Sessions

Clint Swindall will sign his book Engaged Leadership, 2nd Ed. and Living for the Weekday.

Engaged Leadership
There are two kinds of employees - engaged and disengaged. Engaged employees are those who are dedicated to the organization's vision and eager to contribute. They are productive and live by the organization's values. Disengaged employees are those who aren't even aware of the organization's vision and spend most of their time watching the clock. They simply show up to work prepared to do the minimum to get by. Whereas engaged employees challenge those around them to do more and better, disengaged employees demoralize the productive employees with their lack of passion and intensity. The question for business leaders like you is simple: How do you turn disengaged employees into engaged and eager contributors? The answer is simple . . . Engaged Leadership. Since an employee is engaged or disengaged based on the culture of the organization, leaders must build a culture to overcome employee disengagement. Engaged Leadership shows readers how to build that culture by breaking down the art of effective leadership into three primary areas that all leaders must master in order to inspire and engage their employees: directional leadership, which builds a consensus for the vision; motivational leadership, which inspires people to pursue the vision; and organizational leadership, which develops the team to realize the vision. Though many leaders excel at one or two areas of leadership, truly great leaders are masters of all three. And that's what it takes to turn disaffected and disengaged employees into highly engaged go-getters. This book combines the popular business fable format with the more straightforward, how-to format that challenges you to use what you learn. It engages both the creative and the practical parts of the brain to teach smart leadership skills in an active and exciting way. Inside, you'll find a practical framework for successful leadership that works regardless of your role or industry. It's packed with ideas and strategies for building a dynamic culture that engages employees at all levels of the organization, releasing the true potential of your organization.

Living for the Weekday Book Description
Imagine wanting to go to work - Employee engagement drives superior performanceit's that simple. Good leaders know this, and take active steps to promote it. Yet engagement is a two-way street; no program works without employees stepping up and participating. If you're a leader, this participation is the key to your team's breakthrough results. If you're a team member, it's the ticket for more life satisfaction and career advancement. - In his debut book titled Engaged Leadership, author Clint Swindall addressed the leader's role in employee engagement. Through this popular business fable, Clint introduced readers to Seth Owen, a young management recruit who helps his boss build a culture of employee engagement. In this eye-opening follow-up to Engaged Leadership, Clint retells the fable from the perspective of Miles Freeman, an employee of Seth's who struggles with the disengagement of everyone around him. With the help of some insightful and timely training on life balance, Miles discovers that employee engagement is the result of some specific choices he and his coworkers make in their personal lives. - Whether you're a leader or an employee, Living for the Weekday gives you effective ways to create sustainable, far-reaching engagement in any collaborative workplace. With five key factors as the foundation for balancing life and workcareer, relationships, health, finances, and spiritualityLiving for the Weekday enables you to: - Answer hard questions about your career - Focus on your personal growth - Strengthen work relationships - Surround yourself with the right people - Benefit from adding value to your employer - Commit to a cause greater than yourself - This innovative and entertaining book takes a fun yet practical look at job satisfaction from the employee's point of view. Filled with challenges and self-assessments, it supplies you with a series of tools to get the most out of your team and your career, while serving as an enduring reminder that job satisfaction comes down to practicing a few simple behaviorsbehaviors that may seem simple on the surface, but that can be agonizingly difficult to master. Make this inspiring and powerful book your first step in achieving a new level of workplace success.