Shine
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A manager's job is getting harder to do. But the central question for all managers – the one that separates great managers from the rest- is how to get the most from your people. What do you do when your most talented people fall short of their potential, or worse, fall off their game for awhile? How do you inspire a solid contributor to even more stellar performance? How do you find that spark? And turn it into a burning flame?According to best-selling author and psychiatrist, Ned Hallowell, it's all in the brain. Creating that spark and inspiring someone to perform at their highest levels isn't rocket science; but it is brain science, and it has yet to be codified into a simple and reliable process that all managers can use.Drawing from his expertise helping people reach their full potential and synthesizing the latest research on happiness, brain science, and performance, Hallowell does exactly that – he offers a five step process that leads to peak performance. Based on the latest findings in the fast-moving field of high performance research and rooted in the work of Martin Seligman, Dan Gilbert, Marcus Buckingham, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, John Ratey, and many other experts in psychology and neuroscience, this book gives managers a simple and coherent framework for getting the best out of people:(1) Selection – how to put people in the right job, and give them the responsbilities that literally make their brains «light up;»(2) Connection – how to overcome the powerful forces that disconnect us interpersonally in today's workplace, and how to restore the positive connections that fuel superior performance;(3) Play – why play is essential to peak performance, and how managers can get it right;(4) Progress – when the pressure is on, how to challenge the right person at the right time;(5) Recognition – why reward systems always decrease peak performance, and how managers can finally get this rightThe value of the five steps is that each step builds on another. For instance, there's no point in challenging an employee to go beyond their personal best if you haven't bothered to ensure first that you've got them in the right job. And there's no way to successfully get someone to think more creatively if you haven't first established the personal connection with her so that she knows her wild ideas will be taken seriously. And there's no point in demanding more, if you haven't first given employees a chance to engage their imagination and play around with the things that «light up their brains.»Especially in times of mental overload and stress, when invoking people to suck it up or work even harder isn't an effective management tool, managers need a new game plan, like the one in this book, for helping their people perform at their best.
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Ned Hallowell. Shine
Praise for Shine
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Brain Science, Peak Performance, and. Finding the Shine
Finding the Shine: Five Steps to Igniting. Peak Performance
The Evolution of This Plan
The Latest Research
Why These Ideas Matter Now
KEY IDEAS
CHAPTER ONE
Five Steps to Peak. Performance
The Game Has Changed: Brain. Science and Peak Performance in. a Modern Context
Plastic Makes Perfect
What’s All You Can Be?
Applying the Cycle of Excellence
Step 1: Select
Step 2: Connect
Step 3: Play
Step 4: Grapple and Grow
Step 5: Shine
KEY IDEAS
CHAPTER TWO
Select
Select: Put the Person in the Right Job
Felicity Follows Fit; Misfit Makes Misery
How to Recognize the Wrong Match
How to Make the Right Match: The Three Frameworks
The Structured Interview
THE HALLOWELL SELF-REPORT. JOB-FIT SCALE
Find the Flow
Know Your Employees’ Conative Style
Kolbe’s Four Major Conative Traits
The “Fact Finder” Trait
The “Follow Thru” Trait
The “Quick Start” Trait
The “Implementor” Trait
KEY IDEAS
CHAPTER THREE
Connect
Connect: The Most Powerful Step
Why Connection Matters
The Power of Social Networks
The Power of Positive Connections
The Danger of Fear When Connection Is Weak
A Real-Life Look at Connection and Disconnection
How to Build a Positively Connected Workplace
KEY IDEAS
CHAPTER FOUR
Play
Play Unearths Talent and Ideas
Play Promotes Connection and Creativity
How to Encourage Play
KEY IDEAS
CHAPTER FIVE
Grapple and Grow
The Pain of Gain
Making Work Pay Off
Grappling with Stress
Growing Through Hard Work
Work Hard, but Work Smart
How to Help People Grapple and Grow
KEY IDEAS
CHAPTER SIX
Shine
Recognition Picks Everyone Up
Recognition Promotes Moral Behavior. Through Connection
How to Recognize People and Promote Shine
Celebrating Harvard Heroes
Appreciating the Underappreciated. at Dana Corporation
Make Noticing the Positive a Habit
KEY IDEAS
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Cycle of Excellence
Step 1: Select
Step 2: Connect
Step 3: Play
Step 4: Grapple and Grow
Step 5: Shine
The Synthesis Creates the Song
NOTES. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUE
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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“If you take Hallowell’s extraordinary knowledge and wisdom and combine them with the latest in brain science, you get this unique, fascinating, and highly useful book!”
—Carol Dweck, author,
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Yet even the best, most enlightened modern workplace continues to set traps that create unnecessary pain. Examples: the trap of social isolation, the trap of free-floating fear and insecurity, the trap of information overload, and the trap of a boundary-less, interruption-infested work environment. Managers need a plan to tap into what’s best in their people while minimizing the damage from these common traps.
All of this is to say that what I conceived as a plan to help individuals with ADD or other problematic issues blossomed into a plan to help all people who work in organizations sidestep the damage done by the distractions, interruptions, and pressures of modern life. It became a plan that could help managers help their people achieve at their highest levels.
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