Olympic sports present a vivid example of how to achieve world-class performance through a special blend of management, teamwork and individual performance. Based on a hugely successful leadership and team development process which has been tested in over 50 organisations (and licensed by PwC), Performance Leadership aims to give leaders the world class skills and tools required to win in today's dynamic business environment. Case examples include the inside story of how the highly successful Australian swimming team reaped their haul of medals at the Sydney Olympics. Graham Winter was Head of Psychology Services to the 2000 Australian Olympic Team, and is a PricewaterhouseCoopers consultant. He has authored an extensive business training and development process linked to his Business Athlete concept.

High Performance Leadership: Creating, Leading and Living in a High Performance World

Business & Money

Winter, Graham

Management & Leadership

wiley

Every day around the world, thousands of organisations irritate customers, frustrate employees and lose countless opportunities because of one simple reason: they don’t think and act as one team. Sound familiar? 
Sydney, Australia. At O’Donnell’s Jelly Bean Company, life isn’t so sweet. Between communication breakdown, staff turnover and the dreaded ‘silo’ syndrome, morale is at an all-time low and the company’s outlook is grim. How will the staff at O’Donnell’s overcome these hurdles to unite and save the company? In Think One Team, Graham Winter weaves a fun and engaging business fable into a practical model that unlocks the power of teamwork across boundaries, empowering organisations to realise the possibilities that come from thinking and acting as one team. This book will inspire and guide you and your colleagues to: <ul>
<li> share the big picture not pursue separate agendas </li> <li> share the reality not avoid and deny </li> <li> share the air not stifle communication </li> <li> share the load not protect your own turf </li> <li> share the wins and losses not play I win, you lose. </li> </ul>
An enjoyable tale of jelly beans and a company overcoming crisis, Think One Team is a must-read for anyone who wants his or her organisation to perform at its highest level.

Think One Team: An Inspiring Fable and Practical Guide for Managers, Employees and Jelly Bean Lovers

Wrightbooks

The how-to guide to building an adaptive, productive business environment Graham Winter, author of the best-selling Think One Team, brings you First Be Nimble: A Story about How to Adapt, Innovate and Perform in a Volatile Business World. This book addresses the challenge of how to equip businesses to adapt and thrive in an unpredictable and demanding economy. Told in the form of a fable and illustrated with case studies and powerful tools, the book is designed to engage, inspire, and inform readers from all walks of business life. Helping leaders, teams, and whole organisations to bring their values to the frontline of the battle to be adaptive and productive, First Be Nimble shows readers how to align people and teams, collaborate and co-create with others, reduce resistance to change, boost trust, personal resilience, and performance, and prepare for the unique challenges of adaptive change.  Helps businesses adapt to today's environment, learn to innovate, and build a "one team'" mentality Gives leaders the practical tools to facilitate change and foster the conversations that help people to learn and grow together Uses a unique, fable-style format, with inspirational examples, to bring key concepts to life  While many business leaders are well versed in the importance of company values, they are often ignorant of how to bring them to life, and how to build an adaptive, high performing business. First Be Nimble is here to help.

First Be Nimble: A Story About How to Adapt, Innovate and Perform in a Volatile Business World

Don't just survive adversity: turn it to your advantage To succeed as a high-performing leader today, you need to know how to navigate extreme change and uncertainty. Toolkit for Turbulence unpacks the mindset and methods used by top leaders and teams to assess, adapt, and respond to unforeseen challenges and ambiguity. With this book, you'll learn how to seize the unexpected as an opportunity to develop your leadership capabilities and build a more adaptive team. From visual models to guided frameworks, Toolkit for Turbulence shares easy-to-implement core tools that you can use to construct your own leadership solutions -- solutions that suit the unique needs of your team, your enterprise, and your community. Authors Graham Winter and Martin Bean CBE share timely advice and practical strategies, together with compelling, real-world stories from prominent executive leaders across a variety of industries. In Toolkit for Turbulence, you'll discover how top leaders succeed even in times of crisis. Backed by performance psychology, the tools in this book will show you how to build the flexibility and resilience your team needs to thrive in a volatile, unpredictable world. In Toolkit for Turbulence,&nbsp;you'll learn how to: <ul> <li>Be an advantage leader: a leader who welcomes disruption, grasps opportunities to adapt, and builds teams and cultures capable of turning adversity into advantage</li> <li>Use learning loops and training canvases to guide your team in responding effectively and continuously to challenges</li> <li>Recognise and embrace nonlinear challenges, which require leaders and teams to adopt new ways of thinking and working</li> <li>Be responsive and proactive (rather than reactive and defensive) and recalibrate when things don't go as expected</li> <li>Develop a resilient, adaptive leadership mindset, training your mind and transforming the way you think and behave</li> </ul> With Toolkit for Turbulence, executives and leaders at all levels can build their strategies for weathering today's only certainty: uncertainty. Its crucial insights into how to pivot dynamically and successfully will prepare you to navigate the unexpected with your organisation and your team -- every day, in real life and real time.

Toolkit for Turbulence: The Mindset and Methods That Leaders Need to Turn Adversity to Advantage

Bean, Martin

Think One Team: The Essential Guide to Building and Connecting Teams

Business Culture

Graham Winter weaves a fascinating and entertaining business story that reveals an engagingly simple and powerful model to free organisations of 'silo thinking' and empower them to fulfil the possibilities that come from thinking and acting as one team. In an increasingly networked world, there is much to be said for giving business units the sort of focus that comes from being a silo, however few if any, can genuinely succeed without the ability to open the doors and windows of their silo to collaborate with others on problems and opportunities. Think One Team has been specifically designed to help readers, and everyone in their organisation to create and sustain the teamwork across boundaries that will enable them to experience the rewards of working as one team. Beginning with the fable of the big jelly bean team the readers join one companys engaging, enlightening and at times funny journey from silo - afflicted to one team. From their experiences you will learn the five practices that define the difference between think silos and think one team, and see what these practices mean for leaders and employees across an organization.

Think One Team:: An Inspiring Fable and Practical Guide for Managers, Employees and Jelly Bean Lovers (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series - Australia)

ReadHowYouWant

Is there any other business process that consumes as much time and as many resources, damages as many relationships, generates as much ridicule and delivers as little value as the performance review?  Following the takeover of one of the world's most-loved franchises, employees are buckling under bureaucratic performance reviews instigated by an overzealous new owner. Morale is at rock bottom, trust between employees and managers has all but evaporated and staff are leaving. Two members of the team set out to find a cure for the ills of the performance review, eventually discovering a universal solution that is stunning in its simplicity and a breakthrough in its effectiveness. In The Man Who Cured the Performance Review, Graham Winter weaves an engaging story that presents a framework to replace the bureaucracy of the performance review with simple tools and practices for fostering real performance conversations. This book will inspire and guide you and your colleagues to:  eliminate the fear of feedback create powerful two-way performance conversations simplify the alignment of business goals to individual behaviour.  The Man Who Cured the Performance Review is a must-read for any manager, team leader or employee who wants to perfect the art of real conversations that will see them perform at their highest level.

The Man Who Cured the Performance Review: A Practical and Engaging Guide to Perfecting the Art of Performance Conversation

Skills

Are you frustrated, or optimistic that there's more to your cricket game? More runs, wickets, catches and fun? 
Things can be different. Things can be better. For this to happen consistently, you need a simple, reliable formula which clears the mind, embraces the challenges and helps you to master the game in the moments that matter. 
That formula is your unique Game Mindset. 
Mindful Cricket is about one thing that powers a thousand other things: mindset. No one masters the game of cricket with the wrong mindset, and everyone can play better with a Game Mindset.

Mindful Cricket: Workbook

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

World Competitive People Pty L

Are you frustrated, or optimistic that there's more to your cricket game? More runs, wickets, catches and fun?Things can be different. Things can be better. For this to happen consistently, you need a simple, reliable formula which clears the mind, embraces the challenges and helps you to master the game in the moments that matter. That formula is your unique Game Mindset.Mindful Cricket is about one thing that powers a thousand other things: mindset. No one masters the game of cricket with the wrong mindset, and everyone can play better with a Game Mindset.

Mindful Cricket

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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