Performance Leadership

Many organisations are diverse – but that doesn’t make them inclusive. Many teams are made up of high-performing individuals – but that doesn’t turn them into high-performing teams. Many leaders work hard and take care of their people – but that doesn’t mean they’re great leaders. Let Go Leadership will show you how to share power, harness the diversity of your teams and become a better, more inclusive leader, so that you can realise the untapped potential within your organisation.

Talent in the workplace is increasingly identified as a key factor in determining success. If effectively managed it has the potential to be a productive resource capable of adding value and competitive advantage to an organization. The Talent Powered Organization takes a strategic yet practical view of talent. Drawing on research and real-life experiences with clients, the authors provide a series of conceptual frameworks to attract, develop, and retain the best workforce.

Despite your efforts to inspire, it seems like they just can’t meet their numbers. Which causes you to fall short of your goals. What if there was an easy solution that not only motivates your team, but also encourages and nurtures their future with your company? For the first time, Lisa Shumpert, a highly accomplished and strategic senior corporate officer, shares her secrets on empowering teams from her thirty-five years of global cross-industry human resources experience.

Leadership Lessons is a book about how to improve organizational performance. The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term projects spans quite a range of subject matter and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential.

This must-have book contains the most up-to-date strategies for sales executives; offers compelling real-world examples; includes the ideas and tools that can be put into action immediately; and reinforces the immediate application and learning with assessments, exercises, and a professional toolbox.

With increased demand for hybrid and fully remote work styles, most firms understand that some form of distance work is here to stay—and have put some remote protocols in place. But many companies either see the shift to remote work as a threat to their culture and management style, or they just don’t know how to make the transition. It’s time to take advantage of the many opportunities remote work presents. This book will tell you how.

In his work consulting to major corporations for more than 30 years, Gerald Kraines consistently hears that 60-70 percent of business organizations' potential effectiveness goes unrealized. He shares how to engage, align, and develop employees in order to leverage and encourage optimal performance and long-lasting results.

Unlock the true potential of your team with Team Accelerators: The Seven Force Multipliers of High-Performance Teams. In this groundbreaking book, you’ll find the ingredients to transform a group of individuals into a united, dynamic, and impactful team.

In this comprehensive guide, you will learn everything you need to know about DevOps release management, from the basics to the more advanced topics. Discover how to effectively plan, schedule, coordinate, and deploy software releases using the latest tools and techniques. With practical examples and real-world scenarios, this book is ideal for software developers, IT operations professionals, and managers who want to improve their team's software delivery process.

The Project: Thinking, Leadership, Planning, Performance, and Review is a guide to project development. Included are a fair number of concepts both for initiating a project and seeing it through to a meaningful conclusion. Things are made of parts, if you understand the parts you understand the thing. You may very well pick up a few ideas from this book about thinking. Have you ever taken a new job but retained the values and beliefs of the old job? After a time, you were startled to discover a significantly different perspective was required. But what if you had no chance to adapt? What if...

The Unnoticed Advantage: The Secret requirement that Organizations, teams, and Athletes need to perform at their Peak Potential before Sports Psychology, Leadership Skills, Strength Training, Team Building, and Teamwork will even work. So many teams and athletes are capable of so much more and just need the right system to bring it out. There are so many great ideas in sports psychology that could work wonders but are not working because certain small distinctions are not being made. There is a big difference between explanations and accessing an idea. Most sports psychologist are masters ...

In order to be successful as an IT manager, you need to be able to show the company that under your leadership your team is able to deliver high quality products on time and under budget. If you want to have any chance of being able to pull this off, then you are going to have to discover ways to build a high performance IT team.

For decades people have been told the secret to success is a good education. But is it true? Many of the biggest names in the business world today never received a college degree. After much research and thought, Steve Lover concludes that confidence is the most important characteristic to determine success. However, even more important than developing your own confidence is the ability to ignite your employees’ confidence. The leader who knows how to do that creates a different kind of organization.

In Beyond the Game, Komori provides a toolbox for those who aspire to lead successful teams. Coaches, he says, strive to improve themselves first, to provide a foundation for instilling greatness in others. Smart coaches pay attention to what Komori calls the Three Cs of Leadership: Choices, Communication, and Culture. Komori also teaches the Six Keys for Peak Performance and how to focus on and apply these areas to achieve the most and excel in life. He offers advice in direct, straightforward terms and draws examples from his decades as a championship-winning tennis coach.

Middle management is hard. If you’re a middle manager, you already know that, and you may be searching for all the help you can get to become more effective and successful in that role. In other words, to become an exceptional middle manager.

As organizations around the world are putting more focus on the mindset and wellbeing of staff, the need to develop Emotional Intelligence (EI) has never been greater. Cutting through the hype and dispelling the myths about EI, this practical, easy-to-use resource provides clear guidance, powerful tools, and actionable steps for developing and implementing EI in the workplace for immediate results.

Découvrez toutes les techniques efficaces pour étendre votre influence, utiliser votre force de persuasion, et emporter l'adhésion. Prendre des décisions, c'est indispensable et c'est le lot quotidien des cadres, managers ou directeurs. Mais encore faut-il que la mise en œuvre suive ! Pour mettre toutes les chances de votre côté, la Harvard Business Review vous propose son Essentiel pour convaincre.

"Champion for introverts" Jennifer Kahnweiler offers a road map for everyone in the workplace - including leaders, human resource managers, and team members - to create inclusive, introvert-friendly cultures. Kahnweiler provides an assessment to determine how introvert friendly your organization is and looks at every aspect of organizational life - hiring, training, leading, communicating, meeting, designing workplaces, and more - through an inclusive lens.

The business world has become increasingly complex and volatile, and traditional key performance indicators (KPIs) are no longer sufficient to measure success. We need to adopt a more human-centric approach that considers underlying factors. This book explores why this shift is necessary and how it will impact the current status quo. Traditional KPIs are often focused on short-term results, rather than the long-term sustainability of an organisation. The new KPIs – keep people informed, involved, interested and inspired – take a broad and holistic view of the context in which your ...

What do effective leaders do differently, that creates high performance? Your people are your greatest source of competitive advantage. How you lead and develop them cannot be left to chance. If you fail to do this, you could be out of a job or risk closing the doors of your business forever. Liberating Leadership is an award-winning programme, capable of delivering significant improvements in bottom line performance, in all types of business. If you are responsible for leading people this audiobook is a must!