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125 Tips for Retaining Talented Employees

By Joan Lloyd
Booklet packed with ideas for keeping employees in a tight market.
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Coaching for Leadership : The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches

By Marshall Goldsmith
When it was published in 2000, Coaching for Leadership became an instant classic in the field of executive coaching. This second edition updates and expands on the original book and brings together the best executive coaches who offer a basic understanding of how coaching works, why it works, and how leaders can make the best use of the coaching process.
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Fast Feedback, Second Edition

By Bruce Tulgan
FAST stands for Frequent, Accurate, Specific and Timely, and FAST Feedback is a new approach to performance evaluation in sync with today's fast-paced, rapidly changing workplace. FAST can be used in conjunction with or as an alternative to six and twelve month reviews. FAST links training directly with ongoing performance evaluation by keeping employees in a constant feedback loop. There are many ways to implement FAST Feedback in your organization, including the customizable forms included in this pocket guide.
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Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

By Stephen Lundin
Do you work in a "toxic energy dump"? Do you or your employees seem stuck in the doldrums all the time? Well then, FISH! is for you. Mallory Kasdan enthusiastically and energetically reads this tale of a manager of a department in which everyone has lost ambition, energy, and helpfulness. Through Kasdan's passionate narration, we learn how the Pike Place Fish Market--with their secrets for success and improved attitude--helps the manager encourage her staff to be involved and conscientious about what they do.
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Get Weird! 101 Innovative Ways to Make Your Company a Great Place to Work

By John Putzier
This book is a funhouse of creative, inexpensive, offbeat ideas for getting the best from employees!
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Global Leadership: The Next Generation

By Marshall Goldsmith
Drawing on the results of an extraordinary 2-year Accenture study of emerging business leaders, this book shows why the skills of today's global leaders won't be enough--and why tomorrow's leaders won't resemble today's. Goldsmith and his co-authors first identify five new "factors of leadership" and their implications: global thinking, appreciation of diversity, technological savvy, a willingness to partner and an openness to sharing leadership. They explain what it will mean to lead in an era where intellectual capital is the dominant source of value; how to lead people whose backgrounds and values may be radically dissimilar from yours; and why achieving personal self-mastery is now a fundamental prerequisite for leading others.
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H.O.T. Management: Hands-On Transactional

By Bruce Tulgan
What can managers do every day to get more and better work from people while giving them the flexibility they need?

The answer lies in HOT Management - the breakthrough set of management techniques, skills, best practices and habits of the most effective supervisory managers in today's extremely demanding workplace.

This pocket guide clearly and concisely spells out what you need to do to become a HOT manager. The author's message is simple, yet powerful: Make high performance the only option. Be a hands-on manager. And spend lots of time with employees spelling out expectations and clarifying standards.
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How-To Handbook for Help Wanted

By GL Hoffman
Written in easily understandable language and loaded with examples of effective classified ads. The How-To Handbook thoroughly explaines key topics, such as the basics of writing a great ad, what makes an effective headline, and when to use (and not use) a headhunter.
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Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience

By Gordy Curphy
Leadership: The Art of Experience, Fifth Edition, is written for the general student to serve as a stand-alone introduction to the subject of leadership. The text consists of 13 chapters and a final section on Basic and Advanced Leadership Skills. Authors Hughes, Ginnett, and Curphy have drawn upon three different types of literature: empirical studies; interesting anecdotes, stories and findings; and leadership skills to create a text that is personally relevant, interesting and scholarly. The authors' unique quest for a careful balancing act of leadership materials help students apply theory and research to their real-life experiences.
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Living Toad Free: Overcoming Resistance to Motivation

By Dan Bobinski
Living Toad Free starts with a collection of true stories. You'll read how Toads (obstacles) hold people back, plus stories where Toads are "eliminated." Then the authors provide over a dozen proven methods for creating Toad Free conditions. There's no sense in artificially pumping up your motivation - you already have it. You just need to remove the obstacles. This engaging and enlightening read is sure to improve your approach to getting the results you want. After all, everyone has a right to be Living Toad Free!
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Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

By Bev Kaye
Because finding the ideal person for every workplace position has become an increasingly difficult task, the retention of top employees has become every manager's concern. Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, by organizational-development specialists Beverly L. Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, proposes that this "race for talent" can be effectively run only by those who adopt programs and policies that truly support their personnel. It then shows how to do so, even in organizations reluctant to participate actively.
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Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works

By Cindy Ventrice
Text explores why employee recognition efforts miss the mark; what employers and employees each expect from recognition; and how to give morale and productivity a genuine, lasting boost. Cites dozens of real-life examples from successful companies such as FedEx, Wells Fargo, and The Container Store.
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Managing Generation X: How to Bring Out the Best in Young Talent

By Bruce Tulgan
This bestseller stresses a practical approach to managing Gen Xers in the workplace, including giving them the freedom to succeed.
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Managing the Generation Mix: From Collision to Collaboration

By Bruce Tulgan
No doubt about it: The newest diversity issue in the workplace is age diversity. Many organizations have finally figured out how to recruit young talent only to watch them drive down a collision course with seasoned employees over issues like work ethic, respect for authority, dress code and every work arrangement imaginable. And they're not sure what to do about it. The fact is, generational conflicts are not merely a matter of young versus old.
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Managing The Professional Service Firm

By David Maister
David Maister's name is synonymous with the latest thinking in professional service firm management. This book suggests why.
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Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors

By Patrick Lencioni
Marketing won't speak to engineering. Sales thinks production hogs the budget. Front desk believes back room's lazy. These sorts of turf wars, which turn outwardly unified companies into groupings of uncommunicative "silos," are the stuff of management lore. According to bestselling author Lencioni (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team), "they waste resources, kill productivity and jeopardize the achievement of goals"—they also drive workers into tizzies of frustration. Like his previous books, Lencioni's latest addresses the management problem through a fictional story; this one revolves around a self-employed consultant named Jude, who has to dismantle silos at an upscale hotel, a technology company and a hospital. Split into two sections, Lencioni's book first shows Jude discovering a solution to silos, then summarizes Jude's lessons into a strategy that readers can apply to any business.
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Staffing Industry Law

By A. Bernard Frechtman
The sixth book by the most widely read legal writer in the staffing industry calling upon his decades of active nationwide practice as an attorney in every possible legal situation confronting the staffing industry.
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Stress-Free Performance Appraisals: Turn Your Most Painful Management Duty into a Powerful Motivational Tool

By Sharon Armstrong
Performance appraisal is one of the most important, continuous responsibilities of a supervisor. This book takes you through the process of conducting a performance appraisal, where you determine the quality of an employee's performance compared to set objectives, clarify present expectations, and learn the importance of providing employees with positive feedback. The authors break the process down into several steps starting with the planning, the preparation, and the writing of the performance appraisal form. The next step is to discuss the performance evaluation. You will learn how the supervisor should start the meeting, what needs to be included, how to close the meeting, and the follow-up responsibilities.
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Talk To Me: Communication Moves To Get Along With Anyone

By Dennis O'Grady
Dr. O'Grady shares his insightful approach to improving communication, and consequently relationships, in Talk To Me. The Talk to Me system has taught me how to have a better relationship with my self as well as with those around me. Destructive and ineffective communication habits once caused me to ruin many opportunities for happiness. Now, I produce good results for myself.
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The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave

By Leigh Branham
More than 85% of managers believe employees leave because they have been pulled away by "more pay"
or "“better opportunity." Yet, more than 80 percent of employees say it was "push" factors related to poor management practices or toxic cultures that drove them out. This gaping disparity between belief and reality
keeps organizations from addressing the costly problems of employee disengagement and regrettable turnover
with on-target solutions.
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The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching : 50 Top Executive Coaches Reveal Their Secrets

By Marshall Goldsmith
Leadership coaching has become vitally important to todays most successful businesses. The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching is a landmark resource that presents a variety of perspectives and best practices from todays top executive coaches. It provides valuable guidance on exactly what the best coaches are now doing to get the most out of leaders, for now and into the future. Revealing core philosophies, critical capabilities, and the secrets of coaching success, this one-of-a-kind guide includes essays from fifty top coaches, including Ken Blanchard and Frances Hesselbein. Packed with cutting-edge ideas and proven best practices, this is the definitive source of information for anyone dealing with coaching.
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Up Is Not the Only Way : A Guide to Developing Workforce Talent

By Bev Kaye
This book opens new vistas for people who feel trapped in a career they see as unfulfilling or limited.
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Weirdos in the Workplace : The New Normal--Thriving in the Age of the Individual

By John Putzier
Consultant Putzier begins his foray into the work world of high performers with "There is always a talent shortage." His point? That corporations today must accept the so-called weirdos for their contributions, after distinguishing whether they're truly adding value or simply are annoying and irritating. The tools he uses to measure his contention include behavioral and organizational change maps and step-by-step Venn diagrams with a path led by answers to specific questions. Before explaining the techniques, though, he spends good space describing and analyzing 32 different kinds of weirdos, from Circadian Charlie to System Tester Sam. He also delves into the emotional and mental composition of high performers, from their need for workplace flexibility and new technology to their responses to out-of-the-ordinary incentives and to risk and bureaucracy. The bottom line is his fervent belief that, without a good understanding and toleration of the weirdos (aka Albert Einstein, among others), this planet will be a much less productive and innovative place in which to work and live.
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