Quiet Leadership: Six Steps To Transforming Performance At Work - Hardcover

Rock, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060835907 ISBN 13: 9780060835903

Publisher: Harper Business, 2006

Synopsis

You start a conversation with someone you manage, a conversation about a project that could be going better. You want to improve their performance and think you know what they should do. You estimate the conversation should only take a few minutes, yet somehow 45 minutes later you're still going around in circles. Sound familiar?

Unfortunately, improving human performance involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way people think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between our ears. "If people are being paid to think," he writes, "isn't it time the business world found out what the thing doing the work, the brain, is all about?"

Supported by the latest groundbreaking research, Quiet Leadership provides, for the first time, a brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance.

Quiet Leadership is for the CEO who wants to be more effective at inspiring his or her leadership team, but has just a few minutes each week to speak to them. It's for the executive who'd like to get a manager to plan more effectively, but can't seem to work out how. It's for the manager who wants to inspire the sales team, but isn't sure how to do it. It's for the human resources professional who is ready to take on changing the culture of a whole organization. It's for the parent or caregiver who wants to reach new levels of communication and understanding with their family members.

Quiet leaders are masters at bringing out the best performance in others. They improve the thinking of people around them--literally improving the way their brains process information--without telling anyone what to do. Given how many people in today's companies are being paid to think and analyze, improving our thinking is one of the fastest ways to improve performance.

Quiet Leadership offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction. Above all, Quiet Leadership will give you the clarity and strength that comes from mastering and using powerful insights that teach you to perform and succeed, at the highest level.

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Review:

A quick and useful guide to a softer management style that draws on recent discoveries in the field of neuroscience--Continental Magazine

"This highly practical guide includes exercises for each major concept, giving readers a chance to practice what they've learned."--Library Journal

"Quiet Leadership will help you improve other people's thinking, which is the best place to begin improving other people's performance."--Marshall Goldsmith, founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners; named one of the 50 greatest thinkers who have impacted the field of management by the American Management Association.

"Essential reading for any leader who has ever wondered 'Why don't people do what I tell them to do?.'"--Elisa Mallis, Human Performance Consultant, Accenture, London

Synopsis:

This work talks about personal development, life coaching hugely popular. It will appeal to mid level managers, business coaches, trainers, and HR professionals. It features reviews on business pages of national newspapers e.g. "FT". It also features reviews in business magazines e.g. "CEO" magazine. David Rock has a global business like Michael Gerber. Reading line: help people think better-don't tell them what to do! A rising global star in business coaching, David Rock offers his 5 step program that can transform any manager into a leader who gets breakthrough results, by knowing the secrets of helping others radically improve their thinking and problem solving in today's business world. Supported by the latest research on the brain and learning styles, David Rock's book gives every stressed-out manager a simple system for helping themselves and those around them think and perform better at work. The core of Rock's incredibly successful program for creating coaches, and the essence of this book, is that modern organizations require a new 'quiet' kind of leadership, leadership that is capable of improving people's thinking and therefore their performance.

Rock's 5-step program makes every manager a leader, a great coach, by showing them how to motivate people to learn and change from within. Rock takes the leading-edge findings about how we change people's minds and embeds them in a detailed prescriptive strategy for leaders in the business world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060835907
• ISBN 13: 9780060835903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288