Performance Development

Researchers have found that the accelerated pace of modern office life is taking its toll on productivity, employee engagement, creativity and wellbeing. Faced with a relentless flood of information and distractions, our brains try to process everything at once, increasing our stress, decreasing our effectiveness and negatively impacting our performance.

Decline rarely arrives as catastrophe. It comes quietly—through comfort, distraction, and the gradual lowering of standards. When responsibility is replaced by rhetoric, and discipline by ease, failure becomes inevitable—even when everything still looks respectable. The Five F’s rejects the language of modern self-help and returns to something older and less forgiving: the idea that outcomes matter, preparation is non-negotiable, and responsibility cannot be outsourced.

Long hours, heavy workloads, and constant pressure in professional services can prevent even the most talented people from performing their best. Many consultants, lawyers, and advisors develop counterproductive habits that diminish focus, energy, engagement, and performance. In Stronger Advisor, you will learn how to build stronger habits, perform your best, and produce more value in less time and with less stress.

In Beyond Grit, Cindra Kamphoff reveals the ten practices that the world's best use to gain the high-performance edge. Kamphoff shares the tools and strategies she's taught executives, entrepreneurs, NFL ProBowl athletes, Olympians, college athletes, and championship teams.

In any undertaking, there is no doubt that persistence plays a major role. It would then be a shame to succumb to negativity, especially when your plans have failed. Instead of feeling low and unworthy, listen to voice of reason and challenge your own mindset. You don’t have to constantly torture yourself with images of you on the brink of failure. All you need to do is sit back, relax, and enjoy the subliminal messages.

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.

In this engaging and easy-to-follow audiobook, veteran real estate coach and consultant Brian Icenhower shares what he has discovered about the crucial relationship between human behavior and every facet of the real estate business. From basic beginnings to a deep-dive into the DISC behavior model, this exhaustive book provides invaluable insights into the nature of behavior and how to apply it to everything you do in real estate.

Yes, you can beat stage fright (the #1 fear in America). If your success depends on your ability to speak or perform with poise, confidence, and to the absolute BEST of your ability, this remarkable one-hour program will change your life.

White-knuckling can never get you where you want to go. But grace can. You already know because you’ve tried: repeated attempts to earn God’s love and approval get you nowhere and leave you exhausted. When performance taints our relationship with him, the Christian life can turn into an...

Organizations that embed evaluation into their culture and operations can pivot faster, innovate more effectively, and foster a growth mindset. Evaluation thus becomes a tool for learning and continuous improvement. Building a Culture of Evaluation leads you through how to integrate measurement and feedback into your organization’s DNA.

This trusted reference puts thousands of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips — perfect for review time, creating development plans, and monitoring performance year-round. Whether you're an HR professional or a manager, chances are there's one...

In The High Performance Entrepreneur, Subroto Bagchi draws from his own experiences to offer guidance from the idea stage to the initial public offering level. This includes deciding when one is ready to launch an enterprise, selecting a team, defining the values and objectives of the company...

Corporate learning and development programs play an undeniable role in successful business endeavors, but only when they're done right. The significant revisions in the third edition of The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning add fresh, timely elements to a resource that has become known globally as a trusted guide for professionals determined to get the most of their companies' training and development programs. 

As Christy's students are preparing for a school play, she reveals her dream to act on stage. Little does she know that Dr. MacNeill's aunt is the artistic director of the Knoxville Theater. Before long, just as Christy is about to debut on stage, several mysterious incidents threaten both her...

Am I really living up to my potential? This is the question that has preoccupied Mike Rubin, CEO of the multi-billion-dollar firm Northpond Ventures, for decades. Through his work as a venture capitalist, he’s encountered innovators, entrepreneurs and business professionals who consistently...

Leadership is as complicated as it is wonderful, and in a rapidly changing technological and organisational landscape, leading intelligently takes a lot more than it once did. No one knows this better than Caroline Webb - former McKinsey partner and one of the world's foremost leadership coaches...

This is the book that started the revolution in biblically-based Christian marriage enrichment programs. Don and Sally Meredith’s groundbreaking Two Becoming One has transformed and strengthened hundreds of thousands of marriages over the past three decades. Couples will learn: How to eliminate sources of conflict, how to put Christ at the center of their marriage, the divine purpose of marriage, God’s faith-based principles for oneness, and much more!

In an age where distractions are abundant and our lives seem to run on autopilot, many of us struggle to align our actions with our intentions. Intentional confronts this challenge head-on. Bailey seamlessly integrates actionable advice, compelling personal anecdotes and insightful psychological...

Discover the transformative power of words and conversations in The Power of Words, the profound and inspiring international bestseller by renowned neuroscientist Mariano Sigman. We have hundreds of conversations every week, offline, online and even in our heads. But have you ever stopped to...

'A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' – James Clear, bestselling author of Atomic Habits The essential guide to improving your performance, and a powerful argument for how to succeed in any field: develop broad interests and skills while everyone around you is...