It's time to build a passionate, engaged workforce so you can attract, optimize and retain the top talent you need to meet and exceed your company's goals.
Most companies are faced with overwhelming pressure to produce more, better, faster, and cheaper in order to compete in a highly competitive global marketplace. The solution is for leaders to establish a culture where there is a passionate commitment to excellence characterized by high productivity, full engagement and inspired leadership. Excellence at Work provides a practical roadmap for leaders at every level in an organization to build a committed, inspired workforce that is focused on success.
This book presents six simple, yet powerful principles for creating a robust work environment in which employees communicate impeccably, proactively solve problems, execute on priorities, bring out the best in each other, reignite their passion and have fun.
The principles that author Sandy Asch teaches are the "glue" that makes human resources, training initiatives and business processes "stick" and produce lasting results.
Asch offers a comprehensive guide to the foundation of organizational excellence, with case study examples, tools and strategies for operationalizing the six principles in your workplace. They not only will make a difference in your work life, but in your personal life, too.
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Praise for Excellence at Work and Author Sandy Asch:
"These concepts will help us to achieve three critical choice factors: to become known as an employer of choice; to earn the reputation as the vendor of choice; and to become the investment of choice."
John Jones, Former CEO, St. Bernard Software
"Integrating the Excellence principles into our day-to-day operations has helped us become recognized as one of San Diego's top employers."
Sarai Rodgers, Director, Human Resources, Modern Postcard
"Excellence at Work is a joy to read. It shows, clearly and succinctly, how to engage, inspire and retain employees who have a passion for excellence, thereby assuring your company's success in today's global marketplace. If you're serious about creating a culture of outstanding performance in your organization, buy it, read it and implement it! You won't go wrong if you do."
John J. Cotter, Group Chairman Vistage International, author of The 20%
Solution: Using Rapid Redesign to Create Tomorrow's Organizations Today, and board member of the American Institute for the Advancement of Leadership
"In the Information Systems department at Mitchell International, we have used the Excellence principles to keep employees focused on priorities and establish a positive work environment. The result is: turnover is at an unprecedented low of 4%."
Linda Amaro, Vice President, Information Systems, Mitchell International
"Sandy's 'Excellent Workplace Model' provides a viable roadmap and an excellent jumpstart to create a work environment in which every employee has a sense of pride, loyalty and belonging."
Jack Giles, CEO, REMEC Defense and Space, Inc.
"Sandy Asch is passionately dedicated to creating uncommonly inspiring paths for individuals, teams and organizations to achieve excellence in ways they cannot imagine. She begins by exhibiting highly professional standards in her training workshops, and now in her book, Excellence at Work, Sandy offers a unique 'excellence code' based on six excellence principles, which, when deeply embraced by an organization can transform its culture. The six principles optimize employeesí day-to-day work experiences, levels of engagement, interpersonal and team functioning, and ultimately organizational performance. This is one business book to study carefully and implement immediately."
Judith L. Enns, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, HR Solutions
"I am thrilled that Sandy Asch has published Excellence at Work. Sandy uses integrity, intelligence and humor to demonstrate standards of behavior and offers useful takeaways in her book. She delivers insightful manager tools to employers for the success of their company's vision and focused best practices. Sandy brings passion to the workplace."
Wendy Evers, Senior Director of Program Development, San Diego State University President, North County Personnel Association
"Finally! I have worked on synchronizing and monitoring the success of strategic planning and budgeting processes in companies of all sizes. For two decades, metrics from human capital management have been conspicuous by their absence. With this book, Sandy has provided a framework for business intelligence dashboards to include the pulse of that most crucial element of any corporate initiative: the people."
David Moore, President, Business Avionics, LLC
"Sandy utilizes a revolutionary approach to attract, engage, optimize and retain top-tier talent. I strongly recommend that all HR practitioners incorporate these proven strategies into their organizations to distinguish themselves from their competitors."
Michael Milligan, Human Resources & General Affairs Manager, Toppan Optical Products, Inc.
"As a CFO, my goal is to create value in the organization. The Excellence program helps to build an environment where people can be most effective, become as good as they are, and even better than they should be, thereby adding value. The program has served to decrease the ëhuman frictioní and establish an environment of creativity, innovation, trust and respectóall essential elements of a successful company. Modern Postcard's continued growth and increased profitability is proof we have achieved ëexcellence. Some might ask how we can afford to offer a program like this to our entire employee population. I ask, 'How can we afford not to?'"
Bill Lofft, Former CFO, Modern Postcard
"Sandy provides a systematic model to build a sustainable 'employer-of-choice' organization."
Marc Brown, Vice President, Human Resources, Encore Capital Group Inc.
"The Excellence program opened a lot of eyes and challenged many assumptions about what is possible in a government agency. While each participant was positively affected in unique ways the entire leadership was re-energized with a new commitment to changing the culture of the agency to one that brings out the very best in every staff member. The program systematically laid out the Excellence principles and promoted the kinds of practices that weíve always wanted but didnít know how to achieve."
Tom Cullen, Former CFO, Catawba Community Mental Health Center, Rock Hill, SC
"In today's market place attracting and keeping top talent is critical to having a successful and thriving business. The Excellence Principles create a culture of high standards and high results, which fully engage every member of your staff. Such a culture not only retains top talent but will help you to become an employer of choice where top talent is waiting in line to get on board."
Edi Holderman, Human Resources Manager, Vistage International, Inc.
"I participated in the Excellence program with Sandy seven years ago and it was life changing. Working in the government sector, I initially felt our environment was not conducive to these ideas. However, Sandy helped inspire my journey to a new way of leadership beyond my visible boundaries and I have never looked back!"
Rob Claudio, Member, Board of Directors, International Association of Workforce Professionals
"There are many new business programs designed to 'fix' your organization that are no more than a fad. Sandy's use of visuals, statistics and stories has a long-lasting impact on an organization, as compared to other programs I have utilized in the past. The Excellence program really helps an organization re-energize their people and ëmake it happen. Thanks for the inspiring information. These are great tools."
Wendy Crawford, Director, Human Resources, Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital
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