Accelerating Performance: Powerful New Techniques to Develop People
- 4h 50m
- Sunny Stout Rostron
- Kogan Page
- 2002
Don’t cling doggedly to traditional training approaches! Whether facilitator, trainer or coach, changing times call for fresh strategies. In this highly inspirational book, one of the world’s leading performance consultants help you to throw out the rulebook and assemble your own personal toolkit. Drawing on a wide range of both innovative and proven development techniques, the author reveals how to breathe new life into your career. Learn to work with:
- storytelling;
- drama;
- music;
- emotion;
- brain fitness;
- neuro-linguistic programming;
- deep democracy.
Essential reading for every performance consultant, Accelerating Performance is an original step-by-step guide on how to use such dynamic techniques, clearly explaining their power and impact. Full of practical advice and personal examples, it is the perfect manual for anyone in performance improvement and people development. The book is a dazzling kaleidoscope of exciting new ideas and international case studies.
About the Author
Sunny Stout Rostron is an independent consultant with an international reputation. She regularly advises organizations in the UK, USA and South Africa and her clients range from blue-chip multi-nationals to government departments. In the UK she has worked with the Royal National Theatre, British Airways and Procter & Gamble. She lectures regularly at universities in California and South Africa. She is the author of several books, including the BBC series, “Doing Business in Europe,” and Managing Training and Accelerating Performance (Kogan Page).
In this Book
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Reach for the Stars
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Acquiring Personal Mastery
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Icebreaking
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Think Like a Star, Act Like a Performer
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Brain Fitness: Your Mental Tool Kit
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Real Magic: Motivation and Innovation
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Music: The Beat Goes On
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Doing the Dance: Rapport and Communication or Stress?
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Facilitation Metaskills and Deep Democracy
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Synchronicity: Putting it all Together
