Fired Up! Employees

By Aric Bostick

Happier employees set the stage for a happier workplacetranslating to greater efficiency and a healthier bottom line. Dont you want employees contributing to your organization as if they are owners in its success? Aric Bostick shows you how to get employees FIRED UP! using seven simple but powerful principles to ignite engagement and increase performanceeffective immediately! You dont have to spend a ton of money to make a dramatic difference in how employees respond to challenges and tackle opportunities. Just get FIRED UP!

Did you know?

FuelHappy employees are 50% more productive

Inventory77% would work harder for recognition

ReframeEmployee recognition can boost performance 44%

Energize60% less errors are made by healthy employees

Declare20% are motivated by career development opportunities

Understand80% lost work time due to a conflict with a colleague

Present84% of engaged employees feel they can improve their workplace

For more information visit : firedupemployees.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Aug 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781475943559

Aric Bostick

Leading motivational speaker, success trainer, and author Aric Bostick has inspired more than a half million people to believe in themselves by setting higher goals and achieving more fulfilling dreams. Aric passionately introduces energy and performance to the workplace and beyond - blending humor, inspiration, and life-changing wisdom in his worldclass presentations.

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Copyright © 2012 by Aric Bostick

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Cover design by Flip Design Studio, Inc.

Interior graphics by Düable Design & Development, LLC

Author photos by Kathy Whittaker Photography

ISBN: 978-1-4759-4354-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4759-4355-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012914330

iUniverse rev. date: 08/08/2012

Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 FUEL: What Fuels Your Tank?

Chapter 2 INVENTORY: Take Stock of Your Life

Chapter 3 REFRAME: Shift Your Perspective

Chapter 4 ENERGIZE: Exercise, Get R&R, Eat Well

Chapter 5 DECLARE: What’s Your Mission?

Chapter 6 UNDERSTAND: Step into Someone Else’s Shoes

Chapter 7 PRESENT: Live Here and Now

Conclusion

This book is dedicated to all those who think they have lost their fire, but need to know it is still there.

This book is also dedicated to John Graeser—my confidant, my godfather, my friend. The words written here are just bite-sized pieces of the huge smorgasbord of wisdom you have graciously and selflessly bestowed upon me. Without you in my life, I am nowhere. Thank you with all my heart.

Praise for Aric Bostick and FIRED UP!

Aric was everything I hoped he’d be and more! He energized our members like I’ve never seen them! He drew in a crowd that was a 50% increase for us and they all left with ammo to FIRE UP their staff! Thank you Aric, for an incredible presentation!

—Leslie Vlisides, SPHR | CCHR

MA 2012 Programs Chair

Aric is amazing and his presentation is like none other I have seen. Not only did he FIRE UP our conference participants, but also our internal staff! His keen ability to connect with his audience not just during the presentation but also before and after has really solidified the experience for us all.

—Nancy Clements

Director of Marketing Communications

Practice Management Institute

I highly recommend any company needing to recharge and re-motivate their employees to bring in Aric! His high-energy presentation is packed with goal setting and team building ideas that all our managers are excited to take back and share with their teams. He is AWESOME!

—Lisa Watson

Human Resources, Marketing & IT Director

Cellular Plus

Aric Bostick has a visceral understanding of what unlocks human potential. He truly envelops his audience and conveys his enthusiasm in an up-beat manner only he can pull off!

—Gil Urbano

B.S. Certified Personal Trainer

Gold’s Gym International

A true teacher…Through his enthusiasm, energy, and relevant story-telling, I have seen Aric Bostick motivate students, teachers, and parents to WANT TO LEARN…isn’t that what teaching is all about—motivating your audience to WANT TO LEARN?

—Rita M. Landez

GEAR UP Facilitator

San Antonio Independent School District

Aric Bostick is a one-of-a-kind original. I saw Aric speak in Denver and he had the crowd on their feet and every person in the room was FIRED UP for more! I have recommended Aric’s FIRED UP! keynotes, training events, and retreats to all of my clients. I can’t wait for his FIRED UP! television show coming in 2013. Books like this one will not only fire up your employees, but are guaranteed to engage and motivate corporate, government, education, and social sectors across the United States.

—Anne Bruce

Bestselling author of Discover True North: A 4-Week Approach to Ignite Your Passion and Activate Your Potential (McGraw-Hill), Manager’s Guide to Motivating Employees (McGraw-Hill), and Keynote Presenter of America’s Got Talent in the Workplace!

About the Author

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Kathy Whittaker Photography

Aric Bostick, one of the nation’s leading motivational speakers and success trainers, has inspired and equipped more than a half million people from all walks of life to believe in themselves. By choosing to set higher goals and take action, Aric shows people how to choose and create a more fulfilling life. After experiencing his own hardships as a teen, Aric’s mission became to guide people in overcoming their own personal challenges—using those experiences to ignite greater achievement and happiness. Ultimately, this inspires the mentorship of others.

Based on his latest book, FIRED UP!, Aric passionately introduces energy and performance to the workplace and beyond—blending humor, inspiration,