Scott Jeffrey Miller

Victoria Roos Olsson

Todd Davis

***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*** From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves. A practical must-read, FranklinCovey’s Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world. Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow. Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.

The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team

Everyone Deserves a Great Manager

Trailer Behind the Garage

En Consigue tu mejor tú descubriremos que, aunque las personas son el mayor activo que pueda tener una organización, la ventaja competitiva definitiva surge de las relaciones que se establecen entre ellas. Todd Davis identifica 15 prácticas de eficacia demostrada que las personas con influencia a cualquier nivel de la organización pueden usar para mejorar la calidad de las interacciones con los demás y dominar las habilidades necesarias para desarrollar relaciones efectivas.

Las 15 prácticas para construir relaciones efectivas en el trabajo y alcanzar todos tus objetivos

Consigue tu mejor tú

In this super fun book, Todd Davis, star of HGTV's "Design Star", offers up 25 awesome projects for dads to build with their kids. Skate ramps, zip lines, go-carts, and more!

25 Awesome Projects for Dads and Kids

Handy Dad

In his third collection of poems Todd Davis advises us that "the only corruption comes / in not loving this life enough." Over the course of this masterful and heartfelt book it becomes clear that Davis not only loves the life he's been given, but also believes that the ravishing desire of this world can offer hope, and even joy, however it might be negotiated. Drawing upon a range of stories from the Christian, Transcendental, and Asian traditions, as well as from his own deep understanding of the natural world, Davis explores the connection between the visible and invisible worlds, or what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called "the incandescent surface of matter plunged in God." A direct poetic descendant of Walt Whitman, Davis invites us to sing "the songs we collect in the hymnals of our flesh- / impromptu, a cappella, our mouths flung open / in a great wide O."

The Least of These

If baseball is the sport of nostalgic prose, basketball’s movement, myths, and culture are truly at home in verse. In this extraordinary collection of essays, poets meditate on what basketball means to them: how it has changed their perspective on the craft of poetry; how it informs their sense of language, the body, and human connectedness; how their love of the sport made a difference in the creation of their poems and in the lives they live beyond the margins. Walt Whitman saw the origins of poetry as communal, oral myth making. The same could be said of basketball, which is the beating heart of so many neighborhoods and communities in this country and around the world. On the court and on the page, this “poetry in motion” can be a force of change and inspiration, leaving devoted fans wonderstruck.

Poets on the Art of Basketball

Fast Break to Line Break

In poetry that is at once accessible and finely crafted, Todd Davis maps the mysterious arc between birth and death, celebrating the beauty and pain of our varied entrances and exits, while taking his readers into the deep forests and waterways of the northeastern United States. With an acute sensibility for language unlike any other working poet, Davis captures the smallest nuances in the flowers, trees, and animals he encounters through a daily life spent in the field. Davis draws upon stories and myths from Christian, Transcendental, and Buddhist traditions to explore the intricacies of the spiritual and physical world we too often overlook. In celebrating the abundant life he finds in a ditch—replete with Queen Anne’s lace and milkweed, raspberries and blackberries, goldenrod and daisies—Davis suggests that life is consistently transformed, resurrected by what grows out of the fecundity of our dying bodies. In his fourth collection the poet, praised by The Bloomsbury Review, Arts & Letters, and many others, provides not only a taxonomy of the flora and fauna of his native Pennsylvania but also a new way of speaking about the sacred walk we make with those we love toward the ultimate mystery of death.

In the Kingdom of the Ditch

In Winterkill, Todd Davis, who, according to Gray’s Sporting Journal, “observes nature in the great tradition of Robert Frost, James Dickey, and Jim Harrison,” offers an unflinching portrait of the cycles of birth and death in the woods and streams of Pennsylvania, while never leaving behind the tragedies and joys of the human world. Fusing narrative and lyrical impulses, in his fifth book of poetry Davis seeks to address the living world through a lens of transformation. In poems of praise and sorrow that draw upon the classical Chinese rivers-and-mountains tradition, Davis chronicles the creatures of forest and sky, of streams and lakes, moving through cycles of fecundity and lack, paying witness to the fundamental processes of the earth that offer the possibility of regeneration, even resurrection. Meditations on subjects from native brook trout to the ants that scramble up a compost pile; from a young diabetic girl burning trash in a barrel to a neighbor’s denial of global warming; from an examination of the bone structure in a rabbit’s skull to a depiction of a boy who can name every bird by its far-off song, these are poems that both celebrate and lament the perfectly imperfect world that sustains us.

Winterkill

In his sixth book of poetry, Todd Davis, who Harvard Review declares is “unflinchingly candid and enduringly compassionate,” confesses that “it’s hard to hide my love for the pleasures of the earth.” In poems both achingly real and stunningly new, he ushers the reader into a consideration of the green world and our uncertain place in it. As he writes in “Dead Letter to James Wright,” “You said / you’d wasted your life. / I’m still not sure / what species I am.” To that end, Native Species explores what happens to us—to all of us, bear, deer, mink, trout, moose, girl, boy, woman, man—when we die, and what happens to the soul as it faces extinction—if it “migrates into the lives of other creatures, becomes a fox or frog, an ant in a colony serving a queen, a red salamander entering a pond before it freezes.” He wonders, too, “How many new beginnings are we granted?” It’s a beautiful question, and it freights, simultaneously, possibility and pain. These are the verses of a poet maturing into a new level of thinking, full of tenderness and love for the home that carries us all.

Native Species

A. Roger Merrill

Michael Simpson

Shawn D. Moon

A leader's job is to unleash the unlimited store of potential in people. "The vast majority of the workforce in any organization possesses far more talent, intelligence, capability, and creativity than their present jobs require or even allow.” - Dr. Stephen R. Covey That’s what Talent Unleashed is about—unleashing that unlimited store of potential in people. That’s a leader’s job. And how does a leader do that job? Through 3 Leadership Conversations—not just individual events, but ongoing discussions designed to help people give the best they can. In these conversations, leaders trade fear for trust, confusion for clarity, and micromanaging for empowerment. The three vital leadership conversations are: • The Performance Conversation • The Voice Conversation • The Clearing the Path Conversation Performance Conversations define roles and set clear goals. Leaders hold people accountable for these roles and goals, thus transforming team members from “managed hirelings” to “trusted partners and teammates.” Voice Conversations affirm the worth and potential of each person on a team. Leaders help individuals discover their unique gifts, talents, and abilities and align these gifts, talents, and abilities to the great mission of the organization. It is the process that ignites the inner fire. Clear the Path Conversations turn supervisors into leaders who become sources of help and empower people to succeed in their jobs. Leaders help clear away the obstacles from the success pathway.

3 Leadership Conversations to Ignite the Unlimited Potential in People

Talent Unleashed

Kenneth Womack

The Ethics of Self and Sexuality in Wide Sargasso Sea

Reclaiming the Particular

Scott Miller

Bist du einer derjenigen in deiner Firma, die den Sprung in ihre erste Führungsposition geschafft haben? Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Dir stehen spannende und verantwortungsvolle Aufgaben bevor, die dich herausfordern, die sich aber zugleich für dich lohnen werden. Möglicherweise weißt du noch gar nicht, was nun deine nächsten Schritte sein werden, welche Aufgaben und Ziele du erfüllen sollst und was man von dir erwartet. Denn das, was dich zu einem erfolgreichen Mitarbeiter gemacht hat, macht dich nicht automatisch zu einer großartigen Führungskraft. Und die traurige Wahrheit ist: Die wenigsten First-Level-Leader werden auf ihre neue Rolle vorbereitet. Stattdessen gleicht der Wechsel in die Führungsverantwortung meist eher einem Sprung ins kalte Wasser. Doch das ist kein Grund, kalte Füße zu bekommen. Die Leadership-Experten Scott Miller, Todd Davis und Victoria Roos Olsson des weltweit renommierten Leadership-Instituts FranklinCovey geben dir mit diesem Buch einen Leitfaden an die Hand, wie du zu der Führungskraft wirst, die dein Team verdient. Das Buch ist ein Must für die vielen Young Professionals, die den herausfordernden und lohnenden Sprung in die Führungsrolle schaffen. Basierend auf fast einem Jahrzehnt der Forschung über das, was Manager wirklich erfolgreich macht – einschließlich neuer Denkweisen, Tipps und Techniken –, wurden die Tools und Practices in diesem Buch mit Hunderttausenden von Managern auf der ganzen Welt in der Praxis erprobt. Das Buch zeigt dir, wie du dich als Führungskraft darauf konzentrierst, dich selbst und dein Team zu führen. Das Buch enthält zahlreiche praktische Tools und konkrete Hilfen für alle wichtigen Bereiche der Führung: von der richtigen inneren Einstellung über Feedback geben, delegieren, Mitarbeiter einstellen, eine Teamkultur aufbauen und virtuelle Teams führen bis hin zu dem Thema Zeitmanagement.

Die 6 entscheidenden Methoden der Teamführung

Willkommen in deinem ersten Führungsjob!

Shawn D. Moon 

A. Roger Merrill 

"The vast majority of the workforce in any organization possesses far more talent, intelligence, capability, and creativity than their present jobs require or even allow." - Dr. Stephen R. Covey That's what Talent Unleashed is about—unleashing that unlimited store of potential in people. That's a leader's job. And how does a leader do that job? Through 3 leadership conversations—not just individual events, but ongoing discussions designed to help people give the best they can. In these conversations, leaders trade fear for trust, confusion for clarity, and micromanaging for empowerment. The three vital conversations are: The performance Conversation The Voice Conversation The Clearing the Path Conversation Performance Conversations define roles and set clear goals. Leaders hold people accountable for these roles and goals, thus transforming team members from "managed hirelings" to "trusted partners and teammates." Voice Conversations affirm the worth and potential of each person on a team. Leaders help individuals discover their unique gifts, talents, and abilities and align these gifts, talents, and abilities to the great mission of the organization. It is the process that ignites the inner fire. Clear the Path Conversations turn supervisors into leaders who become sources of help and empower people to succeed in their jobs. Leaders help clear away the obstacles from the success pathway.

The chief people officer at FranklinCovey outlines anecdotal and practical recommendations for how organizations of any size or type can create a competitive advantage by building effective relationships.

Todd Davis

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