Full Engagement! - by Brian Tracy (Paperback)

About the Book

How do you meet the demand to produce more with less? Discover the secret to quickly transforming a group of average performers into a high-functioning team capable of achieving tremendous results.

Book Synopsis

As a manager, it's your role to achieve the highest possible return on the physical, emotional, and mental efforts your people put forth. A return on investment is a return on energy. How do you light a fire under each employee when most of them are working at only a fraction of their potential?

In this essential guide, business leadership expert Brian Tracy shows you how to unlock superstar potential from everyone on your work team. Based on decades of research and thousands of hours maximizing personal and organizational performance, Tracy shares the hard and fast secrets of what you can do (and what you should stop doing) to inspire your employees to reach peak performance.

In Full Engagement!, you will learn how to:

• create a high-trust work environment
• drive out the fears that hold your people back
• set clear goals and objectives
• unlock the potential of each person
• motivate and inspire employees to greater height
• trigger the "X Factor" that maximizes productivity
• recognize, reward, and reinforce their efforts that energizes each team member

Your ability to channel the human energies of your staff into higher levels of productivity and performance is the yardstick by which your ability as an executive will be measured. In these tough economic times, everyone is expected to produce more with less.

The only way to succeed is to consistently inspire your people to perform at their absolute best.?Full Engagement! provides you with the keys to unlocking not just the hidden drive and abilities that exist within every one of your people but also your own.

From the Back Cover

Advance Praise for Brian Tracy's "Full Engagement!" "Brian shows you how to tap into the spiritual and emotional energies of every person so they are internally motivated to perform at their best every day." -- Stephen R. Covey, author, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and "The Leader in Me" ""Full Engagement!" is the most complete and practical tool book I have read that shows managers show to treat each person so well that they perform at higher levels than ever before. "- Jack Canfield, Best-selling coauthor of the #1 NYT best-selling series "Chicken Soup for the Soul" "Brian Tracy is one of the most practical and helpful advisers that I have ever met. "Full Engagement!" contains ideas that we can immediately apply--at work and at home." -Marshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times bestsellers "MOJO" and "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" "Brilliant! Capable of revolutionizing a company from the ground up by revealing the keys to peak productivity and performance in each and every employee, "Full Engagement!" is hands-down the most outstanding and important business book of 2011!" -- Ivan Misner, New York Times bestselling author, and founder of BNI(R) and Referral Institute(R) "Brian's positive, practical ideas for getting the most out of each person can transform your team and make you a great leader." -- T. Harv Eker, #1 New York Times bestselling author, "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind " "Brian Tracy's "Full Engagement!" is an extraordinary book, loaded with practical tools and ideas that every manager needs to be more effective and make the team feel terrific about themselves." -Mark C. Thompson, bestselling author of "Now Build a Great Business!" and "Success Built to Last" "I have read every book Brian Tracy has written. "Full Engagement!" is the best one yet. It's loaded with practical tools and ideas to show managers how to motivate and inspire their teams. Stop what you're doing and start reading." -- Pat Williams, Senior Vice President, Orlando Magic; author, "Extreme Focus" "To succeed in this economy, you need dedicated, motivated people who put their whole hearts into doing a great job every day. "Full Engagement!" shows you how to instill these feelings in every person." -- Bill Bartmann, self-made billionaire and CEO, Bill Bartmann Enterprises "The way to get people to use their full potential is to stimulate, as my friend Brian Tracy suggests, 'Full Engagement.' Read, absorb, be inspired, and use the principles of "Full Engagement!" to gain full cooperation, full resource utilization, and a full bank account."-- Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator, #1 New York Times bestselling series "Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)"; co-author, C"racking the Millionaire Code," "The One Minute Millionaire," and "Cash in a Flash"; author, "Richest Kids in America" "Like an award-winning chef, a company CEO needs a recipe for success. In "Full Engagement!," Brian Tracy has provided that recipe. All that remains is to find the best ingredients and combine them with passion. This book will certainly ignite any team or individual to achieve greater performance and results." -- Kim Yost, CEO, Art Van Furniture If you're ready to empower your people to be more do more and achieve more, then read and use the strategies in this brilliant book by my friend Brian Tracy. Anyone in a leadership position must read this book! -James Malinchak, Featured on ABC's Primetime TV Show, Secret Millionaire, Founder, www.BigMoneySpeaker.com "This is an outstanding book, loaded with practical tools and ideas that every manager can use to help employees feel terrific about themselves--and as you know, an engaged, happy employee is the central value in individual performance and productivity. This book shows you how to motivate and inspire your team to achieve their highest potential." -John Assaraf, author ""Full Engagement!" is a fantastic journey that gives the reader great insights into how a manager's behaviors will affect the intrinsic motivation of staff, and, ultimately, the bottom line." -Joseph Sherren, President, Ethos Enterprises Inc.; CEO, Gateway Leadership Inc.; author, "iLead, Five Insights for Building Sustainable Organizations"; coauthor, "Vitamin "C" for a Healthy Workplace" "Brian shows managers how to make people feel terrific about themselves and perform at their best." -Keith Scott, founder, Beachcomber Hot Tubs "Leaders and managers can extract the worst or best of what employees have in them. Now more than ever before we need the best quality work and highest productivity from the employees we have--and nobody is better at showing us how than Brian Tracy." - Lawrence Janesky, President, Basement Systems Inc.; author, "The Highest Calling" and "Think Daily " "On a scale from 1 to 10, from very unhappy to very happy, I am 10+ with "Full Engagement!." Yet another true work of art by Mr. Tracy, this book provides me with a whole host of proven best practices to bring the best out of my people and me. I cannot wait to incorporate these techniques with my department and help make the best people get better while they achieve greatness. Thanks Brian!" -Matt Fenn, Senior Manager, Jostens Memory Book Training and Development "Brian Tracy has done it again! He has brought his insightful and intuitive wisdom to "Full Engagement!," providing the tools necessary to positively influence and impact the people you lead. Read it, apply it, and rejoice in the results!" -Michael Clayton, President and CEO, The Better Business Bureau in Southeast Texas "Brian's book, "Full Engagement!," is full of proven management strategies for getting people to perform at their highest levels so your firm can have the competitive human capital advantage." --Anne M. Bachrach, Author of "Live Life with No Regrets" and "Excuses Don't Count; Results Rule " " " "Timing is everything and Brian's timing on "Full Engagement!" is masterful. He is laser accurate in his premise that the best organizations in the world have the best working environments, and he brilliantly shows us why and how." --Denis Waitley, Author, "Winning The Game of Life" " "

Review Quotes

..".love the feeling of being inspired so I looked forward to reading Brian Tracy's book...one of the most prolific motivational speakers of our day."" --CEO Blog"

..".master on management." "--Martin Zwilling, Forbes.com "

..".offers a wealth of insight into why people think, feel, react and respond the way they do at work." "--Houston Lifestyles and Home"

..".presents solid, substantive material in an accessible way..."Full Engagement "blends big ideas and concepts with actionable tips and techniques." "--The New York Journal of Books Online"

..".provides a number of compelling personal references and examples from his vast business experience... I recommend the book for any manager..." "--Eric Jacobson Management and Leadership blog "

..".roadmap to successfully managing people resulting in more well adjusted and happy people as well as higher results for the company...in-depth view of what motivates people..." "--Suite101.com"

..".world-class empiricist and diehard pragmatist...obsessed with understanding what works, what doesn't, and why...His role is that of a personal mentor/coach to each reader." "--The Employee Engagement Network"

""Full Engagement!."..proof that long-tested business approaches are worth re-learning because they continue to prove their value." "--Inland Business Journal"

"Author of numerous business bestsellers, Tracy manages to pack each volume with...advice and counsel to make every reader a more effective manager or leader..." "--ForeWord Reviews"

"Grounded in extensive research in the fields of human psychology and motivational management...wealth of insights into why people think, feel, react, and respond..." "--Niche magazine"

"Tracy has an answer for just about any management or motivational-related question I have...his latest book is chockfull of great management advice." "--Senior Market Advisor"

"Whenever I need a reminder or a refresher course on refining and improving my business skill sets, I turn to one of the true gurus...Brian Tracy." "--Senior Market Advisor"

About the Author

BRIAN TRACY is one of the top business speakers and authorities in the world today. He has spoken in almost every city in the US and Canada, and in 56 other countries. He addresses more than 250,000 people worldwide each year. He has written 50 books and produced more than 500 audio and video learning programs on management, motivation and personal success. He is the president of Brian Tracy University and Business Growth Strategies, the pre-eminent internet business learning portal in the world today.