Authentic Excellence for Organizations

Authentic Excellence for Organizations
Author: R. Kelly Crace
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2023-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000892190

Authentic Excellence for Organizations explores organizational culture from a values-based perspective and applies the psychological principles of values-based flourishing to organizations. Integrating the principles of Giving Voice to Values (GVV) and Authentic Excellence (AX), this book provides a process that details how organizations can harness their team’s inherent wisdom to flourish through the relentless pace and pressure of today’s world. Moving beyond team-building strategies and programming, this book helps develop confidence in managing the tensions inherent in organizations. It explores: The difference between moral values and personal values; How both can be effectively expressed and managed in organizations; The possibilities of shifting from a fear-based culture of "Or" to an inclusive and values-centred culture of "&"; and How to practically create flourishing "&" cultures using the GVV model. How to create an organizational culture that effectively sustains "&s" like competitive & collaborative, productive & fulfilled, and innovation & tradition This book is intended for organizational leaders, members, and HR managers looking to develop strong and thriving teams. It also aligns with required or recommended reading for secondary or undergraduate courses that explore values, leadership, organizational development and performance, decision making, ethics, and entrepreneurship.

Authentic Excellence

Authentic Excellence
Author: R. Kelly Crace
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2019-07-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429619499

Never before have the pressures of a comparative and competitive world impacted on our sense of wellbeing, particularly among young adults. Building on the principles of Giving Voice to Values, which honors the complexity and difficulty of leading with our values, this book addresses the unique challenges faced by young adults. It provides a clear process that details how to harness natural wisdom to flourish through the relentless pace and pressure of today’s world. Moving beyond mere values clarification, Authentic Excellence helps the reader to develop a deeper relationship with their values and confidently express them, and builds effective coping skills to manage the relentless noise of our comparative and competitive world. Authentic Excellence answers five primary questions: How are young adults affected by this world of relentless change and pressure? Why are young adults vulnerable to a plateau that can negatively affect their resilience? What is the difference between fear-based excellence and authentic excellence and what role do values play in this distinction? What is necessary to move beyond fear-based excellence and why is it so hard? How do you train a deeper level of effectiveness that includes more consistent productivity, fulfillment and resilience?

Building to Excellence

Building to Excellence
Author: Jack Klemeyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2014-01-18
Genre: Success in business
ISBN: 9781495255915

What makes a small business successful? The small business OWNER - you. Not just what you do, but the person you are. Standards are one thing, but having a core belief in seeking authentic excellence in everything you do, say and produce can mean the difference between getting by and flying high with a successful, fulfilling and financially profitable business.Sometimes people are successful but not using ALL of their potential. Building to Excellence reveals how to develop awareness and strategies to grow personally to be the best at everything you do - to strive to achieve excellence. Excellence is going as far as you can with what you have and is a major factor in consistently finding success.You won't want to miss out on this guide for the rest of your life! Pursue all of your potential by learning:* How to increase the No. 1 ingredient to being successful in your work and in your personal life: your passion* A definitive road map to your purpose, vision and goals* How to do what you need to do to get the job done; a proven system to help you get - and stay - in the action* How to improve your business and personal skills and knowledge to become better than good, becoming great* The 5 principles to develop those around you* 3 strategies to develop and maintain the tenacity and perseverance to stay on track with your goals and objectivesBuilding to Excellence is the definitive Guide to Building Authentic Success in every aspect of your life. Filled with practical and immediately implementable ideas and systems, you won't turn a page without being inspired to change your mindset, your habits and your future. This book will be one you return to time and time again until it is worn and dog-earred.

Conscious Business

Conscious Business
Author: Fred Kofman
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1427098182

Presents techniques for organizational success that involve embracing such qualities as integrity, authenticity, accountability, and honesty.

Purpose-driven Organizations

Purpose-driven Organizations
Author: Carlos Rey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030176746

A higher purpose is not simply about profit. Symbolising the motivations of our actions and efforts, it reflects something much more aspirational and contributes to our global society. This open access book offers novel solutions to ensure employees support a wider organizational meaning whilst guaranteeing that the company benefits from the employee’s individual sense of purpose. Advocating a shift from previous models and theories, this book contributes to debate and offers insight for both scholars and practitioners. The chapters bring together academic rigour and practical models to help readers distinguish between the fads and influential strategies. Exploring the development of purpose at each level of business, from strategy and leadership to communication, this book avoids theoretical jargon and provides new approaches to building sustainable purpose-driven organizations. This is an Open Access book sponsored by DPMC Spain, UIC Barcelona and Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership

Yours Truly

Yours Truly
Author: Margarita Mayo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1472950933

At the heart of contemporary corporate leadership lies a crisis of confidence. Since the financial crash of 2008, distrust of employers among the workforce has dramatically increased due to a lack of authentic leadership. But how can leaders become and remain authentic? Yours Truly draws on a host of inspirational examples from executives of multinational corporations to political leaders and sports leaders, as well as more than two decades of research, in order to examine and explain the missing link in research into authentic leadership: how leaders strive for success, excellence and constant renewal, whilst remaining true to themselves. Margarita Mayo introduces the three characteristics – Heart, Habits and Harmony – that differentiate authentic from non-authentic leaders. Presented within a practical framework, the book provides a measurable guide to developing your own authentic power: · Contagious passion that wins the hearts of others; · Setting new habits of learning to empower others; · And Enhancing harmony by building authentic contexts. Ideal for managers, senior executives and aspiring leaders, Yours Truly captures the value of authentic leadership in transforming organizations. The book strips away the seemingly magical, innate charismatic qualities of leaders in order to showcase a less mysterious and more practical process that can be followed by anyone.

Getting It Right

Getting It Right
Author: George C. Weaver
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540308757

Getting It Right is a guidebook for any leader seeking organizational change to produce better results. The book recounts the experiences and results of an organization's change journey through the eyes of a senior management team with detailed accounts of the alternative management pathways that were explored, lessons learned, and management tools that were used. Getting It Right documents the sustainable excellence that was achieved with the discoveries showing: * An organization THRIVES when everyone lives an authentic organizational culture and everything is aligned to support that culture. * Individuals are HAPPIER when an organization lives an authentic culture, engages everyone, and values every individual's contribution as being essential to success. * Results are more MEANINGFUL when employer-employee relationships meet the needs and expectations of individuals and the organization. For almost two decades, Getting It Right fundamentals produced near perfect product satisfaction and customer service ratings. During that same period, employees embraced an understandable organizational culture, were passionate about their work, and recognized everybody's work made a difference to the organization's success. While no two change journeys will be identical, the management principles and best management practices found in Getting It Right will be an inspiration and invaluable tool for any organizational leader contemplating their own change journey.

The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence

The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence
Author: Vala Afshar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012
Genre: Business
ISBN: 9780985356460

If you are not a social business you are losing market share. If you are not a social business, you are also losing the opportunity to recruit and retain the very best talent in the market. In this social and mobile era, customers have choices and voices that are scaled and amplified like never before. For businesses to truly connect with their employees and customers they must be able to listen, respond, engage, and add value in a timely and robust manner. But, to truly connect we must do so by way of a personalized and mutually beneficial approach; and in order to do this well, we must embrace social collaboration. By reading the Pursuit of Social Business Excellence you will be able to 1) identify foundational success elements of a social business; 2) follow a prioritized and guided step by step transformation process; 3) measure progress and identify self-reinforcing confirmation points. 4) increase top line revenue, profit, employee retention and customer loyalty. Afshar and Martin are award winning enterprise technology and management executives who have unlocked the value of social business transformation to drive industry leading growth, customer loyalty and profitability. In 2011, Afshar pioneered and led the efforts to drive the innovation behind enterprise networking industries first social machines. In 2012 Afshar and Martin s company, Enterasys Networks, was recognized as one of Boston's best places to work and was also awarded for top services-collaboration innovation, best contact center and next generation quality leadership.

Bridging the Values Gap

Bridging the Values Gap
Author: R. Edward Freeman
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2015-08-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1609949587

Bridging the Values Gap Business has a values problem. It's not just spectacular public scandals like Enron (which, incidentally, had a great corporate values statement). Many companies fail to live up to the standards they set for themselves, alienating the public and leaving employees cynical and disengaged—resulting in lower productivity, less innovation, and sometimes outright corruption. The reason, argue top scholars and consultants Edward Freeman and Ellen Auster, is that all too often values are handed down from on high, with little employee input, discussion, or connection to the challenges and opportunities facing the organization. Although the words may be well-intentioned, they aren't reflected in the everyday practices, policies, and processes of the organization. This practically invites disconnects between intention and reality. To bridge this gap between the “talk” and the “walk”, Freeman and Auster provide a process through which organizations can collectively surface deeply held values that truly resonate with everyone, from top to bottom. Their Values Through Conversation (VTC) process focuses on four key types of values conversations: introspective (reflecting on ourselves and how we do things in the organization), historical (exploring our understanding of our past and how it impacts us), connectedness (creating a strong community where we work well together), and aspirational (sharing our hopes and dreams). By developing values through discussions—casual or formal, one-on-one or in groups—VTC ensures that values are dynamic and evolving, not static words on a wall or a website. Freeman and Auster offer advice, real-world examples, and sample questions to help you create values that are authentic and embraced because they are rooted in the lived experience of the organization.

Leading Lightly

Leading Lightly
Author: Jody Michael
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626349002

A Conscious Approach to Leadership and Life Leading lightly is about looking at what you do through a radical new lens. It’s a way to powerfully transform your performance, make better decisions, gain greater self-awareness, and develop the capacity to manage your work and life with enduring ease and clarity. An alternative to the everyday stress, pace, challenges, and burdens that weigh you down, leading lightly shows you how to shift your mindset, live lighter, and optimize your effectiveness. Part leadership, part mental fitness, part health and wellness guide, Leading Lightly empowers you to work at your best and operate at your fullest potential. Stress and difficulty don’t have to be a given. Learning to lead lightly and live mindfully can profoundly change the trajectory of your day. This book is for anyone who finds themselves overloaded, frustrated, anxious, or exhausted by their life circumstances. It offers more than just tactical strategies for sustained optimal performance at work, but transcends that, helping you develop a conscious approach to all the facets of your life, so you’re able to leverage the choices you have each day and take action that puts you in control of your experience. You’ll not only be able to create better outcomes but also do this in a way that energizes and enlivens you. ​In Leading Lightly, author Jody Michael brings together 20+ years of her research and work as a psychotherapist, Master Certified Coach, and leadership expert to provide you with a practical, measurable, and proven process for developing your mental fitness. You’ll increase your emotional intelligence, discover how to respond to situations with more agility, build stronger interpersonal relationships, and find that the ability to thrive in leadership and life is within your grasp. This book will show you how to think differently, feel lighter, and achieve personal and professional well-being. You’ll notice the results immediately, and those around you will too.