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Motivation and Performance: A Guide to Motivating a Diverse Workforce

Many organizations approach the issue of employee engagement and motivation by tapping into age, gender and other stereotypes. Motivation and Performance challenges these notions, bringing together evidence that group differences are often exaggerated and that getting to the heart of what really motivates individuals is what’s most important. This book is a practical guide to ensuring that organizations consider all motivators – job security as well as the need for personal growth – to improve employee satisfaction, boost organizational productivity and reduce staff turnover.

Underpinned by original research, Motivation and Performance features case studies from finance, retail, the public and other sectors to show how the principles of motivating employees apply at all levels of the organization, not just at the leadership level, and how values and motivation can be changed and developed. Complete with a framework for conducting effective visits to front-line locations, it will help HR professionals ask the right questions, choose whether to implement external motivation-building programmes and make a real impact on an employee’s desire to progress in the company.

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The Mushin Way to Peak Performance: The Path to Productivity, Balance, and Success

Follow your own nature to achieve clarity, power, and success

The Mushin Way teaches tools and techniques to help you reach peak performance and transform your business and personal life. Regardless of what we want to achieve in business or in life, transformation can be difficult and we tend to be our own worst enemies. We hold ourselves back without even realizing what we are capable of. In this book, you’ll learn how to break through the cycle of stress and setbacks to act with clarity, purpose, and direction—achieving peak performance and transformation along the way. You’ll look deep inside to discover the natural leadership abilities lying dormant within you; you’ll wake them up, make them stronger, and learn to draw on the strengths of those around you instead of muscling through with brute force. You’ll discover how making the right choice is an empowering act, and develop the strength and confidence to stop hesitating at every crossroad. With pragmatic advice and wisdom drawn from the guiding principles of the Japanese martial art of Aikido, you’ll find your inner warrior and learn that even the most challenging battles can be won—or may not even need to be fought.

When you set your sights high, peak performance can feel like a constant uphill battle fraught with failures and disappointments. What if success was more like a transformational river current that carries you along to your goal? This book shows you how to come down off the hill into the refreshing waters of mindfulness to begin your journey to the top. Develop laser-like focus, even in high-stress environments Identify and develop your own innate leadership qualities Turn setbacks into opportunities and defeat into victory Achieve much more than ever before, with far less effort

Eastern philosophy teaches us to work in harmony with our own nature instead of fighting ourselves every step of the way. The Mushin Way shows you just where your inner strengths lie, and how to leverage them for success.

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Big Data: Using Smart Big Data, Analytics and Metrics to Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance

Get smart―learn to convert the promise of Big Data into real-world results.

There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works. But what will set you apart from the rest is actually knowing how to use big data to get solid, real-world business results―and putting that in place to improve performance.

Big Data shows you how to implement the same practices that leading firms have used to access new dimensions of profitability. You’ll learn from clear explanations and countless examples how successful organisations large and small use the SMART model to get ahead.

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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty mantra. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.
           
In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research—including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG—to fix this broken formula. Using stories and case studies from his work with thousands of Fortune 500 executives in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive edge at work.
           
Isolating seven practical, actionable principles that have been tried and tested everywhere from classrooms to boardrooms, stretching from Argentina to Zimbabwe, he shows us how we can capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve our performance and maximize our potential. Among the principles he outlines:
 

   • The Tetris Effect: how to retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibility, so we can see—and seize—opportunities wherever we look.
   • The Zorro Circle: how to channel our efforts on small, manageable goals, to gain the leverage to gradually conquer bigger and bigger ones.
   • Social Investment: how to reap the dividends of investing in one of the greatest predictors of success and happiness—our social support network

 
A must-read for everyone trying to excel in a world of increasing workloads, stress, and negativity, The Happiness Advantage isn’t only about how to become happier at work. It’s about how to reap the benefits of a happier and more positive mind-set to achieve the extraordinary in our work and in our lives.

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Supercharge Your Motivation and Performance: The key to anything you can imagine through planning, gratitude, and the power of your mind

“What would it look like to you if you could inspire and empower yourself and others to create wild success? Thousands of books and articles promise to ‘motivate you’, help you ‘overcome’, ‘put an end to’, ‘ improve performance’, ‘gain or lose something’, or ‘feel better’. Just remember, it all begins with YOU; you have to decide to accept the advice and decide to change for what you want. It doesn’t happen without you, no matter how many books and articles you read. When you decide to make a difference in your life, this book will prove to be a valuable gift of ideas, nuggets of gold; when you accept that this is not a recipe, but a process that you patiently need to adjust to your needs and wants, then incredible things will start happening. Start a fire! Try a couple of ideas, then a couple more, then a blaze of them on your way to well-being and performance. You’ll figure out what to leave behind, what to do, and how to enjoy newfound happiness, joy, success and ultimate performance. Unleash your inner self, your potential, and help others do the same. Take action and do it now; don’t wait! For the non-believers, suspend judgement and ask what would be different in your life if even 2% of the ideas in this book really worked for you. And don’t forget, if you want the rainbow, you have to make it through the rain.” — Andrew Vujnovich, DSL, Leadership Performance Consultant

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Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance (Educational Psychology Handbook)

Self-regulated learning (or self-regulation) refers to the process whereby learners personally activate and sustain cognitions, affects, and behaviours that are systematically oriented toward the attainment of learning goals. This is the first volume to integrate into a single volume all aspects of the field of self-regulation of learning and performance: basic domains, applications to content areas, instructional issues, methodological issues, and individual differences. It draws on research from such diverse areas as cognitive, educational, clinical, social, and organizational psychology. Distinguishing features include:

Chapter Structure – To ensure uniformity and coherence across chapters, each chapter author addresses the theoretical ideas underlying their topic, research evidence bearing on these ideas, future research directions, and implications for educational practice.

International – Because research on self-regulation is increasingly global, a significant number of interntional contributors are included (see table of contents).

Readable – In order to make the book accessible to students, chapters have been carefully edited for clarity, conciseness, and organizational consistency.

Expertise – All chapters are written by leading researchers from around the world who are highly regarded experts on their particular topics and are active contributors to the field.

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Motivation for Learning and Performance

Designed for educators, researchers, practitioners, or anyone interested in maximizing human potential, Motivation for Learning and Performance outlines 50 key motivation principles based on the latest scientific evidence from the disciplines of psychology, education, business, athletics, and neurology.  Using a highly applied and conversational style, the book is designed to inform the reader about how to diagnosis, analyze, and mediate learning and performance challenges influenced by motivation. 
In addition to discussing current theories of motivation and emotion, the book features chapters on the biopsychology of motivation, how motivation changes across the lifespan, and the important influences of socialization and culture on motivated behavior. Three chapters are devoted to practical strategies and the implementation of motivational change. Special sections are included on enhancing motivation at work, in the classroom, in competitive environments, and during online education.
 
Hoffman employs the innovative approach of using his interviews with “real” people including many notable personalities across diverse cultures and disciplines to illustrate motivated behavior. For example, readers will learn what motivated the colossal investment fraud masterminded by Bernie Madoff, the intimate thoughts of former NFL superstar Nick Lowery when he missed a field goal, and the joys and tribulations of Emmy-nominated “Curb your Enthusiasm” actress Cheryl Hines.
 
The book provides a practical, applied, and multi-disciplinary resource for anyone interested in motivation and performance, but especially for university students at the graduate or undergraduate level studying education, psychology, business, leadership, hospitality, sports management, or military science.  Additionally, the writing style and eclectic nature of the text will appeal to readers of non-fiction who can use the book to gain self-awareness to enhance performance of themselves or others.
 
Key Features
 –Uses scientific evidence across disciplines to identify 50 key motivation principles–Describes dozens of authentic strategies to improve learning and performance–Discusses how to overcome resistance when implementing motivational change–Includes a special section on 75 different ways motivation is measured–Features interviews with “real-life” people, identifying what motivates them and why

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Musicians Yoga: A Guide To Practice Performance And Inspiration

(Berklee Press). Become a better musician through yoga. By integrating yoga into your practice routines, you will develop a more focused and concentrated mind for performance. You will be able to increase awareness of how you use your body to allow for proper posture and ease of movement while performing, helping you to avoid overuse injuries and play with greater expression. These concepts, exercises, and practice routines present yoga from the musicians’ perspective, focusing on the direct relationships between using yoga and creating music. You will learn to: * Practice meditation approaches, breathing techniques, and yoga postures that will help improve musicianship * Play using healthy posture and technique * Get more out of your practice through improved focus * Use your breath to improve your phrasing and also to ease performance anxiety * Play with deeper expression through inspiration.

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Instant Motivation: The surprising truth behind what really drives top performance

‘This will change how you see everything’

Linda Swidenbank; Publishing Director, Time Inc (UK)

 

‘Reveals the vital difference between how we really think and how we think we think’

Rory Sutherland; Vice Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather

 

 This book will change how you think about what drives you to succeed. Groundbreaking new research  reveals how your state of mind holds the key to your motivation, success and happiness. 

 

Compelling evidence combined with inspiring stories and insights will unlock a powerful new mindset that will instantly boost your performance and open your eyes to what it really takes to excel.

 

‘If you want to power-up your performance, read this book’

Shaa Wasmund, author of Stop Talking, Start Doing

 

‘Genuinely transformational’

Josh Krichefski, COO MediaCom

 

‘Compelling’

David Pugh-Jones, Global Creative Director, Microsoft

 

‘Life-changing!’

Sophie Hearsey, Editor, that’s life!

 

‘Highly recommended!’

Karl Marsden, Managing Director, Shortlist Media Ltd

 

‘Deceptively powerful’

Stuart Taylor, CEO Kinetic Worldwide