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This unit is for people who are thinking about making changes in their lives, such as returning to study or taking a different direction at work. It will help you build on what you already know; consider the choices open to you; use your skills and qualities to achieve change; and make plans for the future.

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Learning to change

In this summary you will learn: Why your organization’s new strategy will fail if your employees are not engaged with it What six obstacles impede employee engagement What are the six best ways to engage employees Why “strategic engagement” is a process, not a series of separate, stand-alone actions Why you should read The Art of Engagement Organizational leaders spend considerable time and effort carefully developing strategies to advance their corporate goals. However, they often fail to communicate these strategies compellingly to their employees – the people who must execute every step. Therefore, it is no surprise that most such strategies fail. Management consultant Jim Haudan recommends a strategy-sharing approach using visuals, metaphors and stories to engage employees. He offers tactics for getting them on board to execute your strategy and organizational directives. One negative: Many of the illustrations (reductions from original table-size artwork) are busy and even fuzzy. Some feature tiny text, which illustrates – in the breech – Haudan’s point about using clear visuals to communicate and engage. Otherwise the book is superior, very insightful and nicely written. Haudan uses case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of his employee engagement process. getAbstract believes leaders can benefit from learning his tactics for communicating strategies so employees understand them, support them and actually implement them. About the Author Jim Haudan is co-founder and CEO of Root Learning, a management-consulting firm. Request Free!

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The Art of Engagement: Bridging the Gap Between People and Possibilities – Free Book Summary

Informal learning has become a hot topic as people realize that human beings learn more informally than they do in courses or guided instruction. Here’s a free whitepaper on how to take advantage of informal learning tools.

Short Description: Forward-thinking organizations are turning to enterprise learning in their quest to be better informed, better skilled, better supported at the point of need, and more competitive in their respective marketplaces.

Long Description: It is clear that as enterprise learning becomes a central part of strategic business alignment, the anytime, anywhere promises of eLearning are more likely to be met by extending the metaphor of the classroom and taking better advantage of today’s informal learning tools, resources, and techniques.

Get your copy here and start improving informal learning in organizations.

This book on leadership comes in at over 5 hours, and it`s free. Enjoy. Grab it by clicking here to open a new window.

Zappos.com has partnered with the authors of Tribal Leadership to bring you the audio version of the book for free (Zappos.com registration required). We’ve included a special audio foreward featuring Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, having a conversation with Dave Logan, co-author of Tribal Leadership. We hope you enjoy the audio book!

Note: Registration is required on the Zappos.com site in order to download this audio book.

It’s a fact of life: birds flock, fish school, people “tribe.”

Every company, indeed every organization, is a tribe, or if it’s large enough, a network of tribes—groups of 20 to 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone else. Tribes are more powerful than teams, companies, or even CEOs, and yet their key leverage points have not been mapped—until now. In Tribal Leadership, Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright show leaders how to assess their organization’s tribal culture on a scale from one to five and then implement specific tools to elevate the stage to the next. The result is unprecedented success.

In a rigorous eight-year study of approximately 24,000 people in over two dozen corporations, Logan, King, and Fischer-Wright refine and define a common theme: the success of a company depends on its tribes, the strength of its tribes is determined by the tribal culture, and a thriving corporate culture can be established by an effective tribal leader. Tribal Leadership will show leaders how to employ their companies’ tribes to maximize productivity and profit: the authors’ research, backed up with interviews ranging from Brian France (CEO of NASCAR) to “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams, shows that over three quarters of the organizations they’ve studied have tribal cultures that are merely adequate, no better than the third of five tribal stages.

Leaders, managers, and organizations that fail to understand, motivate, and grow their tribes will find it impossible to succeed in an increasingly fragmented world of business. The often counterintuitive findings of Tribal Leadership will help leaders at today’s major corporations, small businesses, and nonprofits learn how to take the people in their organization from adequate to outstanding, to discover the secrets that have led the highest-level tribes (like the team at Apple that designed the iPod) to remarkable heights, and to find new ways to succeed where others have failed.

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Short Description: Learn why more skilled learning professionals use these tools and how you can get a solution to keep pace with your business demands.

Long Description: As product life-cycles decrease and speed-to-market pressures increase, the ability to train workers quickly and efficiently becomes paramount to a company’s ability to compete in the marketplace. Rapid e-learning addresses both time and cost issues by using technology tools to shift the dynamics of e-learning development. Rather than requiring months to develop learning materials, rapid e-learning takes weeks.

Read this white paper to learn how rapid e-learning can make a significant contribution to your training efforts in your organization.

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I’d like to welcome you to the Free2Thee.com website where we’ll be announcing and categorizing various free, high quality offers of material to help you learn and succeed. If something appears here, you can trust that we have done our best to ensure it’s not spam, junk or otherwise useless, although, of course, for third party offers, we are limited to doing our best.

What you’ll find here, as time goes on, are links and descriptions of free audiobooks, podcasts, ebooks, whitepapers that offer substantial value to you, the end user. In many cases this material is available to promote a specific company or service, but in others, it’s just “there”. For example, many universities are now offering completely free access to some of their tele-courses.

Just a few things:

1. To access a particular learning or training resource, you may be asked to register, or provide other basic information about yourself, such as your name, address, email, etc. We apologize if you aren’t comfortable doing that, but the reality is that a lot of the high quality Internet content, while still free, has been migrated to systems that require some information from you.
2. Generally speaking, we do our best to gate out any “offers” that are likely to result in receiving spam e-mails, since we also hate them. For example, there’s one person offering help with writing a “book in a weekend” via free material, but unfortunately, after signing up, you will probably receive one or two messages a week from here. NOT ACCEPTABLE. We don’t want to direct people to those kinds of “offers”, and if you find one here, please leave us a comment about it, and we’ll look into it.
3. What many people do is create a free secondary email account at hotmail.com, gmail.com or another free provider, and use that email address to sign up for stuff. That way, even if ill intentioned people start spamming you, it’s not a problem. You can always abandon the account, and get another. That’s actually what we do.
4. Finally, on very rare occasions, we may come across an offer that provides something for free, but is trying to get you to subscribe to something. For example, there’s an excellent subscription offer from BusinessWeek Magazine that gives you four free weeks, and then a very low price to subscribe for a year or more. Offers like that may require that you enter a credit card number, and that you opt out of the full subscription. Frankly, I hate that, and you probably do to. If you require a credit card to take advantage of an offer, we’ll tell you, but for the most part we are not interested in posting these offers. if you find one here, and it’s not clearly indicated that a credit card is required. please let us know. We’ll remove it.

Well, that’s it for our first message to you. More coming soon.