Business Performance

Social media is the way that brands separate themselves online these days, which is why this audio book will start by walking you through what it means to successfully build a brand in 2019. More than simply telling you what works and how to fit yourself into a predetermined mold, this audiobook will teach you how to take what sets you and your brand apart and create a successful and, more importantly, unique marketing campaign that will help you stand out from the host of other similar services available at the push of a button.

In this two-book bundle, discover how to differentiate yourself from the rest, and become extraordinary with small but powerful long-term habits.

When Susan Ershler and John Waechter each made the grueling journey to the top of Mount Everest, they were motivated by the desire to join the elite group of climbers that had conquered the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents. It was this same determination that made them star performers in corporate sales, one of the toughest jobs in global business.

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.

The US military in general, and its many elite organizations in particular, possesses a culture of high performance. Courage to Execute outlines the six basic principles that operate at the foundation of high performance, which include leadership, organization, communication, knowledge, experience, and discipline, known together as LOCKED. When all are practiced effectively, teamwork emerges. But the most elusive quality that's at the heart of all elite military teams, the element that organizations and businesses desire to perform more efficiently and effectively, is trust.

If no further changes are made, it will take 132 years to reach full gender parity across education, economic participation and opportunity, and political empowerment! When women learn how to be heard, true leadership with positive social and economic results is seen. They can balance assertiveness with care, management with team empowerment, and create a workplace environment that is inclusive, safe, and productive. The challenge for many female leaders isn't their leadership skills, it's finding their voice!

If you are an athlete, CEO, artist, manager, leader, or a professional in your field and looking for ways to always stay at the top of your game, perhaps, you need strategies to improve your performance, while working at the same time on your mental and physical well-being. Achieving peak performance when most of us are faced with heaps of work and conflicting priorities can be quite challenging. The modern-day life has made it so.

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.

Hey, Sales Manager, feeling overworked, overwhelmed, and underappreciated? You're not the first. The Happy Sales Manager is your guidebook to becoming the BEST Sales Manager you can be, minus the unnecessary stress and frustration.

Virtuous leaders, virtue-grounded teams, and virtue-led organizations inspire performance. The Virtue Proposition explains how. Sig Berg, founder of the Severn Leadership Group, explains what’s missing from traditional leadership, with its emphasis on the rules and rituals of boardrooms and c-suites, and from iconoclastic leadership, which urges you to move fast and break things. Neither of these embrace virtues, and neither has, nor ever will, deliver consistent superior results.

This is a “how to” book for leaders in healthcare. Lessons learned from 30+ years as a nursing executive, an executive coach, and as an equestrian have been interwoven to describe what it takes for success as a leader for teams in healthcare and in horsemanship. The author sees similarities in both arenas.

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.

You will never come across a business person who wishes for his or her business to end when he or she leaves. If an organization chooses not to embrace change, it will have no customers because people only buy things that meet their needs. For this reason, an organization needs to ensure that it stays ready for what is to come. The way to do this is to continually sharpen own tools by creating a learning environment so that own employees learn all business and change-related tricks to help them maneuver the business world.

You are about to speak... You're terrified! Heart racing, hands wringing, stomach churning. You're not just speaking, but speaking in public. You can't get out of it now. You've got to leave the safety of your chair, trek to the front, turn around and face your audience. What to do, where to go, where is the emergency exit? STOP. Breathe. You are in safe hands. You know your stuff, you have a powerful message to share. With Ges as your guide you will rediscover your natural confidence. You will let go of your anxiety and engage your audience powerfully.

Better executive health drives business performance and a stronger society. For the experienced manager as well as manager in training, business school professor, and executive coach; Steven P. MacGregor helps you leverage this truth in your life and your business. MacGregor shares breakthrough insights and techniques he's honed through seven years of pioneering the world-renowned Sustaining Executive Performance (SEP) program and working with thousands of top executives worldwide.

Accelerating Performance is not just another "warm and fuzzy" change management book - it's a practical, comprehensive, data-driven action plan for picking up the pace and achieving more. Cowritten by one of the authors of Beyond Performance, this audiobook draws on a combination of empirical research and decades of experience advising global companies to show you how to reduce time to value by building and changing momentum more quickly than your competitors.

Many organizations approach the issue of employee engagement and motivation by tapping into age, gender and other stereotypes. Motivation and Performance challenges these notions, bringing together evidence that group differences are often exaggerated and that getting to the heart of what really motivates individuals is what's most important. This book is a practical guide to ensuring that organizations consider all motivators - job security as well as the need for personal growth - to improve employee satisfaction, boost organizational productivity and reduce staff turnover.

Bénéfice secondaire, la joie n'est pas seulement le carburant principal du bonheur, c'est aussi un facteur de performance individuelle et collective. Le mot "travail" vient de tripalium, instrument de torture. Le travail est souvent valorisé par sa pénibilité : si on a bavé, c'est que c'est bien. À mille lieux de cette approche classique et même antique, Hervé Franceschi nous montre que la bonne humeur, la joie, l'humour ne se contentent pas d'alléger le pesant fardeau du travail plus ou moins contraint, ils ouvrent le chemin si recherché et méconnu d'une performance durable.

This book is about the stuff you learn when you've worked for a boss you'd swear jumped out of a Dilbert cartoon; worked in a business whose performance careened up and down like a runaway clown car; when you've faced legal or ethical problems that needed the wisdom of Solomon to sort out while they roiled your guts at night; or when you've sat on the stand across from some third-rate Perry Mason, or tried to be one yourself.

Despite your efforts to inspire, it seems like they just can’t meet their numbers. Which causes you to fall short of your goals. What if there was an easy solution that not only motivates your team, but also encourages and nurtures their future with your company? For the first time, Lisa Shumpert, a highly accomplished and strategic senior corporate officer, shares her secrets on empowering teams from her thirty-five years of global cross-industry human resources experience.