Performance Leadership

"For many years I struggled to lead in a difficult environment. My colleagues seemed to thrive on conflict. I sure didn't. I tried to be a servant, but I couldn't compete with their charisma and intensity." Whether you lead in a church or the marketplace, you probably relate to Tom Harper's desire to serve with strength. This book is the result of his three-year search through the Bible for wisdom on how to establish authority, overcome resistance, develop boldness, and manage conflict.

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.

Unlock next-level leadership success with just 7 transformative essentials – even if you’ve struggled in your managerial role before. Are you overwhelmed by the challenges of navigating change, fostering diversity, and boosting team productivity? Struggling to balance personal leadership growth and managing a high-performing team? You're not alone. Many managers face these same hurdles. But what if you could turn these struggles into strategic steps toward impactful leadership?

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.

The financial health of your organization depends on it! Bernie Haffey’s Cutting Through is a comprehensive exploration into the nuances of the key high-performance management systems that turn good companies into great ones!

Dr. Bill Thierfelder knows what it takes to win. As a student at the University of Maryland he dominated the high jump, winning fame as an All-American and Irish national champion. Later he earned his doctorate in sports psychology. He became a private coach and mentor to the world's top athletes...and revealed to them his hard-won secrets for success.

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!

Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money, why some of their shows were huge hits and others flopped, and much more. From Flo Ziegfeld and David Merrick, from Joseph Papp, from Cameron Mackintosh, from today’s up-and-coming new generation of producers - here are priceless words of wisdom.

A follow-up to the top-selling Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, this book provides managers with phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports.

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 ...

Do you want to be a transformational coach, powerfully supporting your clients in their journey from where they are today to where they have only dared dream of until now? This Is Coaching was written to help you unlock your full potential as a coach, wherever you are along the path.

Do you hope to be coached or be a great coach? Or wish that your organization could execute its coaching mandate? Mark Colgate's 8 Moments of Power is the missing piece for those hoping to orchestrate a coaching change. In this engaging book, Colgate takes us on a journey with humorous stories, case studies, and pragmatic frameworks, while examining how organizations can create a coaching system that designs for, and delivers, continuous feedback that simultaneously increases employee and customer engagement.

5X Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author and Podcaster; Leadership, HR, Innovation, Future of Work, & Culture Global Thought Leader; Chair/Professor of Organizational Leadership; Change/OD/HR/Social Impact Consultant; Ranked in the top 20 of global researchers in the following topic areas - "Future of Work," "Global Leadership," "Organizational Development, "Public Service Motivation," and "Social Impact" (Google Scholar); ScholarGPS has ranked him the #18 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. The Art and Science of Organizational Leadership provides actionable frameworks to ...

Become the Architect of Your Ideal Organization! Are you constantly fighting "fires" only to have them reignite again and again? Are you frustrated trying to meet the demands of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, investors, etc.? What if you could develop your own custom leadership system and collaborative leadership style to leverage the forces of change to transform your organization's systems and culture? What if you could increase the odds of successful strategy deployment by using a flexible design framework to [re]design your organization systems and processes? What if you ...

Coaching Up! is about inspiring those who matter to you to achieve peak performance. Whether you are a coach, a business leader, a civic activist, a teacher, a counselor, or a parent, this book will offer you a powerful, highly effective way to connect to the people you care about and move them forward toward their best selves. In sports, coaches have developed ways of connecting with their players quickly in the "heat of the battle", inspiring them to perform to their fullest potential and "leave it all on the field".

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive review of essential concepts for the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP certification exams. It is designed to supplement more detailed study materials, helping HR professionals focus on key principles and identify areas requiring further study. While it covers fundamental topics such as workforce planning, talent acquisition, compensation and benefits, employee relations, and HR compliance, it does not provide exhaustive coverage of every exam topic. Instead, it serves as an efficient and structured review tool. Readers will gain insight into HR leadership,...

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 ...

HR 2.0: Rebooting the People & Profit Engine of Tomorrow – Redefining Talent Strategy and Performance Culture for Sustainable Growth: Unlock the Future of HR. Transform People into Performance. HR 2.0 is not just a book—it's a blueprint for reimagining Human Resources as a strategic powerhouse in the age of digital disruption, ESG mandates, and rapid workforce evolution. Packed with real-world Case Studies, Futuristic insights, and Field-tested Frameworks, this book equips CHROs, HR leaders, and CEOs with the tools to: Build high-impact competency-based hiring systems Create agile ...

The Kaizen Method: Proven Lean Strategies to Boost Productivity, Eliminate Waste, and Create a High-Performance Culture is your essential guide to building a culture of continuous improvement—one small, strategic step at a time. Perfect for business leaders, entrepreneurs, team managers, and anyone committed to long-term success, this audiobook delivers practical insights and powerful strategies for transforming your organization from the inside out.

The modern workplace isn’t actually a single place. Teams are spread around the globe and across generations—yet expected to work in unison despite the cultural and age distinctions that shape their worldviews and work views. Whether you lead a company or are part of a team, thriving in this complex matrix requires a unique ability to turn generational differences into seamless collaborative strengths.