Behavior Change

Whether you are a business or nonprofit leader, a consultant, a coach or an educator, this book will provide you with a step-by-step methodology and practical tools to help teams envision, design, and implement important new organizational futures. Creating Futures that Matter Today: Facilitating Change through Shared Vision demonstrates how creating shared vision positively impacts an organization’s ability to address the critical challenges it faces. Parker and Pool offer convincing examples of how to use visionary thinking with any team seeking to discover new opportunities.

Delve into the intricate workings of organizational behavior and unlock the keys to optimizing business processes. This comprehensive guide offers a deep exploration of the dynamics that drive organizational success, from understanding individual behaviors to navigating complex group dynamics. Explore the latest research and practical insights into topics such as leadership styles, communication strategies, decision-making processes, and organizational culture. Gain valuable perspectives on how to foster collaboration, improve productivity, and cultivate a positive work environment within ...

Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive - and thrive - in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse. This audiobook offers a blueprint for building and supercharging a grassroots regeneration movement based on consumer activism, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance.

Does it have to be this way? Can’t resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office - but at what cost? In Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and accomplish more at work. And the good news is that this doesn’t require an organizational makeover.

The Capitalist and the Activist offers an engaging and thoughtful look at the new reality of corporate social activism - its driving forces, promises and perils, and implications for our businesses and personal lives. Weaving deep research and fascinating stories that span business, entertainment, history, science, and politics, Tom Lin provides an insightful road map for how society arrived here and a practical compass for moving forward.

Paul A. Pagnato has tapped into an incredible brain trust of world-renowned experts from a diverse set of challenging disciplines, each having encountered the intersection of exponential growth and transparency. Their honest assessment for turning challenges into opportunities is inspirational. Their work is changing the world, and now through the prism of transparency, the wave of the future is upon us.

Why Elephants Cry is a fascinating frolic through the literature and evidence surrounding the use of unusual behavior of animals to measure and predict the environment. The role of animals, from the smallest ant to the biggest elephant, as predictors of environmental changes is framed around the climate crisis, which highlights the increasingly important part that animals will have to play in the future. Renowned biologist Professor John T. Hancock collects anecdotal stories and myths along with scientific evidence, demonstrating that observation of animals can be of tangible use.

Tired of setting goals that fizzle faster than a New Year's resolution? Meet your new secret weapon. Goal Crushing: The Not-So-Serious Guide to Seriously Achieving Your Dreams is the refreshingly honest roadmap you've been waiting for. No more dry advice from perfect-looking gurus who "manifest" success while you're still trying to manifest the motivation to get off the couch. Inside this wickedly practical guide, you'll discover: Why most goals fail (hint: it's not lack of willpower) The crucial difference between dreams and goals (and why you need both) How to build a "never quit" mindset...

In A Good Time to Be a Girl, Helena Morrissey sets out how we might achieve the next big breakthrough towards a truly inclusive modern society. Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and founder of the influential 30% Club, which campaigns for gender-balanced UK company boards, her manifesto for new ways of working, living, loving and raising families is for everyone, not just women.

Take Your Shoes Off First is a fast and entertaining listen that illustrates how easy it is to limit what is possible in your life - without knowing you are doing it. You will be pulled into a thought-provoking story about an executive who finds a better path forward through a challenging situation by embracing one simple idea. As he learns to see himself and the world more clearly, you will be inspired to do the same.

Specifically written for therapists and change practitioners, this audiobook is an essential resource for professionals who help improve the wellbeing of other people. Laid out in a structured and easy to follow format, this step-by-step audiobook provides the linguistic knowledge and techniques to successfully influence behaviour change via words and sentences constructed during conversations.

You will never come across a business person who wishes for his or her business to end when he or she leaves. If an organization chooses not to embrace change, it will have no customers because people only buy things that meet their needs. For this reason, an organization needs to ensure that it stays ready for what is to come. The way to do this is to continually sharpen own tools by creating a learning environment so that own employees learn all business and change-related tricks to help them maneuver the business world.

As climate change becomes an international crisis, more and more industries are looking for a sound model for creating successful environmentally friendly companies, and a new generation of young leaders are eager for inspiration and guidance on creating sustainable businesses. Mid-Course Correction Revisited advocates why we need to create prototypical green companies and a new economy - not based on non-renewable resources, but on renewable energy, aggressive recycling, innovative technology, and sustainable business practices.

From the award-winning author and Financial Times columnist Elizabeth Uviebinené, a fundamental rethink of how we work and live. Because if we're going to really benefit from the radical shift of 2020, we have to rethink how we fit into an ecosystem. Elizabeth started with a simple desire to explore our relationship with work, and how it was impacting our lives.

When is the last time you visibly and boldly challenged the status quo? It might be a tough question to answer. Uncertainty about what’s on the other side of the familiar and comfortable stops many of us from taking action. And yet, we continue to stay stuck, unaware of our roadblocks, and without a meaningful way forward. What can be done? We must intentionally “invite change”.

Firmen erwarten heutzutage von ihren Mitarbeitern, dass sie Flexibilität zeigen, sich anpassen, weiterbilden, um 180 Grad drehen können und auch ihre Werte und Fähigkeiten wechseln, als wären diese eine Jacke. Die Devise in der Personalentwicklung lautet: Wer nicht passend ist, wird passend gemacht. Menschen sollen zu dem werden, was sie nicht sind. Das kann nicht funktionieren. Axel Koch deckt auf, warum wir mit dem Change-Wahnsinn einem kollektivem Irrtum aufsitzen und wie eine Balance zwischen Stabilität und Veränderung aussehen kann.

Are you ready to transform your career and boost your earning potential? Raise Your Income Potential is your essential guide to transforming your financial and professional life. This comprehensive book provides actionable strategies to help you harness your unique strengths and build a career that truly reflects your potential. Ever wondered how you can leverage your natural abilities to achieve greater success? Curious about how developing specific skills can enhance your career? Want to know how to strategically design a career path that aligns with your goals? This book answers these ...

People buy for emotional reasons. Yet "emotional selling" is missing from most marketing. That's why so many pros are now using BRAIN GLUE™ to boost the performance of their ads, emails, social media posts, and one-on-one presentations. Based on sold-out workshops at the US Small Business Administration, here’s how top marketers turn ordinary products into blockbusters (with little or no cost)!

Dip into any news cycle these days and you will be assailed by stories of division, Between races, nations, professions, politicians, thought leaders... a rush to Other-ing. 30 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, it seems the walls between us are proliferating. Step into pretty much any organisation and you will find similar tales of woe. "It's sales!" ,"It's production!", "It's the customers!". And any sentence that starts "the trouble with..." is usually in support of another wall. Thirdly we all have walls inside our own hearts and minds. Walls that may have been built when we ...

With reasoned insight, new data, real-world cases, and practical guidance, Code Halos shows seasoned executives, entrepreneurs, students, line-of-business owners, and technology leaders how to master the new rules of the Code Halo economy.