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Create an environment to maximize the potential of those you lead!
CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT TO MAXIMIZE THE POTENTIAL OF THOSE YOU LEAD
Being a leader is challenging—but we may make it more difficult than it needs to be. A critical first step is recognizing leading is not about you, it is about whom you lead. For many, this requires a mindset shift. Whether coaching, teaching, or leading, you must create an environment of trust that engages each person in learning and maximizes the abilities of each person on your team. Focus on Them explains what it takes to build the team atmosphere to do all these things—for teams on the field, in the classroom, and in the workplace.
2015 First Place Idaho Author Awards - Business Categrory
2015 First Place Idaho Author Awards - Top 10 Nonfiction Books
Practical Guide for Developing Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Skills
Solutions to societal and organizational problems require people from diverse fields of expertise to effectively work in team-based, collaborative environments. To create these environments, we need to address a myth in modern culture that people have natural abilities to collaborate and work together. Collaboration and teamwork are skills. As such, these skills need to be learned and practiced. Commonly, collaboration is learned through trial and error. Team members have little or no training in how to effectively and efficiently harness the diversity of strengths among team members and maximize their contributions to the team. This book provides a practical, process-oriented guide that, at its most fundamental level, is about building relationships and promoting communication and learning among diverse groups of individuals resulting in creative, collaborative, and inclusive problem-solving environments. This volume provides explicit approaches and processes that will help team members more effectively and efficiently create new knowledge and solutions for societal and organizational problems through collective action.
Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future. Association of Environmental Sciences and Studies
Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Earth and Environment for a Sustainable Future presents the outcomes of the InTeGrate project, a community effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues. The InTeGrate community is built around the shared goal of supporting interdisciplinary learning about Earth across the undergraduate curriculum, focusing on the grand challenges facing society and the important role that the geosciences play in addressing these grand challenges. The chapters in this book explicitly illustrate the intimate relationship between geoscience and sustainability that is often opaque to students. The authors of these chapters are faculty members, administrators, program directors, and researchers from institutions across the country who have collectively envisioned, implemented, and evaluated effective change in their classrooms, programs, institutions, andbeyond. This book provides guidance to anyone interested in implementing change—on scales ranging from a single course to an entire program—by infusing sustainability across the curriculum, broadening access to Earth and environmental sciences, and assessing the impacts of those changes.
What if the smallest memories held the biggest truths about who you are?
In Defined by Moments, Dr. Ronald J. Bonnstetter traces his life through vivid, unguarded stories—from growing up a free-range farm kid in Iowa to becoming a global leader in behavioral science. Each chapter captures a pivotal experience that shaped his thinking, followed by a reflection that reveals what it taught him about identity, resilience, and growth.
Sometimes humorous, often raw, and always real, these stories invite you to pause and consider your own. Because when we look back with honesty and curiosity, the moments that once defined us can begin to refine us instead.
Unlock the power of self-awareness and transform your personal and professional life with The Five Sciences of Self.
The Five Sciences of Self explores the intricate dynamics of human behavior through five disciplines: DISC, motivation, workplace competencies, emotional intelligence, and the Hartman Value Profile. These disciplines form the basis for transformative assessments that shed light on the underlying motivations and decision-making processes that guide personal and professional growth.
TTI Success Insights’ assessments leverage these five areas of study to offer insights into individual capabilities in both personal and professional contexts. These assessments are essential tools for unlocking individual potential, driving innovation, and ensuring team and organizational success. The insights gained from understanding personal attributes are key to fostering productive, harmonious workplaces and strong relationships.
The book also emphasizes the value of diversity in thought and behavior, showing how assessments can promote empathy and better communication in team settings. By acknowledging diverse perspectives, these tools lead to more innovative and effective collaboration. Backed by empirical research and advanced EEG brain imaging, TTI’s approach validates the assessments’ accuracy in capturing the brain’s response to stimuli, highlighting the sophisticated interplay between psychological theories and practical application in understanding human behavior.
Gold Medal Winner of the 2024 North American Book Awards in Nonfiction: Business Entrepreneurial.