Performance Management Leadership

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.

We’ve all worked with one - a smart and immensely talented individual who brings enormous value to the organization. The problem? He’s an awful teammate. So as a leader, do you consider this key player toxic or irreplaceable? There Is an I in Team explores the relationship between individual and team - asking the question: How can we harness the talent of individual performers into a cohesive, productive team that creates overall value? And why are so many of our assumptions about teams wrong? Business challenges like this one mimic many of the issues facing sports teams.

For the members of the US Air Force Thunderbirds, teamwork is literally a matter of life and death. On maneuvers like the one pictured on the cover, the gap between jets is as little as 18 inches. The surge of momentum that comes with that level of closure has an incredibly positive impact on the team's mission. As you might imagine, sustaining that distance relies on the highest levels of trust.

Welcome to the beginning of the journey...the transformation of your company from lackluster to dazzling. By the end of this audiobook, you will have a proven system to take your company anywhere. Whatever legacy you want to create - it’s yours. If you are going to spend a year or more in this business, you might as well make it into a business that energizes and inspires you. You just need to decide what you want, and we’ll show you how to build it.

In Beyond the Game, Komori provides a toolbox for those who aspire to lead successful teams. Coaches, he says, strive to improve themselves first, to provide a foundation for instilling greatness in others. Smart coaches pay attention to what Komori calls the Three Cs of Leadership: Choices, Communication, and Culture. Komori also teaches the Six Keys for Peak Performance and how to focus on and apply these areas to achieve the most and excel in life. He offers advice in direct, straightforward terms and draws examples from his decades as a championship-winning tennis coach.

It Begs the Question is about dramatically improving team and personal performance, exerting less effort than you're investing today, and ensuring the sustainability of the improvements you make. Utilize the power of questions to develop the critical-thinking skills of your team so they are less dependent on you as the manager.

Flip Your Focus peels back the layers of how organizations can build world-class teams through a unique process called upside-down leadership. In this powerful audiobook, listeners discover: the three simple actions (and ONE fundamental shift in focus) that makes leadership happen, even when most everything else you have tried has failed, the mythical process to working yourself out of a job, enabling you to work ON the business instead of IN the business (so you can have your time and life back finally), and much more.

Some people are born with a natural 'go-get-'em' approach. For most of us, however, selling does not come naturally. This book demystifies the art of getting people to buy - whether it is as simple as convincing your friends to agree to your restaurant recommendation, or as complex as getting people to buy your million- dollar proposal at work. The book is a toolkit for self-exploration, analysis, learning and action plan development framed in a 5-week programme for building your unique sales self.

This is a story of my experience living in Costa Rica during the pandemic and observing what was happening around the world. We will cover my Change Management methodology Stop, Prepare, Act, which we will use to analyze changes that happened during the pandemic, but we will also practice using your real-life example.

Dr. Liker's book Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide was a 2016 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. This book has extracted the individual seminars and lectures that Dr. Liker used to create this world-renowned publication to offer them in a series of bite-sized, topic-specific learning modules.

Sei un imprenditore, un manager o semplicemente a capo di un'azienda o di un team? Trovi faticoso, stressante e complicato il modo di gestire i tuoi collaboratori? Consideri deludenti le loro performance e i risultati del loro lavoro? Ti preoccupi costantemente di far crescere l'azienda o il progetto per cui hai tanto sudato e speso? Bene!

I imagine a world where all people are creating their life in a way that leaves them feeling happy, fulfilled, and unstoppable. Where people celebrate each other and do no harm to one another. A world where leaders are consistently improving themselves and thereby improving things for their team, their customers, their business, and their community. Where people boldly embrace their mind and passionately transform the possibility called the future.

Kaizen is a Japanese philosophy that is responsible for driving the success of several organizations not just in Japan, but across the world. It explores simple, actionable, yet highly effective ideas that have the power to transform the destiny of your start-up. If you want to use the Japanese philosophy that is powering the results of several organizations all over the world, click on the “Buy Now” button to get your copy today!

In Top Performer, you'll meet Jim, a disciplined but uninspired sales manager. In London, on vacation, (his first in years) he meets Top Hat. In an engrossing conversation, Top Hat tells him about a legendary Dublin busker/street performer called the Rat Catcher, who engages his audience and effortlessly charms them into parting easily with their change. Top Hat then gives Jim an envelope to bring to the Rat Catcher as a form of introduction. Jim is incredulous, and even a bit suspicious.

Elite sports have honed time-tested strategies for sustaining peak performance, consistency, and getting results without exhaustion. This practical and illuminating guide offers a fresh perspective on leadership, unleashing an empowering, harmonious approach that’s inspired by elite sports’ proven disciplines.

Enhanced Corporate Performance is the final book in the three-book Enhanced Series that focuses on the creation and use of a Corporate Framework called the Enhanced Corporate Framework. The book shows step by step how this framework and the Enhanced Corporate Plan can be utilized to create an efficient business model that will increase profitability and allow the organization to scale.

Triple your sales with precision. This audiobook contains 21 winning strategies that will show you how to become amazingly efficient in selling and managing salespeople. The world's top salespeople - the best of the best - have mastered proven skills which transformed them into consistent winners. What have they learned that makes them so efficient? How do they make it look so easy? This audiobook contains the "secret sauce" which will change your sales career. There is an easier, more precise and effective way to sell, and you can learn it right now!

When Denver Mayor Michael Hancock took office in 2011, he inherited an $80 million budget shortfall and a government workforce that had been through multiple rounds of cuts and furloughs. Morale was low. He needed a way to drive greater efficiencies, cost savings, and improved performance - and he had to do it in-house, on a shoe-string budget. Enter Peak Academy, the coaching and innovation program Mayor Hancock created to teach frontline city employees how to tackle small problems and deliver big results.

There is no need to come up with your own questions or even spend hours trying to figure out the much-needed powerful questions that you need to ask your colleagues. This book has done all the heavy lifting for you. The book “555 Powerful Questions for Coaching, Mentoring, and Leading at Work” contains 555 powerful questions from actual situations that will help you unlock the potential of your teammates, improve their performance and empower them.

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.