Performance Leadership

If you are an executive who has worked long hours, risen to every challenge, and built a strong reputation for yourself, then why haven't you reached the highest levels of leadership? Here's a reality check: Your business achievements and functional skills alone aren't enough to help you get where you want to go. What's likely missing is a skill that the world's best corporate leaders have developed - mastery of the people side of the equation.You must become a leader that others want to work for. How do you do that? Let go of being an expert. Become a leader of experts.

Great teams don’t happen by accident—they’re built with intention. Leadership Unlocked delivers tactical strategies to align teams, set goals that actually get met, and create a culture of accountability and support. It’s the go-to manual for managers, new leaders, and professionals ready to make an impact. Set powerful goals that connect strategy to outcomes Improve team collaboration and communication Develop habits for leading with purpose and presence Identify and remove blocks to success (in yourself and others)You don’t need to be perfect to lead—you need to be intentional...

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.”

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.

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!

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. ...

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.

18X Best-Selling & Award-Winning Author and Podcaster; Leadership, HR, Innovation, Future of Work, Diversity and Inclusion, and Workplace 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 #15 scholar in the world for job satisfaction research. In today's rapidly evolving work landscape, ...

With Results, Not Reports, Peter Follows, CEO of Carpedia International, provides business leaders with a framework for lasting improvements in performance and profitability. Carpedia has a remarkable success rate in large-scale improvement programs, helping clients achieve their improvement goals over 90 percent of the time. In this book, Peter explains how to achieve sustainable improvement through the dynamic management of process, performance, and people, emphasizing that all three components have an interdependent relationship and that the key is to address them concurrently.

In today's competitive landscape, success hinges on mastering habits that unlock your potential. "The Habit Code" presents a science-backed framework for transforming your life through consistent actions. By understanding the cue-routine-reward loop from neuroscience and psychology, you'll learn to identify triggers, design effective routines, and reinforce positive changes. The book dismantles the myth that willpower alone drives change, instead offering practical systems for environmental design, data tracking, and accountability.

Many companies try to save money and underestimate the importance of project management. You know better than anyone else that project management is more than just quickly briefing your team during work. Even startups with small budgets invest in a project manager (PM) because it's no longer a secret that a skilled project manager can save companies 28 times more money since their output is more reliable.

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.

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 ...

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.

In The Adventure of Sustainable Performance, the authors share their many years of experience serving clients and driving performance as the world transitions to a net zero carbon future. A future that uses resources sustainably and that seeks social justice. Perfect for executives, managers, directors, and other business leaders, The Adventure of Sustainable Performance is an actionable guidebook for the implementation of value-add sustainability programs.

In an age when corporate executives are focused on smoothing out differences and achieving consensus, Saj-nicole Joni and Damon Beyer contend that happy workers aren't always productive; they often become prone to boredom and complacency. While organizational harmony and strategic alignment are important, the health and well-being of organizations also depend on carefully constructed and constructive conflict.

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 this timely and essential guide, McKinsey alumni Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas present a proven approach to workplace anxiety that reduces stress, boosts well-being, and overcomes blocks that get in the way of success. It begins with changing our relationship with fear and then developing strategies that improve outlook and performance, leading to greater profits, sustainable growth, and personal rewards. It’s only possible with a culture of unfear.

“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 ...

Are you already working in scrum but stuck in a rut? o you know the basics of scrum but don’t feel like you can adequately support your team? Scope creep, team members showing up late, challenging stakeholders...sound familiar? Scrum Mastery goes beyond the basics of Scrum. You will learn how to become a skilled scrum master who is more than just a meeting facilitator, and how to lead your team to greatness. This book is for people and organizations who are serious about scrum, agile, and looking for more in-depth advice.