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Sync or Swim: A Fable about Workplace Communication and Coming Together in a Crisis Hardback - 2014

by Gary Chapman; Paul White; Harold Myra

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Working with a discouraged, disorganized, cynical team? Learn how to turn it around.

Sync or Swim is a small tale with enormous insight on ways you can empower, engage, and energize employees or volunteers facing discouragement or cynicism.

Sam, the new CEO, was ready to hit the ground running. But his team members--and Mother Nature--had other plans.An ambitious yet nave sheepdog is called upon to lead Monarch Enterprises, a troubled organization on a beautiful isle. Confronted with broken systems and challenging personality types, Sam must learn how to marshal his team before the imminent storm washes everything away. Along the way, he gleans valuable lessons from an unlikely mentor: a wise, old puffin.

This delightful, quick read will:

  • Teach you communication techniques that enhance teamwork and productivity
  • Bring to life the principles used by hundreds of successful organizations
  • Provide relevant, practical insights based on real-world experiences
  • Stimulate lively and positive interaction (discussion guide included)

Based on the principles successfully used by major corporations, health organizations, over 250 colleges and universities, government agencies, churches, and non-profits

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  • Title Sync or Swim: A Fable about Workplace Communication and Coming Together in a Crisis
  • Author Gary Chapman; Paul White; Harold Myra
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Northfield Publishing
  • Publication date 2014-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780802412232 / 0802412238
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.44 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.12 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Corporate culture, Organizational behavior
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014029144
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.45

About the author

GARY CHAPMAN--author, speaker, counselor--has a passion for people and for helping them form lasting relationships. He is the #1 bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages series and director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc. Gary travels the world presenting seminars, and his radio programs air on more than 400 stations. For more information visit his website at www.5lovelanguages.com.

PAUL WHITE, PhD, is a psychologist, author, and speaker who "makes work relationships work." He has consulted with a wide variety of organizations, including Microsoft, the US Air Force, the Million Dollar Round Table, and Princeton University. He and Gary Chapman coauthored The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace.

HAROLD MYRA served as the CEO of Christianity Today International for 32 years. Under his leadership, the organization grew from one magazine to a communications company with a dozen magazines, copublished books, and a major Internet ministry. Myra started his journalistic career with "Youth for Christ" magazine, which under his leadership became "Campus Life" magazine. Author of five novels, numerous children's and nonfiction books, and hundreds of magazine articles, Myra has taught writing and publishing at the Wheaton College Graduate School in Illinois. He holds honorary doctorates from several colleges, including Biola University in California and Gordon College in Massachusetts. Myra has received various awards, among them the prestigious Magazine Publisher's Award and the James Deforest Murch Award from the National Association of Evangelicals. The Evangelical Press Association presented him with its highest honor, the Joseph T. Bayly Award, for his triple career as an editor, author, and publishing executive. Harold and his wife, Jeanette, are the parents of six children and grandparents of five. They reside in Wheaton, Illinois.

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