How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life [Hardcover]

Tom Rath (Author), Donald O. Clifton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 9, 2007

How did you feel after your last interaction with another person? Did that person — your spouse, best friend, coworker, or even a stranger — "fill your bucket" by making you feel more positive? Or did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before? The number one New York Times and number one Business Week bestseller, How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life — while reducing the negative. Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting changes and has all the makings of a timeless classic.

 

Included in this edition is the bonus section "Instructional Guide for Educators," an additional 64 pages with ideas for classroom "bucket filling" activities for teachers to use with their students.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Gallup Press; Educator's edition (March 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159562001X
• ISBN-13: 978-1595620019
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #62 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Emotions

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How Full is your Bucket?, March 15, 2008

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Bridgit Breslow "boss lady" (Fort Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life (Hardcover)

I am currently using this book as part of the professional development of the Resident Assistants that I supervise, who are undergraduate college students who work with many different kinds of people. Although my staff does not always recognize the long-term meaning of this work, I feel that when we discuss the chapters and try to show the connection to daily activities, they are able to understand the meaning of the book.

I would recommend this book for an older crowd, and definitely to be used in a team-building way over the course of time.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars bucket book, December 14, 2007

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Library Lady "Amy" (Santa Fe, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life (Hardcover)

Great book for those who want to be a positive influence on others. Our entire school staff read the book before the year started.

5.0 out of 5 stars Buckets of Bliss!, February 21, 2009

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Library-Centers (San Antonio, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How Full Is Your Bucket? Educator's Edition: Positive Strategies for Work and Life (Hardcover)

This bestseller describes how, statistically speaking, positive reinforcement improves marriages, families and workplaces. Using the simple, concrete metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, the authors show us how to increase positive interactions in our lives and tell us why this is so important. In a little over a hundred pages, you will learn how to improve the world around you by filling other people's buckets.

As an educator, I found this book to be a valuable reminder of the power of my words. For example, research described in this book suggests that we should have five positive interactions for each negative interaction we have with a person. As you proceed through your day of teaching and training children, do your interactions fit this ratio? How Full Is Your Bucket explains why your students will become more productive learners when you make a point to fill their buckets.

I think this title would also be useful for students preparing for marriage or the workplace, or students who help in a family business. The educator's edition can easily be applied to a variety of ages and schooling styles. The student handouts are particularly educational because they require the application of the book's teachings, rather than mere summaries or restatements.

I believe that this book would be an excellent addition to any educator's library, useful as both a reference and as curriculum, and would also be a beneficial wedding or graduation gift.