Bill Byham is the founder and executive chairman of Development Dimensions International (DDI), a globally recognized company specializing in human resource training and consulting. As an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist, he has pioneered numerous significant innovations in human resources. His groundbreaking work includes the development of the assessment center method, behavior-based interviewing, and behavior-modeling techniques for leadership training. Byham's methodologies, detailed in 23 books and over 300 articles, have fundamentally shaped how organizations select and develop talent.
The Lightning of Empowerment
Empowerment is the key to superior performance and means motivating every employee towards continual improvement in quality, output, sales and customer satisfaction. This fable about a man called Joe Schomoe explains the concept in a different way to business books.
Provides the frank answers to questions about how teams work, what makes them effective, when they are useful, how to get them going, and how to maintain their vigor and productivity over the long haul. Draws on a survey of over five hundred organizations and an in-depth study of twenty-eight companies (conducted jointly by Industry Week and the Association for Quality and Participation).
Today's enterprises face a profound leadership crisis - and the speed of business has far outstripped conventional executive development systems. In Grow Your Own Leaders , three world-renowned experts introduce an entirely new approach for identifying tomorrow's leaders within your own organization, accelerating their development, and deploying them immediately, to address new challenges wherever they emerge.
William C. Byham and Jeff Cox, the authors of ZAPP! The Lightning of Empowerment, provide the proven techniques that can help workers make more meaningful decisions, measure their progress more reliably, and work more efficiently in teams.
A contemporary fable that shows how empowering people--zapping them--builds strong, enthusiastic employees and organizations dedicated to improving quality, sales, and productivity.
Erleben Sie in der 12. Dimension mit Ralph Rosco und Joe Mode, wie Motivationsblitze wirken. Diese moderne Fabel zeigt, wie Führungskräfte ein hochmotiviertes Team aufbauen und erhalten können, um die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit durch kreative Energie jedes Mitarbeiters zu steigern.
In einer fiktiven Story erhalten drei Mitarbeiter einer Pfeilfabrik,die an alten und verkrusteten Strukturen leiden, das 'Buch der Zauberformeln', in dem die modernen Management- und Arbeitstechniken als Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung enthalten sind. Mit Hilfe dieses Buches gelingt es ihnen, eine Reihe von Problemen zu lösen: zu geringe Produktivität, mangelnde Qualität, innovationsfeindliches Klima, stark ausgeprägtes Bereichs- und Standesdenken, lange Lieferzeiten und halsstarrige Kollegen und Vorgesetzte.
