Quiet Leadership Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

Name: Quiet Leadership Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
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ISBN: 9780060835910

ISBN-10: 0060835915

ISBN-13: 9780060835910

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Rock

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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 brainbased approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues'…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.95" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

David Rock is a consultant and leadership coach who advises corporations around the world. The author of Coaching with the Brain in Mind , Quiet Leadership , and Personal Best , he is the CEO of Results Coaching Systems, a leading global consulting and coaching organization. He is on the advisory board of the international business school CIMBA and the cofounder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and Summit. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and New York City.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Why Should Leaders Care About Improving Thinking?



Recent Discoveries About the Brain That Change Everything


The Brain Is a Connection Machine


Up Close, No Two Brains Are Alike


The Brain Hardwires Everything It Can


Our Hard Wiring Drives Automatic Perception


It's Practically Impossible to Deconstruct Our Wiring


It's Easy to Create New Wiring


Summarizing the Recent Discoveries About the Brain



The Six Steps to Transforming Performance


About the Six Steps



Think About Thinking


Let Them Do All the Thinking


Focus on Solutions


Remember to Stretch


Accentuate the Positive


Put Process Before Content



Listen for Potential


A New Way to Listen


The Clarity of Distance


Step 3 Speak with Intent


Be Succinct


Be Specific


Be Generous


A Word on Digital Communications



Dance Toward Insight


The Four Faces of Insight


The Dance of Insight


Permission


Placement


Questioning


Putting Permission, Placement, and Questioning Together


Clarifying


Putting the Dance Together



Create New Thinking


Current Reality


Explore Alternatives


Tap Their Energy


Putting the Create Model Together



Follow Up


Facts


Emotions


Encourage


Learning


Implications


New Goal


A Summary of the Six Steps



Putting the Six Steps to Use


Using the Six Steps to Help Someone Solve a Problem


Using the Six Steps to Help Someone Make a Decision


Using the Six Steps to Give Feedback


Giving Feedback for Great Performance


Giving Feedback for Below-Par Performance


Giving Feedback for Poor Performance


Using the Six Steps with Teams


Using the Six Steps with Children


Applying the Six Steps to a Whole Organization


In Conclusion


Glossary of Terms


Resources


Notes


Index


About the Author