Category: Motivation

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The Partner’s 20 Minute Guide (Second Edition)

The Partner’s 20 Minute Guide helps partners change their loved one’s substance use. Developed by psychologists at the Center for Motivation and Change, the 20 Minute Guide pulls from Motivational Interviewing (MI), CRAFT (Community Reinforcement and Family Training), Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to give family members the best tools to help a loved one change their substance use while staying connected and using the power of science and kindness. This guide will help you with such tools as: How to react when your child has been using substances and when he has NOT been using; How to utilize your support network as effectively as possible; Getting more of what you want to see from your spouse and less of what you don’t; How to talk to your partner so that you are more likely to be heard; How to take care of yourself all along the way.

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Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

“What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity.”—Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature

The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently,  Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader.

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Compensation and Motivation: Maximizing Employee Performance With Behavior-Based Incentive Plans

Over 12,000 copies sold. 
“Compensation and Motivation” is the first book in the Culture of Partnership series. With a strong foundation in social science and behavioral psychology, this book will show you how to develop incentive plans that work!Turn the cost of compensation into an investment that will increase revenue and profit, enhance the value of the organization and motivate all employees to deliver the business strategy. This book describes how to develop the right reward system that will engage and motivate the target audience.Employees come to work for the rewards, either material (money), social (recognition and appreciation) or both.  Mr. McCoy shows how to combine behavioral psychology and business strategy to create a reward system that offers fulfillment to the employees if they deliver on the company goals. This book goes beyond just showing how to link pay to performance. It shows how to balance the array of rewards that a company can offer (cash, benefits, meaningful work, social recognition and appreciation) so that the maximum motivation is obtained with the least overall cost. It’s called “the mix that motivates.”Over 65 percent of all businesses offer some form of incentive to all employees. However, many of those efforts are ineffective in achieving the organization’s goals. This book shows how to engage all employees in the business, motivate them to perform at exceptional levels, create a common focus and a feeling of shared destiny (teamwork.)  Learn how to become an employer of choice. Learn how to engage employees so that the operation “runs itself”. Learn how to use compensation as the engine that drives a Culture of Partnership.

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The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance

What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested—and keeps them interested—in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity.

Informed by new findings on the nature of the brain’s seeking system, internationally renowned educators Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt have identified key brain-friendly strategies for improving student motivation, knowledge acquisition, retention, and academic success. In this book, readers will learn

* The science behind the motivated brain and how it relates to student learning.

* Strategies for preparing a motivational environment and lesson.

* Strategies for creating engaging learning experiences that capitalize on the brain’s natural ways of learning.

* Strategies for improving depth of knowledge, complex thinking, and synthesis to get students into the ever-desired state of flow.

* How attention to the neuroscience of motivation will improve the classroom environment and student learning.

The Motivated Brain shows teachers how to harness the power of their students’ intrinsic motivation to make learning fun, engaging, and meaningful.

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Sociocultural Theories of Learning and Motivation: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Research on Sociocultural Influences on Motivation and Learn)

It is now nearly thirty years since sociocultural theories of learning created great excitement and debate amongst those concerned with learning in diverse contexts. Since that time significant advances have been made in sociocultural theory and research. Various sociocultural approaches to the understanding of learning (for example, sociocultural psychology, sociocultural discourse, cultural historical activity theory) have been developed and consolidated and new challenges are currently being addressed. In the motivational arena sociocultural approaches deriving from Vygotsky have only begun to emerge relatively recently. In this Volume we examine and evaluate the achievements of past sociocultural theory and research, and consider the future directions of sociocultural theory and research in the domains of learning and motivation.

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Fearless Women at Work: Five Powerful Strategies to Thrive in Your Career and Life!

This book’s sole purpose is to ignite your personal power to pursue the life of your dreams by applying five practical strategies in a unique process named C.A.R.E.S. These strategies will guide you to: Connect: Get clear on your needs, core values, sources of strength, your unique value proposition, and your why to inform career and life decisions. Align: Understand the gaps between what you want and where you find yourself today, and how to pivot and retool to bridge those gaps. Rise: Identify the real and fictitious challenges and assumptions holding you back so you can be in the driver seat of your life. Envision: Explore your leadership style and deepest desires. Begin to create a prioritized action plan to create a purposeful and fulfilling life. Seek: Tap into your inner resourcefulness, opportunities, and a vibrant support system to help you achieve your cherished goals.

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Meeting Students Where They Live: Motivation in Urban Schools

How can teachers connect with and motivate students to embrace learning? According to Jonathan C. Erwin, the secret lies in forging positive relationships with students by meeting their individual social-emotional needs.

Inspiring the Best in Students includes step-by-step instructions for dozens of classroom activities for grades 3 12 that help build student-teacher relationships while teaching both content and skills. Also included is a thorough overview of William Glasser’s Choice Theory and such core teaching and learning concepts as internal control psychology and total behavior.

The more students are given the freedom to make choices in a safe environment while also having fun, the more their enthusiasm for learning deepens. By following the advice in this book, you can ensure that the students in your class will remain engaged and inspired to achieve their best.

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The Writer’s Devotional: 365 Inspirational Exercises, Ideas, Tips & Motivations on Writing

Whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction, screenplays or poetry, or simply trying to keep a more compelling journal or blog, this invaluable volume will get your creative juices flowing. Beautifully designed with a cloth-bound cover and ribbon place marker, it’s filled with 365 inspiring quotations and informative tutorials to help you develop your unique voice. Each day of the week focuses on a different aspect of the writing life, from the business of writing, to the nuts and bolts of editing, to tips and tricks for getting past writer’s block.

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The No S Diet: The Strikingly Simple Weight-Loss Strategy That Has DietersRaving–and Dropping Pounds

No Snacks. No Sweets. No Seconds.*

*Except on days that start with S (Saturdays, Sundays, and Special days).

Developed by a problem-solving software engineer who was tired of diets that are too hard to stick with, The No-S Diet has attracted a passionate following online thanks to its elegant simplicity-and its results. Unlike fad diets based on gimmicks that lead to short-term weight-loss followed by backsliding and failure, The No-S Diet is a maintainable life plan that reminds us of the commonsense, conscious way we all know we should be eating.

The book offers readers the tips, tricks, techniques and testimonials they’ll need to stick with No-S for life

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