Work Performance Management

Your business success depends on your ability to align and develop the people who work for you. High-performance teams are built intentionally by leaders who understand the three essential components of growth: alignment, development, and transition. TeamWork breaks each of these components down into actionable processes, with steps you can take immediately to start making a difference today. Learn how to create teams that work the way you want them to. Then, discover ways to scale those teams, keeping them aligned with your objectives as your business grows.

Finalist in the Business Book of the Year 2024 awards! The Chief People Officer role has finally taken its rightful place on the Executive Committee and human resource management is recognised as a true differentiator of success for modern organisations. However, CPOs face a challenge. In a world of increasing regulation and litigation, and with greater expectations than ever of how organisations should support their people, the HR role risks being overwhelmed. Managers are drowning under the weight of people-related tasks, while staff demand ever more from their workplace. CEOs and Boards ...

What if being present, focused, and calm wasn’t a personality trait but a brain state? Life Explained is a book about the brain and how it actually works under modern pressure. Drawing from applied neuroscience for performance, Dr. Izzy Justice explains why so many high-functioning people feel overwhelmed, exhausted, distracted, or mentally foggy, even when life looks successful on the outside. This is not another entry in generic brain health books or stress management self-help. It is a grounded, science-based exploration of brain activity, brain structure and function, and how stress, ...

What happens when you let performance define your identity? The old bargain with work is gone. People who do everything right still get laid off, and AI is reshaping the tasks that people once built careers on. If you've ever questioned your relationship with ambition, struggled with work and self-worth, or felt that work performance demanded too much while offering too little, this book offers a sharper, more human way to think about work, identity, and success.

A #1 New York Times bestselling author and leadership expert answers questions from his readers about what it takes to be in charge and make a difference. John Maxwell, America's #1 leadership authority, has mastered the art of asking questions, using them to learn and grow, connect with people...

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and...

Build a smarter, more defensible labor budget. This book offers a practical framework for aligning workforce planning, labor cost control, and business performance, so leaders can make staffing decisions with clarity rather than guesswork. Designed for finance, HR, operations, and workforce planning professionals, it shows how to move from basic headcount tracking to a disciplined model that connects demand, capacity, pay rates, benefits, overtime, and productivity. The result is a budget that reflects how work is actually done, not just what appears in payroll totals. What this book covers...

Marcus Buckingham’s books have guided millions to become top performers in everything they do by focusing on their strengths. In Go Put Your Strengths to Work, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, Buckingham will show you how to hone and apply your strengths for maximum success in your career...

Delegating work, responsibility, and authority is difficult in a company because it means letting others make decisions which involve spending the owner-manager's money. At a minimum, you should delegate enough authority to get the work done, to allow assistants to take initiative, and to keep the operation moving in your absence. This guide discusses controlling those who carry responsibility and authority and coaching them in self-improvement. It emphasizes the importance of allowing competent assistants to perform in their own style rather than insisting that things be done exactly as ...

Document your leadership vision, then transform your organization into it...and leave the legacy of an organization that performs brilliantly now and long after you've moved on.

The New York Times best-selling author of The Power of Broke and "Shark" on ABC's hit show Shark Tank explores how grit, persistence, and good old-fashioned hard work are the backbone of every successful business and individual, and inspires listeners to Rise and Grind their way the top.

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning educator Ron Clark applies his successful leadership principles to the business world in this effective and accessible guidebook, perfect for any manager looking to inspire and motivate his or her team. Includes a foreword by bestselling author...

Your brain was never broken. It was built for a different kind of work. If you are a late-diagnosed professional who has spent years masking, compensating, and burning out in a workplace built for neurotypical brains, this book offers something different: a science-backed system designed specifically for how your brain actually operates. Thriving at Work with Adult ADHD goes beyond generic productivity advice. Drawing on the latest neuroscience of executive function, dopamine signaling, and working memory, this structured guide provides a complete framework for transforming your ...

Stress Management Operating System A 30-Day Plan to Reduce Stress, Prevent Burnout, and Build Daily Resilience at Work and Home A practical 30-day stress management plan to help calm your nervous system in about 2 minutes, reduce anxiety, prevent burnout, and protect focus—one short move at a time. Built for busy days at work and home, blending evidence-informed breathing exercises and simple vagus nerve tools with zero fluff. Why this works Short actions you can repeat anywhere. Clear boundaries with short calendar buffers. Simple tracking to repeat what helps. What you’ll get Quick ...

The citation came under the General Duty Clause. That is the clause OSHA reaches for when no specific standard covers the hazard and the hazard is obvious anyway. In our case they did not have to look far. They made the argument out of our own records. I was hired as Director of Industrial, Facilities, and Safety Engineering to abate it. I was also hired to improve productivity. Both mandates arrived in the same conversation. What I found was a company that could construct a labor standard from published tables, apply it across five different systems, and pay a bonus against it. We knew how...

Welcome to the ultimate playbook for energised living. Did you know that research shows that 43 per cent of workers feel constantly exhausted? Look around your office, your friend group, your family - chances are, you'll see the same signs of chronic depletion. But it doesn't need to be this way!...

To perform better in any situation - in your career, hobbies, relationships, or in any facet of your life - it is critical to develop psychological skills, which, just like physical abilities, can be taught, learned, and practiced. Both as individuals and as groups, we can tone these psychological skills and use them to heighten awareness, foster talents and technical abilities, and reach peak performance. Mental preparedness and psychological awareness are the keys to thriving in any environment.

Operational performance is never just about systems, dashboards, KPIs or process maps. The COO Psychologist is a practical business psychology book for leaders who want to understand why operations slow down, why good people create poor outcomes, and why performance problems often have a human cause beneath the visible process failure. You can have the cleanest reporting pack in the room and still lose speed if people hesitate, avoid decisions, protect themselves, communicate poorly, or carry unclear ownership into daily work. You can install better systems and still see the same delays ...

"A convincing argument for using failures to learn, with instructions for doing it well." —Kirkus Reviews The best work doesn't come from people who never fail. It comes from people who stop hiding it. Every manager knows the moment: an employee turns in work that missed, and you watch them brace for impact. What you do in the next five minutes decides whether your team brings you the truth next time—or learns to hide it until it's too late to fix. The Burnt Cookie is a field guide for the manager who wants the truth early, while problems are still cheap to solve. Built on a simple ...

Performance is not about effort. It’s about systems. Most organizations measure activity. Few measure structural effectiveness. Dashboards multiply. Metrics expand. Incentives escalate. Yet performance plateaus. Why? Because performance is not a motivational problem. It is a design problem. Performance Architecture is a tactical guide to building performance systems that actually produce measurable results. This book moves beyond generic KPIs and performance reviews to address the structural mechanics that drive sustained outcomes. Inside, you’ll learn: • Why most performance systems ...