Creating Passion-Driven Teams: How To Stop Micromanaging and Motivate People to Top Performance
- 2h 38m
- Dan Bobinski
- Red Wheel/Weiser
- 2009
Can passion be taught? Can it be fostered? The answer is yes. But perhaps more accurately, a team leader must create the right conditions for passion to emerge. Those conditions must be nurtured, not unlike a gardener creating the right conditions for his plants to flourish.
Make your job easier. Get the inside scoop on the secrets of success that motivate teams to top performance. In the matrix of workplace roles and responsibilities, managers are pivotal to corporate success. Yet a manager is often the unsung hero who must adapt to demands from all sides--and do so with little or no training, and without mentorship for the role. Learn from Dan Bobinski, who draws from 20 years of consulting experience, extensive studies of best practices, and the latest in neuroscience research.
You'll learn the principles and methods top managers use to develop passionate, engaged employees who are dedicated to success. You'll be able to:
- Motivate without manipulating
- Turn mistakes into a fervent drive for quality
- Equip teams to enthusiastically adapt to change
- Create environments in which people strive for excellence--and more
Today's workforce requires managers to be more than just a person in charge. Creating Passion-Driven Teams show you how to tap your team's natural motivations and achieve consistent, sustained top performance.
About the Author
Dan Bobinski is president of Leadership Development, Inc., and director of the Center for Workplace Excellence. Dan was an early practitioner of coaching (he was the first management coach used by Qualcomm, Inc.), and his management development programs synthesize best practices in self-management, work management, and relationship management. These programs target managerial effectiveness, and achieve significant results. Dan’s clients have reported a return on investment in the millions, and have seen the grievances drop by more than 60 percent. Dan has been providing management training and coaching to Fortune 500 businesses, as well as small and mid-sized businesses, since 1989.
In addition to being a dynamic public speaker, Dan is also a prolific writer on workplace issues. His Workplace Excellence blog has been listed among the top 100 daily must-reads for entrepreneurs, and his newspaper column on workplace issues is syndicated internationally. Dan’s writing has also appeared in The Times of London, CXO magazine, My Business magazine, The Journal of the Institute of Management Services, and hundreds of business newsletters, newspapers, and periodicals around the world.
A certified behavioral analyst, Dan holds a Master’s Degree in human resource training and development from Idaho State University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in workforce education and development from Southern Illinois University, where he graduated Summa cum Laude. Dan is member of the American Society for Training and Development, the Society for Human Recourse Management, and also serves as adjunct faculty at Idaho State University.
In this Book
-
Foreword
-
Introduction
-
Chapter 1: Are You a Builder or a Climber?
-
Chapter 2: The Management Matrix
-
Chapter 3: The Cause of Micromanagement
-
Chapter 4: The Cure for Micromanagement
-
Chapter 5: Becoming an Expert about the People You Manage
-
Chapter 6: The Myths of Motivation
-
Chapter 7: The Power of Water Cooler Conversations
-
Chapter 8: The Do’s and Don’ts of Delegating
-
Chapter 9: Maintaining a Balanced Diet of Meetings
-
Chapter 10: Listen, or This Won’t Work
-
Chapter 11: Resolve to Resolve All Conflict
-
Chapter 12: Poor Training—A Leading Cause of Trouble
-
Chapter 13: Failure Is an Option
-
Chapter 14: Celebrate Achievement
-
Appendix: Recommended Reading
