culture, leadership, change, problem solving/conflict resolution, and stress. The booklet includes information on…
Increasingly, high-conflict people-especially narcissists and bullies-are showing up in the workplace. It's All Your Fault at Work! addresses ways of managing the behavior of high-conflict people (HCP). Based on Bill Eddy's high-conflict personality theory, the book explains how to recognize predictable patterns of behavior and illustrates with over a dozen examples the simple four-step C.A.R.S. method to calm the HCP, analyze options, respond to hostility, and set limits on extreme behavior.