Goman, Carol Kinsey.
Summary: "Aspiring and seasoned leaders have been trained to manage their leadership communication in many important ways: how they provide feedback and motivate employees, how they convey the strategy for their organization, how they interact with major clients or partners. And yet, all their efforts to communicate effectively can be derailed by even the smallest nonverbal gestures such as the way they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2011
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Summary: In "Baby Sign Language Basics," parents will learn 60 baby-friendly American Sign Language signs. Baby-specific signing techniques, songs, and games are included to make learning fun and easy, and also open up two-way communication quickly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 419.1 BRIBerg, Laura
Summary: Featuring 400 signs, this is the most comprehensive, user-friendly handbook for parents who want to enhance communication with any child through American Sign Language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 419 BERPinder-Amaker, Stephanie
Summary: "Across the globe, organizations have begun to appreciate that diverse groups provide superior outcomes; however we do not know how to sustain diversity in the workplace. This book offers relatable vignettes and evidence-based skill building to close thisgap"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3008 PINMarquet, L. David
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Turn the Ship Around!, former US Navy Captain David Marquet, comes a radical new playbook for empowering your team to make better decisions and take greater ownership. You might imagine that an effective leader is someone whomakes quick, intelligent decisions, gives inspiring speeches, and issues clear orders to their team so they can execute a plan to achieve your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MARTaylor, Charlotte
Summary: "In soccer and baseball, each player has their own job. They each do their part to contribute to the team. Teamwork is also important outside of sports. We use teamwork in our classroom, in our community, and at home with our family. In this book, readers are presented with different scenarios in which young people use teamwork to achieve a certain goal: When Nicole's neighbor becomes ill,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 158.2 TAYBaker, Wayne E.
Summary: "University of Michigan Professor and cofounder, with Adam Grant, of Give and Take Inc, shows us how to master one of life's most critical skills: the ability to ask for help. Often, there is a simple and seemingly obvious act standing between us and success: asking for the help and resources we need to succeed. Imagine you're on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overworked and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.101 BAKMcClain, S. (Sally)
Summary: Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Nuevo Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5403 MCCSolie, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice Hall Press 2004
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Summary: While the #MeToo movement has exposed the enormous harm done by sexual misconduct in the workplace, the movement’s full promise has not been fulfilled, Sylvia Ann Hewlett argues. Showcasing new data on the incidence of sexual harassment and assault at work, she reveals how the movement has focused almost exclusively on white women and failed to support other vulnerable groups who are also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3008 HEWSeale, Dustin
Summary: "In today's world of near-constant disruption, every leader faces a slew of conflicting demands involving employees of different generations, cultures, and age groups; one of history's tightest labor markets; and never-ending geopolitical, climate, financial, and health challenges. Lead Through Anything provides simple, tested and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw Hill 2024
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Summary: "Political communication expert Jennifer Mercieca shows how the Trump campaign expertly used the common rhetorical techniques of a demagogue, a word with two contradictory definitions--"a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power" or "a leader championing the cause of the common people in ancient times" (Merriam-Webster, 2019). These...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas A&M University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 MERAuger-Domainguez, Daisy
Summary: "We are in the midst of a global reckoning on racism, and corporations are on high alert. Public statements of anti-racism are no longer enough. But managers, especially those sandwiched between the C-Suite and their entry-level colleagues, feel that theydon't have the power and influence to affect the level of change we need to see in the world. In Inclusion Revolution, award-winning diversity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 AUGRuffini, Patrick
Summary: "An eye-opening, revelatory account of the future of the Republican party as they unite working-class voters in a multi-racial, cross-generational populist coalition. Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election shocked the world. Yet his defeat in 2020 may have been even more surprising: he received 12 million more votes in 2020 than 2016 and his unexpectedly diverse coalition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 320.56 RUFMartin, Ryan C.
Summary: "Ryan Martin, aka Tiktok's "The Anger Professor", offers 10 highly effective, research-based strategies for coping with the anger you have to face, whether at home, at work, on the street or online. Whether the confrontations are taking place at home, at work or online, the emotional toll of dealing with an angry person day-in day-out can be huge. As we often can't cut ourselves off from these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Watkins 2023
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Summary: "Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing. That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of twenty-five. She stared at a long list of challenges--from hiring to firing, from meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2019
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Summary: "Where can a person go to learn how to become a better team player? Your choices are definitely limited. John C. Maxwell takes the pain out of knowing what makes a team tick. If you want to have a better team, you have to develop better players. Great team players, like great teams, are formed from the inside out. The qualities Maxwell teaches quickly take you to the heart of teamwork. Anybody...
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4 MAXMcCord, Patty
Summary: "When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and high-performing culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewhere in Silicon Valley. McCord advocates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silicon Guild 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 MCCOffit, Paul A.
Summary: Scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celebrities, advocates, lobbyists-- people taking advantage of scientists' reluctance to provide easy answers, flooding the media with misleading or incorrect claims about health risks. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don'ts of battling misinformation. He discusses the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.101 OFFRooney, Kathleen
Summary: "From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROOSlaughter, Anne-Marie
Summary: "When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could juggle the demands of her position in Washington, D.C., with the responsibilities of her family life in suburban New Jersey. Her husband and two young sons encouraged her to pursue the job; she had a tremendously supportive boss,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.4209 SLAScott, Kim (Kim Malone)
Summary: "From Kim Scott, author of the revolutionary New York Times bestseller Radical Candor, comes Just Work: Get Sh*t Done, Fast & Fair-how we can recognize, attack, and eliminate workplace injustice-and transform our careers and organizations in the process.We-all of us-consistently exclude, underestimate, and underutilize huge numbers of people in the workforce even as we include, overestimate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3008 SCOLancaster, Lynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.3 LANKelley, Robert Earl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Business 1998