Engage employees to give of their discretionary effort, while learning how to lead more effectively and authentically. Scott Carbonara’s books are highly authentic, engaging, and practical to leaders “from the boardroom to the family room.” By weaving riveting and often humorous stories of his own experiences, with key tips for maximizing performance and leadership, Scott shows how to get more from the workplace and beyond.
Scott’s Signature Books
A Manager’s Guide to Employee Engagement (McGraw Hill)
Develop the leadership skills that empower people to create outstanding results. Effective managers know that their job is to help employees do their best work, not to give them orders. The Manager’s Guide to Employee to Engagement enables leaders at all levels to build relationships that support collaboration and drive meaningful performance improvement. And when a team succeeds, everybody wins!
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Firsthand Lessons, Secondhand Dogs
Have you ever felt like it is too late to start over? Told through a story of how an unwanted dog became a life-changing mentor, Firsthand Lessons, Secondhand Dogs is a book about getting a second chance at enjoying a first-rate existence. The story begins with the unlikely adoption of a “secondhand” dog, Bruno, and is paralleled to the life of his “adoptive father,” author Scott Carbonara. As Scott’s life changes, through work promotions and challenges, Bruno subtly yet strongly demonstrates how to have fun, focus, forgive, and finally, pay it forward—all lessons that serve us whether in business or life. As Scott illustrates through the poignant and often humorous story and accompanying lessons and exercises, as long as you strive to keep learning and teaching others, your work continues. This book provides an opportunity to laugh, learn, and love your life again, all while finding concrete ways to pay it forward.
$12.50
Don’t Throw Underwear on the Table & Other Lessons Learned at Work
The title conjures up all sorts of thoughts about the kind of position Scott might have held where the temptation to throw a pair of actual underwear on the table seemed like, in Scott’s words “A good idea at the time.” For several years, Scott worked as a family therapist, serving as a live-in counselor for a residential group home for juvenile delinquents. These were not Sunday School kids being sent to a weekend camp with days full of singing and evenings spent around the campfire eating s’mores. These children were wards of the state, and they were placed in Scott’s custody because each had suffered some profound abuse and/or neglect. In one corner stood Scott, a “mature,” college-educated, adult at the ripe age of twenty-two. In the other corner stood six children, many carrying long, distinguished juvenile criminal records by the time they were placed in his care. Who would win? Before he could find success in connecting with the hearts and minds of the children in his care, Scott had his own fears and insecurities to confront and overcome. He soon understood that to reach his kids, he had to close the textbook. And open his own heart. While Scott endeavored to bring security, structure and stability into the lives of the troubled children he served, he believes that they taught him how to listen to his heart.
$12.50
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Scott Carbonara, 4209 New Hope Spring Drive, Hillsborough, NC 27278
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