Performance Leadership

Be a Better Team by Friday is a visionary, how-to guide for CEOs, top leaders, and team managers committed to achieving massive gains. As your company’s growth accelerates, the heat turns up, and teams break down. It gets harder to work together when things get tough. This book reveals the surprisingly simple skills required to get your team to the top. Fast. Learn proven strategies to inspire your teams to think bigger, communicate better, collaborate more effectively, and achieve your most ambitious goals.

Accelerating Performance is not just another "warm and fuzzy" change management book - it's a practical, comprehensive, data-driven action plan for picking up the pace and achieving more. Cowritten by one of the authors of Beyond Performance, this audiobook draws on a combination of empirical research and decades of experience advising global companies to show you how to reduce time to value by building and changing momentum more quickly than your competitors.

The Science Behind Success is the complete guide to delivering meaningful leadership in modern business. It is filled with eye-popping studies and practical tools that create immediate results from the frontline manager to the C-suite executive.

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.

Many companies try to save money and underestimate the importance of project management. You know better than anyone else that project management is more than just quickly briefing your team during work. Even startups with small budgets invest in a project manager (PM) because it's no longer a secret that a skilled project manager can save companies 28 times more money since their output is more reliable.

When you find your unique genius and purpose, what we'll call innate ability development occurs, and you build and live your life from that place. You literally light your life on fire and become a productivity powerhouse!

Are you highly motivated by the work you are doing? Are you are performing at your best? Are your employees highly motivated and performing at their best? For some people, Steve's book will be about helping organizations improve performance by tapping into the heart and soul of their employees. For others, it is a book about finding a place in this world where they can feel productive and alive, where what they do has meaning, satisfaction, and a sense of purpose and fulfillment. Others might apply what is learned to family and loved ones. Through Steve's book, you will learn concepts and ...

This authoritative volume on human resource management is highly recommended listening for the small business owners and HR professionals. Written by an acknowledged expert in all areas of business management, Managing Employee Performance is a well-organized guide to understanding this vitally important area of your business.

In today's fast-paced world, data is everywhere—but only actionable insights can drive real success. The Insight-Driven Leader offers a practical guide to transforming raw data into powerful workforce insights that solve critical business challenges. Through clear frameworks, compelling case studies, and proven strategies, Jenny Dearborn and Kelly Rider reveal how high-performing organizations combine business and workforce data to innovate, engage employees, delight customers, and exceed financial goals.

During his 20 years as a Navy SEAL, Commander Rich Diviney was intimately involved in the world-renowned SEAL selection process, which whittles exceptional candidates down to a small cadre of the most elite optimal performers. But Diviney was often surprised by which recruits washed out and which succeeded. Someone could have all the right skills and still fail, while recruits he might have initially dismissed would prove to be top performers. The seemingly objective criteria weren't telling him what he most needed to know: who could be part of the world's most elite military unit?

2024 AMERICAN WRITING AWARDS - FINALIST IN THE BUSINESS-MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP CATEGORYJust as DNA shapes who we are biologically, your personal and professional DNA forms the core of your identity, capabilities, and potential. In Enhancing Your Leadership, Communication and Performance DNA, Denola Burton guides you through a transformative journey of self-development using the concept of DNA—Develop, Nurture and Achieve—as a framework for growth. This book provides practical strategies, real-life examples and actionable tools to help you unlock your fullest potential in leadership, ...

The hardest part of a manager’s job isn’t staying organized, meeting deliverable dates, or staying on budget. It’s dealing with people who are too comfortable doing things the way they’ve always been done and too afraid to do things differently. Treasurer, a courage-building pioneer, proposes a bold antidote: courage. With more courage, workers gain the confidence to take on harder projects, embrace company changes with more enthusiasm, and extend themselves in ways that will benefit their careers and their company.

**Dive into the Digital Age with "Mastering the Virtual Workforce" - Your Guide to Excellence in the Remote Workplace!** In a world where the traditional office landscape has swiftly transformed, the need for adaptive strategies in managing a virtual workforce has become indispensable. "Mastering the Virtual Workforce" is your definitive guide to navigating the seas of remote work with confidence and finesse. Embark on a comprehensive journey through the critical facets of digital transformation in Chapter 1, where you'll unravel the evolution of remote work, assess its suitability for your...

Are you caught in the Micromanagement Doom Loop, where your team's disengagement and your burnout are the inevitable outcomes? Conventional wisdom might tell you that micromanagers are simply power-hungry narcissists, but Chris Seifert offers a refreshing and insightful perspective in Enabling Empowerment: A Leadership Playbook for Ending Micromanagement and Empowering Decision-Makers.

Employees who take care of themselves have the capacity and energy to be high-performance employees. In turn, they help leaders create high-performance companies and thriving workplace cultures. This audiobook reveals how to design a company that makes it easy and natural for employees to care for themselves and perform at the highest level.

The transformative mind-model for performing under stress and making pressure your advantage. Used by the planet’s top performers. In Performance Under Pressure, forensic psychiatrist Dr Ceri Evans gives you the tools to take control of the moment. Beat doubt, worry, regret and burnout with simple mind techniques and discover the secret of how to be ‘comfortable being uncomfortable’. No one is immune to pressure. We all fall victim to its effects in the same ways. But pressure is misunderstood.

Managing a business is never easy, but you can turn the daunting job into something more bearable. Find out how with the help of this audiobook. This audiobook touches on many topics such as correcting mistakes, eliminating waste, generating ideas, and boosting employee morale. Sure, you can find plenty of free advice on how to carry out those tasks. However, it’s rare to encounter an approach that’s applicable to all of them. One of the best things about this audiobook is how it highlights teamwork.

Whether you want to improve your personal success, increase your bottom-line profits, or improve performance and productivity in the workplace, best-selling author and acclaimed speaker Willie Jolley can help you make it happen. Willie Jolley discovered that the leading-edge organizations understand that all success is rooted in development of ourselves and of others in our organizations. The secrets of successful organizations are leadership development, change management skills, team building, world-class customer service, and attitude enhancement.

Battered by waves of downsizing since the 1980s, talented men and women no longer seek job security from one company. This is the true hallmark of the new economy—not fleeting dot-coms and IPOs, but a fast-moving, free-agent workforce with the flexibility to jolt productivity. Managers, meanwhile, must grab hold of this shifting group of talent and squeeze more work out of them than ever before, particularly in a tight economy. The trouble is, their traditional source of power over employees—the corporate ladder—is dead and gone.

Exception to the Rule links ancient wisdom with contemporary science on high performance, teamwork, and engagement. Building an organizational culture based on classical virtues - of trust, compassion, courage, justice, wisdom, temperance and hope - is both strategically smart and a better way to live. Exception to the Rule walks you through the steps of helping everyone in your organization focus on character defined by virtue.