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Understanding Business Values and Motivators

See how easily you can motivate employees in "Understanding Business Values and Motivators". Ira Wolfe writes a book that translates motivation into an easy to understand, modern day version of "why we do what we do."

This book isn't about hocus-pocus, rah-rah tricks and techniques to motivate others, but a down-to-earth approach for understanding how people are "wired" and how to tap into those motivators for their success and yours.( In the process, you might even discover some insights about your own motivations, too. )

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Also see "How Full Is Your Bucket?"

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The Perfect Labor Storm:

Why Worker Shortages Won't Go Away
Ira S. Wolfe delivered a provocative forecast for the 10- and 20-year employee market in 1999. Soon Ira found himself speaking to audiences all over North America on The Perfect Labor Storm: Why Worker Shortages Won't Go Away
And now - he published a book compelling managers to heed his advice - worker shortages are here to say.

In an easy to read format, Ira "tracks" the compelling story of demographic, economic, social and technological forces with hundreds and hundreds of facts acquired through years of research that will the way employees work and employers hire. 

This is a must-read for every employer, manager and executive. 

Consultants - The Perfect Labor Storm is a perfect "gift" for your clients and prospects. Email us for volume discounting.

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More on The Perfect Labor Storm....read about "The Quiet Crisis" described by Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat.

The best study guide to help you prepare for DISC certification.

The perfect reference guide for effectively using DISC in the workplace.

As early as 300 BC, Aristotle observed that the images speakers create of themselves are their strongest persuasive tools. Each person has various traits, abilities, and personality characteristics that influence these messages. Effective impression management means accenting some of those characteristics and de-emphasizing others. It involves putting on one's "best face" but not necessarily putting on a false face.

DISCovering The Styles, a new book by Bill Schult, describes how over 2300 years after Aristotle, the behavioral model DISC is still being used by leaders, managers, salespeople, and coaches to create powerful impressions, build high-performing teams and gain endorsement.

DISCovering the Styles is 162-pages filled with everything you need to know about:
- How the DISC Behavioral Styles Learn
- DISC Styles Approach to Decision Making
- DISC Styles Approach to Leadership
- DISC Styles Approach to Work

In addition, you will find valuable information in these areas:

- Self and Others Perception
- Quick Tips for Identifying High Side Behavior
- Communicating with the DISC Styles
- DISC Graph Interpretation

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In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes.

With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.

You don't want to miss the chapters on "The Ten Forces That Flattened The World" and "The Quiet Crisis".

Instinct is a book about what prevents one person from evolving and adapting to change, and makes another get ahead regardless of obstacles? Are some people naturally endowed wth characteristics that lead to success?  And what about those of us who may not be do gifted?

Instinct reveals how highly successful people leverage certain traits and compensate for those they lack.

Do a Success Inventory. Take the TotalView Assessment, based on the same Big 5-factor model recommended in Instinct.

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Malcolm Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling.

Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior.

The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious" --a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.

In this just-released, must-read book by Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton and published by Gallup Press, the authors, a grandfather-grandson team, explore how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can dramatically change our lives.

Rath and Clifton say each person carries an invisible bucket. Fill the bucket and an employee is motivated. Empty the bucket and motivation turns into negative behavior. Good managers fill the buckets of people they supervise. Bad managers drain them. It's that simple.

Also see "Understanding Business Values and Motivators"- What Fills Employee Buckets?

The 1001 Rewards & Recognition Fieldbook

by Bob Nelson and Dean Spitzer

Only $17.95

Beginning with the basics of motivation, including the decline of traditional incentives and the trend toward empowered employees, the book lays the groundwork for developing and managing a rewards or recognition program in any work situation: how to recognize an individual or a group; how to develop a low-cost recognition program; how to sell it to upper management, prevent and fix common problems, and assess its effectiveness. There are planning worksheets, templates for different purposes?improving morale, improving attendance, increasing retention?plus perforated reference cards for immediate guidance, and 101 new low-cost/no-cost recognition ideas.

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Right Person - Right Job: Guess or Know - Only $12.95
By Chuck Russell

In this title the author postulates that the use of assessment information for hiring is no longer an option for companies today: the legal environment demands it and maintaining a competitive advantage requires it. This book will help you make good decisions that expand potential, not limit it; that strengthens your legal compliance, not increases your exposure; and introduces you to a technology that revolutionizes the way organizations understand their people and their performance.

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