Grow Your Own Leaders: How to Identify, Develop, and Retain Leadership Talent

Today's enterprises face a profound leadership crisis - and the speed of business has far outstripped conventional executive development systems. In Grow Your Own Leaders, three world-renowned experts introduce an entirely new approach for identifying tomorrow's leaders within your own organization, accelerating their development, and deploying them immediately, to address new challenges wherever they emerge.

Business & Money

Byham, William

Smith, Audrey

Paese, Matthew

Management & Leadership

Pearson FT Press

Most managers know that revitalization in their companies must occur from the ground up. But how to get that message to employees without applying the kind of pressure that makes them even less productive? The answer is empowerment. In this motivating book, you will find specific strategies designed to help you encourage responsibility, acknowledgment, and creativity so that employees feel they "own" their jobs. It's all here, in an accessible guide for the successful managers of tomorrow.

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction

Cox, Jeff

Business Culture

Ballantine Books

"Couldn't have come at a better time! The message is definitely on target. People who work with staff and volunteers in any profession would gain from reading, re-reading, and practicing the concepts in this book." John Paul Vice President, American Heart Association William C. Byham's book, ZAPP! THE LIGHTNING OF EMPOWERMENT took the business world by storm. Now ZAPP! EMPOWERMENT IN HEALTH CARE is packed with step-by-step, hands-on information to help health-care providers revitalize medicine and help control costs by taking control of their jobs, improving existing processes, sharing decision-making, and more, as well as zeroing in on the special needs, rights, and responsibilities of patients.

Zapp! Empowerment in Health Care: How to Improve Patient Care, Increase Employee Job Satisfaction, and Lower Health Care Costs

Medical Books

Materna, Sharyn

Harper-Shomo, Kathy

Administration & Medicine Economics

"I hate Mondays." "They say I'm responsible, but my boss makes all the decisions." "We're supposed to work as a team, but everybody's out for themselves." Sound familiar? You don't have to take it anymore! In HeroZ, you'll actually have fun learning how to survive and even thrive in today's work world. Step-by-step techniques--proven by thousands of companies around the globe--show you how to make meaningful decisions, measure your progress, and work efficiently in teams. By the time you finish reading HeroZ, you'll feel that you control your job, not that your job controls you. Millions of leaders have been energized by its bestselling predecessor, Zapp!: The Lightning of Empowerment. The Wall Street Journal declared that "Zapp! helped redefine the genre" of business books. Fortune magazine's reviewer raved, "I couldn't put it down." Now, with HeroZ, you can restore meaning and purpose to your work life and make a real difference--no matter where you fall on the organizational chart!

Heroz: Empower Yourself, Your Coworkers, Your Company

Random House Publishing Group

"I hate Mondays.""They say I'm responsible, but my boss makes all the decisions.""We're supposed to work as a team, but everybody's out for themselves."Sound familiar? You don't have to take it anymore!In HeroZ, you'll actually have fun learning how to survive and even thrive in today's work world. Step-by-step techniques--proven by thousands of companies around the globe--show you how to make meaningful decisions, measure your progress, and work efficiently in teams. By the time you finish reading HeroZ, you'll feel that you control your job, not that your job controls you.Millions of leaders have been energized by its bestselling predecessor, Zapp!: The Lightning of Empowerment. The Wall Street Journal declared that "Zapp! helped redefine the genre" of business books. Fortune magazine's reviewer raved, "I couldn't put it down."Now, with HeroZ, you can restore meaning and purpose to your work life and make a real difference--no matter where you fall on the organizational chart!From the Trade Paperback edition.

Heroz

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Random House Value Publishing

William C. Byham and Jeff Cox, the authors of ZAPP! The Lightning of Empowerment, provide the proven techniques that can help workers make more meaningful decisions, measure their progress more reliably, and work more efficiently in teams.

Heroz (tm): Empower Yourself, Your Coworkers, Your Company

Harmony

You've looked at dozens of books that promise to help you get a job. This book is different. This book is written by an executive whose business is teaching managers how to interview job candidates. He knows what they're looking for--and how you can successfully prepare for landing that job you really want. Through interactive and easy-to-follow exercises, Landing the Job You Want equips you to make your next job interview one of the most positive experiences of your life. Whether you're a recent college grad searching for a first job, a corporate veteran looking for that big promotion, an at-home mom starting a new career, or an experienced worker looking to move in a totally new direction, you will walk into interviews prepared and confident because you know how to: identify the skills most important for a job decide whether a job is right for you present your skills with maximum impact respond to difficult questions perform well in simulations and tests handle an ill-prepared interviewer close an interview on a positive note critique your own interview performance Each exercise in Landing the Job You Want is designed to help you look within yourself to identify your strengths and your weaknesses. You'll learn how to quickly develop a portfolio of skills that match your ideal job, and you'll understand exactly what your interviewer is looking for in a candidate. You'll be ready to dazzle your interviewer with both your qualifications and your preparation. The result? The interview of a lifetime--one that leads to the job you've always wanted.

Landing the Job You Want: How to Have the Best Job Interview of Your Life

Pickett, Debra

Job Hunting & Careers

Three Rivers Press

Taking the concept of empowerment from theory to practical application, Byham demonstrates that when employees feel they are recognized for personally contributing to an organization's success, then the organization becomes stronger.

Random House Audio |

1 cassette / 90 minutesThe authors of the bestselling Zapp! present new techniques to enable employees on all levels of an organization to motivate themselves and those around them.Individual motivation, the pursuit of quality, the cultivation of long-term customer relationships, group effort: in HeroZ, these and more of today's most enlightened business principles become not just abstractions but concrete tools everyone can use to engender ideal conditions for success in their won workplace.  HeroZ is a delightfully magical fable that will inspire people at all levels of a business organization to envision themselves as heroic knights charged with the glorious duty of slaying the dragons that block the way to a prosperous future.

Selection Solution: Solving the Mystery of Matching People to Jobs

Development Dimensions Intl

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Books by Byham, William

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Grow Your Own Leaders: How to Identify, Develop, and Retain Leadership Talent

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction

Zapp! Empowerment in Health Care: How to Improve Patient Care, Increase Employee Job Satisfaction, and Lower Health Care Costs

Heroz: Empower Yourself, Your Coworkers, Your Company

Heroz

Heroz (tm): Empower Yourself, Your Coworkers, Your Company

Landing the Job You Want: How to Have the Best Job Interview of Your Life

Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Quality, Productivity, and Employee Satisfaction

Heroz

Selection Solution: Solving the Mystery of Matching People to Jobs