Performance Management Leadership

Leading Clarity offers a bold proposal that changes the trajectory of your business and leadership. Today's business environment is more complex than at any time in history with greater ambiguity, chaos, and uncertainty. Too often, individuals and organizations become bogged down with competing priorities and the constant press of daily demands. This tangled mass of noise effectively handicaps every facet of business. This audiobook provides a proven, time-tested strategy that has brought dynamic results to hundreds of organizations of all scope and size.

There's been a lot of talk recently about metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs). But, what does it all mean? Metrics can mean everything, or they can mean nothing. I know what you're thinking. "I started my insurance agency so I could pore through mounds of data and spend hours looking over spreadsheets," said no one ever! That's why I wrote the book.

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.

Talent in the workplace is increasingly identified as a key factor in determining success. If effectively managed it has the potential to be a productive resource capable of adding value and competitive advantage to an organization. The Talent Powered Organization takes a strategic yet practical view of talent. Drawing on research and real-life experiences with clients, the authors provide a series of conceptual frameworks to attract, develop, and retain the best workforce.

This book presents a holistic approach to performance management, encompassing both personal performance and the development of a learning organization. I hope it supports you on your performance journey.

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.

Future Brain is the busy professional's secret weapon for boosting mastery, efficiency, and productivity to gain that coveted competitive edge - in business and in life. Designed to be implemented at the individual, team, or organizational level, this in-depth, step-by-step framework leverages neuro-scientific principles to help you develop a solid, habit-changing plan for building and maintaining brain fitness and healthy behaviors.

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.

Through meticulous research, assessment, and testing, Conchie and Dalton have built a database that predicts the talents and behaviours of the most successful leaders. In this book they present for the first time a scientific model that demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders.

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.

Middle management is hard. If you’re a middle manager, you already know that, and you may be searching for all the help you can get to become more effective and successful in that role. In other words, to become an exceptional middle manager.

For decades people have been told the secret to success is a good education. But is it true? Many of the biggest names in the business world today never received a college degree. After much research and thought, Steve Lover concludes that confidence is the most important characteristic to determine success. However, even more important than developing your own confidence is the ability to ignite your employees’ confidence. The leader who knows how to do that creates a different kind of organization.

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.

This book covers my leadership experience spanning the past 30 years and what I have learned to build and grow high-performing teams. As a busy executive myself, I understand and appreciate getting to the point quickly. This book was written to be a simple and concise guide intended for quick listening, with actionable content. Leadership is a journey and a series of experiments to learn what works and what doesn't for you as a leader and the people and teams that you lead.

Most companies strive to attract talented people, retain them for years, watch them engage in their work and have them consistently perform at a high level. In order to achieve this, they spend significant time, money and resources providing their team with “learning and development” opportunities. Unfortunately, these initiatives rarely produce an ROI because they are not customized and personalized for each employee.

If you are looking for a one-stop shop for a thorough guide on building a high-performing team, here is everything about hiring (both in and out of the US), starting with the job posting and a series of interviews, employing your new candidate with an example hiring agreement, training your employees, and even monitoring and motivating your team for success.

Energized Enterprise shows you how to put both the human element and the total enterprise at the forefront of your leadership strategy and daily actions, offering fundamental principles of effective leadership, seven key leadership rules, as well as research, stories, and practical examples. Utilizing Dr. Wilson’s expertise, you’ll implement the very best leadership practices to lift, nourish, and energize your workforce to advance your enterprise to the leading edge.

The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations. The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth and are illustrated with insights, interviews, and case studies from the military, sporting, and corporate worlds. The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations.

"Champion for introverts" Jennifer Kahnweiler offers a road map for everyone in the workplace - including leaders, human resource managers, and team members - to create inclusive, introvert-friendly cultures. Kahnweiler provides an assessment to determine how introvert friendly your organization is and looks at every aspect of organizational life - hiring, training, leading, communicating, meeting, designing workplaces, and more - through an inclusive lens.

In today's fast-paced, competitive business environment, organizations must constantly adapt and evolve to stay ahead. Performance Engineering: Designing the Ultimate Success Roadmap is a comprehensive guide that provides listeners with the knowledge and tools necessary to engineer high-performance organizations.