Leadership Psychology

Unlock the secrets to building and leading high-performing creative teams with "The Psychology of Creative Teams." This groundbreaking eBook delves deep into the psychological nuances that drive creativity, innovation, and collaboration in team settings. **Discover the Building Blocks of Creativity** Explore the essential elements that lay the foundation for a creatively dynamic team. Understand how psychological safety, trust, and empathy are not just buzzwords, but critical components that fuel collaboration and innovation. **Master Communication Dynamics** Learn the difference between ...

Conviértete en una potencia comunicativa irresistibleVa mucho más allá de la palabra hablada. Lo que tienes que decir verbalmente es sólo una pequeña parte de lo que se necesita para cautivar a tus oyentes y ganarte al mundo.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on project management in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book focuses on project management in organizations. First it explores the skills and job responsibilities of project managers, then it analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of project management, and last it discusses the future of the field. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all reader levels. If you are interested in learning about the ...

Studies in neuroscience reveal that the way we learn doesn't always match up with the way we are taught. To stay competitive - academically, economically, and technologically - we need to apply the proven principles of disruptive innovation to our educational system. Disrupting Class will make you rethink your understanding of intelligence, reevaluate your current school program, and reinvigorate your commitment to learning.

Enjoy figuring out creative solutions to real-world problems that have led to important inventions, discoveries, and innovations throughout history! The problems in this audiobook are related to erudition in fundamental areas - nature, technology, business, science, how things work, or why things are made in a certain way. But, unlike in trivia or jeopardy, you most probably do not know the answer. Instead, logic, out-of-the-box thinking, or intuition leap should be added to your knowledge to puzzle out the correct solution.

How often do you walk away from a conversation feeling really heard? That it moved the people in it forward in some important way? You’re not alone. In his practice as a designer, Fred Dust began to approach conversations differently. After years of trying to broker communication between colleagues and clients, he came to believe there had to a way to design the art of conversation itself with intention and purpose, but still artful and playful.

From technology to business, two (or more) heads often prove to be better than one - but only if those heads are cognitively diverse. Diverse perspectives are a powerful tool for maximizing productivity and enhancing collective performance. Now, in The Hidden Factor: Why Thinking Differently Is Your Greatest Asset, you can learn the strategies that make you a more diverse thinker and position you to break down institutional silos and build robust, effective teams.

When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on workplace violence, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Workplace violence is violence or the threat of violence against employees, customers, regulatory personnel, or visitors. Unfortunately, millions of people have been affected by this deviant behavior….and some have even died as a consequence. This eBook focuses on many aspects of workplace violence using organizational examples for better understanding. First it examines causes including: • Mental illness • Family ...

We made some incorrect assumptions about work, and those assumptions are killing us. We allowed a narrative that is solely about earnings to replace what we know to be true about human motivation. Human beings are hardwired to seek purpose, but according to data, most people don't feel a sense of purpose in their work. Work has become a grind, an endless series of tasks that lack meaning.

Have you ever had a memory that, when brought up again, brings out the worst emotions in you? Perhaps it's an overwhelming sense of fear that you feel, despair, grief, or embarrassment. It takes control of your current self, and although the experience happened yesterday, a year ago, or even a decade ago, the vividness of that memory has a huge impact on how you perceive the world today. What if you could rewrite that memory and associate new feelings with it? Would you choose to be happy with, satisfied with, or even entertained by that memory instead?

There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there's a third team: the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there's no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations.

Have you ever felt you're not getting through to the person you're talking to, or not coming across the way you intend? You're not alone. Most of us assume that other people see us as we see ourselves, and that they see us as we truly are. But neither is true. Our everyday interactions are colored by subtle biases that distort how others see us--and also shape our perceptions of them.

This is the go-to guide on working with anyone in your office - from the difficult or negative to the toxic and destructive - whether they are your manager, a team member, or someone who’s just waiting out the clock. Chock-full of useful advice that will make your workday happier and more productive.

People functioning at the highest level are what the authors call 10x leaders. Research on these leaders consistently brought up five major strengths. This book teaches readers to become a 10x leader using these five key areas, the SHARP framework.

We're all nice. In fact, we're told we're too nice and we have to change to succeed: 'play the game!'; 'beat them down!'; 'toughen up!'. Do we have to choose between betraying our own values and being left behind without a voice? Absolutely not. We can naturally be persuasive and successful every day without making enemies of ourselves or other people.

This is a book that helps leaders make wise decisions. If you are a leader or aspire to be a leader who wants to improve your decision-making skills, this is the book for you. The book offers leaders an engaging, critical introduction to a wide range of biases in leaders’ decision making. The frequently discussed racial bias and gender bias are covered in this book, but they are only a very small part of the biases in leaders’ decision making. You will venture into 52 biases that play a potent role in leaders’ decision making. In each chapter, you will learn one bias. You will start ...

When John U. Bacon played for the Ann Arbor Huron High School River Rats, he never scored a goal. Yet somehow, years later he found himself leading his alma mater’s downtrodden program. How bad? The team hadn’t won a game in over a year, making them the nation’s worst squad. With almost everyone expecting more failure, Bacon made it special to play for Huron by making it hard, which inspired the players to excel. Then he defied conventional wisdom again by putting the players in charge of team discipline, goal-setting, and even decision-making—and it worked.

Science confirms the distinction between the biological brain and the conscious mind. Each day, a game of mind versus matter plays out on a field defined by the problems we must solve. Most are routine, and don't demand a more mindful approach. It's when we're faced with more difficult challenges that our thinking becomes vulnerable to brain patterns that can lead us astray.

Police Mental Barricade: A Survivor's Guide to Poor Law Enforcement Leadership is a raw and unfiltered look into what is causing the growing epidemic of suicides within the profession. Last year, Blue Help reported 228 (known) suicides within the law enforcement profession. This is compared to the 147 killed in the line of duty.