Transform Your Workplace: 52 Proven Strategies to Motivate, Energize, and Kick Productivity Up to the Next Level

By Lynda Ford

Strategies that make managers heroes to their staffs and their bosses

In a time when the job marketplace is more changeable than ever, finding and keeping the best employees and maintaining an upbeat, productive work environment has never been more important. Lynda Ford, a leading consultant on workplace issues in companies from the very small to the Fortune 500, delivers an indispensable survival guide for every manager who's ever been asked to do more with less. Using stories of successful--and some not-so-successful--managers to illustrate her points, Ford equips readers with 52 proven, easy-to-implement strategies that they can readily tailor to any organization's unique needs, including:

Address potentially sticky situations head-on Give employees room to stretch Be a management gladiator Be positively unpredictable when it counts Celebrate the small stuff Infuse passion-and let it show Discover employee motivators and use them Develop leaders, not followers Get rid of the fickle finger of blame Use failure as a vehicle for success

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071456198
• ISBN13: 9780071456197
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 0.6" x 5.0"

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Improve Your Job

The author offers ways to improve the situation in your workplace. Think about implementing some of these actions: *take responsibiltity for your own professional development *establish a mentoring relationship (as a mentor or mentee) *thank people at work *Aim for a win-win solution in conflicts *thank people (daily) *foster better working relationships (be less critical of others) *take time for yourself (use those vacations) *study the strategic plan and align your work with it I've seen people sour on a workplace, because they expected it to change to accomodate them. Without selling out on your own needs, you can improve the workplace and your own feelings about it by trying some of Ford's recommendations.