Excellence at Work: The Six Keys to Inspire Passion in the Workplace

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.

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.

Integrating the Excellence principles into our day-to-day operations has helped us become recognized as one of San Diego's top employers.

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.

Sandy Asch, principal of Alliance for Organizational Excellence LLC, leads a consortium of management and organizational development consultants with more than 18 years of success helping companies meet the challenges of today s competitive marketplace. Asch and her team specialize in working with managers and leaders to build workplace excellence and gain the reputation as an employer of choice so they can attract, optimize and retain top talent to meet and exceed their company s goals. Asch has worked with a variety of organizations in the high-tech, biotech, telecom, financial services, consumer products, manufacturing, and defense industries. A member of the San Diego Society for Human Resource Management, North County Personnel Association, American Society for Training and Development and the Organizational Development Network, Asch holds a master s degree in organizational management and has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in management, organizational behavior and human resources management.