Performance Leadership

Chances are, you’ve heard a variation of the saying, “We need to get on the same page.” Getting on the same page means making sure that you and whoever you’re collaborating with understand each other. But hidden within the accepted wisdom is a whole new meaning… In Getting on the Same Page, Steve Gran and Brian Cain introduce WorkExcellence, a method designed to empower everyone—from the C-suite to frontline employees. It provides strategies that foster collaboration and create lasting impact.

The book offers a deep dive into understanding and managing emotions, pivotal for cultivating a success mindset and achieving goals. It lays out effective strategies for self-regulation, boosting self-esteem, and fostering a growth mindset, all crucial for personal and professional triumph. Addressing the challenge of overthinking, the book provides actionable advice on positive thinking and self-discipline, helping readers develop success habits and resilience.

Why uncover your hidden talents? Because knowing how to uncover the talents you didn’t know you have and turning them into new skills will help you move away from competencies of the past that can hinder your career and will help you achieve higher levels of performance. Drawing from decades of experience in executive leadership development as C-Suite officers and consultants, we describe 16 essential leadership tools in simple, concrete, and behavior-based language that will enable you to distinguish what areas of skill and expertise you can naturally call upon....

Unlock the Extraordinary YOU is the ultimate handbook on learning how to learn. It will take your skills and learning potential to the ultimate level, making you limitless and unbeatable in any field. Life requires constant learning: learning how to adapt, how to overcome obstacles, how to evolve, how to succeed. Unlock your ultimate potential and become extraordinary by cracking the code of how to learn. The book covers everything you need to crack that code, from IQ to learning systems, educational psychology and theories, memory techniques, exercises, time and energy management, stress ...

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.

Through their twenty-plus years of experience building teams, Marshall Calman and Jack Levitt of LeaderStrong, have developed a novel team-building framework. Their new book explores the journey of one business leadership group and how they develop into a Powerful Team using the C4 model. Marshall and Jack are Executive Leadership Coaches who work with Fortune 500 clients and sophisticated up-and-coming firms that want to get serious about leveraging their team's full power.

If you are looking for a one-stop shop for a thorough guide on building a high-performing team, here is everything about hiring (both in and out of the US), starting with the job posting and a series of interviews, employing your new candidate with an example hiring agreement, training your employees, and even monitoring and motivating your team for success.

This book is about the stuff you learn when you've worked for a boss you'd swear jumped out of a Dilbert cartoon; worked in a business whose performance careened up and down like a runaway clown car; faced legal or ethical problems that needed the wisdom of Solomon to sort out while they roiled your guts at night; or sat on the stand across from some third-rate Perry Mason or tried to be one yourself.

Business owners and managers are under increasing pressure to perform. Never has there been a better time to practice good people motivation and management techniques. Lack of employment security and flexible working contracts have reduced the level of loyalty, so more emphasis needs to be placed on building positive relationships with people. Traditional carrot-and-stick management techniques no longer work.

There are three kinds of employees: Some are saints: they're always accountable. Some are sinners: they're never accountable. But most are save-ables: sometimes they make good choices; sometimes they don't. What makes the difference? Leadership Without Excuses has the answers. Jeff Grimshaw and Gregg Baron help you put an end to the save-ables' poor choices and excuse-making - and convert them into saints. The secret is to communicate clear and credible expectations, create compelling consequences, and lead conversations grounded in reality.

Beyond textbook theory and the research literature there is always a gap to bridge in order to apply this information with 'live' athletes. In this book we delve into the uncharted territory that lies between. As implied in the title, there is an art to this translation of science into practice, and a great deal of wisdom and nuance involved in the process. We explore what differentiates truly elite practice, citing relevant examples and drawing upon applied experience. This is a book for coaches, leaders, practitioners across disciplines, and athletes who wish to be informed. Key themes ...

If you are contemplating working with a champion, a potential champion, or anyone with untapped talent - be prepared, be very prepared. In 1998 Sir Steve Redgrave stared at Ingham and demanded to know, “Are you going to make me go faster?” Ingham had been trained and developed as a scientist, but in that single instance he questioned everything he thought he knew. Applied science in elite sport has boomed, it has radically changed elite sport, but one thing remains as the guiding focus - the summit of performing to your best and winning. In this book Ingham draws on the lessons learned ...

After years of having motivational smoke blown up our collective backsides, we've started to act as if we are all generous, bold, and intelligent - all of the time! We've designed our organizations, teams, systems, products, relationships, and lives so we can succeed only under ideal 'laboratory' conditions. Anything less than perfection often means catastrophe. The problem is that's not how human beings work at all.

One of the most powerful forces on Earth is an organization fully aligned, individual by individual, team by team, to achieve mutual success. In this vivid business story, Ken Jennings and Heather Hyde provide a road map to guide leaders through the process of engaging employees at all levels of the organization to find the deeper meaning and higher purposes of their work. Learning these methods is Alex Beckley, a leader who receives a wake-up call that inspires him to live and lead differently. He discovers how to invite his coworkers to join a cause, not just a company - to commit to a Greater Goal - and lead the process of shared goal achievement.

社内の人間関係や争いにやきもきするのは、時間とエネルギーの無駄。人間の負の感情にとらわれず、淡々と成果を出す。それがグローバル人材の最低条件だ。人間関係に悩むすべてのサラリーマンにおくる画期的仕事論。

I authored this book to provide practical guidance and insightful advice for a selected target group, which we can call ‘IoT Solution Architects’. If you search the internet for the term IoT (Internet of Things), you may come across hundreds of publications in the form of books, papers, blogs and other resources about IoT on the market. This book does not repeat the information covered in those publications. It offers a unique perspective and focus based on practical experience. The primary purpose of this book is to provide a practical architectural framework for solutions related to ...

Do you want to be more productive? Are you stressed out, feeling like you’re pushing a boulder up a hill? Do you keep getting new books on productivity in the search for success? If so, the Productivity Directives book is for you. Imagine how good it would feel to finally get through that to-do list and get control of your workload. Peak Productivity provides a step-by-step training program for maximizing your productive output. Learn how to master your motivation and discover how to design high performance habits.

Leo Bottary follows up on his two earlier books about leveraging the power of peers in business and in life. With its roots in CEO and executive peer groups, the team-building framework presented in this audiobook is designed for leaders who want to coach engaged, adaptable, and higher-performing teams. Peernovation embraces lessons from more than a decade of academic research, fieldwork, and personal experiences throughout North America and the United Kingdom.

Business owners and leaders are being challenged as never before. The trends are changing fast, business models are under attack, clients are fickle, and staff expectations are rising. It can make for very reactionary leadership...but that is not what drives sustainable success. As you're seeking to drive the growth, performance, and, ultimately, value of your business, what must be done to avoid stalling through the climb? At last, there is a book that supports leaders in not only surviving, but thriving in this context.

Rapid changes in the world are impacting our collective mental health, and as a leader, you need to get ahead of the curve if you don't want to leave performance on the table. But to not leave performance on the table, you have to get under the skin of how your mental health is connected to the way you lead, your team's mental health, and the performance of the business.