Leadership Coaching

Over the past six years, Michael K. Simpson’s Unlocking Potential has helped leaders motivate, inspire, and fully engage their teams. This revised edition, written with Maria Sullivan and Kari Saddler, builds on that powerful foundation for a new generation of leaders. The key is not just managing but coaching - developing the talents of your organization’s most important asset: the employees. In any successful organization, that begins with the basic skills developed by Simpson: building trust, recognizing potential, challenging paradigms, and more.

In times of chaos and uncertainty, some freeze up or falter, but others rise up and prosper. When you’re struggling with doubt and fear, when your self-esteem and confidence are waning, this audiobook provides a proven path for not only managing the chaos, but thriving. In Act Now, best-selling author and CEO of Consulting Success® Michael Zipursky shares how consultants can navigate through these challenging times to succeed and prosper in their consulting businesses.

Talk to me. From Kim Bearden, cofounder of Ron Clark Academy and author of the best-selling book Crash Course: The Life Lessons My Students Taught Me, comes a powerful guide for improving communication and building better relationships. Whether you are a teacher, administrator, parent, or business professional, chances are you struggle at times to find the right words. Talk to Me gives you those words. In this instructional and inspirational handbook, you’ll learn how to choose words that inspire, encourage, and move people to action.

What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent “us”? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for 25 years. It’s one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketball’s greatest coach, John Wooden, Wooden: A Coach’s Life. But John Wooden coached a long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has, too, tremendously.

Most organizations are terrified of conflict, seeing it as a sign of trouble. But clinical psychologist and transformative communication expert Dr. Nate Regier says conflict is really just a kind of energy that can be used for good or ill. With the concepts and tools he shares in this book, you can turn conflict into a partner for positive change.

Everyone wants teamwork in the team, but teamwork doesn’t happen without good teammates - individuals whose unique way of thinking propels their team to success, no matter what team they’re on. Whether it’s sports, family, school, work, or friends, the attitude is similar. The We Gear takes you inside the fascinating mind-set of a good teammate. Through inspiring stories and powerful lessons, you’ll explore the art of being a good teammate, while discovering the five keys to shifting your focus from me to we.

Leah, the newly promoted manager at Blaise International, faces a common challenge: How to turn slow sales and uninterested employees into a booming enterprise. Uniting her team and avoiding employee layoffs seem impossible. Until she meets the professor. Their weekly lessons on the power of story help Leah turn her employees and leadership team from unmotivated individuals into a community with a common goal. Alongside Leah, learn the three ways to experience story and how to identify a misaligned story.

Your management mentor in a book! This is the go-to guide on making good decisions, helping teams work together, dealing with people problems, and achieving goals when you're newly in charge or looking to brush up on your leadership skills. Wait, I'm the Boss?!? is chock-full of useful information, tips, and checklists that can be used by anyone who aspires to become a skilled manager. While it’s written with the new manager in mind, it can also serve as a useful refresher for any manager, no matter how experienced he or she may be.

Ready to create a kick-arse retail business within your salon business? If you own a salon, you need to listen to this book. It will change how you think about retail, your clients, your product rep, and yourself. Learn retail how, why, who, and when - without the fluff, spin, or sales hype.

From humble beginnings of just $150 to his name, to a multi-million dollar brand and franchise business, 4U Fitness, Daniel Nyiri has learned the ins and outs of what it takes to build a truly successful business. In this book Daniel shares the strategies necessary to achieve long term success as a gym owner by teaching you how to work on the business instead of in it. You'll learn invaluable information to apply to your gym so that it too can become a seven-figure business.

Your team will change whether you like it or not. People will come and go. Your company might double in size or even be acquired. In this practical book, author Heidi Helfand shares techniques for reteaming effectively. Engineering leaders will learn how to catalyze team change to reduce the risk of attrition, learning and career stagnation, and the development of knowledge silos.

Like so many, Stephanie Woodward learned young that success in business required major sacrifice. She skipped vacations, worked weekends, and put dating on the back burner all to climb the corporate ladder. But after years of promotions, responsibilities, and garnering a respected industry-wide reputation, her body rebelled from exhaustion and unhappiness.

Building sustainable relationships, both professionally and personally, is the biggest competitive advantage in a world where automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are eliminating the human experience, which is what creates emotional connections. In the newly revised third edition, renowned growth strategist, innovation consultant, and international speaker David Nour delivers an eye-opening discussion of how to prioritize and maximize your return on strategic relationships to fuel unprecedented professional and personal growth.

ABC Hurricane Shutters, a Florida-based company, was on the verge of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, having recorded losses in each of the preceding three years. In From Red to Black: A Business Turnaround, Robert S. Curry shares his thought process, action steps, and profit improvement recommendations throughout his turnaround engagement at the shutter company. After Bob’s first meeting with the owner, he developed a detailed plan for recovery and was engaged the next day. Within four months, the company had made a complete turnaround with nearly every “must-do” completed.

Joe Doyle is Ireland's number one business mentor for Tradesmen and the construction industry. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland, Joe started off as a bricklayer before setting up his own construction business, which he ran for 10 years.

NASA, Pixar Animation Studios, and BMW all use the Process Communication Model as a way of training leaders to connect effortlessly with anyone. This book simplifies the complex model to make it easy for anyone to use. Today, more than ever, leaders need a new style of leadership. They are realizing that true transformation happens through meaningful relationships, and discovering that the key to sustainable connections that create possibility and potential is through communication.

What does it take to become a career coach running a successful business? What about getting raving "thank you" notes from your clients? Or, maybe, you just want to learn how to get coaching clients to come to you instead of having to chase them down. This guide teaches you to attract clients, turn them into raving fans for life, and put the process on autopilot so you can build the coaching business of your dreams.

We typically work most directly with a small group of no more than 10 people, and in that team, we have a high degree of influence. Charlie Gilkey, an internationally known thought leader on productivity, planning, strategy, and leadership for creative people, explains how changing our team's habits can change our company's culture since that culture is always just an aggregation of its various teams' work habits.

Want to be a better boss? Make the most of your talent? Great doesn’t have to be awful. Start with this guide to the innovative management style that built the Admiral Group into one of the world’s most successful and admired companies. Written by founder and former CEO Henry Engelhardt, Be a Better Boss is part memoir, part management philosophy, and part practical manual, providing valuable leadership lessons for aspiring managers and existing managers alike.

Et si le management s'inspirait du yoga ? Un ouvrage inspirant qui propose un regard unique sur le "travailler ensemble". Alors que le climat en entreprise se dégrade (52 % des salariés présentent un niveau élevé d'anxiété selon l'étude 2017 du Cabinet Stimulus), le yoga rassemble environ 2,5 millions de pratiquants en France et 300 millions dans le monde. Aussi surprenant que cela puisse paraître, le management et le yoga ont plus de points communs qu'on ne le croit.