Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work - Hardcover

Salit, Cathy Rose

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316382485 ISBN 13: 9780316382489

Publisher: Hachette Books, 2016

Synopsis

In To Sell Is Human, Daniel Pink devotes an entire chapter to Salit and her work. Now, Salit-an evangelist for creativity, communication, and innovation in the workplace-has written a manifesto that provides the tools to seize opportunities and completely transform how we perform at work.

Whether you're navigating your way on a new team, expanding your leadership role, or just trying to get heard in a meeting, you're facing the kind of workplace challenge we all run into sooner or later: you need to elevate your performance.

In PERFORMANCE BREAKTHROUGH, Salit helps you hone your listening, relationship, and communication skills, build a healthy work environment, and grow as a leader by artfully blending techniques from theatrical performance with the new science of performative psychology. The combination of her case studies and practical exercises will help you deliver exceptional results.

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Review:

"I know from my own experience having Cathy Salit as a teacher that her lessons can be life-changing. This remarkable book reveals her theater and improv secrets--and shows how they can electrify your work and enliven your soul."--Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive

"Performance Breakthrough is a refreshing and fascinating book about how to grow as a person and as a professional. Cathy Salit's vivid storytelling, humor, and wisdom combined with highly creative and practical coaching makes it a must read for anyone who's looking to stretch, learn, and become more of who they really are."--Susan Cain, co-founder of Quiet Revolution and New York Times-bestselling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

"By viewing our identities and our jobs through the lens of improvisation and performance, Salit shows us how to find the courage to go beyond our self-imposed limits. With compelling stories and exercises that move us, she teaches it as she lives it."--Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone, authors of Thanks for the Feedback and Difficult Conversations

"This is an exhilarating book. Cathy Salit shows how we can make ourselves more effective in our relationships with others not by adopting a set of slogans or rigid formulas but by activating the basic human capacity to learn through play, from the outside in, by performing the kind of person we wish to be. In the work place or at home, hers is a liberating approach that will both simplify and enrich your life. Enjoy. And reap the benefits."--Mary Catherine Bateson, cultural anthropologist and bestselling author of Composing a Life

Book Description:

"Cathy Salit is a master--a sales-whisperer whose theater and improv-inspired organizational development methodologies have transformed the work and communication habits of thousands of individuals over the past two decades . . . this evangelist for creativity, communication, listening, and innovation in the workplace has written a manifesto that provides the tools to engage, recognize opportunities, and build healthy working relationships."--Daniel Pink, author of To Sell is Human

About this edition

• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0316382485
• ISBN 13: 9780316382489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256