Performance Development

This book teaches the complex, sometimes confounding, and often beautiful art of directing live performance for videogames. Starting from a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nuts and bolts of directing on the motion capture floor and in the voiceover booth, the book dives deeper with concrete examples from the author’s 25-year career directing seminal games from the early years to today’s blockbusters.

Discover the key to positive workplaces and better results from one of Britain's most successful leaders. A Waterstones Book of the Month and Paperback of the Year 2025 'Mr Timpson is a role model as an employer. Other businesses could learn from his approach.' The Guardian The Happy Index: a...

A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Strengths-Based Leadership demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders through original research and interviews with high-performing global leaders. The...

When we set out to accomplish something big, there’s always a guarantee that challenges will arise. The key is to be resilient regarding those challenges and not let them deter us. Even if you are really close to giving up on your dreams, listen to the part of you, however small and quiet its voice, that wants to keep going.

The Winning Element: An Athlete’s Guide to Maximizing Mental & Physical Performance is the ultimate athlete development program! Whether you are looking to make the varsity team or the Olympic team, this book will accelerate your growth, shorten your learning curve, and help you achieve your success faster than you ever imagined. In The Winning Element, Deanna Schneyer shares her framework for peak performance that beautifully blends and balances the mind and the body.

When we set out on a path to self-improvement, it is tempting to be discouraged by the amount of work ahead of us, instead of taking each day one at a time. But every small step towards progress should be celebrated, because it brings us that much closer to our goals. Even when we can’t always see the improvement, it happens little by little through the actions we take. This program has been designed to transform your approach to self-improvement and improve your daily habits.

It's easy enough to lose yourself in a world that is fast-paced and loud, but how do you find yourself again? When you seek out happiness and mindfulness, you need a particular set of skills. This book offers the 37 mindsets you need to start living your life, as well as tips on how to find them. This toolkit will ensure that you never find yourself merely existing again. Achieving great things comes with a mindset that is programmed for success.

Top Gun Performance can help listeners learn to achieve happiness, success, and health in school, sports, work, and life. Ted Carter, a Top Gun graduate, and Jack Stark, a performance psychologist and psychotherapist, have observed, commanded, and treated the behaviors of thousands of individuals.

In Path to Mastery Applications I cover three applications of the concepts already mentioned in the Enhancing Performance series. These will be mastering golf, accelerated learning, and achieving abundance or having an abundance mentality. Demonstrations will be presented for each skill. For each, I will demonstrate how hypnosis can be easily and quickly used. Once this technique is quickly mastered, you can apply it to just about any form of learning or skill mastery. Demonstration included.

Positive Leadership shows how to reach beyond ordinary success to achieve extraordinary effectiveness, spectacular results, and what Kim Cameron calls “positively deviant performance” - performance far above the norm. Citing a wide range of research in organizational behavior, medical science, and psychology as well as real-world examples, Cameron shows that to achieve exceptional success, leaders must emphasize strengths rather than simply focus on weaknesses.

How to Develop a Powerful, Clear, and Resonant Speaking Voice is a straight-to-the-point, no-nonsense guide to simple techniques you can employ immediately to improve the quality of your voice. This audiobook, made for men and women, shows how to develop resonance, speak in the proper pitch, and use what’s called diaphragmatic breathing to magnify the power and expressiveness of your voice.

During flow, people typically experience creativity, fulfillment, and a deep connection with life through intense present focus. It is said that every great accomplishment in human history has been performed in some degree of flow. It allows us to perform at our very best, pushing the boundaries of our minds or body, and every one of us can access it!

Accelerate Personal Performance is your guide to achieving the goals you've always wanted to but either not got around to or didn't know where to start. Packed with stories of inspirational heroes, practical advice, and fascinating scientific truths about motivation and how to get the most out of yourself and your day, this audiobook is for anyone who wants to get things done and get them done faster.

Fear, the most powerful force in our life, is the least understood. Every one of us experiences it. Many arrange their lives to avoid it. Yet nearly every one of us needs to find more fear. Change your relationship with fear, and you will change your life, like thousands of people around the world have. Most of us know fear as the unwanted force that drives phobias, anxieties, unhappiness, and inhibits self-actualization. Ironically, fear is the underlying phenomenon that heightens awareness and optimizes physical performance, and can drive ambition, courage, and success.

What Has Me, Heals Me is a soul-stirring invitation back to your truth. This book is for high performers—those who’ve built outward success while losing touch with themselves. Whether you're a CEO or a stay-at-home parent, a founder, professional, athlete, artist, or caregiver—if you’re the one people count on, the one who gets things done, and yet something inside still aches… this is your book. You’ve done everything right. You’ve achieved, provided, endured, held it together. And still, the question lingers: “Is this it?” What Has Me, Heals Me explores what happens when we stop asking “Why?

Jackson Pierce goes from hero to zero in four seconds. Despite an amazing comeback performance against the cross-town rival, he can’t get past the last play that ends the season, one game short of state.

Imagine waking up every day bursting with energy, tackling your goals with razor-sharp focus, and feeling in complete control of your life—no more exhaustion, no more stress pulling you under, no more settling for “just getting by.” A High-Performance Life is your key to that reality. This isn’t just another self-help book—it’s a game-changing roadmap to unlock your fullest potential, blending cutting-edge science with practical, life-altering strategies tailored to you. Are you tired of battling relentless fatigue? Struggling to juggle work, family, and personal dreams?

Can happiness and optimal performance be learned? Positive psychologists say yes! As decades of research and hundreds of studies have now shown, people who express their strengths tend to be happier, more resilient, more engaged, less stressed, and higher achievers. Jewelers spot diamonds in the rough. Art dealers identify potential masterpieces. Coaches groom stars and create the conditions for people to flourish.

Speech instructor Hannah La Joy Johnston shares simple, proven techniques for conquering your fear of public speaking. She has taught and helped thousands of college and high school students become more confident speakers and now shares her secrets with you. Each chapter in this rapid listen is filled with first-hand experiences and true stories to help you identify and overcome your anxiety, improve your memory, regulate your busy schedule, and help you become more engaging and relaxed in any speaking situation.

Brendon Burchard war besessen davon, drei Fragen zu beantworten: Warum haben manche Menschen schneller Erfolg als andere und das auch langfristig? Warum sind einige dabei unglücklich, andere stets glücklich? Und: Was motiviert sie zu mehr Erfolg, und welche Praktiken helfen am meisten? Nach 20 Jahren als weltweit führender High Performance Coach war klar: Es sind sechs Gewohnheiten die den entscheidenden Vorteil bringen. Diese kann jeder praktizieren, unabhängig von Alter, Karriere und Persönlichkeit. Neueste wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und Alltagspraktiken veranschaulichen, wie sie jeder JETZT umsetzen kann.