Books by Beverly Kaye

Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, it's frequently back - burnered. When asked why, managers say the number one reason is that they just don't have time - for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops.But there's a better way. And it's surprisingly simple: frequent short conversations with employees about their career goals and options integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business. Kaye and Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well - intentioned development event or process. These conversations will increase employees' awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, and interests; point out where their organization and their industry are headed; and help them pull all of that together to design their own up - to - the - minute, personalized career paths.Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go is filled with practical tips, guidelines, and templates, as well as nearly a hundred suggested conversation questions. Illuminated with stories, quotes, and the perspectives of real managers and employees, this book proves that careers are best developed one conversation at a time.

Good employees are hard to find, and they can be easy to lose. But there's a simple tool every manager can use to ensure that star performers and solid contributors alike will feel energized, engaged, and excited - and that they will give you fair warning if they're unhappy. It's called the stay interview, and this book is the manager's definitive guide, written by the women who created the concept. The idea is simple: ask people how they like their jobs and what would keep them there. Worried that your talented people will want things you can't deliver, like more money or a big promotion? Kaye and Jordan-Evans have a simple four-step process for dealing with that. Feel just plain awkward about doing stay interviews? They explain how to create an atmosphere that will make the interview more comfortable and provide dozens of suggested questions and icebreakers, as well as tips for easing any performance anxiety you might feel. Think you don't have time? They offer all kinds of options for where, when, and how you can do stay interviews, from folding them into other business processes to doing them casually, like on a walk to get a cup of coffee. Stay interviews prevent exit interviews. They cost nothing, and the price of not doing them - in lost talent and time - can be huge. Now that you have the most practical, authoritative, soup-to-nuts guide available, you have no excuse. Just ask!

More than a decade ago, a group of bestselling authors, thought leaders and management experts among them Marshall Goldsmith, Beverly Kaye and Ken Shelton met to share their defining moments on leadership with one another. So taken were they with each other s stories that an annual tradition of trading leadership secrets was established. A recurring truth emerged: great leaders seize the opportunity to learn, again and again. Learn Like a Leader brings together these remarkable stories of learning and provides a close look at how top leaders including Jim Collins, Warren Bennis and Dave Ulrich were able to grow their careers, overcome setbacks and soar to the top. Offering profound lessons from key learning moments in the lives and careers of the contributors, Learn Like a Leader conveys the power of storytelling in teaching, training and mentoring.

Har du nogensinde spurgt dine værdifulde medarbejdere: “Hvad skal der til, for at du bliver her?”. Det virker som et meget enkelt og basalt spørgsmål, men fastholdelsessamtaler har en stor effekt, hvis du holder dem tidligt og hyppigt. Stiller du først spørgsmålet ved en fratrædelsessamtale, er det for sent. Fastholdelsessamtaler handler ganske enkelt om at tale med dine medarbejdere om, hvad der betyder mest for dem, og herefter samarbejde om at få det til at ske. Forfatterne har igennem 16 år undersøgt spørgsmålet: “Hvad får folk til at blive?”. Ledere, som har praktiseret at holde fastholdelsessamtaler, holdt dem tidligt og fulgt aktivt op på dem, har haft større succes med at holde på deres talentmasse og udvikle mere engagerede, dedikerede, loyale og produktive medarbejdere.Uden fastholdelsessamtalerne kan du blive ved med at spekulere over, hvad dine talenter mon egentlig gerne vil. Du håber, at dine talentfulde medarbejdere bliver så længe som muligt. Gode medarbejdere har altid valgmuligheder, og dine konkurrenter vil gerne have fat i dem. Hver fastholdelsessamtale er derfor en mulighed for at lære noget om og styrke relationen til din talentfulde medarbejder. Fastholdelsessamtaler - Undgå at miste din gode medarbejderer en brugervenlig bog, som er nem at slå op i, og som giver dig: • en bedre forståelse af, hvordan fastholdelsessamtaler fungerer • indsigt i, hvordan du kan forberede dig nemt og hurtigt til fastholdelsessamtaler • redskaber til at kunne håndtere svære medarbejderkrav på en mere effektiv måde • ideer til afholdelse af samtalerne i forskellige miljøer • forståelse for at nyde de løbende dialoger med de talentfulde medarbejdere i deres team. Bogen henvender sig til ledere med et stramt program og et konstant pres om at levere resultater. Den er også nyttig for rekrutteringsbureauer, der opsøger talenter på vegne af organisationer og herefter screener, interviewer og udvælger en passende profil.