

Steven M. Darter
People Management SMD, LLC.
We are part of SIMA International, LLC. (Formerly People Management, Inc.) which has used The System for Identifying Motivated Abilities® (SIMA®) to help organizations, teams, and individuals improve performance, productivity, and work satisfaction since 1961.Do you know what your God-given natural talents are?
Are you in a job that fits with your natural talents?
Do you know how to effectively manage those talents?
Do you know what your employees’ God-given natural talents are?
Are your employees in jobs that fit with their natural talents?
Do you know how to effectively manage your employees’ natural talents?


Managing Yourself Managing Others
"One of the most amazing things I’ve seen as a manager. We have integrated this into the fabric of Medco; its impact has been enormous and a key factor in our continued success"
Kenneth Klepper
President and Chief Operating Officer
Medco Health Solutions, Inc
“Regardless of where you are in your career: just starting out, somewhere in the middle or nearing the end this is a must read book. Your performance, the performance of your team, and the performance of the organization will dramatically improve if you apply the principles contained in this book. If you’re not excited and energized after reading this book check your pulse”
Richard G. Barnaby
President and Chief Operating Officer
Kaiser Permanente
"A truly impactful approach to understanding business and personal motivations and success factors”
James E. Miller
Executive Vice President
MassMutual Financial Group


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Lessons From Life
"The value of this book goes well beyond the impact of interesting memoirs ... through provocative questions for reflection, he encourages readers to understand their own giftedness and life purpose ... This book can significantly enhance your life!"
— Fred Sievert, retired President, New York Life Insurance Company; author of several books.
"Whether you are early or late in your life, there is much to learn or relearn from Steve Darter’s Lessons from Life"
Sam Havens, retired President, Prudential Health Care
"Steve incisively mines his life’s experience to come to a deep understanding of his own meaning, purpose, and truth, and simultaneously equips us to do the same."
—Greg Baumer, SVP & Chief Growth Officer, naviHealth; co-author of God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School
"Steve offers us the powerful reflections that have emerged from his own life story. . . This is a book you will read, reread, and gift to others."
—Zara F. Larsen, EVP and Global Head of Engineering, Werner International POC GmbH
"This book reveals an amazing, intelligent, and proven way to discover your life’s purpose.”
—Dick Staub, nationally syndicated broadcaster; founder of The Kindlings; author of many books



Inside My Mind
"Steve's reflective and poignant poetry captures the essence of life's profound moments, weaving together themes of love, loss, aging, and spirituality with remarkable clarity and emotional depth . . . it will leave a lasting impact on your soul."
—Tommy Thomas, D, Phil., Founder, JobfitMatters, author of The Perfect
"Steve Darter's poetic Journey brilliantly reflects on, and expresses, a full array of emotions, both disturbing and beautiful, most of which we all experience over the course of our human lives. Take it all in if you dare. They are pivotal inspirational revelations.
—Fred Sievert - Christian author of three books including God Revealed and Grace Revealed and retired president of a Fortune 100 corporation.
"Inside My Mind offers expressions of the highs and lows of life experiences, from the heights of joy and peace to the depths of hopelessness and despair. I finished these poems with a strong desire to share them with family, friends, persons in acute emotional pain, and others welcoming newfound joy."
—Margaret Crowley RSM, PhD, retired educator and designer of several leadership, education, and elder care programs.
"These poems offer a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Darter’s words serve as a compassionate guide, illuminating the path through darker times with glimmers of hope, love, and the eternal nature of growth and transformation."
—Robert Rex Waller, Jr., Associate Professor of Writing and Director, USC Writing Center, The Writing Program, University of Southern California


ABOUT STEVE DARTER
Since 1976, Steve has focused his consulting on helping organizations to improve results through a better understanding and positioning of people and helping people to make good decisions about their life and work.
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Detailed information about the organizations and executives we have worked with, and what they had to say about working with People Management.
WHAT IS SIMA
The System for Identifying Motivated Abilities® (SIMA®) is a proprietary qualitative process that identifies a person’s innate giftedness—their motivated strengths—their God-given natural talents.
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STEVEN M. DARTER INTERVIEWS
Here you can find a collection of radio interviews. Steve offers insights and covers a wide variety of topics. Follow the link to listen.
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