Occupational Health

Positive organizational psychology, with its focus on the identification and development of strengths, is a natural ally to executive development and leadership coaching. However, this approach is only just beginning to come to the attention of organizations and consequently, the research base for strength-based coaching is in its early stages of development. Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations reviews strength-based approaches to positive leadership development and evaluates the evidence for their effectiveness, critically assesses their apparent distinctiveness and more.

Have you ever found yourself doing or saying something in the heat of the moment that you later regretted? Perhaps, you laid awake all night wondering why you had spoken or acted in this way. Can you recall more than one occasion where you lost control of yourself, and it felt as if something else had taken over you? Don’t worry. You’re not alone. The thing that took control of you was your emotions.

Si como afirma Jorge Valdano el fútbol es un laboratorio de la vida, la figura del entrenador resulta ideal como punto de partida para comprender las verdaderas claves de la dirección de equipos y de la gestión de personas. Partiendo de esta premisa, Patricia Ramírez explica en Así lideras, así compites las herramientas que le permitirán mejorar sus capacidades cuando se ponga al frente de un grupo de personas, sean estas un departamento de una empresa, un equipo deportivo, los estudiantes de una clase o su propia familia.

In 2003, the Columbia Space Shuttle exploded on reentry, resulting in the loss of life for all seven astronauts and leaving NASA with a huge problem. But this problem wasn’t easily identified - the investigation revealed that the organizational culture was as much to blame for the explosion as technical difficulties. Enter Drs. Phillip Meade and Laura Gallaher - experts in the psychology of organizational culture and the owners of Gallaher Edge. Drs. Gallaher and Meade apply their vast expertise to map out the "missing links" between human nature and organizational culture.

Jennifer Kahnweiler offers a five-step process that will enable introverts and extroverts to work together harmoniously and achieve more than they ever could on their own. The process can be precarious. The key, Kahnweiler says, is to remember that these relationships are most successful when opposites stop emphasizing their differences and use approaches that focus them both on moving toward results.

Equipes brilhantes mergulha em algumas das organizações mais bem-sucedidas em diversas áreas—tecnologia, esportes, arte, educação e segurança nacional—para descobrir como elas funcionam. Contando histórias de empresas e até de uma gangue de ladrões de joias, Daniel Coyle oferece estratégias que estimulam o aprendizado, geram confiança entre as pessoas e inspiram mudanças positivas. Coyle mostra como criar um ambiente onde a inovação tem espaço para florescer, os problemas são resolvidos com facilidade e as expectativas são continuamente superadas.

To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological skills and use them to heighten awareness, foster talents and technical abilities, and reach peak performance. Mental preparedness and psychological awareness are the keys to thriving in any environment.

In Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, renowned thought leader and internationally recognized workplace expert Aubrey Daniels takes a look at today's rapidly changing work environment, providing a timely update to his seminal book on performance management.

After a period of tremendous upheaval, it is necessary for organizations to transform alongside their employees and welcome new ways of working. While it is impossible to predict which changes will be successful, it is crucial for leaders to now ask: what should work look like to achieve productive, healthy, and safe organizations? In Brave New Workplace, Julian Barling argues that we should focus on creating environments in which employees can flourish, rather than relying on the resiliency of workers to withstand difficult working conditions.

What if you didn’t have to change everything in your career to change your life at work? There’s a fresh answer to help you make better career decisions without resorting to the drastic measures of changing careers, finding a new job, starting a business, or bowing to an early and unwanted retirement - and without settling or sacrificing your health, family life, and well-being. Darcy Eikenberg shares simple, practical ways to reset how you think, revise what you say, and rescue your career without quitting, feeling stuck, or changing everything in your life.

In her multi-million-copy bestseller Mindset Carol Dweck coined the terms ‘fixed’ and ‘growth’ mindset, transforming our view of individual success. Award-winning social psychologist Mary Murphy builds on Dweck's work in Cultures of Growth to present a groundbreaking argument: that mindset is not isolated to an individual. Instead, we can all influence each other to create a culture of growth mindset. This means creating an environment that people want to be in, which allows them to achieve their potential and top results.

As human beings, we are fascinated by what makes us tick. We know that nature gave us certain biological appetites to ensure our survival, among those the need for water, food, sex, and love, but meeting these alone is not enough to ensure happiness. Scientists, and now managers, are realizing that people have a biological need to experience social rewards like praise, the thrill of innovation, and the satisfaction of acquiring new skills.

For the past few years, mindfulness has begun to transform the American workplace. Many of our largest companies, such as General Mills, Ford, Target, and Google, have built extensive programs to foster mindful practices among their workers. Mindful Work is the first audiobook to explain how all sorts of businesses and any kind of worker can benefit from meditation, yoga, and other mindful techniques.

The Stress Book takes a comprehensive approach to stress management and how modifying your lifestyle and taking practical steps can help significantly reduce the level of stress you are experiencing.

While working in a particularly toxic environment, Karlyn Borysenko came to this liberating realization: She couldn't control other people, but she could control herself, her perspective, and her actions. Now an organizational psychologist, consultant, and executive coach, Borysenko tells us how to bridge the gap between where we are now and what will bring us the most professional success and happiness. We must achieve self-mastery - by accepting responsibility for our actions, understanding our innate work style, and discerning when and how to push outside our comfort zone.

Taking behavioral economics from the cocktail party to the boardroom, with dramatic results Books like Predictably Irrational and Nudge have brought behavioral economics into the mainstream. But while we all marvel at how different-and weird-real people behave compared to the "rational actors" of traditional economics, in the end we go back to business as usual.

Today's leaders are navigating rapidly evolving technology, organisational uncertainty, financial pressure and changing client demands. At the same time employees expect leaders to be purpose-driven, authentic, inspiring, inclusive and to create an environment where they feel safe to discuss mental health. Balancing the many demands on leaders at work, and at home, requires resilience. Angela defines resilience as the ability to take the challenges and changes of life in your stride and say "yes" to the opportunities that excite you.

Most employees feel invisible to their leadership, and many times prefer to stay hidden in the corporate shadow lands. The Invisible Employee, part fable, part business advice, teaches managers how to actively engage employees, and find the way to bring out the best in them.

How do politicians influence people with their seemingly natural charisma? How do some salesmen earn six-figure incomes, while others struggle to put food on the table? Why do some people seem so friendly despite being total strangers? Every year companies and firms spend millions of dollars a year trying to answer these questions. You have some of these same types of questions about your everyday life.

Abordando temas como la motivación, la toma de decisiones, y la influencia, Larson ofrece estrategias prácticas para mejorar las habilidades de liderazgo y comunicación. El autor combina teorías psicológicas con experiencias del mundo real, proporcionando a los lectores una comprensión más profunda de cómo interactuar eficazmente en el entorno empresarial. Esta obra es indispensable para empresarios, gerentes y cualquier persona interesada en aplicar la psicología para mejorar sus habilidades de negocios y alcanzar objetivos profesionales.