Business Performance

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.

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?

In The Ask Framework, executive coach Carole Stizza walks listeners through how to gain positive, productive feedback from their supervisors, coworkers, and team members. With the right kind of responses, you can understand your strengths and discover your talents, leading to better job performance, more focused leadership, and greater career success.

Los seres humanos, más de lo que se podría suponer, destruyen sus propias vidas y las de los otros, como resultado de no sentirse realizados, de no ser felices y de no ver que sus vida tienen un sentido más allá del dinero, pero se han dejado consumir por los temores que habitan en sus mentes, y esos miedos tiene que ver con: El dinero, la salud y las relaciones causadas por los mismos problemas: la inconsciencia, el rompimiento de principios, la irresponsabilidad, la inmadurez, la desconexión con Dios.

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.

Without a strong grasp of performance metrics, a company can have no clear, quantitative indication of its performance improvement. Six Sigma Business Scorecard offers a unique approach to measuring performance. Listeners will learn how to track their improvements in operations and financials - and make critical adjustments if such improvements are not up to expectations - using Six Sigma. This much-needed second edition of Six Sigma Business Scorecard delivers an innovative Execution Map allowing you to implement, reap, and quantify the many advantages of Six Sigma.

The Stretch Zone is about being confident when and where it really matters. Anyone can be confident in their comfort zone, but it seldom matters. Confidence is an issue for everyone who has the courage to step outside their comfort zone and face difficult situations in the stretch zone. This inspirational guide will introduce you to a whole new way of thinking, turning outdated misconceptions about self-confidence completely on their head.

So many people spend their lives trying to find the answer to what we really are doing here. Why are we put on this earth, and what are we supposed to accomplish? So many of us have the trappings of success, but little fulfillment in the life that we lead. We wander aimlessly with no real answer to “Why?” Enhanced Life Performance helps us find that answer, and along the way, helps you to create the best version of you! Gaining a clear unobstructed view of what you were meant to do and truly why you were meant to do it is the first step in an incredible journey!

How to overcome stage fright and performance anxiety and perform at your peak - using NLP and visualization.

Sort Your Brain Out includes brain-powered self-help advice that will improve your mood, help you deal with stress, and be better and smarter at work or in your everyday life. You'll discover how to shape and control the most adaptable organ in your body to think more creatively, keep your memory sharp, and live a better life on a daily basis.

No one is immune to these rocky economic times. Innovative businesspeople all over the country are adapting their organizational structures to survive, profit, and compete in today's unreliable market. The practical and relevant advice in Transformational Leadership: A Blueprint for Real Organizational Change by Randy Dobbs can be applied to major corporations and small businesses alike, as well as to nonprofits, universities, hospitals, and other institutions.

Positive thinking coupled with positive doing is a must for anybody in today’s disrupted, distracted world where change is the new normal. It’s All Possible shows how to embrace change through insightful stories and proven possibility hacks from everyday people, business leaders, sports stars, and entertainers that will inspire and motivate you. It is backed by the latest research on mind-set and personal development.

To even the best business owners, marketing often feels like a big bet - the kind where you don’t know the odds or even what happens when you play. And a bad bet is dangerous for everyone. Marketing missteps for big companies go viral, but small businesses that waste money on a bad campaign or halfhearted ads might burn through their resources and sacrifice years of growth.

日本における唯一の「国際コーチ連盟マスター認定コーチ」が、理論から実践までを体系的に著したコーチングの「基本書」である。

社内の人間関係や争いにやきもきするのは、時間とエネルギーの無駄。人間の負の感情にとらわれず、淡々と成果を出す。それがグローバル人材の最低条件だ。人間関係に悩むすべてのサラリーマンにおくる画期的仕事論。

Heute werden bereits rund achtzig Prozent der Unternehmensleistung in Teams erbracht. Und doch sind Teams bei weitem nicht so effektiv, wie sie sein könnten. Die Zahlen zu Engagement, Produktivität und Zufriedenheit sind hier seit Jahren eindeutig. Doch was hält Teams davon ab, mit voller Energie und Enthusiasmus zusammenzuarbeiten? Wie wird Rollenklarheit vor allem in kritischen Situationen der Zusammenarbeit geschaffen? Was macht High Performance am Arbeitsplatz wirklich aus und wie kann sie letztlich erreicht werden?

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.

Unlock the true potential of your team with Team Accelerators: The Seven Force Multipliers of High-Performance Teams. In this groundbreaking book, you’ll find the ingredients to transform a group of individuals into a united, dynamic, and impactful team.

For too long, humans have been following others based largely on that person's sense of physical strength, appearance, and dominance. It's a model that dates back to the Neanderthals and which, incredibly, we continue to apply—consciously or not. The Power of Evolved Leadership establishes a new standard for leadership. It shifts you away from a leadership profile of power, command, and control to move your toward the nuance of motivation, inspiration, and, most critically, the shedding of "ego."

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.