The New Leader:
Bringing Creativity and Innovation to the Workplace

 

GREGORY P. SMITH

President of Chart Your Course


The New Leader: Bringing Creativity and Innovation to the Workplace, offers something for those who want to improve their leadership ability and learn new skills to transform their businesses into innovative enterprises. Here is a three-step framework that will enable your operation to become an innovative organization and not only make it in the 21st century -- but thrive in it as well!

This book is written in an enthusiastic, informative and highly practical format.  The author's first hand experiences provides an inside-out approach, showing how to transform and energize your organization and your leadership skills.

Discover programs to improving employee involvement, innovation, customer service and growing a healthier bottom-line.


Specific benefits from this book:

  • Discover how to get a high level of employee involvement

  • Learn the key steps to transform organizations from the inside out

  • Discover the key leadership skills needed for today's changing business environment

  • Learn how to build trust and remove barriers and obstacles

  • How to build effective teams and teamwork

  • Understand how idea programs improve productivity

  • The traits of an innovative leader

  • How to build trust

  • The key steps on managing change

  • Understand what motivates people

  • How to improve your effectiveness as a change agent

  • Discover how to capture and transform ideas into valuable products and services

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter 1‑ Capturing the Innovative Spirit

Secret of Success:  The Innovative Power of Ideas

Tremendous Potential

        Guiding Principles

Innovative Environment: The Framework of Success

Accessibility

Information

Motivation

American Ingenuity

 

Chapter 2‑Reinventing How We Work

The Changing Work Environment

Lost Customer Focus

The Journey Along the Highway of the Future

Schools of Fish: Managing Change

Motorcycle Management: The Harley-Davidson Store

The World's Best Managed City-Phoenix, Arizona

Innovative Ways to Improve Customer Service

 

Chapter 3‑Standing at the Doorstep of Opportunity

It Can't Be Done!

A World In Transition:  Locomotive of Change

        Managing at the Speed of Light

Survival of the Fit and the Fast

Key Trends and Findings

Earning Depends of Learning

Crisis or Opportunity?

 

Chapter 4‑Meeting Bureaucracy: The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent

The "Art of Raising Hogs"

Bureaucracy: Myth and Reality

Duty, Honor and Country

The New Bureaucracy

Symptoms of a Debilitating Disease

Gammon's  Law: Theory of Bureaucratic Displacement

Economic Black Holes

 

Chapter 5‑Innovative Leadership: Steering the Ship

The Lights are On but Nobody is Home

More Leaders Needed

Passionate Leadership

The Traits of an Innovative Leader

        The Beatitudes of Leadership

        Innovative Leadership Assessment

 

Chapter 6‑Barriers to Innovation and Creativity

Removing Barriers and Obstacles

Vampire Functions

Vampire Extermination Expeditions

Trust Building: The Foundation for Innovation

Rewarding Mistakes

Solving Crime Using Common Sense-Charleston S.C.

How to Kill Motivation

        Taming the Paperwork Monster

 

Chapter 7‑Providing Direction and Managing Information

Businesses Need a New Vision

Creating a Vision Statement

Keeping the Ship on Course-Change Management

Managing Along the Information Superhighway

Tools for a New Working World

How to Improve Communication

Communication Checklist

        The Right Way to Manage Meetings

How to Use Meeting Facilitators

 

 Chapter 8-Building a Foundation for the Future

Heroine of Educational Reform

Education or Incarceration?

The Future Begins with Kindergarten

Electronic Summer Camp

Employee Benefit Plans for Working Parents

Issues Affecting Working Women

Family Work Issues

Child Care Worries

 

Chapter 9‑Creating the High Performance Organization

Putting Quality to Work

The Missing Ingredient

Total Quality Management

Keys to Success

Worker Empowerment that Works

Teaming Up With Teamwork

Avoiding Workteam Pitfalls

Project by Project Improvement Process

        The Team Charter

 

Chapter 10‑Innovation: A New Definition for New Times

What is Innovation?

        Innovation, Creativity and the Plumbing Business

Innovation Explained

Tale of Two Organizations

Steps Toward Successful Innovation

The Innovation Process

Ordinary to Extraordinary        

    

Chapter 11‑The Gold Mine in People's Ideas

Bridging the Potential Gap

The Trouble with Traditional Employee Involvement Programs

The Bottom-Up Approach to Change

The Zest Factor

Idea Programs:  Making Work Fun

Idea Campaigns

Slicing Through Administrative Trivia--STAT VA Idea Program

Getting MAD at Pacific Bell

      

Chapter 12‑Transforming Workers to Winners

Bad Attitudes

The Role of Motivation

The Motivation Process

Money as a Motivator

The Importance of Trust

How to Motivate People--The Pride System

The Innovative Power of Recognition and Rewards       

    

Conclusion

Appendix A-Business Term Glossary

Appendix B-Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria

Appendix C-Resource Directory                    

 

 

About the author

Greg's 26 years of leadership and consulting experience has helped propel him as one of the nation's leading authorities on employee retention, talent management and leadership. He is a business growth specialist and shows executives and business owners how to attract and keep customers and build organizations that retain and motivate their workforce.

Greg is the founder and President of Chart Your Course International, a management-consulting firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. He has spoken to organizations in Singapore, Puerto Rico, Germany, and Canada. He has developed training programs for some of the "Best Companies to Work For in America," such as, Yamaha, Delta Airlines, Maxell, Turner Broadcasting, Rollins Inc., King and Spalding, Ace Hardware, AFLAC, Sweetheart Cups, KMPG, Alltell Corporation, the U.S. Army, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, The Young Presidents Organization, Wyndham Hotels, UNISYS and Hallmark Cards.


What Others Are Saying about the Book

Greg Smith's insightful book provides innovative solutions and answers to the perplexing problems facing governmental organization's in America today.

--Max Cleland, U.S. Senator

Create an energized work environment by capturing and implementing the ideas of your people. Greg's book will show you how.

--Ronald W. Bush, President, DeVry Institute of Technology

Finally, a book with practical advice backed by an author with real life experience and credibility.

--R. B. Hagen, Manager, Sweetheart Cup Company

If you only wanted one comprehensive book on leadership, this is the book to read. Greg provides creative ways to plow through bureaucracy, tap the creative essence of the individual and transform the world of work into productive environments.

 

--William B. Harber, Manager, Clayton State College

 

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