Coaching Culture

Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues...these are just a few of the uncomfortable topics bosses must sometimes discuss with their employees. 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees offers realistic sample dialogues managers can use to facilitate clear, direct interactions with their employees, helping to sidestep potential awkwardness and meet issues head-on.

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 ...

"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 ...

Transform into the leader you want to become by helping others to maximize their potential in this new era. No matter what your organization looks like, Balanced Accountability offers a proven framework for getting these results.

The most important attribute high-performing organizations have in common is that they are well led. Every organization dreams of having enough leaders. Yet too many organizations take a haphazard or inconsistent approach to leadership development. The result is a dearth of leaders and a failure to leverage the full capacity of the enterprise.

This practical, actionable guide to success at the executive level helps readers understand what they need to pick up and let go of to achieve the results that are expected at the next level. Along with simple and immediately applicable tools and frameworks he's road-tested with thousands of coaching clients, Eblin offers clear, practical advice reinforced by interviews and case studies from executives who know what it takes to succeed.

Based on extensive interviews with both tenured leaders and new employees, focus groups with learning and development experts, and a comprehensive literature research as well as the author's own in-depth coaching knowledge and expertise, this book proposes an academically researched, developed, and validated model of eight dimensions of successful coaching as well as a five-step implementation plan which can be used as an impactful framework to embed coaching skills in organizational settings to create a sustainable and growth-generating coaching culture.

Perfect is the inspiring tale of this football team, whose remarkable journey unfolded in a single, unforgettable season. The team, who were barely mentioned in the preseason, found their salvation in Coach Jerry Sharp and his staff, who molded and shaped these young men to give them one shot at greatness. As the season kicked off, doubts and skepticism loomed large, but the Tiger’s unwavering faith and unconventional training methods slowly began to transform the ragtag group into a well-oiled machine. With every win, their confidence grew, and the once-quiet town came alive with the ...

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 ...

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.

Your team will change whether you like it or not. People will come and go. Your company might double in size or even be acquired. In this practical book, author Heidi Helfand shares techniques for reteaming effectively. Engineering leaders will learn how to catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos.

Beyond the Lines offers a game plan for any leader to help an organization achieve and sustain success. We all know that success is not easy. If it were, everyone would be successful. The question is, do you deal with your challenges in a positive way? What's more, can you help others deal with their challenges in a positive way? People don't want to be "managed", after all - they want to be guided. They know that no matter how challenging a situation might be, they can trust the leader to make the best decisions for the team.

We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years, sending our kids to school to prepare them for life. In all of that time, there is never a course on sacrifice, on goal setting, on perseverance, on overcoming adversity, on being a great teammate. I guess that is what the sport of WRESTLING Is for. One of the greatest assets in my life, other than my family and friends has been the sport of wrestling. It has made me into the person I am today. A person who can handle whatever adversity life throws at me. The disciplines of wrestling are impactful on a young athlete’s life...

Struggling to Lead Effectively? Discover How to Transform Your Leadership with "How to Lead with Conviction" Are you finding it challenging to inspire your team, overcome leadership obstacles, or achieve career fulfillment? How to Lead with Conviction is your comprehensive guide to mastering leadership skills that fuel your passion and persistence, leading across generations, and improving employee well-being. Dive deep into effective leadership strategies, inspirational leadership techniques, and transformational leadership principles that will elevate your career and drive organizational ...

The world of golf is at a crossroads. As technological innovations displace traditional philosophies, the golfing community has splintered into two deeply combative factions: the old-school teachers and players who believe in feel, artistry, and imagination, and the technical-minded who want to remake the game around data. In Golf’s Holy War, “an obvious hole-in-one for golfers and their coaches” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Brett Cyrgalis takes us inside the heated battle playing out from weekend hackers to PGA Tour pros.

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.

Most companies strive to attract talented people, retain them for years, watch them engage in their work and have them consistently perform at a high level. In order to achieve this, they spend significant time, money and resources providing their team with “learning and development” opportunities. Unfortunately, these initiatives rarely produce an ROI because they are not customized and personalized for each employee.

As a global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher — in more ways than one. Not only did they take on remote school supervision, but after the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice — with few resources to guide them.

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.

Chinese corporations—as well as multinationals operating in China—increasingly recognize that their top management needs Western-style support in honing their leadership skills, provided such guidance is leavened with the unique nuances of Chinese culture. The result is “an entirely new practice of executive coaching,” according to Marjorie Woo, one of the lead editors who collected an incisive account of their experiences in “Leadership Coaching in China.” Published by Fielding University Press, the book provides fascinating observations by leading China-based coaches, ...