For parents, grandparents, teachers and others Like The Seed, each child, sooner or later, will wonder what he or she shall grow up to be. This book broaches that question and allows not only the reader but parents, grandparents, teachers and others to assist children with this very important question. To aid in the value of the book's content, and to allow an additional teaching experience, this book is also available as a computer presentation. These programs offer several additional advantages such as: - Unlike requiring a child or children to sit by the reader to see a book and its illustrations, the reader may elect to read the article from a computer. The book's optional presentations could even be linked to available media projection for classroom and other use. - Today's computer savvy children could also watch or read the story by themselves with relative ease and at their own initiative. Also use of the presentation format allows children to add to or change the book as their creative minds suggest. For instance, after reading the story, an 11 year old girl in our family wrote a song about The Seed. Other possibilities are: - While most children books are written with the main character a male, this book is intentionally gender neutral. Thus the child reader could make the Seed a "He" or " She," and/or give the Seed a name. - The reader could creatively change the story. - Illustrations could be changed. They could also be animated allowing some art work to be programmed to appear when the reader "clicks" after or before reading a page. For a complimentary computer based copy of THE SEED see the following website: www.thebooktheseed.com. On that website you can select your desired format. You will be asked to confirm that you have purchased The Seed and where as well as pledge that you will not further distribute the presentation(s) without permission. (Note: Teachers may distribute to their students without restriction.) If you have not yet purchased the book, you can order it at www.createspace or amazon.com.
About the Author: MICHAEL R. LOSEY, SPHR, CAE President, MikeLosey.com President & CEO (Retired) Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) www.mikelosey.com Michael R. Losey, SPHR, CAE, Retired President & CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), is better known for his greater than 50 years of experience in all areas of human resource and general management than he is as an author of children's books. . Before being named to the Society's top position in 1990, Losey served 30 years in management and executive level positions, including New Holland where he was VP of HR until assuming corporate HR accountabilities with the then parent company, Sperry Corporation. SHRM, a not-for-profit organization, is the leading voice of the human resource profession in the world, representing the interests of greater than 250,000 professional and student members. Losey has been active in international human resources and lead the effort to establish the North American Human Resource Management Association (NAHRMA) in 1977, which is comprised of the national HR societies from Canada, Mexico and the United States. He is a past president of NAHRMA as well as the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations (WFPMA Mr. Losey is also an accomplished association executive leading SHRM's growth and success for 10 years. As SHRM's CEO, Losey tripled the Society's membership, increased revenue by six fold and increased net worth 900 percent. Losey holds both Bachelors and Masters Degrees of Business Administration in Industrial Relations from the University of Michigan, is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and Certified Association Executive (CAE). Losey is represented by WorldWide Speakers Group and is a frequent speaker to general management, HR and trade association leadership. The Michael R. Losey $50,000 Research Award is granted annually by SHRM and its affiliates to a researcher who has furthered the profession of human resources. Together with Dr. David Ulrich, of the University of Michigan, Losey contributed to and helped edit the book, Tomorrow's HR Management. John Wiley and Sons with SHRM also published their newest book, The Future of Human Resource Management. For more on Mr. Losey, see: www.mikelosey.com.