Bringing Out the Best in People How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, Third Edition

Updated edition of the classic bestseller on maximizing employee performance

“This is one of the top 5 business books of all time—THE foundational book for anyone who has to work (and live) with people!”
Verne Harnish, author of Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

“I know of no greater resource available today that helps business leaders achieve their goals and lead their teams. We incorporate the science and methods in Bringing out the Best in People in all we do as a company and with all of our partners, vendors, and customers. This book has transformed our products, our business model, our company, and the way we do business.”
Gary M. Austin, CEO, OneCare, LLC

“This book has served thousands of our managers in their journey to understand why people do what they do. That crucial understanding has helped them to bring out the very best that their people can offer. Not providing managers with a tool as effective as Bringing out the Best in People would be like pushing someone out of an airplane without a parachute.”
Richard S. Gold, Vice Chairman, M&T Bank

Maximize employee performance with this updated edition of the classic bestseller

In Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, renowned thought leader and internationally recognized workplace expert Aubrey Daniels takes a look at today’s rapidly changing work environment, providing a timely update to his seminal book on performance management.

As one of the foremost speakers and writers in the human performance field, for nearly 40 years Daniels has worked with organizations to apply scientifically-based behavioral tools and principles to effectively address workplace issues—particularly as they relate to management, leadership, culture, innovation, safety, engagement, and collaboration.

Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, presents Daniels’ proven strategies that have been successfully adopted by hundreds of organizations worldwide—ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies—and delivers step-by-step instruction and positive practices to help you implement and sustain positive change.

With a behavioral foundation and new chapters on employee engagement and the impact of the exponential increase in technology, this latest edition features all new examples, updated approaches to effective recognition and rewards systems, tips for stimulating and fostering innovation and creativity, and productive ways to embrace and empower the multi-generational workforce, including Millennials and future generations.

This timely update tackles the changes in the contemporary work environment, while providing step-by-step instructions and proven practices that have been adopted by Daniels’ global clients, from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Learn how to:

• Create effective recognition and rewards systems that are positively reinforcing to employees
• Stimulate innovation and creativity in exciting new ways
• Understand fluency as an efficient way to reduce training costs and increase training effectiveness for all employees
• Engage employees in ways that lead to improved performance and a stronger culture
• Motivate and empower the multi-generational workforce
• Understand and shape how technology is affecting employee behavior—for better and worse