Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation

Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation
Author: Van Tiem, Darlene M.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2020-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1799836754

Companies in today’s market are continually looking for techniques that will enhance and improve their overall performance. The rise of data analytics in recent years has changed the way managers are viewing performance methods within an organization. Innovative strategies in developing organizational execution are becoming more accessible; however, there remains a lack of research on performance improvement methods through scientific analysis. Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation is a collection of innovative research that illustrates many applications of performance improvement based on analysis, selection of strategy, monitoring, and evaluating results to accomplish organizational change through people, processes, and organizations. While highlighting topics including intervention analysis, organizational development, and human performance technology, this book is ideally designed for students, researchers, executives, managers, practitioners, educators, and academicians seeking current research on contemporary innovations in organizational performance.

TEAM BETTER TOGETHER

TEAM BETTER TOGETHER
Author: Bernard Desmidt
Publisher: BookPOD
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0645362417

What’s the difference between a floundering and a flourishing team? How do teams operate at more than the sum of their parts more often? How do teams make it safe to discuss the undiscussables? How do teams achieve better outcomes working more interdependently? Team Better Together answers these questions by introducing 5 distinguishing disciplines of high performing and flourishing teams. What is sometimes obvious to do can be difficult to access, apply and accomplish. In this book, you will learn how to: · align the team’s objectives with the stakeholders’ mandate · unify the team to a common, shared purpose · engage and relate by building trust-based working relationships · create accountability to the team’s collective performance goals · ensure the team is a safe and supportive learning environment. Transitioning to a high performing team requires leaders and team members to commit to an engaging learning experience. By ‘teaming better together’, all teams across your organisation become a team of teams.o

Thinking Through the Body

Thinking Through the Body
Author: Richard Shusterman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2012-09-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107019060

A richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, with fourteen essays by the originator of the field.

The Complete Handbook of Coaching

The Complete Handbook of Coaching
Author: Elaine Cox
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2010
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1849202885

This comprehensive guide to coaching explores a full variety of coaching theories, approaches, and settings, and offers strategies for the reader to identify and develop a personal style of coaching. Written by leading international authors, each chapter makes explicit links between theory and practice and generic questions will facilitate further reflection on the topic. There are also suggestions for reading and short case studies. This is the first book to explore the differences between the theoretical perspectives of coaching and the links between these perspectives in relation to contexts, genres, and media of coaching.

Language and the Pursuit of Happiness

Language and the Pursuit of Happiness
Author: Chalmers Brothers
Publisher: New Possibilites Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2004-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780974948706

"In this book ... you will discover a powerful new way of understanding your language, your relationships, your results and - most importantly - yourself."--Back cover.

Sexing the Body

Sexing the Body
Author: Anne Fausto-Sterling
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 621
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1541672909

Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced. Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms -- sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed -- and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.

The Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice

The Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice
Author: Monica Hanaway
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000047237

In The Handbook of Existential Coaching Practice, Monica Hanaway presents a complete introduction to existential coaching, focusing on how coaches can incorporate key skills in all aspects of their practice. Practical and theoretical, the book explores how existential thought can offer a fresh re-orientation of coaching practice that embraces uncertainty, working towards a deeper understanding of the client’s world and the challenges they face in the twenty-first century. This comprehensive guide is presented in two parts, bringing together theoretical coaching models and Hanaway’s extensive practical experience. In Part 1, Hanaway begins by clearly exploring what is meant by existential coaching and places it in the context of contemporary coaching culture, illuminating the key philosophical elements of the existential coaching approach and the differences between existential coaching and existential psychotherapy. In Part 2, Hanaway draws from her own experience and presents case studies to demonstrate how coaches can build relationships with clients, enabling them to face existential dilemmas in their organisational and social life to become their authentic self. She introduces key existential concepts relating to authenticity, relatedness, freedom, responsibility, values and beliefs, and encourages the reader to explore how these are relevant to the coaching process. The book includes case studies, questioning and reflective exercises to encourage development of good practice and build the skills necessary all the way through a coaching relationship, from contracting to ending. This is the first guide of its kind, with Hanaway playing an instrumental role in the development and growth of existential coaching as well as designing the one of the world’s first University-accredited MA programmes. It will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, as well as students and academics of applied philosophy and psychology.