Performance Coaching

Written by Sir John Whitmore, the pioneer of coaching, and Performance Consultants, the global market leaders in performance coaching, this extensively revised and extended edition will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Brand-new practical exercises, corporate examples, and coaching dialogues strengthen the learning process, whilst a critical new chapter demonstrates how to measure the benefits of coaching as a return on investment, ensuring this landmark new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.

An international best-seller from Brendon Burchard – the world's #1 high performance coach, New York Times bestselling author, and renowned speaker in self-improvement, mindset, and motivation. THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY and help you unlock your full potential! "Brendon Burchard...

The #1 book for coaches, leaders, talent managers and professionals around the world. This is the definitive and fully updated new edition. 'Coaching for Performance provides a foundation for those who want to understand the potential and power of coaching. The Sixth Edition is a must-read and a...

101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides guidance for managers on how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues. Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues . . . these are just a few of...

There's a big difference between continuously encouraging employees to do their jobs well (coaching), attempting to fix poor performance (counselling), and helping top performers excel (mentoring). Unfortunately, most managers don't truly understand how and when to do each. The updated and revised edition of Coaching, Counselling & Mentoring gives managers specific, practical techniques for using all three to improve the performance of all their people.

Now in a new, expanded, and fully revised third edition, this best-selling audio handbook will help you learn the skills ¿ and the art ¿ of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. This edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work and goal-setting, a spiritual approach to coaching, and a final section on "Coaching the Organisations' Culture".

If you want to be faster, stronger, and less prone to injury, it’s critical you understand how important the body’s fascia system is to athletic performance. Modern research and imaging technologies are showing us that it’s far more significant than we have long understood. That’s why Bill Parisi—founder of the Parisi Speed School—and extreme sports writer, Johnathon Allen, set out on a nationwide quest to interview the top experts in the field so they could present this new performance science in a paradigm shifting book that’s not only packed with practical information, but ...

Can happiness and optimal performance be learned? Positive psychologists say yes! As decades of research and hundreds of studies have now shown, people who express their strengths tend to be happier, more resilient, more engaged, less stressed, and higher achievers. Jewelers spot diamonds in the rough. Art dealers identify potential masterpieces. Coaches groom stars and create the conditions for people to flourish.

Are you fed up with toxic and ineffective work cultures? Now is the time to be the leader who transforms teams to reach successful outcomes. Picture a world where leaders don't just manage—they inspire. Every interaction becomes an opportunity for growth, and every challenge transforms into a stepping stone for development. This isn't just a vision; it's the reality that coaching leadership creates. This book provides a comprehensive framework for developing coaching leadership skills, backed by real-world examples, practical tools, and actionable strategies. Whether you're managing ...

The Compound Effect contains the essence of what every super achiever needs to know, practice, and master to obtain extraordinary success. Inside you will hear strategies on how to win-every time; eradicating the bad habits that are derailing your progress; painlessly installing the few key disciplines required for major breakthroughs; the real, lasting keys to gaining and sustaining motivation; capturing the elusive, awesome force of momentum; and the acceleration secrets of superachievers.

Good coaching is a skill that requires a depth of understanding and plenty of practice if it is to deliver its astonishing potential. This extensively revised and expanded new audio edition of Coaching for Performance clearly explains the principles of coaching and illustrates them with examples of high performance from business and sport. It continues to follow the GROW sequence (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) and clarifies the process and practice of coaching.

Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth--and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a...

Despite the game of basketball frequently evolving, many coaching and organisational approaches have remained unchanged across the last several decades. Coaching practices within the basketball world are often based upon entrenched traditions, social norms and the way things have always been done. The potential to optimise basketball performance and access large competitive advantages through an evidence-based approach have not been harnessed. Until now.

Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity, and performance in every professional and personal arena. In Performing Under Pressure, Drs. Hendrie Weisinger and J.P. Pawliw-Fry introduce us to...

What does it take to go from good to great? Step up at work, in sports, and at home with this “transfixing book on how to sustain peak performance and avoid burnout” (Adam Grant). A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether someone is...

Famous three-time Grand Slam winner Arthur Ashe pointed out that many in sports fall victim to “paralysis by analysis”. Athletes on any level can experience the pain of overthinking and sabotaging their performance. Blame many traditional methods of teaching and training. How can we train smarter, not harder? If only our body and mind could perform in a way that’s more natural and instinctive. The best athletes have this quality, but many feel it is simply unattainable for them. I assure you it is not.

Discover how to balance learning and performing to bolster personal and team success with this revolutionary guide from a world-renowned expert on growth mindset. “An essential read for fostering learning, performance, and a growth mindset . . . I wholeheartedly recommend it.”—Carol...

The Four Mindsets: How to Influence, Motivate, and Lead High Performance Teams holds the key to significantly increasing productivity, performance, and revenue in your organization. Developed as a guide proven to help all levels of managers to connect, focus, align, and activate their teams to elevate results, this audiobook also serves as a low-cost alternative to expensive training, coaching, and mentoring programs by providing a range of resources and tools to use and become a "best in class" leader today.

Are stars like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams genetic freaks put on Earth to dominate their respective sports? Or are they simply normal people who overcame their biological limits through sheer force of will and obsessive training? In this controversial and engaging exploration of athletic success, Sports Illustrated senior writer David Epstein tackles the great nature vs. nurture debate and traces how far science has come in solving this great riddle.

In a world of ambiguity and constant change, teams are the critical glue for solving complex problems, delivering in challenging environments and supporting each other to grow, develop and be engaged.