Helping Children Grow: The Adults Role

Keyes, Carol

Grossman, Bruce

Avery Pub. Group

Workplace Politics: A Practical Guide for Making Your Experience at Work More Positive, Productive and Pleasant

Think that if you work hard, you will automatically be rewarded for your efforts and get everything you want from your job? Think there’s no politics at your workplace? Think again. 
From mega corporations to small, family-run businesses, from private sector to government employers, from highly profitable companies to non-profit organizations, and from executive suites to administrative cubicles, every workplace environment brings together groups of individuals who are forced to interact with each other on a regular basis. 
And whenever there’s interaction between people in an organization, there’s politics. 
In this new, insightful guide by employment expert Bruce Grossman, you’ll discover just how to navigate the politics of your particular working environment, with the goal of making your workplace experience more positive, productive and pleasant – the 3P Approach. 
From Strategies to Solutions 
The 3P Approach aims to help you improve your work experience by gaining control over it. Based on his 20+ years as an employment lawyer who has seen multitudes of negative workplace-politics scenarios, the author teaches you how to develop the strategies you need to face (and hopefully resolve) your specific workplace challenges. 
You’ll learn how to understand, motivate and deal with the most difficult workplace personalities (whom we’ve all worked with or for), including the Bully, the Screamer, the Charming Backstabber, the Ruthless individual, the Control Freak and the Nitpicker – and how to turn your interactions with them into more positive and productive encounters. 
Ever wonder how you are perceived at your workplace – and how much impact that perception has on how you’re treated? The author will take you through the steps you need to maximize your positive image and to allow others to see you as a valuable and productive part of the workforce. 
Want to better understand your manager and develop a smoother working relationship? Wish you could get through to your employees? This volume will help non-managers understand how their supervisors think, and guide managers to motivate their employees, making the workplace less stressful and more positive for everyone. 
Ever think about what you really want from your job and why you never seem to get it? Perhaps the answers lie in developing political strategies specifically targeted at your personal workplace goals. This book teaches you how to set realistic work-related goals and offers suggestions for how to achieve those goals, including creating positive "buzz" in your workplace about you and the work you do, doing your job effectively, and seeking and receiving positive reinforcement for your work. 
Workplace Politics is essential for a variety of audiences: 
An Indispensable Guide for Anyone Who Works 
Whether you work with a large group of employees or on your own, this book is a highly useful tool for making your experience a better one by improving the ways in which you relate to coworkers, managers, subordinates, bosses, and even clients and customers. 
And what about the effects of your work environment on your family? If you’ve ever "brought your work home with you - literally or emotionally – you'll benefit from the suggestions in this book for keeping your home life peaceful, despite the stresses you encounter at work. 
A Beneficial Guide for Human Resources Professionals and Employees 
With an entire career based in the intricacies of employment law, the author has both taught and guided human resources professionals in the best techniques and strategies for dealing with employment-related issues arising at the workplace. This book serves as a blueprint for helping HR professionals and employees in their organizations deal with and improve workplace interactions, avert possible workplace problems, and help create a more positive workplace environment for everyone. 
A Learning Guide for Teachers and Students 
Instructors of Organizational Behavior will find this volume to be an important resource in teaching students who will be entering the workforce for the first time about how and why office politics occurs, including the power struggles, the manipulations and the personalities responsible for it, and in providing solutions for creating more productive environments for individuals to flourish. 
A Behavioral Guide for Therapists and their Clients 
With insights into the human behavior that drives workplace politics, this book helps behavior professionals, including therapists and psychologists, approach and hopefully reach individuals in need of workplace counseling and should be recommended to patients and clients to assist them in working through their work-related problems. 
An Invaluable Guide for You! 
Above all, this book is designed to assist you in making your workplace a place you want to be or, at the very least, a place you no longer dread. 
It offers glimpses of office politics through humorous, lifelike anecdotes that everyone can relate to and understand, and is punctuated throughout with memorable phrases that clearly and easily identify workplace behavior, individuals and scenarios – including the "Eye-of-the-Beholder" Syndrome, the "Chain-of-Yelling" Principle, the "Kiss-and-Make-Up" Syndrome, "Clone" Managers, "Mr. Fast and Loose," the "Dueling E-Mail" Scenario, the "Living and Retelling" Scenario, and more – phrases everyone will be talking about around the water cooler before long! 
You don’t have to want to climb the corporate ladder, want the corner office or want your boss’ job to benefit from this book – you just have to want to take control of your situation to enjoy a workplace experience that is truly positive, productive, and pleasant!

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Xlibris, Corp.

Think that if you work hard, you will automatically be rewarded for your efforts and get everything you want from your job? Think there’s no politics at your workplace? Think again. From mega corporations to small, family-run businesses, from private sector to government employers, from highly profitable companies to non-profit organizations, and from executive suites to administrative cubicles, every workplace environment brings together groups of individuals who are forced to interact with each other on a regular basis. And whenever there’s interaction between people in an organization, there’s politics. In this new, insightful guide by employment expert Bruce Grossman, you’ll discover just how to navigate the politics of your particular working environment, with the goal of making your workplace experience more positive, productive and pleasant – the 3P Approach. An Indispensable Guide for Anyone Who Works! This book is designed to assist you in making your workplace a place you want to be or, at the very least, a place you no longer dread. You’ll learn, for example, how to understand, motivate and deal with the most difficult workplace personalities (whom we’ve all worked with or for), including the Bully, the Screamer, the Charming Backstabber, the Ruthless individual, the Control Freak and the Nitpicker – and how to turn your interactions with them into more positive and productive encounters. The book offers glimpses of office politics through humorous, lifelike anecdotes that everyone can relate to and understand, and is punctuated throughout with memorable phrases that clearly and easily identify workplace behavior, individuals and scenarios – including the "Eye-of-the-Beholder" Syndrome, the "Chain-of-Yelling" Principle, the "Kiss-and-Make-Up" Syndrome, "Clone" Managers, "Mr. Fast and Loose," the "Dueling E-Mail" Scenario, the "Living and Retelling" Scenario, and more – phrases everyone will be talking about around the water cooler before long! You don’t have to want to climb the corporate ladder, want the corner office or want your boss’ job to benefit from this book – you just have to want to take control of your situation to enjoy a workplace experience that is truly positive, productive, and pleasant!

Part memoir, part history, "No One Came to Taos to Be Jewish" is an extraordinary story of personal and communal transformation. The narrative documents a spiritual awakening among a group of people who came to a small, mostly Hispanic town in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of Northern New Mexico to ski, hike, and get away from the banal lifestyle of urban and suburban America. They happened to be of Jewish descent, but discovering their own heritage in their own personal way certainly was not on any of their agendas. "No One Came to Taos to Be Jewish" tells the tale of these people and the groups they created over a period of forty years.

No One Came to Taos to Be Jewish

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Nighthawk Press

The Captive

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Bruce Grossman

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