A Genuine Giver is a person who gives to others joyfully in a sincere, non-manipulative manner. The best way to have healthier and more effective relationships is by increasing your capacity for genuine giving.
The book includes the powerful Interpersonal Motivation Scale™, which defines nine different types of taking and giving. After completing and scoring the instrument, your profile reveals a mixture of motives and their impact on your relationships. The instrument can also be used to help teams and organizations identify and overcome specific relationship barriers.
Insightful dolphins Iota and Mu are your guides to understanding each of the nine types!
Based on an original synthesis of concepts from social, interpersonal, and developmental psychology, this important and timely book includes many practical tips and guidelines for building self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
Here's a review of Becoming a Genuine Giver, Ken's new book on improving relationships:
"Awesome, wonderful and much needed this 244 page marvel on communication and humanity really helped me to focus on the relations in my life that keep me spinning my wheels and how I can face my fears, and look at the negative pay-offs that keep me stuck. I hate to admit it, but many times when it came to dealing with others I would just say "well what do you expect from a ____?", and that was the extent of my understanding, open mindedness and forgiveness.
I will always carry a deep debt of gratitude to the author because he was able to just lay everything out in lavender so to speak, and offer me ways, examples, suggestions and awesome graphics to help me get to an internal dialog that made a world of difference to me and those around me. I would recommend this valiant pioneer to anyone wanting to learn how to communicate in any relationship and this little beauty has totally made its way into my spiritual toolbox. Thanks Ken, I think this book will save millions."
- Riki Frahmann, Planet Starz, Inc.
Here’s what readers are saying about Values-Driven Change, which is a compilation of Ken’s writings on values and change over the past 25 years:
"This book is one of a kind. There are many books that are compilations of articles, instruments, and exercises, but Hultman's has a theme- values- which makes it unique. Moreover, the book represents a lifetime of important work on values. Thus, for OD consultants and our clients, we now have in one volume an invaluable tool kit for values work. And when have we ever needed such a tool any more than now? Values work is more important than ever before. Here is our source for this work."
- W. Warner Burke, Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education,
Teachers College, Columbia University
"Ken Hultman is a first rate scholar and advocate of the importance of humanitarian values at the level of the individual, the small group, or an entire organization. His ability to distill and synthesize a great deal of social science theory and translate it into a language and frameworks that we can all understand is masterful. Organizational development consultants who are looking for practical tools and techniques to use in doing their work with individuals, teams or whole organizations will find this book to be full of ready-to-use instruments all of which are simply explained and grounded in solid social science theory."
- Tony Petrella, Organizational Consultant and Executive Coach
"This pragmatic collection of tools and articles puts values into the very conversations and change activities that they truly belong in. They help make overt the deep impact values have in our work, and how essential it is to make them conscious."
- Linda Ackerman Anderson, Co-Founder, Being First, Inc.
"Both a practical workbook and a comprehensive text, Hultman's new book will appeal to newcomers and seasoned veterans alike. It is of utmost importance that we bring values back to center stage in our change work, and this volume is a major step toward bringing this about."
- John D. Adams, Ph.D., Chair and Professor, Organizational Systems Ph.D. Program,
Saybrook Graduate School
Here's what readers are saying about Balancing Individual and Organizational Values, which is included in the Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer Practicing Organization Development Series:
"Balancing Individual and Organizational Values brings values and their importance
into the foreground, where they belong! It provides the practitioner with understanding
and tools to really work with values--individually, collectively, and organizationally."
- David Jamieson, Ph.D., President, Jamieson Consulting Group, and co-author,
Managing Workforce 2000: The Complete Guide to Facilitation.
"An important addition to any OD practitioner's library, Ken Hultman's book reviews
and analyzes both the historical and contemporary relevance of values to the mission
of OD. It is packed with valuable frameworks, models, tools, worksheets and advice
to guide OD consultants addressing value issues in the change process."
- Bev Scott, Principal, Bev Scott Consulting, and author of,
Consulting on the Inside: An Internal Consultant's Guide to.
"In these times when shared vision is a prerequisite to competitive advantage,
conflict between employee and organizational values can spell disaster.
Ken Hultman's book not only helps us understand this conflict but it is
packed with practical tools for reducing it, which makes it a must read."
- Frederick A. Miller, President and CEO of the Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
"If you're going to read a book on organizational values, this is the one to start with.
It includes good theory and good practice; translating what Ken Hultman has to say
into action should definitely bring you results worth writing home about."
- David Nicoll, Ph.D., Merlin & Nicoll, Inc.
From the Foreword:
"It is my hope that Balancing Individual and Organizational Values will be widely
adopted by organizational leaders and OD practitioners. This book provides an excellent
description of why it is essential to be aware of both individuals' and organizations'
espoused values and values in use. It also provides practical processes and valuable
tools for bringing values into awareness, identifying where different values need to
be nurtured, and developing plans for supporting and using appropriate values in
everyday life for both individuals and organizations."
- John D. Adams, Ph.D., Director, Organizational Studies Ph.D. program, Saybrook Graduate School.
Here's what readers are saying about Making Change Irresistible, which has been rated #1 in popularity among IT service companies on Amazon.com :
"Making Change Irresistible is the best book I've read on the problems of organizational change."
-William C. Byham, Ph.D., President and CEO of Development Dimensions
International, Inc., and author of Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment
"Ken utilized the ideas and methods in Making Change Irresistible at a time when we were finding change very resistible.
Through his guidance we have transformed our organization and have become attuned to the pulse of the marketplace."
-Mike Morris, President, The Contact Group, Inc.
"THE most complete, practical guide to change management yet! Ken Hultman's Making Change Irresistible is a must-read gift to
an ever-changing world. As you pack your bag for the trip to the next millennium, don't forget to include this book."
-Chip R. Bell, author of Customers as Partners and Managers as Mentors
"Ken Hultman has written a brilliant and very practical book on dealing with change. . . This book is must reading for any organization that truly
wants to change and needs to understand the process."
-Roger McAniff, President, McBliss Leadership Co.
"A first-class behavioral guide to change management."
-Bill Godfrey, BookWatch , Top 500 Reviewer
"What distinguishes Making Change Irresistible is Hultman's grasp of the 'psychology of resistance' that lies at the root
of behaviors like sabotage and procrastination. Basic and essential."
-Midwest Book Review
Here's what people are saying about Changing Kingdoms, Ken's insightful new
book on applying Christian values to daily life:
"This is a fascinating book. I recommend it highly."
-Kenneth N. Taylor
Translator, The Living Bible
"Every page is a seedbed of reflective thought, study, intellectual
challenge, and spiritual growth. . . The scholarship is outstanding. The
author writes to the reader's intellect, but he touches the heart."
-J. M. Koberlein
Christian Reviewer
From the dust jacket:
There are two kingdoms: the kingdom of the world ruled by the desire to
magnify self, and the kingdom of God ruled by the desire to magnify Christ.
A Christian’s challenge is to change from the former kingdom to the latter,
a life-long journey filled with excitement, uncertainty, detours, and
deceptive short-cuts. The way we handle daily events determines our course,
either forward toward a deeper walk with the Lord or backward toward the
fleshly pursuits of the world.
Changing Kingdoms: Choosing a Christ-Centered Life is a biblically-based
roadmap for the Christian traveler, intended for individuals who want a more
vital relationship with the Lord, and for pastors, counselors, and teachers
called to help others move in this direction. After describing the
differences between the two kingdoms, and why the battle between them is so
fierce, the book offers many practical guidelines and suggestions for
elevating the journey to a triumph of faith.
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