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Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092 Format: Bargain Price Label: Collins Manufacturer: Collins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: April 01, 2006 Publisher: Collins Release Date: April 11, 2006 Studio: Collins Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Leadership Results CoachingDavid Rock presents a six-step approach to coaching for results. His methodology is sound. He offers clear sets of coaching questions at each stage of a process that uses leadership coaching to transform results. The tools in this book facilitate learning and practicing leadership skills that take performance at work from good to great. Rating:  - Involve Them in the Conversation When telling does not work, "Why not try asking questions?" might be another way to describe the "Quiet Leadership" approach advocated by training and coaching consultant David Rock in this book that describes his performance coaching methodology of leadership. Designed to get the other party to think, rather than react to your thinking, Rock presents his Six Steps to Transforming Performance as the six sigma of performance coaching. Others might describe the process as respecting the individual ... Read More Rating: - Excellent Leadership BookQuiet Leadership provides guidance for leaders who have busy schedules but still want to be able to provide valuable, effective guidance to their staff in an efficient manner. Many times, we don't teach people how to work out problems and how to think outside of the box, this book gives leaders and managers guidance on how to change their behavior to accomplish this task in an easy, non- threatening manner that is efficient an effective. The book is designed to assist people who have ... Read More Rating: - The Leading Edge of LeadershipQuiet Leadership is the best book I have read for tying the most recent advances in neuroscience to leadership behaviors, particularly coaching. Having worked with leadership and coaching for a long time, and just recently starting working with neuroscience, I am personally thrilled to see all of these tied together. I strongly believe that the use of neuroscience in all aspects of business will grow rapidly, so this is a very timely contribution. It is worth reading just for the first sections. ... Read More Rating: - Thought LeadershipAs a professional project manager, the ideas in this book strike a real chord. So many books on leadership spend their time cataloging the attributes and behaviours of good leaders, but offer no advice as to how to implement for ourselves a leadership style that is authentic and appropriate. To anyone who has to manage people in a day to day, pressured environment the advice in this book is very welcome. In particular the emphasis on allowing people to work things out for themselves makes a lot ... Read More 
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