Performance Leadership

Business owners and leaders are being challenged as never before. The trends are changing fast, business models are under attack, clients are fickle, and staff expectations are rising. It can make for very reactionary leadership...but that is not what drives sustainable success. As you're seeking to drive the growth, performance, and, ultimately, value of your business, what must be done to avoid stalling through the climb? At last, there is a book that supports leaders in not only surviving, but thriving in this context.

Narrated by Mark Burns, The Learning Imperative examines the key ingredients that ensure effective learning and offers leaders step-by-step guidance on how they can achieve it in their own teams and organizations. The audiobook maps out the key stages of the learning journey and provides a comprehensive guide for team leaders and managers who want to improve learning in their teams. It also shares essential advice on the design and delivery of effective training programs, as well as a range of illuminating case studies drawn from real-life contexts.

Battered by waves of downsizing since the 1980s, talented men and women no longer seek job security from one company. This is the true hallmark of the new economy—not fleeting dot-coms and IPOs, but a fast-moving, free-agent workforce with the flexibility to jolt productivity. Managers, meanwhile, must grab hold of this shifting group of talent and squeeze more work out of them than ever before, particularly in a tight economy. The trouble is, their traditional source of power over employees—the corporate ladder—is dead and gone.

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.

Culture-Based Safety is a comprehensive, actionable guide that unlocks the keys to building, embedding, and sustaining a world-class safety culture in any organization. Combining decades of field experience with real-world case studies and globally recognized best practices, this book offers a step-by-step approach to transforming safety from a set of rules into an organizational mindset that drives performance, employee engagement, and long-term business success. Inside this book, you will learn how to shape a proactive safety culture starting from the top. Discover how leadership ...

In Business Spotlight Audio 07/2019 für September/Oktober geht es in einem Schwerpunkt um den Einfluss leistungsstarker Teams auf den Erfolg von Führungskräften. Easy English befasst sich mit dem Überbringen schlechter Nachrichten. Ihren englischen Wortschatz erweitern Sie mit idiomatischen Wendungen aus dem Bereich des Storytelling - des Geschichtenerzählens. Und Begriffe aus der Logistik üben Sie im Sprachtest. Im Mittelpunkt von English on the Move stehen die Aufgaben von Mitarbeitern einer Hotelrezeption.

The ability to craft an employee review that is meaningful and change-driven is what separates average supervisors from great managers. How often, though, have you struggled to find the most appropriate words for your needs? This completely revised and updated second edition of Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews provides hundreds of ready-made phrases you can use to clearly communicate any employee's performance in 74 different skill areas.

With the right advice you can learn how to become a 100% Leader and build a high performance team independently within a larger Network System. The individuals within their team produce the highest performance and become independent as fast as possible.

Rédigé par les experts de la HBR, cet ouvrage inspirant met à votre disposition toutes les techniques et les outils nécessaires pour mener votre carrière avec sérénité, en gérant parfaitement vos émotions et en tirant au mieux parti de votre personnalité. Comment s'affirmer dans son travail pour progresser et gagner la confiance de ses collègues ? Comment tisser des relations équilibrées avec son manager ou ses collaborateurs pour éviter incompréhensions, frustrations et conflits ?

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.

Exception to the Rule links ancient wisdom with contemporary science on high performance, teamwork, and engagement. Building an organizational culture based on classical virtues - of trust, compassion, courage, justice, wisdom, temperance and hope - is both strategically smart and a better way to live. Exception to the Rule walks you through the steps of helping everyone in your organization focus on character defined by virtue.

The performance review is an important part of your job as a manager or coach. But it is only a part. In order to develop team members effectively, you have to be proactive on a daily basis. This means having conversations - and not just about the weather or the game last night. Create ongoing conversations throughout the year. Conversations for Creating Star Performers is a vital tool for keeping team members motivated, engaged, and moving ahead every day - not just the days before an annual review.

This book will offer you an insight into all the tips, tricks, and strategies that you need to implement into your team that will lead to respect, hard work, and loyalty on their part. Managing and being a member of a team is a give-and-take relationship, and it is important that you offer the right foundations for your team members to thrive upon.

J. J. Sutherland has the solution. In his international best seller Scrum, he introduced a simple, revolutionary tool to turbo-charge the output of every team. Based on decades of research and road-tested at the headquarters of Google and Amazon, the Scrum method transformed how a generation of leaders work - first in Silicon Valley, and then in boardrooms around the world.

In the same way that an engine in an automobile must be taken care of, a leader must receive the appropriate care and maintenance to function at the highest capacity. This book offers a dynamic and effective approach to boosting your octane for maximum leadership performance. It also offers additives that will keep you performing at your optimum level.

I am comedian/author/dudeman Marshall Chiles, and I will show you step-by-step proven methodologies to help add humor to your presentations in order to increase your persuasion and maximize your impact.

The second in the Enhanced Series, Enhanced Executive Performance is quickly becoming the "how to" guide of becoming the type of executive many dream to be. It picks up where Enhanced Life Performance leaves off. Enhanced Executive Performance takes that state of well-being to executive leadership conference rooms, board rooms, and offices of the world. Want to execute at work like never before and do so while maintaining a near constant state of fulfillment? Then Enhanced Executive Performance is a must listen for you.

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.

Today’s companies have fewer hierarchical layers. The nature of work is also more virtual, collaborative, and transparent than at any previous time. Information flows move every which way, shifting from top-down to all-in. And the workforce is forever altered, too. Sweeping changes in expectations across backgrounds, experiences, generations, and gender are challenging long-held, inflexible beliefs about the relationship between work and life—and the very meaning of success.

Have you ever felt stuck in a toxic workplace or overwhelmed by office politics, unsure how to navigate the complexities and rise above? Discover the power to change all that with “How to Master Organizational Politics,” a game-changing guide that will elevate your leadership skills and transform your professional life. Are you tired of being caught off guard by office politics? This book is your essential roadmap for mastering the subtleties of organizational dynamics. You'll learn how to lead high-performing teams, create a positive workplace culture, and manage workplace toxicity ...