Tim Schneider

Monthly potluck lunches. Company pep rallies. Focus groups. Birthday parties.

If you are not seeing any results from these and want to drive your organization to higher levels of health and performance, you need Beyond Engagement.

Jadedness for satisfaction and engagement surveys are on the rise. Team members are no longer interested in hollow solutions and lip service to their morale and needs. Beyond Engagement takes readers through a look at the role of your human… Show more

Monthly potluck lunches. Company pep rallies. Focus groups. Birthday parties.

If you are not seeing any results from these and want to drive your organization to higher levels of health and performance, you need Beyond Engagement.

Jadedness for satisfaction and engagement surveys are on the rise. Team members are no longer interested in hollow solutions and lip service to their morale and needs. Beyond Engagement takes readers through a look at the role of your human resources function and how their recruitment philosophies and interviewing processes have a dramatic impact on organizational culture and engagement. "You catch what you go fishing for" is the line that will resonate with you for a long time.

Tim Schneider then takes us on an updated and workplace specific view of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. In Beyond Engagement, this needs pyramid assumes a new meaning and we see how meeting needs, at work, becomes a significant factor in organizational health. From the basics of providing for a team member's survival through creating satisfying and meaningful work, these sections provide solutions to many common organizational morale challenges.

Beyond Engagement continues with new views, supported by validated science, into real input. You will never conduct another brainstorming session again after reading this section and concentrate on providing your team members with real voice in the organization.

One of the most common failures in traditional engagement strategies is not having leaders that are truly people focused. Beyond Engagement tackles this issue in a straightforward manner and reasserts that leadership is a people function. Another important section deals with transparency and how an organization relays information in an honest and open way.

Beyond Engagement is a powerful tool in building real performance through healthy organizational practices and motivating a world-class workforce. Show less

LeadWell-The Ten Competencies of Outstanding Leadership is a comprehensive and thorough look at the skills needed to succeed as a leader. This book constructs the sequential building blocks to great leadership in an easy to follow and easy to implement format. Build these competencies and become an outstanding leader. That simple.

The book’s author, Tim Schneider, begins the leadership journey with a detailed look at the connection between leadership success and communication skills.… Show more

LeadWell-The Ten Competencies of Outstanding Leadership is a comprehensive and thorough look at the skills needed to succeed as a leader. This book constructs the sequential building blocks to great leadership in an easy to follow and easy to implement format. Build these competencies and become an outstanding leader. That simple.

The book’s author, Tim Schneider, begins the leadership journey with a detailed look at the connection between leadership success and communication skills. The heart and soul of LeadWell-The Ten Competencies of Outstanding Leadership is built around tone setting and coaching team members. Schneider provides a common sense look at emotional intelligence by examining the role of self-management and relational interactions in sections that powerfully remind leaders of the need to be examples and mixing in the right amount of charm.

Breeding sheep is included with an insightful review of ethics and decision making. One of the most interesting treatments in the book is this section’s comparison of ethics and morality and the admonition to keep the two as very separate concepts. Courage and risk taking next take center stage in LeadWell-The Ten Competencies of Outstanding Leadership and introduce a deliberative and systemic approach that is designed to assist leaders avoid rash and arbitrary actions without being paralyzed with analysis and information gathering. A long dive into innovation and strategic planning conclude the ten competencies that comprise this volume.

Throughout the chapters that are filled with great leadership insight, there is also plenty of humor that makes this an enjoyable read. If you are going to pick up a professional development book in the coming months, make it LeadWell-The Ten Competencies of Outstanding Leadership.

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