I am looking for the name and phone, eamil, or mailing address of
specialty literary agents and or publishing companies that might be
interested in working with my latest manuscript. I have a previous book
Partnering With Employees, A Practical System For Building Empowered
Relationships, published by Jossey-Bass Inc., San Francisco in 1993 which
may be important to prospective agent or companies that I am an
experienced author. Following is a brief idea of what the new publication
is about to help you focus your suggestions.
The material is a nineteen module learning-by-doing process for
implementing "Advance Work Team Leadership & Follower Practices" in
organizations. It's the product of 25 years of study, program development,
and consulting on supervisor-subordinate relationships.
Implementing the "Practices" corrects the core human relations problem
that is common in all work relationship difficulties that manifest in
symptoms such as: 1) discrimination for race, gender, disability, and
etcetera, 2) harassment and hostile work environments, 3) supervisory
micromanging, 4) operating on incorrect assumptions of expectations, 5)
ineffective performance evaluations, 6) unfair promotions, discipline, and
terminations, 7) grievances, 8) unsafe work practices due to antagonistic
interactions, and 9) others too numerous to mention.
These "Practices" are to human performance improvement what Windows is to
Windows based software programs. They establish and operate leader-partner
team relationships that accomplish whatever the team members can concieve,
describe, and believe. Applied to supervisor-subordinate relationships,
the "Practices" transform supervisors into inspire, guide, and support
leaders and subordinates into respected, responsible, accountable, self
motivated, creative, productive, and fulfilled partners. Without these
practices, most supervisor-subordinate relationships are often adversarial
and rarely synergistic.
Each module in the publication includes 1) conceptual information about a
segment of the practices, 2) implementation procedures for those
practices, 3) recorded dialogue model demonstrations for team member
interactions, 4) and a facilitator guide for group or individual learning
sessions. Each module builds on the previous one. Completion of the
modules results in perpetual and dynamic leader-partner agreements that
include mutual commitment on: 1) team mission based on their employer
mission, 2) personal missions that can be accomplished through the team
mission, 3) specific and measurable leader support responsibilities, and
4) specific and measureable partner job responsibilities. These agreements
are the foundation of a comprehensive Human Resource guidance and
administration system. They are the basis for regular 360 degree
performance reviews that produce continuous individual and team
performance improvement and exceptional job satisfaction.These practices
are an essential foundation for any and all performance improvement
efforts such as TQM, reengineering, learning organization development,
culture change, diversity, disability, affirmative action, productivity
improvement, and optimizing safety programs.
I'm hoping to find an agent and or company that both publishes and markets
materials of this nature. Any ideas will be much appreciated.
A greatful list subscriber.
Duke Nielsen
Dukington@aol.com
[Host's Note: Discussion of the practices is fine here on the LO list. If
you want to suggest a publisher, please write Duke directly. ...Rick]
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