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Practical Guide for Internal Consultants

Using Your Expertise to Build Business Capacity

By: James D. Showkeir,Kevin Herring

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Practical Guide for Internal Consultants

Using Your Expertise to Build Business Capacity

By: James D. Showkeir,Kevin Herring

This book provides unique insights and tools to empower support functions such as Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, and Supply Chain to fully apply field-specific expertise to solve business problems. Readers will learn how to apply internal consulting skills to organization needs and become a critical value adding team instead of an overhead function.

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107

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Ascent Management Consulting

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ISBN 10

097643010X

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9780976430100

Authentic Conversations

Moving from Manipulation to Truth and Commitment

By: James D. Showkeir,Maren S. Showkeir

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Authentic Conversations

Moving from Manipulation to Truth and Commitment

By: James D. Showkeir,Maren S. Showkeir

In this groundbreaking new book, the Showkeirs take something people typically think of as merely functional—ordinary conversations—and show the power they have to create, sustain, and change the very nature of workplace culture. Conversations can lead to an engaged and energized workforce, or to one that is alienated and uninspired. If you want to change the culture you must change the conversations. All too often workplace conversations—between managers and direct reports, peer-to-peer, or with external stakeholders— create parent-child relationships. People hide facts, sugarcoat reality and claim helplessness to try to control interactions and get what they want. The Showkeirs expose the destructiveness of these manipulative conversations, and demonstrate how we can move to honest and authentic interactions that create adult relationships. By intentionally and thoughtfully changing conversations, organizations will engender increased commitment, true accountability, and improved workplace performance. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as organizational consultants, their book offers examples of parent-child and adult-adult workplace conversations in a variety of settings, circumstances and industries. They also provide a hands-on guide, including sample scripts, for dealing with a host of potentially difficult conversations. Authentic Conversations goes to the heart of why so many people today are disengaged, uninspired, and uncommitted to their organization’s success. It challenges the conventional wisdom about managing people and sets out specific, concrete ways to consciously make conversations the primary driver for change.

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250

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1605096938

ISBN 13

9781605096933

Yoga Wisdom at Work

By: Maren S. Showkeir,James D. Showkeir

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Yoga Wisdom at Work

By: Maren S. Showkeir,James D. Showkeir

Everyone knows that yoga helps reduce stress and increase the body’s flexibility and strength. But the poses are only one part of a larger philosophy offering profound insights for confronting the complexities of daily life. Yoga can help you remain centered, compassionate, positive, and sane every hour of the day—especially those between nine and five. This unprecedented guide shows how practicing the full range of yogic concepts—the traditional “Eight Limbs of Yoga”—leads to a productive, creative, and energizing work environment and features examples from professions like law enforcement, teaching, banking, filmmaking, medicine, and many more. But beyond that, this book is an invitation to use all of yoga’s teachings to cultivate the spark of the divine that dwells within each of us. The Enhanced Edition includes six videos (9 minutes) and seven audios (21 minutes). The videos include personal stories about the benefits of practicing yoga at work, a method to help honor non-lying and non-violence, and three breath control techniques. The audios feature meditations to help release negativity, increase energy, calm the mind, tap into one’s own essence, and be fully present at work, as well as specific suggestions for living out the yogic precepts of contentment and surrendering to a higher purpose in the workplace.

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1626560536

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Practical Guide for Internal Consultants

Practical Guide for Internal Consultants

Authentic Conversations

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Yoga Wisdom at Work

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