In the global marketplace, people can work practically anywhere and anytime. Managing the Mobile Workforce shares stories about organizations that have taken the risk to unleash--literally--their workers from the chains of daily commutes, 9-to-5 business hours, and the same old cubicles they have sat in day after day, year after year, and even decade after decade. 
David Clemons, an entrepreneur within the enterprise mobile and online training industry, and Michael Kroth, an expert and author on how leaders can create highly motivating work environments, together deliver rock-solid guidance on the essentials for building, leading, and sustaining a highly productive virtual workforce. Clemons and Kroth present the real-life relationships between managers and employees through interviews of thought leaders and executives that will engage your thinking about how the right leadership, combined with technology, can make all the difference. 
,Tools, tips, and strategies for hiring, training, supporting, and motivating the modern mobile workforce IDC has estimated that mobile workers worldwide will surpass one billion by 2011. This isn't just a trend, but the direction that business is heading. Managing the Mobile Workforce gives managers and executives at all levels key essentials for coping with this new reality, empowering them to create, sustain, support, and reward a highly passionate and productive mobile work force. Managing the Mobile Workforce
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<li>Shares startling facts and figures indicating how many workers already are and will be working </li>
<li>Explains why trust is the glue that binds managers and workers together across vast distances―and how to achieve it </li>
<li>Provides strategies to manage performance in a virtual world--and why mobility can actually increase productivity </li>
<li>Reveals how technology and great leadership can reduce the virtual distance between you and your mobile workers </li>
<li>Gives eight motivational principles and tools for mobile leaders </li>
<li>Suggests a new way of looking at the virtual team development process</li>
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Stories from top execs at Samsung, Deloitte LLP, Hewlett-Packard, LEGO, and the Federal Office of Personnel Management, along with thought leaders like Joel Barker and Stephen M. R. Covey and other key industry experts will show you how the mobile workforce is changing the very landscape of business--and what you can do starting today to recreate their successes in your own organization. 
David Clemons has provided 20 years of executive leadership and innovation to the digital education industries. Today, as the CEO of Achieve Labs Inc., David is speaking nationally and internationally within the mobile industry. David lives in Eagle, Idaho, as a true mobile worker and employs a large "mobiForce," including international partners and content specialists. 
Michael Kroth, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of Idaho in Adult/Organizational Learning and Leadership. He has authored Transforming Work: The Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment, and Passion in the Workplace (2001), co-authored with Patricia Boverie; The Manager as Motivator (2006) and Career Development Basics (2009) with McKay Christensen. He is a memeber of the National Speaks Association and speaks nationally and internationally. 
Learn more about this book and David and Michael's work at www.managingthemobileworkforce.com.

Managing the Mobile Workforce: Leading, Building, and Sustaining Virtual Teams

Business & Money

Clemons, David

Kroth, Michael

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

A manager has more opportunity to directly motivate employees than does any other organizational influence. And in today's complex and fluid work environments, where retention of top-performing employees is paramount, managers are under considerable pressure to motivate individuals to achieve both personal and organizational goals. Integrating insights from management and psychology, The Manager as Motivator covers such issues as the development of a free-agent workforce, with talent following supply and demand; the emergence of employees as the only true sustainable advantage; and the opportunities and challenges that managers face in their role as motivators, especially when they themselves are wrestling with limited resources and competing demands. Featuring diagnostic exercises, case examples, checklists, and other interactive elements, the book addresses common myths and misconceptions about motivation (such as the popular focus on charismatic leaders) and offers readers many practical tools for becoming more effective motivators―and measuring the positive results.
A manager has more opportunity to directly motivate employees than does any other organizational influence. Conversely, research reveals that de-motivating managers are the primary reason employees voluntarily leave. Managers set the tone, translate organizational strategy into employee performance and developmental plans, provide the carrots and the sticks to achieve those plans, and in virtually every other way reinforce―for better or worse―the cultural attitudes of the organization.
The Manager as Motivator explores the dynamics of motivation, especially in the context of today's complex and fluid work enivronments, where retention of top-performing employees is paramount. Integrating insights from management and psychology, the author covers such issues as the development of a free-agent workforce, with talent following supply and demand; the emergence of employees as the only true sustainable advantage; and the opportunities and challenges that managers face in their role as motivators, especially when they themselves are wrestling with limited resources and competing demands. Featuring diagnostic exercises, case examples, checklists, and other interactive elements, the book addresses common myths and misconceptions about motivation (such as the popular focus on charismatic leaders) and offers readers many practical tools for becoming more effective motivators―and measuring the positive results.

The Manager as Motivator

Praeger

In this age of stiff competition and "free agency," no organization can afford to take its employees for granted. The new labor-market landscape is forcing organizations to think creatively about how to inject passion in the workplace and motivate their employees to find meaning in their work. In Transforming Work, Boverie and Kroth draw from their extensive research and experience in the field to show executives, HR professionals, and students how to create inspiring, employee-friendly work environments in order to capture, develop, and retain talent and transform both the employees and the organization in the process.

Transforming Work: The Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment, & Passion in the Workplace

Boverie, Patricia

Processes & Infrastructure

Basic Books

This book is now available as an ebook through ASTD's new service: Content Express! Even in the best financial times, career development is often relegated to the back of the bus because it's seen as a short-term cost rather than a long-term investment with lasting impact. But the reality is that career development helps people strive for meaningful accomplishment in the workplace, and both individuals and organizations thrive when their goals are being met. This book is intended to empower training and development leaders with the knowledge and tools needed to become catalysts for bringing a career development focus to their organizations. Because busy managers in today's hectic business environment already have plenty on their plates, Career Development Basics jump-starts the learning curve by providing a succinct, ready-to-apply approach to this challenge. Within this book you'll find a sound, no-nonsense framework for implementing a career development focus, supplemented by an array of easy-to-understand materials including worksheets, comparison charts, case studies, flowcharts, and specific forms for turnover cost calculation and a sample performance review.

Career Development Basics

Christensen, McKay

Job Hunting & Careers

Association for Talent Development

These essays, images, and poetry are an exploration of what that means to live profoundly and how to move in that direction over a lifetime. For the moment, this just means deepening. Deepening all aspects of our lives, over time. How about living a life more caring than carry out, more bottomless than bottomless fries, and more unbeatable than an unbeatable Black Friday sale price? We'll travel this path together as you read this book. We tee up the discussion and then you'll be joining us in learning about profound living through our experiences, our heartbreaks, and our defeats and victories, and our perspectives, adding your own to the mix. In this book you will find many of the essays, images, and poems which were published on the Profound Living (www.profoundliving.live) site in 2018. The purpose of this site is "To explore how we can live our lives with more meaning, more depth, and more joy."

Profound Living: Essays, Images, & Poetry

Anderson, Kelly

Carr-Chellman, Davin

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

Coffee Talk: A Transformational Tale Inspired by the Imitation of Christ

Taylor, Bryan

Christian Books & Bibles

Mater Media

Step by Step: Living More Meaningfully, Joyfully, and Deeply Each Day (Profound Living)

Self-Help

Carr-Chellman, Davin J.

Rogers-Shaw, Carol

Personal Transformation

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