Performance Leadership

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Difficult Conversations to Have with Employees and renowned HR and leadership expert, gives you powerful scripts and templates you can apply immediately to your employee reviews and development conversations. This handy quick-guide turns a task many managers dread—giving performance reviews—into a positive opportunity to hone your leadership skills and guide your employees to the path for success.

In looking for help and understanding on how to build an organization and to select and manage your people, a good place to start would be to look for an organization that did that exceptionally well. Cintas is a great American success story, and Bob Kohlhepp was an important part of that success for 50 years. He began his career as controller but quickly moved up to ultimately become CEO and then chairman. He was a key part of building Cintas from $1.6 million in sales in 1967 to more than $7 billion today.

"The Corporate Mentor's Toolkit: Techniques and Strategies for Success" is the ultimate guide for managers and leaders who want to build a successful mentoring program within their organization. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the mentoring process, including identifying mentees, matching them with mentors, and establishing clear goals and expectations. It also provides various tools and techniques for fostering effective communication and building trust between mentors and mentees. With practical advice and real-world examples, this book equips readers with the knowledge and...

Michael Jordan was undoubtedly the greatest basketball player of all time, unless of course you are a Lebron James fan. Despite his incredible success as a player, Jordan could not have won 6 championships on his own. The championships, which made him a true idol were part of a team effort. Just like in sports, high-performance teams are crucial to the success of any business. Whether you’re a large or mid-size firm, if your teams aren’t performing at an optimum level, you’re losing at least some of your return on investment. Think about it.

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 ...

Most people associate performance management with the annual review, which is universally dreaded by employees, management, and HR professionals alike. It's a cookie-cutter, fear-based, top-down approach that emphasizes negatives over positives and stifles healthy career conversations. It's never been shown to motivate anyone to do anything but try to avoid it, but nobody feels like they have any alternative. Tamra Chandler has one - and it works.

This book is a concise yet effective study guide designed to help candidates prepare for their human resources certification exams. It serves as a streamlined supplement to more comprehensive study materials, focusing on essential HR concepts, best practices, and compliance regulations. Rather than providing an exhaustive review of all exam topics, this guide is structured to help candidates identify key principles and areas that require further study. Readers will gain insights into critical HR functions such as workforce planning, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, employee ...

There is greatness in all of us. The power to reach our full potential, regardless of our position or profession, is waiting to be unlocked. It just takes a clear path."The biggest obstacle - and opportunity, in performance isn’t knowing what to do; it’s about doing what we know.” says best-selling author and performance expert Alan Fine. “And what keeps us from doing what we know is interference. Identifying and reducing interference is necessary in order to capitalize on the skills, talents, and knowledge that already exist in each of us.”

This book will explore the world of leadership and provide practical strategies for becoming an effective leader. While Chapter I will set the stage for the rest of the book, providing an overview of the importance of leadership and its impact on individuals, teams, and organizations, Chapter II will delve into the historical roots of leadership, definitions put forward by experts, and key characteristics of effective leadership. Chapter III will focus on qualities that successful leaders exhibit, including common traits and behaviors, and guidance on cultivating these qualities. Chapter IV...

Are your people excited to come to work? Are they passionate about your team's purpose? In Engaging the Hearts and Minds of All Your Employees, leadership expert Lee J. Colan reveals the necessary steps to inspire and engage everyone on your team. By fully engaging your employees, you'll ignite stellar team performance and customer service.

Are you constantly overwhelmed by your to-do list, feeling like you're always playing catch-up? Do you wish you could be productive without sacrificing your peace of mind? It's time to rethink your approach to productivity Introducing " How to be Super Productive and Achieve Your Goals” Here’s what we cover: The Complete Checklist For Achieving Objectives How To Create Step-By-Step Systems The Goals Worksheet: Getting The Right Things Done Right Away Focus FAQs: 5 Answers For When You Get Off Track 7 Time-Management Tools To Help Make The Most Of Your Day 35 Quotes For Inspiration And ...

Agile PM is a methodology to implement to get maximum business efficiency eliminating waste and reducing production costs. This is the most basic definition of agile. Scrum, in particular, is one of the most used agile frameworks. Initially, Scrum was born for software development projects, but it can now be applied also in innovative and more complex projects. Applying it, the work is completed and delivered in short cycles (called sprints) to keep the focus on development and continuous improvement of a product or service.

Are you sharing too much—or not enough? In Manage Professional Vulnerability, you’ll discover how to navigate the fine line between openness and discretion—ensuring trust, psychological safety, and performance without exposing yourself to unnecessary risks. This book isn’t about suppressing emotions; it’s about sharing thoughtfully, like a skilled communicator who knows when, how, and with whom to be vulnerable. Learn how to: • Recognize when vulnerability fosters trust—and when it makes you a target. • Develop thoughtful transparency without oversharing. • Build ...

Performance Appraisals & Phrases For Dummies shows you how to apply the latest performance appraisal practices and generate positive outcomes for your employees, for your company, and for you. The days of stand-alone annual performance appraisals are drawing to a close, with today's appraisals utilizing quarterly or biannual sessions, continuous feedback with regular two-way communication, collaborative goal-setting, career development, and an ongoing forward focus.

“Nothing happens until somebody sells something.” This is a quote attributed to many successful leaders from Henry Ford to Peter Drucker; and it’s a quote that should drive the priorities of your business. This book was written for those personally leading sales teams and for every leader who has salespeople anywhere in their organizational chart. This includes owners, company presidents, vice presidents, general managers, and everyone else with “manager” in their title. Ridiculously Simple Sales Management lays out, in plain language, everything a sales leader needs to quickly ...

Unlocking Excellence: 25+ Years of Insights on Leadership and Personal Growth as Your Blueprint for Success Are you ready to unlock your potential and accelerate your success? Unlocking Excellence combines 25+ years of personal notes, lessons learned, and practical insights from leadership, innovation, and high performance into one powerful blueprint for personal and professional growth. This book offers actionable steps, backed by scientific research and real-world examples, to help you become a better leader, master personal growth, and develop the grit needed to overcome challenges. ...

All humans have an innate drive to make great things. In The Innovation Mindset, Jennifer Kenny shows you exactly how to implement practices that will drive greater innovation, differentiate your products and solutions through better innovation, and maximize the innovation capacity of your team.

Learn how to enhance workforce performance, strengthen workforce retention, and better your leadership by cultivating and expanding on your company's culture with The Power of Company Culture.

Now including a discussion of critical success factors, as well as new chapters that focus on implementations issues and "how to sections" on finding your CSFs and brainstorming the performance measures that report progress within the CSFs, Key Performance Indicators, 2nd Edition will help you identify and track your organization's KPIs to ensure continued and increased success.

How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air? All too often we mistake the appearance of leadership for the real deal. Without a doubt, intelligence, vision, and the ability to communicate are important. But something big is missing: the know-how of running a business—the capacity to take it in the right direction, do the right things, make the right decisions, deliver results, and leave the people and the business better off than they were before.