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"Effective workplaces and popular video games have a lot in common. The things that make employees happier, more motivated, and more productive leverage the same underlying psychology that makes video games engaging, but sometimes the lessons for work are easier to see when presented in the context of play. The Engagement Game is a leadership and management book that shows how organizational culture and leadership can be super-charged by applying...
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Desafíos en la formación de psicólogos de las organizaciones y el trabajo es un libro que mueve al lector hacia la radicalización de la reflexividad, como diría Anthony Giddens, y hacia la posibilidad de enfrentar el mundo por medio de la construcción de nuevas formas de pensar y actuar, saliendo de una POT enraizada en el siglo XX, para entrar en una POT dirigida hacia el siglo XXI, sin la pretensión ni la ingenuidad de pensar que ahora todo...
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Depth Leadership gives a detailed account of the application of depth psychology principles and practices to leadership. It is a rework of 'The Depth Facilitator's Handbook', which was published in 2009 as a textbook for students of facilitation. This book is written for leaders who want to use a depth approach in their daily work. The depth approach is based on the idea that human behaviour is determined not only by conscious thought and feeling,...
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It happens that once in a decade or so, a powerfully written, hard-hitting book is presented that reveals knowledge and expertise on an evolving topic of national and international concern. Life, Leadership, and Legacy: 101 Tips for Emerging Justice Leaders by Resmaa Menakem is that book. It is an expertly written book of tips as to how prospective and existing Justice Leaders can advance in life while pursuing their goals and dreams; then move into...
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In order to create sustainable and healthy organizations, one needs to understand and work with the full complexity of the human psyche. This includes working with both the conscious and unconscious parts of the individual and the group. Working at the unconscious level means considering the underlying, often unspoken, dynamics in individuals, groups, teams and organizations. This is the 'depth work' approach. Depth Facilitation assists individuals...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Dan Ariely's Payoff by Instaread Preview: Payoff by Dan Ariely is a companion to the author's well-known TED talks, which focus on research that illuminates the role of reward and effort in motivation. Ariely examined his own motivations for helping a woman whose teenage boys were badly burned, a medical trauma he experienced himself when he was approximately the boys' age. He realized that he helped the woman because...
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This is a book about excellence, more particularly about the conditions under which excellence is possible in our kind of society; but it is also-inevitably-a book about equality, about the kinds of equality that can and must be honored, and the kinds that cannot be forced. Such a book must raise some questions which Americans have shown little inclination to discuss rationally. What are the characteristic difficulties a democracy encounters in pursuing...
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Most workplace problems are caused by over-exposure to real/imagined threat. This activates the 'threat brain'. When combined with our 'drive brain', we fall into destructive loops of compulsive behaviour. This book explains the Trimotive Brain and shows how to identify these emotions and regulate them by being more aware of unconscious motivation.
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If you think you can't reach all the people all the time - think again! Now you can persuade even the most stubborn or hostile audience to see your point of view with these proven techniques from Dr. Jesse S. Nirenberg. Through dozens of anecdotes, you'll learn how to control conversations with emotional people, how to hold other people's attention, and how to decode what people are really trying to tell you. And you'll discover how to reach the most...
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BASICS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR Absorbing, easy to read and understand, here is a fascinating presentation of Freud's principal theories on psychology. Culled from forty years of writing by the founder of psychoanalysis, this is the first book which gives, in a comprehensive and systematic form, Freud's thinking on the organization, dynamics and development of the normal human personality. Calvin S. Hall outlines Freud's penetrating diagnosis of the balances...
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What makes a person 'tick?' This book is a must for individuals wanting to know about all the drives that combine to produce behavior. It is a must for all business if these organizations are going to harness the positive attributes of their employees to help them become both more productive and profitable. Where does motivational drive come from? This book addresses this question and presents an overview of the many drives that can influence a person...
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Dynamic Thinking will teach you simple truths that are the basis of all success and will provide effective techniques for putting them to work in your life. You will learn how to harness the power of your conscious and subconscious minds and use that power to accomplish whatever you want. Melvin Powers' classic book Dynamic Thinking is your blueprint to dynamic living. It provides you with an opportunity to build the life you've wanted but never dared...
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Fear is powerful, and it has a presence in whatever we do in life whether that is passing our exams, keeping peace in our homes, or simply adjusting to the constantly changing world. In Fear, author J. Ibeh Agbanyim offers a guidebook that portrays fear as a healthy emotion as long as it is well managed.
Demonstrating practical ways that fear can work in our favor instead of working against us, Agbanyim focuses on the importance of using fear as...
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Reprint of original 1961 edition.
Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy by Eric Berne, M.D. introduced psychiatrists and analysts to a new way of understanding the motivations and social interactions of their clients and patients. By using this model, Berne believed that therapists could help their patients to better understand themselves and improve their relationships and their lives.
Canadian-born psychiatrist Eric Berne (b. May 10, 1910 -...
18) Active Listening
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Active Listening is a short 1957 work by Drs. Carl R. Rogers and Richard E. Farson, two influential American psychologists. The work brings the counselling technique of active listening to the layperson, demonstrating how it can be applied to interactions between an employee and employer.
Carl R. Rogers (1902-1987) was one of the pioneers of the "client-centered" approach to psychotherapy. He is considered one of the founding fathers of modern psychotherapy...
19) Burnout
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This book shows how to recognize, prevent and cure burnout syndrome for nurses, teachers, counselors, doctors, therapists, police, social workers, and anyone else who cares about and for people. Christina Maslach, the leading pioneer in research on burnout, offers help using illustrative examples and first-hand accounts. She points out what causes the feelings of emotional exhaustion, the callous indifference to people's problems, and the sense of...
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Este manual ofrece conocimientos básicos y generales sobre psicología, psicología jurídica y competencias ciudadanas, especialmente a los padres, docentes y cuidadores que recién ingresan a este campo de formación y reflexión. De este modo se busca reafirmar la condición de
los niños y las niñas como sujetos de especial protección, que merecen el goce de garantías y derechos fundamentales en todos los ámbitos -familiar, escolar y comunitario-,...
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