Employee Development | Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

1) The upside of stress: why stress is good for you, and how to get good at it

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"The author of The Willpower Instinct delivers a controversial and groundbreaking new book that overturns long-held beliefs about stress. More than forty-four percent of Americans admit to losing sleep over stress. And while most of us do everything we can to reduce it, Stanford psychologist and bestselling author Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., delivers a startling message: Stress isn't bad. In The Upside of Stress, McGonigal highlights new research indicating...

2) The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Why Your People Make All the Difference and the 6 Practices You Need to Engage Them

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Moon, Shawn D

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Every move your company makes can be copied by your competitors. But truly mobilizing your people creates positive results in a thousand different ways throughout your organization, giving your company the ultimate competitive advantage. For decades, FranklinCovey has been working with businesses throughout the world to train their people in the seven habits model of personal effectiveness. The Ultimate Competitive Advantage describes the six practices...

3) turn the ship around a true story of turning follo

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4) survive your promotion the 90 day success plan for

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5) Successful time management for dummies

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Zeller, Dirk

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For dummies

6) The speed of trust: the one thing that changes everything

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Covey, Stephen M. R

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This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO Covey informs readers how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in so doing to create unparalleled success and sustainable...

7) say it right the first time

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8) quiet leadership help people think better don t te

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9) The power principle: influence with honor

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Lee, Blaine

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Discusses how power is used in everyday relationships and explains why people will be more powerful and respected if they use honor instead of fear or intimidation to obtain the things they want.

10) positive discipline how to resolve tough performan

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11) Passing the Torch: A Guide to the Succession Planning Process

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Piña-Ramírez, Wanda

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Don't wait for a crisis. Maintain business continuity with a succession plan. One hundred percent of top global companies, and 72 percent of all companies, have a formal succession planning process. If your company is in the minority, a move in the right direction is easier than you may think. Authored by talent development experts Wanda Piña-Ramírez and Norma Dávila, this workbook highlights the importance of knowledge transfer in a time of fierce...

12) Man's search for meaning

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Frankl, Viktor Emil

13) Managing transitions: making the most of change

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Bridges, William

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The business world is transforming. Stories of layoffs, bankruptcy, mergers, and restructuring appear in the news every day. When these changes hit the workplace, the actual situational shifts are often not as difficult for employees and managers to work through as the psychological components that accompany them. Indeed, organizational transitions affect people; it is always people who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding...

14) Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

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Kaye, Beverly

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This sixth edition of the number one bestselling employee retention book in the world (over 800,000 copies sold) puts a new emphasis on diversity and inclusion but keeps the same appealing format: twenty-six simple strategies from A to Z. Despite booms and busts, technology advances, talent wars, layoffs, and even a global pandemic, people want what they've always wanted. Employees want-and now expect-meaningful work, supportive bosses, regular recognition,...

15) Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less

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Lesser, Marc

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A certain kind of busyness is crucial to life, allowing us to earn a living, create art, and achieve success. But too often it consumes us and we become crazy busy, nonstop busy, and we expend extraneous effort that gets us nowhere. Marc Lesser's new book shows us the benefits of doing less in a world that has increasingly embraced more - more desire, more activity, more things, more exhaustion. Less is about stopping, about the possibility of finding...

16) leadership without easy answers

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17) How to raise an adult: break free of the overparenting trap and prepare your kid for success

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Lythcott-Haims, Julie

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Drawing on her experience as Stanford University's dean of freshmen, the author, revealing the harms of over-parenting, offers practical strategies that stress the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness and determination necessary to succeed.

18) The happiness advantage: how a positive brain fuels success in work and life

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Achor, Shawn

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Recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that happiness fuels success, not the other way around. Achor isolates seven practical, actionable principles that show how to capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve performance and maximize potential.

19) Good to great: why some companies make the leap… and others don't

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Collins, James C

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Professional development collection

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Built to Last showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity...

20) Give and take: why helping others drives our success

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Grant, Adam M

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Using his own pioneering research as Wharton's youngest tenured professor, Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success. Although some givers get exploited and burn out, the rest achieve extraordinary results across a wide range of industries. Combining cutting-edge evidence with captivating stories, this landmark book shows how one of America's best networkers developed his connections, why the creative genius behind one of the...