Bringing Out the Best in People (Third Edition)

How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement

By: Aubrey C. Daniels

Narrated by: Scott Pollak

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Maximize employee performance with this updated edition of the classic best seller.

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 multigenerational 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 start-ups 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 multigenerational workforce
• Understand and shape how technology is affecting employee behavior - for better and worse

©2015 Aubrey Daniels International (P)2016 McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio

ABA in the Workplace - Yes!

I work an as RBT in the field of ABA and it was so awesome to hear behavior management terminology we implement in this book! It is an evidence based practice that you can apply anywhere in your life, and this book did a great job of visualizing that for us. I recommend this for any business owner or manager who has employees.

management power

this book will help you understand how to improve perfomancei in yout team .Create an envirnment where youll get discretional effort

Fun, Some Scientific Inconsistencies/Inaccuracies

Interesting book. Some of the information was inaccurate, but a decent listen nonetheless. It seems the author was shaky on descriptions of reinforcement/punishment. Using some examples of punishment while describing them as "negative reinforcement." There was a bit of a section speaking of "identifying reinforcement/negative reinforcement," but the "checks" he was analyzing seemed to fit in more with different reinforcement schedules "fixed interval vs variable interval... etc." So, I think that whole section was actually a little off base. So, a fun little overview book for laypersons, but I would exercise caution in fact checking the material if you are using this to supplement graduate level studies of behavioral analysis.