Lifting People Up: The Power of Recognition

People are the heart and soul of every organization. They make the place. By tapping into the power of praise and recognition, every leader can learn to lift people up. Discover how to get the most out of people and give them the most in return--a process the authors call peopleship.
Written with empathy and energy, the game-changing ideas and tips found here will motivate you to listen carefully, trust respectfully, and praise authentically starting now!
Lifting People Up is a must read for any leader searching for techniques to cultivate and motivate people, a team's most valuable asset. Innovation consultants and authors Dr. Susan Smith Kuczmarski and Thomas D. Kuczmarski share the secrets of how to become a people leader. You will learn how to:
---Activate six leadership tools--listen, include, free, trust, use rewards, and praise
---Help people unleash their inner leader
---Create a caring, high-performing culture, and just as importantly, engage and encourage co-workers in this quest.
The leadership methodology is practical and easy to implement. The authors weave together dozens of anecdotes that surfaced in their field research, with stories that capture the spirit and theme of lifting up others. You will discover ways to:
---Build strong and effective relationships and teams within an organization
---Foster a culture of innovation and shared leadership
---Create a small start-up mindset within a large organization
---Spread leaders throughout the organization, not group them at the top
---Pay people on performance, not tenure nor title
---Nurture self-discovery, collaboration and recognition.

Lifting People Up: The Power of Recognition is the authors third collaborative book on the topic of leadership. In 1995, they wrote their pioneering Values-Based Leadership, which launched the values in the workplace movement. In 2007, they co-authored Apples Are Square: Thinking Differently About Leadership, which reveals the power of six leadership qualities humility, compassion, transparency, inclusiveness and values-based decisiveness.
Susan Smith Kuczmarski, Ed.D. is a globally recognized authority and speaker on values-based leadership. Her teaching and research focus on: How Values and Norms Impact Culture and Leadership, Building Innovation Leadership, and New Leadership for an Innovative Edge. For the past ten years, she has been a Lecturer in the executive education program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She currently teaches in the Creating and Leading A Culture of Innovation program at Kellogg.
During the course of a career that spans more than three decades, she has taught at nine universities, worked in three nonprofits, including the United Nations, and co-founded the Chicago-based consulting firm, Kuczmarski Innovation, which provides thought leadership on innovation, culture and values.
Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Dr. Kuczmarski has done extensive research on how leadership skills are learned and innovative leadership programs are put into practice. She is the author of six award-winning books, three on leadership and three on families.
She holds a Doctorate in Education and two masters degrees from Columbia University in New York City, where she was named an International Fellow and a Fellow of the School of International and Public Affairs. A lively radio and television guest, she has appeared on the Today Show and is widely quoted in print, including Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Investor s Business Daily and CNN Money. She has been listed in the Who s Who in the World for 12 years. She speaks on the topic of leadership around the world and on issues devoted to the contemporary family. Her research, writing, books, speeches, seminars, teaching, and innovation consulting have made her one of the top experts in the fields of leadership and family.
Thomas D. Kuczmarski is president and founder of the global consulting firm Kuczmarski Innovation and an internationally recognized expert on innovation. Over the course of his career he has helped hundreds of clients, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations, learn to systematically unlock the value of innovation.
Mr. Kuczmarski teaches product and service innovation at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University where he is Senior Lecturer and Visiting Scholar in the Center for Innovation and Technology. For thirty-eight years, his executive education courses at the Kellogg School have attracted leaders from around the world.
Mr. Kuczmarski is co-founder of the Chicago Innovation Awards, which annually celebrates, educates, and connects innovators in the Chicago region. The awards showcase the creative spirit of the heartland.
He is the author of seven books on innovation and leadership and frequently appears on radio and television, and in periodicals around the world. Mr. Kuczmarski is a highly regarded speaker on innovation management and leadership, and lectures nationally and internationally to a broad range of corporations and associations.
Before founding Kuczmarski Innovation, he was a Principal at Booz · Allen & Hamilton and led the in-depth research of the best practices employed by more than 700 U.S. firms in their new product management processes. He earned an M.B.A. and an M.I.A from Columbia University.