Go Beyond the Job Description: A 100-Day Action Plan for Optimizing Talents and Building Engagement

  • 3h 47m
  • Ashley Prisant Lesko
  • Society for Human Resource Management
  • 2018

What do you do well that you don’t use at work? In Go Beyond the Job Description, HR professionals and general managers will learn how to increase individual and team contributions by using what they already know and demonstrates in step-by-step style how to increase productivity, motivation, and engagement in individuals with a proven 100-day project called Talent Engagement Optimization (TEO). TEO is using more of what people already have, but are not using, in their jobs. It looks beyond the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities and considers in depth the employee talents, opportunities, and development now and in the future, and incorporates them in practical and meaningful ways that benefits employee and organization. Features include an online assessment to learn your own Talent Engagement Zone, a Development Plan, Strategic Program Transition Plan, and Additional Resources and Tools. A methodical and insightful book with detailed guidelines for any HR manager looking to optimize employee talent and build sustainable engagement, especially those with limited time and funds.

About the Author

Ashley Prisant Lesko, SHRM-CP, Ph.D., has a multifaceted background—from working as an officer in the U.S. Navy and holding leadership roles in Fortune 100 companies, to educating students at colleges and universities, and speaking at industry events. She has filled various roles at Amazon in operations, leadership and finance with oversight of more than $45 million and training programs, budgeting, and strategy across multiple fulfillment centers. She now leads Square Peg Solutions, an organization dedicated to helping companies develop leaders through a refined and tested talent engagement optimization process.

In this Book

  • Get on the Train: Leaving the Station with More Than What You Had When You Started Out
  • Understanding That Change is Not a Dirty Word
  • What Cards are in Your Hand? Knowing What Your Employees Have Helps You Know How Best to Stack the Deck
  • The Results are In! What to Do with Them? (Analyzing Initial Results)
  • Building the Action Plan. Caution, Construction Zone Ahead!
  • Putting the Action Plan into Place and the Keys into the Ignition
  • Checkup—How are You Doing?
  • Roadblocks
  • You've Got Backup: Support in the Organization You Didn't Know You Had
  • Kaizen for Life
  • Measuring Success
  • Keeping It Going
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