Leadership by the 5 Practices – Encourage the Heart
Books
- Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strengths of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive, Barbara L. Fredrickson
With Positivity, you'll learn to see new possibilities, bounce back from setbacks, connect with others, and become the best version of yourself. The book will give you the tools necessary to create a healthier, more vibrant, and flourishing life through a process the author calls "the upward spiral." - Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World, John Hope Bryant
Aimed at a new generation of leaders and extremely relevant for today's economic climate, Love Leadership outlines Bryant's five laws of love-based leadership-Loss Creates Leaders (there can be no strength without legitimate suffering), Fear Fails (only respect and love leads to success), Love Makes Money (love is at the core of true wealth), Vulnerability is Power (when you open up to people they open up to you), and Giving is Getting (the more you offer to others, the more they will give back to you). - Corporate Celebrations: Play, Purpose, and Profit at work, Terrence Deal and M.K. Deal
This book offers an antidote to the decline in company spirit. From marking milestones to recognizing accomplishment, the authors document the powerful effect simple ceremonies can have on revitalizing morale and raising performance. 50 illustrations. - Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
All too often, simple acts of human kindness are often overlooked and under-utilized by people in leadership roles. Advising mutual respect and recognition of accomplishments, Encouraging the Heart shows us how true leaders encourage and motivate those they work with by helping them find their voice and making them feel like heroes. - How full Is Your Bucket: Positive Strategies for Work and Life, Tom Rath and Donald Clifton
This book reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life -- while reducing the negative. Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting changes and has all the makings of a timeless classic. - Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work, Leslie A. Yerkes
Fun Works offers tips, examples, and motivation to help readers, their coworkers, and their customers unleash the power of fun in the workplace. Through real-life case studies and interviews with dozens of leading authors and everyday people, the author illustrates 11 principles of what she calls "The Work/Fun Fusion".
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