Authors Berger and Kirby suggest a model for change based on the unique needs of people in the workplace, as well as the type of organization. "The Challenge of Change in Organizations" explains how executives, managers, business owners, consultants, and employees respond and contribute to change in the workplace and identifies what each individual needs in order to react positively.

Challenge of Change in Organizations: Helping Employees Thrive in a New Frontier

Business & Money

Barger, Nancy J.

Kirby, Linda K.

Business Culture

Nicholas Brealey

Howard Gardner's classic book Multiple Intelligences exploded the myth that intelligence can be measured along a single dimension. Now Lynne Levesque shows that creativity, like intelligences, exists in a variety of forms, and demonstrates that high-performance organizations need to make use of creativity in all its dimensions. It takes more than just "thinking outside the box" to build a flexible, adaptive organization that will survive competitive battles, grow and prosper, and provide the environment that attracts and keeps the best talent. On the basis of her research in personality, innovation and creativity, as well as her experience helping top executives achieve their full potential, Levesque describes eight distinct creative talents. People of each talent have a unique way of looking at challenges, collecting data and generating creative solutions. Breakthrough Creativity describes in individual chapters how each talent works, how each contributes to the creative process and how each can improve decision making, team building and strategic planning and thinking. Breakthrough Creativity brings to life the stories and rich experiences of working individuals around the world to help readers discover their own creative talents and use them to further their professional and personal lives.

Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents

Leveque, Lynne C.

Management & Leadership

This classic shows how to forge the link between organizational strategic planning and individual career planning and development. Along with practical tips, action items, cases, and exercises, Beverly Kaye provides detailed guidelines and techniques for helping employees target suitable career goals, devise action plans, acquire appropriate skills, and develop evaluation procedures that will satisfy organizational needs. New features in this edition include communication strategies, techniques for recognizing talent in diversity, and a new approach to mentoring. Beverly Kaye is president of Career Systems International in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Her cutting-edge management and career development programs are used by Fortune 500 companies globally. A prolific writer and popular lecturer, Kaye is coauthor of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, a Wall Street Journal best-seller that provides strategies for retaining knowledge workers, and of the classic Designing Career Development Systems. Kaye has received numerous honors and awards, including the National Best Practice Award from the American Society for Training and Development for her work with Chevron, Bechtel, Dow Corning, and First USA. Find out more about Beverly Kay's management and career development programs at www.careersystemsintl.com.

Up Is Not the Only Way: A Guide to Developing Workforce Talent

Beverly Kaye

In Was That Really Me?, Naomi Quenk has provided the next giant step in applying Jung's model of development in healthy personalities. That step is to understand, accept, and learn to handle our hidden personality responsibly. Updating the classic Beside Ourselves, Quenk has given us a way to understand this part of ourselves as well as a practical guide for turning what appears to be negative into a positive awareness that enhances our growth and effectiveness. People typically find this to be a surprisingly freeing experience.

Was That Really Me?: How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality

Self-Help

Quenk, Naomi L.

Personal Transformation

When top-performing employees leave a job, they're often quitting their manager rather than their position or their company. In this book, copublished with the Society for Human Resource Management, Nancy Ahlrichs charts unexplored territory as she explains how to become a "manager of choice" in a business environment in which managing human capital is the new imperative. Today employees care more about family, leisure time, and personal satisfaction than about money, status, or company loyalty, and they have more job choices than ever before. They are "consumers of the work experience," says Ahlrichs, and managers must adapt to their individual needs just as they adapt to the preferences of valued customers. Employers of Choice have set the standard for superior work environments. Now, with the help of worksheets, resource lists, and compelling case studies, Ahlrichs shows how to develop the five critical skills for becoming a manager of choice: talent scouting, relationship building, trust building, skill building, and brand building.

Manager of Choice: 5 Competencies for Cultivating Top Talent

Ahlrichs, Nancy S.

As never before, workers are searching for a life that is richer, more balanced, authentic, and challenging. And when they find that their needs can't be met in the traditional workplace, they are taking control and walking away. "The Opt-Out Revolt" delivers the facts behind this growing phenomenon: how the universal need for authenticity, balance, and challenge drives career and life decisions for women and men alike; the critical role gender plays in the patterns of today's careerists; what choices women are making and why; how men's priorities differ from women's and how they affect their career paths; and what the best organizations are doing to stem the flow of talent heading out the door. With research data from the authors' five-year study of over 3,000 professional women and men, and co-published with WorldatWork[registered]/Alliance for Work-Life Progress, this one-of-a-kind look at today's workplace profiles hundreds of modern-day trailblazers who have created Kaleidoscope Careers - defined by personal needs, life values, and a new 21st-century definition of success - inside and out of traditional corporate boundaries. Featuring dozens of examples from leading companies that have achieved remarkable success in turning around this threatening "brain drain" trend, this timely book offers a blueprint for designing a workplace that encourages loyalty, retains talent, and, ultimately improves the health and competitiveness of the organization.

The Opt-out Revolt: Why People Are Leaving Companies to Create Kaleidoscope Careers

Lisa A. Mainiero

Sherry E. Sullivan

Behind the experience and talents cataloged in your resume lies an intrinsic power that fuels your soul and your success: your genius. As ancient as the Greeks, as trendy as New Age, the concept of genius is fully grounded in contemporary life in this powerful journey of self-discovery that takes you right to the core of what makes you unique. Through dozens of compelling stories of people who have realÂized the transformative power of finding their genius-plus a wealth of practical exercises- Is Your Genius at Work? draws inspiring wisdom from ancient philosophies, spiritual traditions, modern sages, and the author's twenty years of research and study to help you define and give name to your genius, recognize your life's purpose, and discover how to bring your genius wholly alive through your life and work.

Is Your Genius at Work?: 4 Key Questions to Ask Before Your Next Career Move

Richards, Dick

Job Hunting & Careers

Lays out a proven path and inspiring ideas for revitalizing attitudes and behavior, unleashing leadership integrity, and reinvigorating organizations.

Decent People, Decent Company: How to Lead with Character at Work and in Life

Turknett, Robert L.

Turknett, Carolyn N.

On any given day, more than 4 million Americans job search online. And regardless of age or profession - from Boomers to Gen-Ys - today's financially encumbered and emotionally conflicted workers are looking for more than money as they pursue something new, better, different. Rethinking Work delivers the perfect antidote to the bookshelves full of advice on how to write a killer resume and dress for success, instead offering a proven formula for thriving amid the inevitable change and tumult that is driving the demand for constant innovation, flexibility, and creativity. In other words, author Cliff Hakim says it's time to stop being victims of these career shifts and make our jobs begin to work for us!

Rethinking Work: Are You Ready to Take Charge?

Hakim, Cliff

Think Tony Bennett, William Shatner, or Tina Turner. Baby Boomers and Traditionalists they may be, but there is no denying that they are as connected to their Gen-Y and Millennial fans as to their contemporaries. They have become hip and sage - reinventing and reenergizing their careers by adopting new ways of thinking, collaborating, and communicating. Written from a practicing hip-and-sage professional's point of view, "Hip and Sage" is prime reading for the millions of Baby Boomers challenged by today's fast-paced changes and searching for fresh insights into how they can stay relevant and successful in today's techno-driven workplace.

Hip and Sage: Staying Smart, Cool and Competitive in the Workplace

Haneberg, Lisa

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