Successfully achieve business objectives through the use of teams. Why work in teams? Simply put, PERFORMANCE! Teams vastly outperform the combined output of individuals in traditional work settings. But high performance teams require planning, accountability, and commitment. This book gives you the tools you need to build a case for teaming in your organization, set performance goals, and continually measure team effectiveness. You’ll learn how to identify and foster the characteristics of successful teams, define responsibilities for team members, and overcome common obstacles to high performance. What’s more, you will put your newfound skills to the test using real-world business case scenarios provided throughout the book. And you’ll gauge the effectiveness of your own team with in-depth self-assessment exercises. The skills you will master here can be applied to any team situation—from a single work unit team to wider multi-unit teams spanning the organization. Readers will learn how to: • Identify the best type of team for your organization • Perform the essential “getting off to a good start” steps • Define key responsibilities for team members and team leader • Set the best goals against which to measure performance • Anticipate and address team transitions. This is an ebook version of the AMA Self-Study course. If you want to take the course for credit you need to either purchase a hard copy of the course through amaselfstudy.org or purchase an online version of the course through www.flexstudy.com.
Rewarding employees isn't just a nice thing to do--it's a business imperative. Updated and expanded, this second edition of How to Recognize & Reward Employees features all new examples and even more exciting ways to reward and recognize employees. For smart managers looking to get the most from their people, this quick and helpful guide also includes exercises, case studies, self-tests, lists and worksheets to help readers implement simple and effective rewards programs. It reveals the best ways to improve employee morale, productivity and quality of work; inspire high and low performers, as well as teams, to do the best possible job; select the right reward for the achievement and avoid rewards that don't work; and make recognition and rewards systems fair.Complete with information on both formal rewards systems and more informal types of recognition, team rewards, options for shoe-string budgets, ways to emphasize corporate values and more, this concise guide is a must for every organization.
Successfully achieve business objectives through the use of teams. Why work in teams? Simply put, PERFORMANCE! Teams vastly outperform the combined output of individuals in traditional work settings. But high performance teams require planning, accountability, and commitment. This book gives you the tools you need to build a case for teaming in your organization, set performance goals, and continually measure team effectiveness. You’ll learn how to identify and foster the characteristics of successful teams, define responsibilities for team members, and overcome common obstacles to high performance. What’s more, you will put your newfound skills to the test using real-world business case scenarios provided throughout the book. And you’ll gauge the effectiveness of your own team with in-depth self-assessment exercises. The skills you will master here can be applied to any team situation—from a single work unit team to wider multi-unit teams spanning the organization. Readers will learn how to: • Identify the best type of team for your organization • Perform the essential “getting off to a good start” steps • Define key responsibilities for team members and team leader • Set the best goals against which to measure performance • Anticipate and address team transitions. This is an ebook version of the AMA Self-Study course. If you want to take the course for credit you need to either purchase a hard copy of the course through amaselfstudy.org or purchase an online version of the course through www.flexstudy.com.
Filled with valuable tips and proven strategies from the front lines, this book gives leaders of self-directed work teams much-needed guidance on performing their diverse and demanding duties. Readers will learn how to make the transition from supervisor to coach, build essential skills needed by team coaches, and coach a team to self-manage its work and its members.
Recognizing and rewarding employees is a true business imperative no manager can afford to ignore. Now in a revised second edition, "How to Recognize & Reward Employees" gives managers all the helpful tools and information they need to get the most from their people. The book reveals the best ways to improve employee morale, productivity and quality of work, select the right reward for the achievement and inspire both high and low performers. It is an essential reference for every organization.
No one at the Season's soirees ever looked twice at shy Lady Rhian Phillips--and no one ever suspected that she was the anonymous editor of London's most scandalous society column. But Viscount Pembroke, the dashing and irresistibly romantic novelist Rhian met at a literary salon, could expose her and end her career. Now, this lady in love has to concoct a novel plan of her own.
Amid society's most elegant and elite, Almack's is the place to carry on a flirtation, make a match or simply fall in love. Now, in this delightful collection, four acclaimed Regency romance authors give readers a personal invitation to Almack's--with four captivating stories of love.
Cupid finds a way to soothe ruffled feathers on Valentine's Day in this collection of three Regency stories. Includes "The Valentine Poem" by Victoria Hinshaw, "The Ugly Duckling" by Julia Parks, and "Valentine Dreams" by Donna Simpson. Original.
Hilda Beauchamp believes that God guides the life of every believer -- and that she can help Him do so. Part of her plan is to marry off her sister to the charming Kynaston Studd, and to reform a certain Cambridge boat captain before marrying him herself and enrolling him to work in her compassionate societies.
These 18 fabric projects each teach you a no-sew technique. Hands-on steps show you the finer points of decorating and embellishing quilts, wearables and home accents. Sequential photos and illustrations leave nothing to the imagination.
After he returns from the war, the horror of Waterloo haunts Viscount Drake's sleep every night. Can a visitor, Miss Truelove Beckons, help him find peace--and love?
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