Building Performance

Michael Jordan was undoubtedly the greatest basketball player of all time, unless of course you are a Lebron James fan. Despite his incredible success as a player, Jordan could not have won 6 championships on his own. The championships, which made him a true idol were part of a team effort. Just like in sports, high-performance teams are crucial to the success of any business. Whether you’re a large or mid-size firm, if your teams aren’t performing at an optimum level, you’re losing at least some of your return on investment. Think about it.

Employees that don't take ownership of their work. Friction between departments. Inconsistent results. These are the top challenges that face most businesses today. These common issues create high turnover and force managers into crisis mode where they're consumed putting out daily fires. Over time, the very nature of the business changes and a new culture emerges; one shaped by the lowest level of acceptable behavior. Beyond the Hammer approaches these concerns in two highly engaging sections.

Conklin’s audiobook is an interesting and informal discussion with the listener about the five principles of human performance; principle by principle, section by section. These five theories about how humans perform in organizations are principles, the building blocks of human performance, through which we have established a new way to think about safety and reliability in our worlds...and changing the way we think about work is a vital step toward improvement.

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company.

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Armstrong on Reinventing Performance Management presents a holistic approach to performance management, drawing on Michael Armstrong's vast research and experience. Most organizations have performance management processes in one form or another, but these are often based on formal annual reviews, forced rankings and directly linked to pay decisions. These traditional approaches are often at the expense of ongoing, continuous feedback and focus on looking back at what has or has not been achieved rather than looking forward.

The Program: Lessons from Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High-Performance Leaders and Teams offers a hands-on guide to the winning techniques and tactics of The Program, the acclaimed team-building and leadership development company. Drawing on the actual experiences of The Program's instructors from their personal combat stories to working with world-class athletic teams and successful corporations, the audiobook clearly shows how The Program's training operations can help to achieve life goals and ambitions.

From our offices and homes to schools, hospitals, and restaurants, the indoor spaces where we work, learn, play, eat, and heal have an outsized impact on our performance and well-being. They affect our creativity, focus, and problem-solving ability and can make us sick - jeopardizing our future and dragging down profits in the process. Joseph Allen and John Macomber make a compelling case in this urgently needed book for why every business and home owner should make certain relatively low-cost investments a top priority.

Chronic complainers, no accountability finger-pointers, or learning-resistant laggards—these culture-killers costs sales organizations more in productivity than being weak in the so-called hard skills of selling. Learn how emotional intelligence and the development of these critical soft skills improve sales leadership effectiveness and outperforms doubling down on more sales technology tools and fads. The missing link is in hiring for and developing emotional intelligence skills in sellers and sales leaders.

As president and CEO of Scripps Health, one of America's most prestigious health systems, Chris Van Gorder presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position. While hospitals and health systems nationwide have laid people off or are closing their doors, Scripps is financially healthy, has added thousands of employees (even with a no-layoff philosophy), and has developed a reputation as a top employer. What are the secrets to this remarkable story?

The Culture Blueprint is a systematic guide to building a company culture. This audiobook is about fostering committed, enthusiastic employees. Distilling his years of experience teaching culture-building to companies like Google, P&G, and Amazon.

Everyone, at some point in their life, will be asked to be a leader. Leadership skills are highly sought after by employers and are also essential to lasting success in business and life. But the problem with most leadership books is that they are just common knowledge, taken from other writers and not useful. This book presents proven skills and qualities that are tried and tested to help you develop into your greatest potential as a leader. Become more than just “the boss" people follow only because they have to. Instead master the ability to inspire and lead people.

The book offers a deep dive into understanding and managing emotions, pivotal for cultivating a success mindset and achieving goals. It lays out effective strategies for self-regulation, boosting self-esteem, and fostering a growth mindset, all crucial for personal and professional triumph. Addressing the challenge of overthinking, the book provides actionable advice on positive thinking and self-discipline, helping readers develop success habits and resilience.

The Bridge to Excellence is not just a means of getting your organization from the beginning to the end of a particular journey. It is the organization and every organization has a Bridge, whether utilized or not. Does your Bridge take your organization across the roiling rivers of competition, technological change, evolving customer preferences, workforce changes, supply chain disruptions, pandemics, regulation, and more? Does it carry you over all of this to the goal of Sustainable Excellence, or does it take you somewhere else?

Leadership skills are essential for everyone, and the great news is that they can be learned, meaning that there’s no excuse for poor leadership. This two-book bundle will provide you with concise, powerful advice based on experience and research ranging from neuroscience to social psychology and backed up by statistical data and analysis.

Harness the power of mental toughness with these 7 easy steps... and turn your life into something you're proud and comfortable with! Everyone should embrace mental toughness, not just for athletes. Being mentally tough is a hat that looks good on everyone. Anyone can be mentally tough; its all about your dedication to self-improvement.

Master the transformative power of emotional intelligence in 7 simple steps… and further unleash your full potential to lead a more fulfilling life by embracing the 7 skills to build mental toughness!

Blue-Collar Leadership® & Culture will help you understand why culture is the key to becoming a sought after employer of choice within your industry. Culture matters because those who work there will determine who wants to work there.

Each and every one of us has a unique perspective on what it takes to be a successful leader. And we all understand that there is no cookie cutter formula that will hand you the magic keys to unlocking a high-performance culture. The 9L's will expound on the key principles, the core concepts that each and every person can apply and use, no matter what their background or leadership beliefs are!

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.