Real-world ways to help employees grow—and stay.
For Managers: Grow your people. Keep your people. Build your future from within.
For Employees: Stop waiting for a ladder. Take charge your own career momentum.
1001 Ways to Grow Employees
Every employee wants to learn, grow and advance in their career and to be able to achieve more, earn more, and better provide for their future and families. Organizations that embrace this challenge while challenging their employees to help the organization itself learn and grow will be the ones that survive and thrive.
Bestselling author Bob Nelson is a leading authority on employee recognition and engagement worldwide and specializes in helping organizations improve their management practices, programs & systems. In 1001 Ways to Grow Employees, Dr. Nelson shows leaders and employees:
- How best to align personal aspirations with organization objectives
How to make learning and development—from new skills to new opportunities—a part of every job - Proven creative and successful low-cost strategies that have worked for others
- 100% real-life examples, strategies and techniques that you can use TODAY
With 1001 Ways to Grow Employees, organizations of all types and sizes can see how some of the world's top companies develop employees and how it leads to better employee engagement, performance, and retention. This book is also perfect for employees who want to advance their own careers.
"An essential guide for every manager who wants to keep their best employees!"
—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times bestselling author & World's #1 Executive Coach
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Book Launch Webinar
Tues, Sept 22, 2026
9–10 a.m. PT / 12–1 p.m. Eastern
Free
Bob Nelson, Ph.D. will explore one of the most urgent challenges facing organizations today: helping employees grow in ways that improve engagement, retention, adaptability, and performance. The presentation is grounded in a simple but powerful premise: while career development is ultimately self-directed, it is rarely self-supported. Managers and organizations play a critical role in creating the conditions that allow employees to learn, grow, and advance.
Drawing on hundreds of real-world examples from organizations of all sizes and industries, the session will move beyond theory to showcase practical, proven approaches that managers can implement immediately. The examples will range from small, low-cost actions used by frontline supervisors to large-scale talent development initiatives adopted by global organizations. The emphasis throughout will be on what actually works in practice rather than what companies merely aspire to do.
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About the Author
Bob Nelson, Ph.D. is president of Nelson Motivation, Inc. and the world's leading authority on Employee Recognition and Engagement. He has published over 30 books that have sold over 5 million copies that have been translated into over 30 languages. He has presented on six continents and worked with 1000s of organizations including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies.
He is currently a Senior Fellow for The Conference Board, a Top Thought Leader for The Best Practices Institute, and has been named a Leading Global Employee Engagement Influencer by EE Awards, and a Top Five Management Guru by Global Gurus. He received an MBA in organizational behavior from UC Berkeley and a PhD in management education with Dr. Peter F. Drucker, "The Father of Modern Management," at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles.