Kit Prendergast, PCC
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Keeping the Milennials
Keeping the Millennials: Why Companies Are Losing Billions in Turnover to this Generation and What to Do About It, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2009.
This is a wonderful book filled with strategies and tips on how to attract and engage the youngest generation appearing in today’s workforce. The Millennials, also know known as Gen Y, were born after 1985 and are well-educated, talented and hard-working but also extremely mobile in their careers. Pick up this book and learn how to recruit this newest talent (because you need them!) and then how to retain them by creating a millennial friendly culture in your workplace
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Tagged millenials, Multigenerational, teams
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Maximum Success with LinkedIn
Maximum Success with LinkedIn: Dominate Your Market, Build a Global Brand, and Create the Career of Your Dreams, by Dan Sherman, The McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, New York, 2013.
If you are a professional at any stage of your career journey you will find this book invaluable. LinkedIn has become the indisputable leader in connecting professionals together to maximize business and career success.
Sherman has a delightful way of writing this easy-to-read book. Each chapter (starting with “Love at First Click”) takes us through how to design our profile so that others can find us easily, know what services we offer, how to contact us and what the final benefits will be in working with us. Pick up this book and read it over the weekend. And then send me an invitation to connect. I always enjoy learning what my colleagues are doing and LinkedIn is the ideal way to do that. It’s easy, free and powerful!
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Tagged communication, Networking, Relationships, social media
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Eat, Move, Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
Eat, Move, Sleep How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes, Tom Rath (Author of StrengthsFinder 2.0), MissionDay Publications. 2013.
I have always been a strong advocate for the strengths-based approach to the challenge of motivating and engaging others as well as ourselves. I have all of Tom Rath’s previous books but have never seen him write about his personal journey with a rare cancer he’s had since he was 16 years old.
This book is fascinating from that standpoint but has a larger message applicable to all of us. By choosing three small changes each day and weaving them into an upward spiral we can make big changes in our lives. Set your intention, identify your benchmarks of progress and put the “pedal to the metal” to maximize your success. This is a great project for August for all of us!
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being, Martin Seligman PhD, Free Press, Simon & Schuster Inc. 2011.
Martin Seligman’s newest book is fascinating! Seligman (world renown for his work in positive psychology) takes his past extensive studies of “authentic happiness” and expands it into the concept of “well-being”.
Seligman’s believes that one’s own sense of well-being has five measurable and sustainable elements: positive emotion, engagement, relationship, meaning and achievement. And this is not only true for individuals but equally measurable in businesses, teams, families, neighbor communities and even for whole countries. I was intrigued to read the research findings on which of 23 EU countries ranked the highest in citizen “well-being”. Pick up the book to see where we all should be moving! Leadership.
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Tagged Career, change, energy, Leadership, optimism, Positive Psychology, strengths, transition
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The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen & Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston, MA, 2011.
How do innovative entrepreneurs learn to be so creative? It’s really not such a mystery after hearing co-author Jeff Dyer speak at the recent ASTD Technology conference and reading this insightful book.
All of us can increase our creative mind set by practicing Dyer’s five “discovery skills” regularly. We may not become the next Steve Jobs but all of us can become far better in bringing insight and innovation into our business practices. And it’s good for our business bottom line as well.