Beyond Engagement

Author : Brady G. Wilson
Publisher : BPS Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781772360196

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Beyond Engagement by Brady G. Wilson Pdf

After twenty years of trying to get it right, precious few organizations have cracked the code of employee engagement. Why? Because few could have anticipated the unbending nature of what Brady G. Wilson calls “the engagement paradox”: the more companies focus on engagement, the more disengagement they produce. What causes this paradox? As shown in this clear, concise, and compelling book, it is simply this: managing engagement turns out to be just another drain on the most precious resource in business today – energy. In today’s exhaustion era, employees are simply struggling to make it to the weekend. Lacking energy, they resort to quick fixes, workarounds, and reactive firefighting, thereby hardwiring depletion into the system. As a result, employees come to perceive engagement efforts as a management con game. A high percentage of the employee population believe no meaningful outcomes will occur as a result of the engagement survey. And this crisis of belief causes acute pain inside well-intentioned leaders who are doing their best to unlock employee engagement. They feel caught. Now Beyond Engagement shows how to get beyond this kind of self-defeating engagement: by managing energy rather than engagement. The book offers a chapter each to ten leadership principles based on the findings of brain science: 1 Manage Energy, Not Engagement 2 Deliver Experiences, Not Promises 3 Target Emotion, Not Logic 4 Trust Conversations, Not Surveys 5 Seek Tension, Not Harmony 6 Practice Partnering, Not Parenting 7 Pull Out the Backstory, Not the Action Plan 8 Think Sticks, Not Carrots 9 Meet Needs, Not Scores 10 Challenge Beliefs, Not Emotions

Author : Corey Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 193822096X

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Beyond Engagement: How to Make Your Business an Idea Factory by Corey Rosen Pdf

Author : Yetunde Hofmann
Publisher : Authors Place Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1628657162

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Beyond Engagement by Yetunde Hofmann Pdf

Beyond Engagement is bringing a new perspective to the leadership challenge by looking beyond the transactional processes in the relationship with stakeholders and goes to the heart of the problem - quite literally - and asks the key question of intention. Yetunde draws out in her passionate and conversational style the tension between selfishness evidenced in current life today and the satisfaction in life we all gain in doing selfless acts of kindness, generosity and care. The book manages to touch on an abstract quality of leadership and brings it to life through the eyes of the many senior business leaders she has interviewed and are quoted throughout the book. This provides for a rich and vibrant picture of the future of leadership the pivotal role it has in the unleashing of the human potential, and what it takes to be human in a world that seems to bow down to the power of money. In addition, it provides practical ideas for change at both an organisational and an individual level. No matter what stage of leadership you are at or whether you are just curious about the topic of leadership, this book will change your approach forever and at the very least will serve as a great conversation starter on the development of one of the most critical leadership capabilities we can have today. Love.

Author : Brady G. Wilson
Publisher : BPS Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781772360172

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A brain-based approach that blends the engagement managers want with the energy employees need.

Author : Satinder P. Gill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319216201

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Tacit Engagement by Satinder P. Gill Pdf

This book explores how digital technology is altering the relationships between people and how the very nature of interface itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this – how we can make sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences, empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern society. The author presents new directions for research at the relational-transactional intersection of contrasting disciplines of arts, science and technology, and in so doing, presents philosophical and artistic questions for future research on human connectivity in our digital age. The book presents frameworks and methods for conducting research and study of tacit engagement that includes ethnography, experiments, discourse analysis, gesture analysis, psycholinguistic analysis, artistic experiments, installations, and improvisation. Case studies illustrate the use of various methods and the application and emergence of frameworks. Tacit Engagement will be of interest to researchers, designers, teachers and students concerned with new media, social media and communications networks; interactive interfaces, including information systems, knowledge management, robotics, and presence technologies. Not since Michael Polanyi have we seen such wise science about the tacit: how we know more than we can tell. Gill brings to the present era of design and data a profoundly needed perspective on meaning that comes from social dialogue, skilled performance, relational gesture and rhythm. – Sha Xin Wei, Ph.D. (Synthesis, ASU)

Author : Dylan Robinson,Keavy Martin
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781771121712

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Arts of Engagement by Dylan Robinson,Keavy Martin Pdf

Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history, at TRC national and community events, and in artwork and exhibitions not affiliated with the TRC. Using the framework of “aesthetic action,” the essays expand the frame of aesthetics to include visual, aural, and kinetic sensory experience, and question the ways in which key components of reconciliation such as apology and witnessing have social and political effects for residential school survivors, intergenerational survivors, and settler publics. This volume makes an important contribution to the discourse on reconciliation in Canada by examining how aesthetic and sensory interventions offer alternative forms of political action and healing. These forms of aesthetic action encompass both sensory appeals to empathize and invitations to join together in alliance and new relationships as well as refusals to follow the normative scripts of reconciliation. Such refusals are important in their assertion of new terms for conciliation, terms that resist the imperatives of reconciliation as a form of resolution. This collection charts new ground by detailing the aesthetic grammars of reconciliation and conciliation. The authors document the efficacies of the TRC for the various Indigenous and settler publics it has addressed, and consider the future aesthetic actions that must be taken in order to move beyond what many have identified as the TRC’s political limitations.

Author : Pedro Ruiz-Castell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443874915

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Beyond Public Engagement by Pedro Ruiz-Castell Pdf

University collections have unquestionably played a central role in the production of knowledge. They are valuable resources for studying the construction of traditions and identities, proving particularly interesting for understanding how universities have shaped societies. Furthermore, they have also been mobilised as cultural mediators to legitimise academic institutions and bring the results of their activities into the public sphere. As such, academic collections undoubtedly enable reflection on the complex relationships between heritage, knowledge, scholars, and the public. Given their importance, the development of successful strategies in terms of public engagement has recently become a major concern for those working with these academic collections. However, the complexity of university heritage encompasses a diversity of issues that are connected with more than just the public sphere. This volume discusses some of the problems, challenges, and opportunities of academic heritage, beyond the mere concern for engaging with the public.

Author : N. Couldry,S. Livingstone,T. Markham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230800823

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Media Consumption and Public Engagement by N. Couldry,S. Livingstone,T. Markham Pdf

Democracy is based on the belief that the media gets the attention of voters. But is this plausible in an age of multiplying media, disillusionment with the political system and time-scarcity? This book addresses this question, and charts experiences of 'public connection'.

Author : Joanna G. Burchfield,April A. Kedrowicz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781666903959

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Teaching Communication Across Disciplines for Professional Development, Civic Engagement, and Beyond by Joanna G. Burchfield,April A. Kedrowicz Pdf

This volume addresses teaching and research across disciplines, communication and identity development, and the centrality of communication in our quickly changing world. Contributors convey the social and global need, value, and responsibility of communication instruction across disciplines.

Author : Kenneth R Thompson,Ramon L Benedetto,Thomas J. Walter,Molly Meyer
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608323975

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It's My Company Too! by Kenneth R Thompson,Ramon L Benedetto,Thomas J. Walter,Molly Meyer Pdf

Like college athletes, engaged employees are valuable, but entangled employees, like Olympians, are the ones who take an organization to new heights. What makes these top-performing employees have such an impact on the success of each of their organizations? What encourages their sense of organizational ownership? With deep insight into eight award-winning, market-leading companies, It’s My Company Too! explores how the highest-performing organizations entangle employees, systems, culture, and leadership into a unified drive for excellence. The entangled culture emerges from a unique synergy and magnetism within the organization that is the result of leaders: • Doing extraordinary things • Building an ethical organization • Focusing human capital • Using processes to guide performance • Building self-efficacy and esteem • Developing freedom and responsibility within a culture of discipline • Hardwiring discretionary thinking and actions • Guiding the transformational process Through interviews and extensive field research, the authors analyze how companies across industries tackle internal and external challenges, constructing the pieces of the entanglement puzzle. Along the way, they show you how to develop motivated, involved, and entangled employees who embody an organization’s core values, vision, and mission—and succeed beyond imagination.

Author : Peter Selz,Susan Landauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520240520

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Art of Engagement by Peter Selz,Susan Landauer Pdf

'Art of Engagement' focuses on the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. The book showcases many types of media, including photographs, found objects, drawings and prints, murals, painting, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performance art, and collage.

Author : Mo Kasti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1612446450

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Beyond Physician Engagement by Mo Kasti Pdf

Imagine a world of healthcare where physicians are engaged and contributing at their full intellectual capacity. A world where physicians and their teams are happier because they feel heard - a world where physicians are active partners and collaborative leaders. As CEO of CTI's Physician Leadership Institute, I've seen the power of strong physician engagement firsthand. I have also witnessed the problems that occur when physicians are not engaged, and it isn't pretty. It is a safety threat. Engagement is critical in today's ever-changing healthcare system. It can improve clinical outcomes, boost patient experience and safety scores, and promote a positive culture throughout the organization. A health system could improve its bottom line by nearly half a million dollars a year each time it successfully engages one of its less engaged physicians. Yet active engagement metrics among physicians are at a mere 10 percent. I believe we have been approaching engagement in healthcare all wrong. We've made it a metric and held our managers accountable over our physicians. But physicians are professionals and don't need parents; they need partners. The book reveals real-life examples of leaders who have been successful at engaging their physicians by acting as partners: co-leading, co-creating, and working together to establish trust. It provides readers with a progressive roadmap that blends the art of leadership, neuroscience, language, and conversation. It is time to go beyond engagement.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1604 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668438787

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Research Anthology on Service Learning and Community Engagement Teaching Practices by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

The need for more empathetic and community-focused students must begin with educators, as service-learning has begun to grow in popularity throughout the years. By implementing service and community aspects into the classroom at an early age, educators have a greater chance of influencing students and creating a new generation of service-minded individuals who care about their communities. Teachers must have the necessary skills and current information available to them to provide students with quality service learning and community engagement curricula. The Research Anthology on Service Learning and Community Engagement Teaching Practices provides a thorough investigation of the current trends, best practices, and challenges of teaching practices for service learning and community engagement. Using innovative research, it outlines the struggles, frameworks, and recommendations necessary for educators to engage students and provide them with a comprehensive education in service learning. Covering topics such as lesson planning, teacher education, and cultural humility, it is a crucial reference for educators, administrators, universities, lesson planners, researchers, academicians, and students.

Author : Cindy Persinger,Azar Rejaie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783030436094

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Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond by Cindy Persinger,Azar Rejaie Pdf

What is socially engaged art history? Art history is typically understood as a discipline in which academics produce scholarship for consumption by other academics. Today however, an increasing number of art historians are seeking to broaden their understanding of art historical praxis and look beyond the academy and towards socially engaged art history. This is the first book-length study to focus on these growing and significant trends. It presents various arguments for the social, pedagogical, and scholarly benefits of alternative, community-engaged, public-facing, applied, and socially engaged art history. The international line up of contributors includes academics, museum and gallery curators as well as arts workers. The first two sections of the book look at socially engaged art history from theoretical, pedagogical, and contextual perspectives. The concluding part offers a range of provocative case studies that highlight the varied and rigorous work that is being done in this area and provide a variety of inspiring models. Taken together the chapters in this book provide much-needed disciplinary recognition to socially engaged art history, while also serving as a springboard to further theoretical and practical work.

Author : Sandra L. Christenson,Amy L. Reschly,Cathy Wylie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461420187

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Handbook of Research on Student Engagement by Sandra L. Christenson,Amy L. Reschly,Cathy Wylie Pdf

For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout prevention to improved outcomes for lifelong learning. This robust expansion has led to numerous lines of research across disciplines and are brought together clearly and comprehensively in the Handbook of Research on Student Engagement. The Handbook guides readers through the field’s rich history, sorts out its component constructs, and identifies knowledge gaps to be filled by future research. Grounding data in real-world learning situations, contributors analyze indicators and facilitators of student engagement, link engagement to motivation, and gauge the impact of family, peers, and teachers on engagement in elementary and secondary grades. Findings on the effectiveness of classroom interventions are discussed in detail. And because assessing engagement is still a relatively new endeavor, chapters on measurement methods and issues round out this important resource. Topical areas addressed in the Handbook include: Engagement across developmental stages. Self-efficacy in the engaged learner. Parental and social influences on engagement and achievement motivation. The engaging nature of teaching for competency development. The relationship between engagement and high-risk behavior in adolescents. Comparing methods for measuring student engagement. An essential guide to the expanding knowledge base, the Handbook of Research on Student Engagement serves as a valuable resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in such varied fields as clinical child and school psychology, educational psychology, public health, teaching and teacher education, social work, and educational policy.