Are you highly motivated by the work you are doing? Are you are performing at your best? Are your employees highly motivated and performing at their best?
For some people, Steve's book will be about helping organizations improve performance by tapping into the heart and soul of their employees. For others it is a book about finding a place in this world where they can feel productive and alive, where what they do has meaning, satisfaction, and a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Others might take what is learned and apply it to family and loved ones.
Through Steve's book, you will learn concepts and techniques about SIMA® (the System for Motivated Abilities®) that will enable you to better tap into your motivated strengths and those of your employees to improve effectiveness, productivity, and work satisfaction; how to prevent those strengths from becoming weaknesses that can damage performance and productivity; and how to create a work environment that helps your organization and teams maximize their potential.
Steve Darter has a distinguished career as a consultant, author, educator, and speaker. For more than forty-five years he has counseled people, ranging from CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations to troubled teenagers, on work, career, and life issues. He has written and presented extensively about the importance of understanding, using, and effectively managing motivated strengths to live a more meaningful, purposeful, and successful life.
Steven Darter has been writing and speaking about motivated strengths and SIMA® (The System for Motivated Abilities®) and the impact it has on individual, team, and organizational productivity, effectiveness, and work satisfaction for over forty years. He is the author of several articles,
Lessons from Life (2018), and the book
Managing Yourself, Managing Others which has three editions (2001, 2011, and 2015.) He has extensive experience evaluating and advising people, ranging from troubled teenagers to CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations, on work, career, and life issues.
During his long career, Steve has interviewed close to 5,000 people. In each interview he used SIMA to understand the person's unique motivational design {Motivated Abilities Pattern® (MAP®)} and best paths for success; and in some cases, what had gotten in their way. This vantage point gave Steve an unusually close-up view of how peoples' lives unfolded, including their successes and failures, and the impact of decisions they made, actions they took, beliefs they adopted, course corrections they made, regrets, feelings of disappointment and failure, and satisfaction.
Steve is a recognized expert in helping people to understand the implications of SIMA and MAPs; and is known for his dynamic and engaging presentations, workshops, seminars, and team building sessions.
Steve joined People Management (now SIMA International) in 1976, serving as the president of People Management Northeast (1990-2005) and simultaneously as Chairman of People Management International(1996-1999.) In 2005 he formed People Management SMD LLC.
Steve has taught a career counseling course to graduate counseling students at Saint Joseph College and an advanced practicum on
Managing to Strengths to MBA students at the University of Hartford. His honors include being profiled as one of North America's top executive recruiters in the book,
The New Career Makers.
