Coaching Culture

"Beyond the Bases: Creating a Winning Culture in Youth Baseball and Softball" is an essential guide for coaches, parents, and sports enthusiasts dedicated to fostering a positive and effective team environment. Authored by Joey Myers, a former Division-1 college baseball player and founder of Hitting Performance Lab, this book combines practical strategies, personal insights, and scientific principles to elevate youth baseball and softball coaching. The book is structured into ten comprehensive chapters, each addressing a critical aspect of team culture and player development: Leadership ...

The spicy and hilarious new hockey romance with brother's best friend, hilarious shenanigans and guaranteed HEA ending. Perfect for fans of Stephanie Archer and Hannah Grace To hook your big brother’s best friend…first you have to lure him out of the friend zone! CARA I’ve had a crush on Chad Mason ever since I can remember. He’s the hunkiest hockey player on our local pro NHL team and a national hero. But Chad sees me only as his best bud Matt’s little sister. Someone to be watched over, cared for, and protected. He says he’ll never see me as anything else. Even my best friend ...

Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zachary offer a timely, evidence-based, practical guide for helping mentors develop the level of cultural competency needed to bridge differences. Firmly rooted in Zachary’s well-known four-part mentoring model, the book uses three fictional scenarios featuring three pairs of diverse mentors and mentees to illustrate how key concepts can play out in real life. It offers an array of accessible tools and strategies designed to help you increase your self-awareness and prepare you to embrace and leverage differences in your mentoring relationships.

Taming the Abrasive Manager: How to End Unnecessary Roughness in the Workplace is an ideal resource for managers, human resource professionals, executive coaches, and anyone who works for or with an abrasive leader. Researcher and executive coach Dr. Laura Crawshaw― known as the Boss Whisperer® for her work in this field―shares her discoveries on how to tame the deep fears that drive abrasive managers to attack their coworkers. In her straight-shooting style, Crawshaw offers invaluable insights gained from her encounters with abrasive bosses in corporate jungles who aggressively defend...

Otro gran librito lleno de sabiduría e instrucción para añadir a la exitosa serie 101 de John C. Maxwell. Basándose en muchos de los éxitos de librería de John Maxwell, este libro explora los principios eternos que se han convertido en el estilo característico del doctor Maxwell. Con voz concisa y franca, Maxwell se enfoca en las cualidades esenciales y probadas por el tiempo que son necesarias para el desarrollo de relaciones de mentor que marcan la diferencia en la vida de sus colegas y de su negocio.

Taking a Gemba Walk to Go See, Ask Why, and Show Respect is a key way to engage people more actively in performance improvement activities. Even if you currently do Gemba Walks, in all likelihood, you fall short of what the best companies do. This ‘how to guide’ provides leaders a basic menu of options on ways to do a more effective Walks. This edition adds two new chapters - standard work for an 'Outside Executives Walk' and a new chapter on 'How to Keep Your Gemba Walks Fresh and Meaningful.' The book describes three key reasons for doing a Gemba Walk: 1. Clarify Purpose: Gemba Walks ...

Today’s organizations are packed full of experts in every area from marketing to sales to IT. Many of these people are also leaders, heading teams or departments. They lead because they know more than the rest of their group. They are followed because of their credibility as experts. Yet, the toughest transition in business comes when expert leaders are asked to move beyond their expertise and lead a larger group. In Wanda Wallace’s experience, this move - from expert to spanning leader - requires a new mind-set about how to lead.

Teams Unleashed provides a systematic approach for coaching teams to sustainable high performance in organisations. The book describes the essential competencies and specific skills for coaching teams and provides exercises and activities for implementing them. Listeners will find a research-based model and method with a carefully documented track record reinforced with practical tools to create an effective, collaborative team culture, transform team performance and reliably deliver results.

In The Courage Playbook: Five Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Become Your Best Self, Gus Lee, bestselling author and leadership expert, delivers an astonishing reveal that with moral courage, we can overcome our fears. This is a practical guide to gaining your courage to live rightly, treat others without bias, and lead inspirationally.

As coaches and sport leaders what can we do to ensure that we maximize the potential of our athletes and teams so they are successful and continue to enjoy sport? How do we ensure that we coach in a way that benefits the team and remains respectful of the individual? In their first book together, André Lachance and Jean François Ménard offer tangible and practical strategies to help sport leaders create efficient group dynamics, build team culture, and help a group of athletes to gel.

At the heart of this leadership story is the central idea that one's ability to impact others is directly related to his or her ability to lead from a place of authenticity. Sara Davis, the Chief of Staff for powerful Congresswoman Clara Becker, has come to a crossroads in her life. When Clara Becker suddenly is gone, Sara must decide what to do next. When she discovers Clara’s video diary, Sara begins to realize she has the power within her to change the world. Sara’s journey, and the wisdom she uncovers along the way, is an inspiring story for everyone.

The whirlwind of job applications, interviews, follow-up, resume building, and networking is just the beginning. What happens after you've landed the job, settled in, and begun to make a difference - where do you go from here? What if you feel stuck in what you thought would be your dream profession? New York Times best-selling author Mika Brzezinski and producer Daniela Pierre-Bravo provide an essential manual for those crucial next steps.

In 1998, the thought of launching a startup in San Antonio was ludicrous. Just over two decades later, the scrappy little underdog that no one believed in is a billion-dollar business with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The rocket-ship growth was exhilarating, but exposed Rackspace’s early flaws. The Rack We Built is Lorenzo’s recollections from those days, told only as he can tell it. With the principles in the book, you can create the type of culture that makes people want to volunteer their best.

Some businesses have reduced staff and made resource cuts to survive the global economic downturn, while others have improved business practices and culture. Unfortunately, there is still a difference between successful and less successful businesses in terms of culture adaptability, people management, and process management. In organisations like Toyota, which, in contrast to its rivals, has a mindset of process improvement, culture drives competitive advantage. Other businesses might benefit from Toyota's teachings by changing their routines for behaving and thinking in order to increase ...

In today's fast-paced world of business, leadership is often seen as a race to the top, a contest of wills, or a showcase of individual prowess. Yet, true leadership, especially in the realm of Information Security Consulting and Coaching, requires something deeper and more profound. It calls for a servant leader mentality. "365 Days of Servant Leadership" is a culmination of timeless wisdom, carefully curated advice, and practical insights dedicated to those leaders and aspiring leaders who believe in the power of serving first, leading next. Each day brings with it a unique piece of ...

Whether you work at a start-up, tech giant, or Fortune 500 company, we all encounter the same problems that arise every day in our quest for results: stubborn obstacles that are difficult to break through, lofty goals and objectives we are accountable to achieve, new and challenging tasks that we’ve never done before. How, exactly, do we tap into this reserve of expertise that already exists in the teams and organizations we work in every day? The team at the coaching and leadership training company Zero to Ten proposes the way: Self-Directed Performance Coaching.

Cheekys' founder Jessi Roberts reveals how she grew one small store hurdle-by-hurdle into a national clothing and accessories brand with a one-and-a-half-million-strong community. Best of all, she did it by standing tall for her values: Always be kind, lift up the next gal, and treat employees and customers like family. More than a business book, Backroads Boss Lady is about embracing your passion even when others don't see value in it - or you - and about putting food on the table and believing in yourself.

Supported by the latest research, this eye-opening audiobook argues that our best work is the product of a positive environment. That's good news for you as a manager. While you can't personally transform the corporate culture, you can influence the workplace climate and create meaningful and lasting change.

Equality vs Equity: Tackling Issues of Race in the Workplace is essential listening for those who want to educate themselves and influence others to do the crucial complex work of achieving racial equity in the workplace.

It can be frustrating knowing how brilliant the organization could be, only to see pockets of progress appearing, then grinding to a halt. Obstacles can appear anywhere, from unnecessary politics and unacceptable behavior to a lack of leadership buy-in to change. All making a coaching culture hard to imagine.