How many countless working hours have you spent on projects, proposals, paperwork, and meetings that felt useless or were ignored or dismissed? Hard work is not the same as real work. Half of the work we do consumes valuable time without strengthening the short- or long-term survival of the organization. In a word, it's fake. Not only does fake work drain a company's resources without improving its bottom line, it steals conviction, care, and positive morale from employees, and adds the burden of high turnover, communication breakdowns, and cultural patterns of poor productivity. But how can you turn fake work into real work? Internationally renowned business consultants Brent D. Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson explain how to identify needlessly time-consuming and sometimes difficult tasks (which aren't always as easy to spot as they seem) and shift your focus toward rewarding work that will achieve results. With more than twenty years of experience, Peterson and Nielson have successfully helped corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, schools, and community groups increase their productivity and retain talented employees by understanding and using their skills on things that actually matter. They illustrate their advice with stories about real world employees who have been trapped by fake work. Fake Work offers solutions that will change the way you view work, including how to recognize fake work and how to get out of it, how (and what) to communicate with your colleagues to eliminate fake work, how to recognize and counteract the personality traits that encourage fake work, and how to close the gap between your company's strategies and the work that needs to be done to reach the results critical to your and your company's survival.

Fake Work: Why People Are Working Harder than Ever but Accomplishing Less, and How to Fix the Problem

Business & Money

Peterson, Brent D.

Nielson, Gaylan W.

International

GALLERY BOOKS

Educators at all levels have increasing demands keeping them working harder than ever, but they are often working hard on things that don't really help them reach the loftiest of goals -- student success. This "Fake Work" can mire the most dedicated educator in exhaustions, burnout, and a lack of confidence that improvement is possible. Neilson and Surks show leaders and their teams how to stop doing Fake Work, by providing tools for gaining focus, building high-performance teams, and identifying and driving the right work with the right behaviors. When you offer your team a better way of working, planning, and collaborating, you turn FakeWork into Real Work, and stagnancy into dynamic change. This data-driven, research-based guide shows you: An overall approach to addressing your culture, the foundational elements that supports the change that sets you up for maximum performance A simple, three-part model -- strategy, alignment, execution -- for shedding Fake Work Roda maps for aligning organizational strategies and actions Tools for gaining focus, building teams, and cultivating productive behaviors Real educators' stories Exercises, reflection questions, charts, checklists, and more School change remains elusive when the path to success is murky. Clear the way for pincipals, teachers and student by turning Fake Work into Real Work, and uncertainty into true success.

Stop Fake Work in Education: Creating Real Work Cultures That Drive Student Success

Education & Teaching

Burks, Betty

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

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