Leadership Coaching

We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making.

Do you want to be a transformational coach, powerfully supporting your clients in their journey from where they are today to where they have only dared dream of until now? This Is Coaching was written to help you unlock your full potential as a coach, wherever you are along the path.

With the rise in demand for coaches, there's never been a better time to start a new coaching business or expand an existing practice. But how do you continue to get powerful, consistent results for your clients while also feeling confident in running your business? The traditional approach to the business of coaching often leaves coaches overwhelmed. But your coaching skills give you an untapped advantage in building and running your own business. Leveraging a coach approach will ensure your business thrives.

You might've talked about innovation with your IT department or software development agency lately and the words "design thinking" were surely mentioned. So what is it? Just another piece of business jargon to add to your arsenal or a useful tool? Or maybe even an overestimated hype? Nowadays every organization or business runs into a myriad of problems as business models become increasingly more complex. Globalization and advances in communication and technology, all add up to creating unique opportunities but also new challenges that are not easy to solve applying the old tested methods.

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.

Your team can only be as effective as you are. There is nowhere to throw blame when you are a team manager because the buck stops with you. However, when you do succeed as a team manager or leader, what you find is that your team members will follow your lead and will do so with added enthusiasm if they see that you have enthusiasm and vision to get the job done.

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.

As a manager in today's business world, you can't just tell your direct reports what to do: You need to help them make their own decisions, enable them to solve tough problems, and actively develop their skills on the job. Whether you have a star on your team who's eager to advance, an underperformer who's dragging the group down, or a steady contributor who feels bored and neglected, you need to coach them: Help shape their goals—and support their efforts to achieve them.

This is a highly practical and condensed introduction to solution-focused coaching, offering a simple and clear structure for coaching sessions that is easy to learn. Content is illuminated through exemplary dialogues from real coaching sessions. Narrative explanations create a helpful framework for understanding the general idea of coaching and the practicalities of the solution focused approach. The book targets beginners in coaching who are looking for simple guidance and step-by-step ideas in their learning process.

With fresh research and new real-world examples, the powerhouse authorial team reexamines the differences between how different generations work today in businesses around the world, with insightful exploration into what makes the Millennial generation so different from the ones that came before. The authors reveal nine specific points of tension commonly arising from clashing value systems among generations and prescribe nine proven solutions to resolve conflict and build communication.

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 if those we lead found great purpose in what they do and worked at their jobs with all their heart? Ultimately, don't we hope to foster intrinsic motivation so that the individuals we lead become better employees, better students, or better athletes? Recent discoveries of brain science and the wisdom of top CEOs that Dr. Tim Irwin interviewed for this audiobook give us the answers we've long sought. Science in recent years discovered that affirmation sets in motion huge positive changes in the brain. It releases neurochemicals associated with well-being and higher performance.

In this practical guide, business coach Stacy Tuschl shares a personalized, step-by-step plan for rescuing your business - and your sanity. She talks directly to you and other female entrepreneurs who are lost in the responsibilities of running a business while maintaining a full life.

There is a long-standing truth in the world of organizations: Talent wins! But how do you attract the best people? What do they really want? Based on his rigorous and extensive research, Mark Miller learned that top performers are looking for very different things than solid contributors. In Talent Magnet, Miller uses a clever and entertaining business fable to share these findings. He pulls back the curtain on what leaders can do to find and retain the very best people.

Gone are the days of leading through fear and control. Now more than ever, workplaces need to be people-focused, and Leaders Assemble is the guide to making that shift. Whether you're an aspiring, new, or established leader, this audiobook covers the essentials of great coaching, leadership, and simply being a good human in the workplace. This audiobook is for everyone, not just leaders, offering insights into what a healthy, inclusive, and safe work environment should feel like.

Cambia tus preguntas, cambia tu vida! 12 Poderosas Herramientas para la Vida, el Liderazgo y el coaching. ¡Si quieres obtener resultados grandiosos, empieza a hacerte preguntas grandiosas! El tipo de preguntas que te haces, le dan forma a tu pensamiento y son la raíz que causa tanto los éxitos, como la mayoría de los problemas personales y organizacionales. Este audiolibro contiene décadas de investigación y experiencias de la autora en este campo.

We are stronger, wiser and more creative than we realize and yet people are often wanting to tell us how to fix what's happening in our lives. If your goal is to be the coach or leader who gets better results by spending more time listening and less time fixing, then this book is for you! Becoming a high impact coach begins with you and your own transformation.

Are you a new or seasoned manager who is looking to get better results from your team? If you have a burning desire to achieve more and take your group to a greater level of success than you ever thought possible, then this management bundle two-in-one series is for you!

Paul Falcone, author of 101 Sample Write Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems and renowned HR and leadership expert, breaks down the best practices for progressive employee discipline and structured terminations into easy-to-understand steps that will help you avoid common legal and ethical pitfalls.

El trabajo en equipo es, sin duda, uno de los elementos más importantes en toda organización empresarial. Solo cuando un equipo está comprometido y trabaja de forma articulada en el logro de unos objetivos comunes, se obtienen resultados. Para ello es fundamental que los equipos sean cohesivos, inteligentes, saludables y eficaces.