Better People Leader, The - Hardcover

Coonradt, Charles; Thomson, Lisa Ann

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9781423601586: Better People Leader, The

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1423601580 ISBN 13: 9781423601586

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2007

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From the author of The Game of Work comes a new guide to building better and more profitable companies by building better leaders. In his new book, Chuck Coonradt reveals the secrets to becoming a "better people leader," someone who is always focused on the growth of his or her people. Better people leaders overcome the lazy manager mentality ("I shouldn't have to hold these people's hands") and embrace an active manager mentality ("I am ultimately responsible for the performance of this team"). They take an active role in the improvement of their employees. They encourage growth and create an environment in which it can freely happen. Find out how to motivate, inspire, empower, and lead your teams to greatness-greatness they didn't know they had, greatness that even surpasses that of their better people leader!

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From the Inside Flap:

≈If only I could get better people, weˇd be more productive around here.� ≈I shouldnˇt have to hold their hands while they do their job.� ≈If only I wasnˇt burdened by the people I manage.�

Have you ever uttered these words? Have you ever wondered why you canˇt get your people to do what you want them to do? Have you ever felt powerless as a manager? The truth of the matter is, you have all kinds of power to get better people and to get people better. As a coach, you can have incredible talent on your team, but if you donˇt create an environment for success, your team will never be incredible. And without incredible teams, companies donˇt become incredible. They plod along at best, and falter at worst.

Written by founder of The Game of Work consulting company and author of the book The Game of Work Charles A. Coonradt, The Better People Leader holds the key to helping you inspire your team to greatness. This book teaches you to take the proactive and accountable approach to leadership, giving you the power to draw out your employeesˇ strengths, strengthen their weaknesses, and help them improve. As a better people leader, you have the power to coach your employees to greatness, to enable and ennoble them. In return, they will do all that you ask of them and more, and you will see personal, team, and company successes you cannot imagine today.

Charles A. Coonradt, acclaimed author, consultant, and speaker, founded his consulting company in 1973. Based on the phenomenal popularity of Coonradtˇs workshops, he wrote and published The Game of Work book shortly thereafter.

It has been updated and reprinted continuously since then. Coonradt is internationally recognized in the fields of goal setting and profit improvement on five continents and has authored three other management ≈must-reads�: Scorekeeping for Success, Managing the Obvious, and The Four Laws of Debt-Free Prosperity. He is a contributing author to the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, as well as a founding member and frequent lecturer at the School of Entrepreneurship, Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management.

Lisa Ann Thomson has dealt with words for more than a decade as a writer, editor, and web content manager. She has written about a wide variety of subjects, from modern business to Mayan archeology and from international travel to local home construction. Working with the web, Lisa has been a product manager, content manager, information architect, and producer. She currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a full-time writer and consultant.

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From the Back Cover:

In 1973, Charles Coonradt founded The Game of Work to answer the charge that U.S. productivity was not world class. Since then, he has been teaching businesses the principles that unlock keys to employee involvement, engagement, and energy. In The Better People Leader, the companion volume to The Game of Work, Coonradt takes it a step further to explore the crucial role leaders have in creating environments that foster success. Better people leaders motivate, inspire, empower, and lead their teams to greatnessThe Better People Leader contains the fundamentals that will help you get the most from whatever team you are called to lead.

Praise for the Charles A. Coonradt and The Game of Work

≈We are measuring performance more precisely, and we are doing a better job of communicating results broadly.� President, Simmons Media Group

≈Weˇre on track to grow production another 11 percent and weˇre just scratching the surface in a host of other initiatives.� US Air Force, Air Logistics Center

≈We have discovered the Ofunˇ in managing our business. Our warehouse labor and delivery expense has greatly reduced and out productivity in the warehouse has at least tripled.� President, Muir Copper Canyon Farm

≈I have seen results improve 20% to 30% and expect to continue to see these types of improvements. In my opinion the game of Work is one of the best tools available for improving performance.� General Electric Capital Canada

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