100 Worst Employees

Author: Jim Stovall
Publisher: Sound Wisdom
ISBN: 1640951156
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 5845

Book Description
The stories you are about to read are true. Some of the names or places have been altered to protect the guilty. You will find some of the stories to be humorous while others are shocking or just sad. But all of them are opportunities for you to learn, grow, and excel. Jim Stovall and Kristine Sexter have put together a powerful collection of stories that illustrate the truth about some recognizable characters in the workplace. Learn from the mistakes these infamous members of the workforce made and improve your ability to make yourself more employable and skillful in your field and career. If we explore what the worst employees do and avoid those practices, what remains is excellence. A successful, fulfilling, and positive career can bring us true happiness and contentment in both our professional and our personal life. An unsuccessful career can put us in a place where we feel like an indentured slave--overworked, underpaid, and not appreciated. If you approach your job with maximum effort and a great attitude while avoiding all of the pitfalls outlined in these pages, you will become a valuable employee and reap all of the rewards that go along with it. Check out 100 Worst Employees and enjoy the humor while learning how to be your best self today!

Why Employees Are Always a Bad Idea

Author: Chuck Blakeman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984334384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
How to build a company with a Participation Age culture and eliminate the common management practices still in use from the Industrial Age.

Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots

Author: Vicky Oliver
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402220405
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
Have you confronted any of these coworkers or bosses recently? The Grumpy Martyr The Boss's Pet The Credit Snatcher Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots is designed to help people with all their office issues, from an exasperating coworker to a boss from hell. This book helps readers quickly pinpoint their problems and implement immediate tactics to resolve them. Vicky Oliver has helped more than 5,000 working people at different levels in different fields resolve their work problems. Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots is a direct result of what she has learned as a career expert who has made herself available to help people in their times of need. With this book in hand, readers will have the answers to all their difficult work issues and will see their job satisfaction skyrocket.

Fully Staffed

Author: Eric Chester
Publisher: Sound Wisdom
ISBN: 164095113X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 359

Book Description
If you’ve ever struggled to keep your business staffed with high-performing, loyal employees—even for “unsexy” jobs with high turnover rates—this book is here to solve your hiring and retention woes. Fully Staffed will give you an edge over your competitors by enabling you to streamline your hiring process, expand your brand awareness through job advertising, build a pipeline of qualified candidates ready to fill positions before they’re even vacant, and refine your hiring funnel so that these superstar employees stay with you for the long haul. Packed full of comprehensive research on the resources and strategies available to today's business owners, as well as the stories of business owners and leaders who have utilized them with great success, Fully Staffed lives up to its subtitle of being THE definitive guide to finding and keeping great employees in the worst labor market ever. Each chapter will help you replace desperation with a solid plan of action, as you discover: Why the most crucial employment strategy is perfecting your workplace culture How to implement thoughtful, unique, and digitally-minded job advertising techniques How to leverage the power of community, educational, and governmental networks and programs How to harness the value in under-tapped labor pools like veterans, retirees, ex-offenders, and people with disabilities And how to optimize your onboarding and retention processes In this tough labor market, where the job hunters have become the hunted, employers can’t rely on the hiring tactics of yesteryear. They have to ditch poorly placed “Help Wanted” ads and stop hiring every candidate who walks through the door. Instead, they must be thoughtful about who they want to hire, where and when they will advertise for open positions, how they want to onboard them, and why professional development matters. Read it in part or in full—this encyclopedic guide to hiring and retention has every tip and tactic you need in the common-sense language you want to quickly and easily get off the hire/train/turnover treadmill and get your business FULLY STAFFED.

Behave

Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143110918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 801

Book Description
New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year “It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post From the bestselling author of A Primate's Memoir and the forthcoming Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will comes a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky—a neuroscientist and primatologist—uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement—a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.

The Resilient Manager

Author: A. Furnham
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137361077
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Resilient people are happier, healthier, and more productive. Psychologist and business writer Adrian Furnham takes a sideways and entertaining look at the challenges of being a leader, demonstrating how resilience can be honed, developed, and used as a personal life raft to keep afloat in the face of adversity.

Bad Apples

Author: Terrence Sember
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440514275
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
Unlike other career books, this book offers managers a team-focused approach to neutralizing a not-so-pleasant—or productive—working atmosphere. Instead of isolating the one problem employee, relevant teams are considered as part of the solution. The result? Solutions stick and there's less likelihood of the bad apple ruining the bunch. Complete with situational advice and case studies taken straight from the trenches, this simple and straightforward guide teaches managers how to: Calm down combatants Motivate wasters Silence gossips De-arm backstabbers Convince passive-aggressives to open up Teach narcissists the importance of the team This book helps managers decide what the right course of action is—whether it means chastising negative behavior, encouraging positive outlooks, separating certain folks, creating teams for success, giving employees warnings, and/or firing the ones who are pretty much rotten through and through. This book is essential reading for any manager looking to ensure a pleasant, productive—and fruitful—work environment.

Worst Employee of the Month Notebook: Funny Gag Notebook for Co Workers and Employees at the Office and Work Place. 6 X 9 Notebook. 150 Pages.

Author: Fhc Books
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781799000266
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description
Worst employee of the month notebook. Funny gag notebook for co workers and employees at the office and work place. If you're the boss and someone has really stunk it up at work recently give them this award to inspire progress in the coming weeks! Perfect white elephant or secret Santa gift for work and the office. 6 x 9 notebook. 150 pages.

Filling the Glass

Author: Barry Maher
Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing
ISBN: 9780793138654
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Filing the Glass is not about selling; it's about succeeding. Author Barry Maher, sales consultant to over 300 of the world's largest companies and even members of Congress, shows how his incredibly successful sales techniques can be applied to succeed in business.

Ask a Manager

Author: Alison Green
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0399181822
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together