Revved!: An Incredible Way to Rev Up Your Workplace and Achieve Amazing Results

Revved!: An Incredible Way to Rev Up Your Workplace and Achieve Amazing Results | Harry Paul, Ross Reck | Motivational

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	Revved!: An Incredible Way to Rev Up Your Workplace and Achieve Amazing Results Harry Paul, Ross Reck McGraw-Hill, 2006 - 150 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Imagine a new kind of business model: one where caring for people is your capital investment and the returns redefine your bottom line.

REVVED! is the story of Katie Adams, an up-and-coming manager who's struggling to rekindle the enthusiasm and support of her team at work. When she's passed over for a long-awaited promotion, the message from her boss is clear: turn things around or get out.

But how? How do you inspire people to work harder, reach higher, and achieve more? How do you get them to support you and go above and beyond in everything they do? How do you get them to care?

You show that you care about them.

From the coauthor of FISH!, the bestselling book that put fun and passion back into the workplace, comes REVVED!-an incredible three-step program that helps you to maximize the returns that come from caring about your most important asset: your people.

Jump-start your passion and put yourself and your team on the road to real results:

WIN THEM OVER: Release that reservoir of positive energy in people by listening to them and voicing your appreciation. When people know you care, they're excited about going the extra mile. BLOW THEM AWAY: Take that excitement to the next level by creatively recognizing and rewarding your people. They'll feel so good about going that extra mile, they'll look for every opportunity to do it again. KEEP THEM REVVED: Sustain that level of excitement indefinitely by consistently and sincerely maintaining positive, honest relationships with everyone you encounter.

Once you put this program into practice, you'll learn two very important lessons about caring: how huge the returns can be and how quickly your life can change for the better. So get ready, get REVVED!, and put your team on the road to high-speed success.

MORE ENERGY! MORE PASSION! MORE RESULTS!

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A great book from a man who practices what he preaches

Years ago, my editor met Revved! co-author Harry Paul, one of the creators of the bestseller FISH!, and asked him to consider endorsing my forthcoming book The Soul of an Organization. He not only agreed to look at it, but read it with interest, and later spoke with me by phone to discuss his thoughts on some of the book's finer points. It was a kind gesture for a budding author that I will never forget.

I later had the pleasure of meeting Harry in person for the first time, together with his co-author Ross Reck, at last year's Book Expo America, and I was amazed at what I saw. With a long line of people waiting to meet him and get his autograph, he did more than smile and sign books - he truly created a connection with each and every person on line. It was like watching someone greet his best friend over and over again.

So, I smiled when I finally sat down to read Revved! - because it spells out, in story form, exactly how to be the way Harry is in real life. His three steps to getting people "revved" are common sense, and yet elegant and procedural at the same time - and I can tell you from personal experience that they work. Buy this book for your entire management team, or better yet, get Harry to come speak in person. If everyone put his words into practice, our workplaces would be the happiest places in the world.

-Rich Gallagher, author of The Soul of an Organization and Great Customer Connections.

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This book is easy to read and most of all easy to implement! The examples used are realistic. I was so inspired by the book, my company hired Harry Paul as our speaker for a manager's conference. The feedback from our managers: "They were more tuned in to their individual employees, which made their jobs easier!"

I was Revved

This is a thoroughly great read which I have been able to share with people in my training and coaching role.

The book provides sound guidance for the reader who is challenged to implement the ideas given.

All Revved! Up

Now, here's a book I'm almost embarrassed to review, it's so far from "great literature." But every now and then, such how-to-get-ahead books (like a Hershey with Almonds) call out to me, even though my workplace is only my home office with its staff of me.

This lively volume, an imaginary story set in an imaginary workplace, brags that Looking Out for #2 (you) takes only three steps: 1. Winning Them Over, 2. Blowing Them Away, 3. Keeping Them Revved.

Winning Them Over counsels you to engage people. "Plaster a smile on your face that makes you look like one of the happiest people in the world" (even if you're not), the authors advise. Find something nice to say, like "Good morning." Listen.

They promised instant results, so I slapped on a fake smile, headed to the grocery store. Sure enough. The utterly silent teenager who usually pushes my cart to my car began to whistle.

On to Step 2, Blowing Them Away. Say your secretary does a fantastic job. Don't just thank her. Write a letter about how terrific she is. Send it not only to the president of the company, but also include carbon copies all the way down the line to the deserving secretary. Blow Her Away. This soon will spread the word about how great you are.

I couldn't figure out a grocery store application for this, so I went on to Step 3, Keeping Them Revved. To keep 'em revved, you keep repeating Steps 1 and 2. So I plastered on my fake smile and headed to the post office. Struck up a conversation about the unseasonably warm weather with a gentleman in line. He smiled.

Looking Out for #1 (them), the authors say, is really Looking Out for #2 (you).

Hey! Who can quarrel with that? At least (unlike Hershey's) it's not fattening.

Marilyn Coffey is an award-winning writer of poetry and a widely published author of prose. See her works: Great Plains Patchwork, Marcella, or KANSAS QUARTERLY Vol. 15 No. 2.

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