Book Description
Becoming a Coaching Leader shows business managers and leaders at all levels why they should add "coach" to corporate titles and lead their teams to greatness. This book equips you with the skills, disciplines, and knowledge to turn your paycheck-driven teams into vibrant and successful growth cultures. CEO and Head Coach of Building Champions, Daniel Harkavy shows you how to move beyond the theoretical to the very practical "how to" of coaching. He also presents valuable insight for assessing how fulfilled and on-purpose you are as a leader.
Customer Reviews:
Banal.......2007-10-09
You can always learn something. You may learn much from this book, but in my case, not much. I should have noticed the hyperbole on the dust jacket. "What do you want your business to look like in twenty years?" This is plainly absurd. In a fast-changing environment with so many contingencies one can't predict five years out, maybe not even five months. One needs the ability to be adaptable and agile. Just think back twenty years ago, before Google, before cell phones, before we were in so many wars around the world, before the real-estate boom, before the dot-com boom and bust.
This book is based on Christian religious precepts that I find unhelpful. The world is not a static place; and if you just follow the steps, the assumption is, the desired results will miraculously appear.
I found no mention of intuition, the ability to be present, and the value of un-structured time. Purpose is assumed to be good, but often the opposite is true in exploration. Not having a goal is where creativity and change can be allowed to flourish. The Koto School of Philosophy's action-intuition makes more sense in a dynamic world. In a static world, one can get by with imitating so-called successful people.
Sadly, the book reads more like just one more recipe. Externally imposed strictures are resisted by creative and imaginative minds, but this book doesn't seem to be aimed at the thoughtful. Even the title is clichéd sports analogy.
Becoming a Coaching Leader.......2007-08-23
Started out really good but I seemed to get bogged down two-thirds of the way through it (It may be just me). I plan to finish reading it and review previous chapters.
Great book!.......2007-06-21
The methodology in this book will change how you see your work and give you the tools to be a better and more purposeful leader. I'm coached by the author's firm, Building Champions, and their process allows you to take a step back and view your work (and life) in 4 step approach that is really wonderful. Check it out!
SPECIFIC STEPS.......2007-05-13
Daniel Harkavy is a staple for the mortgage industry....caoching many of the industries top preformers.
Love the book. i was able take away ver specific steps i can impliment today with both my team and my personal life.
Book Description
"This book is full of provocative and positive questions that will develop and enhance your team's performance, yielding faster and better results."
--Julie Meiresonne
Director, Customer Relations
Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division, Broomfield, CO "Take time to savor every page of this book. Let yourself be drawn in by the questions. They will transform how you and others work on a day-to-day basis. This book is a meaningful contribution to the field. Grab it." --Jane Galloway Seiling Senior Editor, The Taos Institute Consultant and Author, The Membership Organization
Customer Reviews:
Both inspirational and eminently practical!.......2007-10-19
Whether the team with which you work is in a large or small business, in a non-profit organisation, or in a community group, you'll find this book a wonderful resource. As the introduction says "Nearly every significant accomplishment in human systems today comes from the cooperation, positive energy and learning that result from a real team effort." Appreciative Team Building explains the power that results from positive, appreciative questions. Using the strategies, suggestions, sample interview guides and 48 'starting point' questions provided in this book, you can help your team to shift from conversations that are problem-saturated (as they so often can tend to be in our current society) to conversations filled with new creativity, hope and possibility. Also clearly explained is a step-by-step process of Appreciative Inquiry that you can use to guide your team to achieve its own and its members very best potential. Highly recommended!
Appreciative Team Building : Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team (Paperback).......2005-09-13
The book was fabulous! I found it really helpful - it is conceptually right on and it is a great and useful tool - Bottom line it fires up both sides of my brain!
Susan Copple
HR Director
Hewlett Packard Company
Book Description
Do you know the four inescapable "transitions" that every ministry team must face?
The answer to that question lies at the heart of successful ministry teams and is found in the powerful book, Leading from Your Strengths: Building Close-Knit Ministry Teams. Whether you're a pastor or in para-church ministry, a lay leader or a team member, the principles you learn here can make a tremendous difference in how effective and intimate your ministry team becomes.
From eye-opening stories, to understanding the four inescapable "transitions," to taking an online strengths assessment, you'll discover your unique God-given strengths, learn to understand and appreciate the strengths of others, and learn to blend the differences.
Building strong, effective ministry teams is like taking a whitewater-rafting trip, with many unexpected rapids along the way. Join Dr. John Trent, Rodney Cox, and Eric Tooker, your guides on the journey to Leading From Your Strengths™
Customer Reviews:
Leading From Your Strengths.......2006-07-13
This is an excellent book for teams to read together and work through. It is written in an easy flowing style that brings you into the story. To get the most benefit from the book, I highly recommend taking the assessment test which can be found online. The material in the book along with the assessment really gives a great picture of who you are and shows how you interact and communicate with others. I would recommend the book and assessment for all team members and new hires.
Very helpful and value for money!.......2004-07-05
After buying this book, I could not put it down. Simple structured and to the point with short chapters and understandable english. Very practical with a storyline (with white river raftering guide experiences- will enjoy) and questions - journal type, at the end of each chapter, made it easy to follow in a busy work schedule. The core messege quickly communicated and background given of authors, was easy for me to buy-in. The free online accessment, that come with it, was a bonus and my family, friend and staff confirmed the accuracy of the results - the profile of your strenghts and how you should continue with free downloadable guides. Although this book is published fo the "church ministry", it is just as applicable in the secular and business world. I will strongly recommend this practical book to new upcoming church planters and dynamic christian organisations and "christians at work" support groups.
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Does your project team see you as a leader or a manager? Project teams must be led rather than just managed in order to unleash their full potential, energy and enthusiasm. The Lead Dog Has the Best View examines what it takes to make the crucial transition from project manager to project leader. All too often project managers rely on their technical skills and computer-generated information about project status in their attempts to achieve success, thus confusing management with leadership. Rarely does a project fail due to lack of technical skills. Instead, relationship and communication difficulties play a key role in poor project results. This book provides a person-centered, results-driven approach to project leadership not found elsewhere. It includes a Leadership Assessment Tool that you can use to provide feedback on your leadership skills, by others as well as yourself. You'll then learn how to combine this feedback with an understanding of behavioral preferences or improving your leadership effectiveness. This volume is intended to be a frequently used tool, not just read once and put on a shelf. Each chapter includes practical exercises and checklists that can be used individually or with a project team on an ongoing basis to periodically assess and improve leadership skills and to quickly recall and apply these key concepts on projects. A valuable addition to any project manager's toolkit, The Lead Dog Has the Best View will make project work more fulfilling on both the professional and personal levels.
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Finally, a book dedicated to the day to day reality of managing people. A book designed to teach you the skills necessary to effectively manage your people, and build high performance teams.
Customer Reviews:
the publishing date should be correted !.......2006-09-14
Hi the Author and Amazon team, you should correct the publishing date.
Lots of experience in 150 pages.......2006-03-14
In my MBA program I have encountered endless writings on management theory. This book puts it in simple language. There is no buzz or catch words, just the real stuff. Get rid of the countless 300 hundred page books and go with the one that gets to the real points in 150.
Impactful, a must for every manager!.......2003-11-25
This book is perfect for every manager who wishes to increase his/her capacity as a manager, but doesn't want to read countless pages on the "A, B, C's" of Management. Alex Malone conveys his message in a personable way that most managers will identify with, relaying personal experience and learnings that we can relate to and learn from to become better people managers. This book is definitely not the "same old thing" and offers a unique viewpoint into effective people management. Even highly experienced managers will find themselves easily identifying areas for improvement, resulting in stronger management skills and more productive teams. Highly Recommended!
More than just an effective and practical guide........2003-11-06
If you are a team manager or aspiring to become one, 'Managing Your Greatest Assets' will likely promote thought, provide insight and evoke unexpected laughter. The author skillfully describes numerous experiences while evolving as a manager with refreshing clarity and warmth. He shares his successes, failures and practical lessons intelligently in a concise and very readable style. I highly recommend this book. Well done, Alex.
A Sure Bet.......2003-10-24
I have not read this book yet, but will bet it is right on the mark. Alex and I worked together through his learning years (side by side). The environment, business state and people challenges taught us both alot. The successes were many and achievements great. In the end, Alex gets his biggest kick out of watching people develop and grow. Today many of those folks are at a place they could never of imagined. Having work beside, watched and contributed, I am absolutely thrilled to see Alex share his values and approach.
Congrats ! my friend. You have made a difference.
Don
Book Description
Changing times make multiple-staff churches more necessary. Here is the how, why, who, and when to add staff in a way that encourages growth.
Customer Reviews:
Useful Book, Addresses the Issues.......2004-05-11
As the pastor of a church with an average attendance of 200, our church board decided that it was time for us to consider hiring a second pastoral staff member. We had little idea of what to look for in a second staff member. So I purchased this book to find some direction, and I was not disappointed.
McIntosh offers some clear opinions that were helpful and well reasoned. Ideally, the second staff member should be someone very different from the senior pastor. The idea is to compliment him, not replicate him.
The first four chapters touched on this subject. He did seem to lean too much for my liking upon the opinions of Lyle Schaller (who writes from a mainline denominational viewpoint; Schaller knows his stuff, but there are significant differences between the needs of a typical mainline church and a church in an evangelical denomination or an independent evangelical church; conservative churches generally tend to be more active and pastors are less like chaplains but more creative and aggressive than their liberal counterparts, hence they need additional staff earlier). McIntosh does not seem to communicate this distinction (of course he may just disagree with me:).
The book's title and subtitle truly communicate the nature of the volume. It deals with two distinct subjects: finding the right staff member(s),which occupies the lesser portion of the book,and working with and nurturing staff, the majority of the book.
The latter part virtually ignores staffs with two or three pastors, but assumes a large church format. Okay, you can't make everyone happy. But I still did not like that (there, I feel better).
Although I skimmed through the latter section, it did seem to offer advice that could be adapted to smaller situations. You will enjoy the book greatly if you are a staff or board member from a congregation with a large staff; if you are simply looking for good advice about what to look for in a second staff member, you will find the first few chapters quite relevant but will probably not finish the book.
All in all, a good book.
Good Introductory Volume.......2003-04-11
This book wasn't exactly what I was wanting, but it will undoubtedly be helpful for many pastors and church leaders facing a multi-staff situation for the first time. McIntosh offers an excellent overview of the rationale for having more than one staff person, and the pitfalls to avoid in hiring additional staff. For anyone leading a church from a single staff to multi-staff ministry, this book is not one to miss. The graphs and tables he offers are particularly insightful.
When I purchased this book, I was looking for an aid to keep a multi-staff church moving smoothly, not something to start it effectively. McIntosh's work is very weak in the help it offers to senior pastors who are looking for insights into better leadership of existing staff. If you want that kind of volume, then look elsewhere.
Easy to read and extremely useful........2001-11-27
This book is an easy read and yet is packed with useful and informative material. My copy is now dog-eared on almost every other page as I marked the key points to share with colleagues and to follow-up. The contents may be common sense and obvious if you are a church consultant or have many years experience in managing church affairs, but they can also be viewed as being insightful and brilliant to those of us new to this challenging topic. I highly recommend this book to every board and staff member of a church, whether you are considering hiring a new staff member or simply want to do more/better with those you have. This book will help you hire better, manage your existing staff better and make the most of the volunteers you have to support your staff (including board members). The advice in this book would cost thousands of dollars from a consultant and you can get it for about $10. A heavenly deal!!!
Book Description
To build morale, pride, and spirit, a leader needs to possess certain characteristics and skills. This book will help you determine your current level of readiness in these areas. It describes two key factors: time spent together in shared experiences and communication among team members. When morale, pride, and spirit are enhanced, there is a positive response of cooperation and loyalty from team members toward the leader, the team, and the organization. Productivity and efficiency are enhanced, and there are tangible economic and relational outcomes. The leader is the key to the success of the entire process.
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To build morale, pride, and spirit, a leader needs certain characteristics and skills. This book will help you determine your current level of readiness. It describes two key factors: time spent together in shared experiences and communication among team members. The results of building morale, pride, and spirit include cooperation and loyalty from team members, enhanced productivity and efficiency, and tangible economic and relational outcomes. The leader is the key to the success of the process.
Book Description
Is Your Company Ready for the 21st Century?
In today's highly competitive world, the top-down power structure that defines so many struggling organizations is outmoded. That's why savvy business leaders are exploring a new streamlined approach that strips away middle-management bureaucracy and allows communication to flow freely. Organizations everywhere have found that this horizontal structure spurs creativity, empowers employees, encourages learning, and increases customer satisfaction.
The Mission-Driven Organization shows you step by step how to reinvigorate your company with this new way of thinking. Inside, you'll learn how to:
·Draft and communicate a powerful vision statement
·Create the teamwork necessary to realize your vision
·Understand and manage rapid change
·Build participation and handle conflict
·Keep the vision a permanent part of the company—not a "plan of the month"
·And much more!
Designed to help you blow the doors off your slower-moving competition, this book can be your company's road map to long-lasting success.
"An excellent guide for creating an organization's shared vision, mission, and guiding principles. The result is a balanced and blended set of management methods that are realistic and useful for managing change and making cultural improvement."
Customer Reviews:
Pragmatic & emphasizes quality and leadership.......2001-06-15
It seems like everyone wants to be a visionary these days, especially in the high tech sector where I make my living. The problem is that a vision without execution is a hallucination, and there are a lot of hallucinations from what I see. This book is a grounded and straightforward guide to crafting an organization based on realities.
It starts with how to build and articulate a vision, and from that vision derive a mission statement that will guide your company towards realization of the vision. What I like about the authors' approach is the way they integrate quality management concepts into vision, mission and values. They also emphasize leadership and make it clear that the best crafted and articulated vision and mission statements are for naught without a total commitment and strong leadership to guide the organization and constantly keep focused on where they are supposed to be going. This is reinforced with some natural laws, such as you get what you talk about,the culture of a work team is a reflection of its leader, and you can't walk faster than one step at a time.
The natural laws set forth in the book have corollaries in the form of problems. Here the authors identify and provide guidance to problems such as managers who won't let go, the front line resists greater authority, an inappropriate focus on the boss and clash of ideas. One key concept that I especially thought astute is relocating authority and identifying consultative and decision roles and responsibilities as centers of authority are transformed into participative management. I think this is key because doing this is a fine balancing act. I have witnessed attempts to do this in other organizations that did not clearly define scope and responsibility (or accountability and authority), only to see managers let go of authority that was rightfully theirs. The result can be chaos and lack of focus - using the authors' approach it becomes a true participatory environment that is focused on mission.
Other highlights include: continuous cultural improvement with an emphasis on measurement, effective use of task forces and a wealth of HR guidelines ranging from hiring/firing to salary and incentives. These set this book apart from many that deal with vision and mission statements because too many books sidestep these important factors.
Over the years I have read a number of books that deal with vision and mission statement development. This is the first that squarely addresses the leadership issues as well as the HR challenges that you will face when you publish your vision and mission and transform your organization into what you envision. If you are just looking for quick and dirty way to get a vision and mission statement hung in your lobby or emblazoned on your web site this book is not for you. If, on the other hand, you have an idea where your company should be going and want a clear path to getting there get this book and take it to heart.
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Body and Soul: Unleashing the Power of Your Team
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The author presents the transformation of thoughts, attitudes and values that are essential for any leader who hopes to build a peak-performing organization on the cusp of the 21st century. Through provocative and engaging stories, he challenges many of the prevailing destructive cultural and organizational myths concerning what works and what doesn't in third and fourth wave companies. This is also a handbook that clearly and succinctly lays out a 10-step process (not formula) that can be adapted for use by virtually any sized team or organization.
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- Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
- Beyond Customer Satisfaction to Customer Loyalty: The Key to Greater Profitability (Ama Management Briefing)
- Bodybuilding 201: Everything You Need to Know to Take Your Body to the Next Level
- Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success
- Broken Windows, Broken Business: How the Smallest Remedies Reap the Biggest Rewards
- Business Communication: Process and Product (with InfoTrac®)
- Capitalism and Slavery
- Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
- Designing Dynamic Organizations: A Hands-On Guide for Leaders at All Levels
- Dialectics and Deconstruction in Political Economy
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