Bøger af Graham Winter

Unlock your team‿s potential The era of disconnected teams and silo thinking is over. When leaders and teams are not aligned and don‿t collaborate effectively, they put the whole organisation at risk. A disjointed organisation frustrates employees, irritates customers and causes countless opportunities to be lost. Think One Team: The Essential Guide to Building and Connecting Teams weaves an engaging narrative that reveals how to free your team and organisation of disunity. Inside this innovative bestseller, you‿ll discover how to establish and nurture the mindset and habits of united leadership, cohesive teamwork and a one-team culture. With Think One Team, you will learn a powerful model for five practices that will transform fragmented groups into unified teams. Along the way, you‿ll gain vital skills, tools and methods for being a strong team contributor. A revolutionary 90-day plan will guide you in empowering your team and organisation to truly thrive in a rapidly changing world. Discover how to: Replace obsolete silo-based thinking habits with a mindset that embraces and harnesses diversity in all its dimensionsCollaborate and co-create to enable agility and adaptabilityShape a culture where people achieve more togetherLead, build and connect high-performing teams It‿s time to unlock the potential in your team and organisation. Through the entertaining story of the Big Jelly Bean Team ‿ and an easy-to-implement model ‿ you‿ll learn how to break the cycle of silo-based thinking and empower your team to act as a focused unit. Think One Team is an indispensable resource for creating and sustaining an agile, collaborative culture.

Don't just survive adversity: turn it to your advantageTo succeed as a high-performing leader today, you need to know how to navigate extreme change and uncertainty. Toolkit for Turbulence unpacks the mindset and methods used by top leaders and teams to assess, adapt, and respond to unforeseen challenges and ambiguity. With this book, you'll learn how to seize the unexpected as an opportunity to develop your leadership capabilities and build a more adaptive team. From visual models to guided frameworks, Toolkit for Turbulence shares easy-to-implement core tools that you can use to construct your own leadership solutions -- solutions that suit the unique needs of your team, your enterprise, and your community.Authors Graham Winter and Martin Bean CBE share timely advice and practical strategies, together with compelling, real-world stories from prominent executive leaders across a variety of industries. In Toolkit for Turbulence, you'll discover how top leaders succeed even in times of crisis. Backed by performance psychology, the tools in this book will show you how to build the flexibility and resilience your team needs to thrive in a volatile, unpredictable world.In Toolkit for Turbulence, you'll learn how to:* Be an advantage leader: a leader who welcomes disruption, grasps opportunities to adapt, and builds teams and cultures capable of turning adversity into advantage* Use learning loops and training canvases to guide your team in responding effectively and continuously to challenges* Recognise and embrace nonlinear challenges, which require leaders and teams to adopt new ways of thinking and working* Be responsive and proactive (rather than reactive and defensive) and recalibrate when things don't go as expected* Develop a resilient, adaptive leadership mindset, training your mind and transforming the way you think and behaveWith Toolkit for Turbulence, executives and leaders at all levels can build their strategies for weathering today's only certainty: uncertainty. Its crucial insights into how to pivot dynamically and successfully will prepare you to navigate the unexpected with your organisation and your team -- every day, in real life and real time.

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Is there any other business process that consumes as much time and as many resources, damages as many relationships, generates as much ridicule and delivers as little value as the performance review? Following the takeover of one of the world's most-loved franchises, employees are buckling under bureaucratic performance reviews instigated by an overzealous new owner. Morale is at rock bottom, trust between employees and managers has all but evaporated and staff are leaving. Two members of the team set out to find a cure for the ills of the performance review, eventually discovering a universal solution that is stunning in its simplicity and a breakthrough in its effectiveness. In The Man Who Cured the Performance Review, Graham Winter weaves an engaging story that presents a framework to replace the bureaucracy of the performance review with simple tools and practices for fostering real performance conversations. This book will inspire and guide you and your colleagues to: eliminate the fear of feedback create powerful two-way performance conversations simplify the alignment of business goals to individual behaviour. The Man Who Cured the Performance Review is a must-read for any manager, team leader or employee who wants to perfect the art of real conversations that will see them perform at their highest level. For more information about cure the review visit www.curethereview.com

The how-to guide to building an adaptive, productive business environment Graham Winter, author of the best-selling Think One Team, brings you First Be Nimble: A Story about How to Adapt, Innovate and Perform in a Volatile Business World.